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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 667–686.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., to reflect diglossic culture in the public literary space, previously dominated by classical Chinese, through the performance of women's legal writing. Madam Yi's petition, which was drafted in the mid-1650s, was about a legal dispute with Sŏgu, who was the secondary son of her stepson. 19 She filed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 707–738.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Julian Kuttig; Bert Suykens Abstract In Bangladeshi student politics, political performances in public spaces play an essential role in establishing patronage relationships and determining local authority structures. As Thomas Blom Hansen has famously argued, “visibility means everything...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 801–803.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Ana Micaela Chua Manansala Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form beyond Japan . By Stevie Suan . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2021 . 384 pp. ISBN: 9781517911782 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 In Anime's Identity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1187–1191.
Published: 01 November 2007
... and the novel, the growing emphasis on theater in postcolonial and cultural studies as an important site of analysis and intervention in debates on nationalism and colonialism makes Theatres of Independence and Poetics, Plays and Performances critical contributions for scholars and students from multiple...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 978–980.
Published: 01 November 1991
...Kathryn Hansen Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performance . Edited by Farley P. Richmond , Darius L. Swann , and Phillip B. Zarrilli . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1990 . 504 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). The Theater of the Mahābhārata: Terukkūttu Performances...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 387–409.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Sunhee Koo Abstract Since 2000, a number of performing troupes have been established in South Korea, made up largely of musicians and dancers who were professionally trained in North Korea prior to their migration and presenting a range of music and dances related to both the North and South...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1251–1276.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Sally Ann Ness Abstract Working in Bali in the late 1930s, anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead made an extraordinary advance in the understanding of human performance. They observed bodily practices constituting processes of signification that resembled linguistic communication far...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Keith Howard SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture . By Nathan Hesselink . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 . xiv, 201 pp, 1 audio CD. $75.00 (cloth); $27.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 113–141.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Nayoung Aimee Kwon Abstract In the Japanese empire in 1938, an imperial-language theatrical adaptation of a folktale from colonial Korea, The Tale of Spring Fragrance (Ch'unhyang chŏn) opened to rave reviews in major metropolitan cities throughout Japan. The performance's popularity ignited...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 783–785.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Daniel L. Overmyer Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan . By Donald S. Sutton . Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 218. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2003 . xiii, 418 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 540–541.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Malini Srirama Dancing the Self: Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal . By William S. Sax . Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press , 2002 . viii, 224 pp. $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 540 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 305–332.
Published: 01 May 2004
... of Asian Studies 55 ( 4 ): 934 –56. Smith Sidonie . 1995 . “Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance.” Al b: Auto/Biography Studies 10 ( 1 ): 17 – 21 . Thomas Calvin . 1996 . Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line . Urbana : University...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Martha Ann Selby Rasa: Performing the Divine in India . By Susan L. Schwartz . New York : Columbia University Press , 2004 . xi , 118 pp. $59.50 (cloth);$25.50 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 447...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 853–854.
Published: 01 November 2006
...William S. Sax Raja Nal and the Goddess: The North Indian Epic Dhola in Performance . By Susan Snow Wadley . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2004 . xiii , 242 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 835–837.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Jim Fisher Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India . By Ravina Aggarwal . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2004 . ix , 305 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1192–1193.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Ryan R. Overbey Popularizing Buddhism: Preaching as Performance in Sri Lanka . By Mahinda Deegalle . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2006 . xiii , 241 pp. $65.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 In recent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 513–543.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Kumkum Chatterjee Abstract This paper explores the nature and understandings of history, or itihasa/Purana, in eighteenth-century India using two Mangalkabya narratives. These materials belong to a large genre of performance narratives, usually devoted to eulogizing various deities, that were...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 947–949.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Christian de Pee Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China . By Anne E. McLaren . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2008 . x , 209 pp. $54.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In her preface, Anne E. McLaren tells us...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 1025–1027.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Pattana Kitiarsa Performing Political Identity: The Democrat Party in Southern Thailand . By Marc Askew . Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2008 . xvi , 1 pp. $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 The general impression of Thailand's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 582–583.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Matthew Allen Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music . By Ritwik Sanyal and Richard Widdess . SOAS Musicology Series. Aldershot, U.K. : Ashgate , 2004 . xxii , 395 pp., CD. $134.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 This book...
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