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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (4): 355–364.
Published: 01 August 1951
... , March 27 and April 10, 1920, referring both times to an offer to return the Chinese Eastern Railway. It published the “first” full translation of the Yanson wire of March 26, 1920, on June 5, 1920, 13: 24–26, in an article by H. T. Kong, “Russian Soviet Would Befriend China.” This included an entire...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 798–799.
Published: 01 August 1985
...A. Terry Rambo Cheminements: Ecrits offerts à Georges Condominas [Approaches: Writings Offered to Georges Condominas] . Edited by Jacqueline Matras-Troubetzkoy and Christian Taillard . Paris : L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Asie de Sud-Est et Monde Insulindien, no. 1–4...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 581–583.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Jack L. Dull Offerings of Jade and Silk: Ritual and Symbol in the Legitimation of the T'ang Dynasty . By Howard J. Wechsler . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1985 . xiv, 313 pp. Index. $27. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 446–447.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Cynthia Ann Humes Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal . By June McDaniel . New York : Oxford University Press , 2004 . x , 356 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $27.50 (paper). 446 T H E J O U R N A L O F...
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in Blazing Pelts and Burning Passions: Nationalism, Cultural Politics, and Spectacular Decommodification in Tibet
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2013
Video 10. Participants in Tangkor shouting “Offering!” (view video here )
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in How Chinese Turkestan Became Chinese: Visualizing Zhang Zhizhong's Tianshan Pictorial and Xinjiang Youth Song and Dance Troupe
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2008
Figure 6. Elderly Turpan man offering grapes to Han Chinese audience.
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in Of Buddhism and Militarism in Northern Thailand: Solving the Puzzle of the Saint Khruubaa Srivichai
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2014
Figure 1. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra offering a flower garland at Khruubaa Srivichai's shrine in Chiang Mai, after her successful 2011 election campaign. Photo courtesy of Thairath Online.
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in Lao Buddhist Monks' Involvement in Political and Military Resistance to the Lao People's Democratic Republic Government since 1975
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2012
Figure 1. Achan Chanh Ly (left) and Achan Ky (right) receiving offerings from a Lao insurgent at Wat Pa Sanamsai in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand (1982).
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in Cold War Sewing Machines: Production and Consumption in 1950s China and Japan
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2016
Figure 3. Advertisement for Yah Chong's Butterfly (“Invincible”) sewing machine. A ten-year guarantee is offered on the machine, which is advertised as having both sewing and embroidery capacities (Wang Guizhang 1950 ).
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Published: 01 August 2008
Figure 9. Svatantrata Ki Vedi par Biron Ka Balidan: Bharat Ke Amar Shaheed (Sacrificial Offerings on the Altar of Freedom by [Our] Heroes: India's Immortal Martyrs), Prabhu Dayal, ca. 1931. Print published by Shyam Sunder Lal, Picture Merchant, Cawnpore. Courtesy of Urvashi Butalia, New Delhi.
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in Resisting the Global in Buddhist Nationalism: Venerable Soma's Discourse of Decline and Reform
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2008
to offer my life on behalf of the Sinhala nation and the Dispensation of the Buddha.”
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 411–432.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., this music offers a critique of the Eurocentric discourses of “World-history” and nationalism, by invoking alternative Indian discourses of “Itihāsa” and “samāj” . At the same time, Tagore departs from the contemporary Hindu cultural nationalist revivalist approach of the tradition of North Indian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1013–1035.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the quotidian life of the city was frustrated by bureaucratic lapses, casual social occupations, and deliberate challenges. The monuments offered structural and spatial canvases for lives within the city, providing shelter, solitude, and the possibility of privacy, as well as devotional and commercial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1033–1058.
Published: 01 November 1999
... of interest in the granting of concessions for provincial radio stations. When the accused mastermind had offered Saengchai a gift of an expensive gold chain and a valuable Buddha image to smooth relations, Saengchai refused the offer. He further insulted the mastermind by saying that the gift would only...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 333–350.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., especially timber, firewood, and charcoal. Second, through an analysis of the wartime promotion of a “low temperature lifestyle,” it offers a thumbnail sketch of the lived experiences and corporeal consequences of state-led efforts to rationalize fuel consumption. Considered together, these lines of analysis...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1019–1029.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Michael H. Bodden Abstract Alfred McCoy's paper offers a masterful analysis of the way in which the Philippines, and more generally Southeast Asia, were used as base and laboratory for extending US dominance—its hegemony—in the twentieth century, and in particular the Cold War era and its aftermath...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1137–1162.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Lawrence Sáez Abstract This article offers an explanation for disparities in the speed and level of political opposition to reform of the financial services sector in India. Focusing on the disparity of outcomes in reform of the insurance and the banking sector, the author suggests why some...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 461–496.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Sarah Allan Abstract This paper offers an alternative paradigm to dynastic history and state formation with which to understand the formation of Chinese civilization: cultural hegemony. It argues that an elite culture first crystallized in the early second millennium BCE at Yanshi Erlitou in Henan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 962–979.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., the article argues that it is more productive to think of this hierarchical structuring as primarily sociocultural in nature. The way studies have attempted to capture the size of the middle class offers important insight here. This article draws upon long-term fieldwork among lower or new middle-class men...
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Published: 01 May 2008
Figure 3. Model situations from a courtesy guide. Top: A quick but honorific “hello” ( nin hao ) to a neighbor or coworker. Center: An adult offers to reach a book down for a child, “you're so short, I'll help you get it.” Bottom: A smiling woman bows slightly to man and child, saying “I'm sorry
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