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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Robin Jeffrey; Assa Doron Abstract We argue that the 2007 state elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's largest state, were the first “mass mobile phone” elections in India. The paper charts the spectacular growth of the cheap cell phone in India and in Uttar Pradesh, documents the organizational...
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Published: 01 February 2012
Figure 1. Fixed-line and wireless phone connections in millions, private operators and public-sector undertakings (PSU), 1998–2011
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Chalmers Johnson The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonalds and Middle-Class Revolution . Edited by Richard Robison and David S. G. Goodman . London and New York : Routledge , 1996 . xii, 253 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 509.
Published: 01 August 1992
... and discussed. The authors will then complete final versions before May 1 to permit publication in the November 1993 issue. DAVID D. BUCK Editor 390 Holton Hall Department of History University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201 U.S.A. Phone: 414-229-3961 FAX: 414-964-2002 e-mail: davebuck@csd4...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 883–909.
Published: 01 November 2024
... attempted to institutionalize frugality, as spending less and saving more became a visual indicator of one's dedication, sacrifice, and alignment with the state's collective vision of fast-paced economic growth. Seemingly mundane activities such as switching off lights and making fewer phone calls became...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 777–780.
Published: 01 August 2021
... . By Sirpa Tenhunen . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . 216 pp. ISBN: 9780190630270 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 The mobile phone and the smartphone have produced two revolutions in short succession across the globe, and a robust body...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 750–752.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to scholars working in many fields, including gender studies, labor, and communications. In chapter 5, “Dreamwork,” Lukács turns to cell phone novels, works of fiction supposedly written on cell phones and published so that they could easily be read on phones as well. Written with vocabulary and grammar...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1274–1276.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... As other scholars have argued, China has drastically expanded its “highly digitized fixed line and mobile phone networks” to meet the demands of transnational capital clustered in coastal regions, but millions of peasants and workers, under the regressive social program, cannot afford the digital...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 February 2012
... activities occurring on opposite sides of the strait. This issue does not have any “Asia Beyond the Headlines” essays, but the first research article, R obin J effrey and A ssa D oron's “Mobile-izing: Democracy, Organization and India's First ‘Mass Mobile Phone’ Elections,” is similar to one, both...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 727–746.
Published: 01 November 2022
... or square hat worn by Uyghurs and other Central Asian people. 2 Kalbinur, interview, July 2018. 3 Kalbinur, interview, July 2018. 4 Nuri Musabay, interview, February 2016. 5 Kutluk Almas, phone interview, March 2022; Nuri Musabay, phone interview, March 2022. 6...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 125–143.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to the Bamiyal police, who, after an X-ray and physical examination, logged the bird as a “suspected spy” in police records. This was not an isolated incident. Almost five years earlier, in May 2010, a pigeon with a Pakistani address and phone number stamped on her wings was brought to the Amritsar police...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 489–491.
Published: 01 May 2013
... as their own bosses, raising chickens or conducting other agricultural ventures, or in more recent years, “phone ladies” would use a microloan to purchase a cell phone and run a home-based business where customers would come to place occasional calls to far-flung relatives living in other villages, towns...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 589–598.
Published: 01 August 2020
... that increasingly grapples with tensions between individual freedom and public health. On May 9, 2020, I received an emergency alert text message transmitted to my cell phone by the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). The message, known as a CBS (Cellular Broadcasting Service...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 453–455.
Published: 01 May 2013
... to multinational corporations) carrying goods by hand (mostly mobile phones and clothes) and migrants leaving their countries to seek opportunities as “temporary workers, asylum seekers or sex workers” (p. 13). The economic model of Chungking Mansions is based on cheap illegal labor (cheap because it is illegal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 621–631.
Published: 01 August 2020
... workers—have been much stingier than advertised. Nor has the curtailment of internet service in Kashmir been eased during an emergency that makes people far more dependent on computers and cell phones for essential information and social support. 9 China has intensified its pressure on targets ranging...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 1013–1015.
Published: 01 August 2003
... executive Prihadi Santoso. After receiving a phone call from an individual purporting to be a police chief in the area, Santoso immediately arranged for a transfer of ten thousand dollars to the individual's bank account. When the individual later was discovered to be an imposter, the incident was reported...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1075.
Published: 01 November 1994
... be contacted at the following address: Anand A. Yang, Editor The Journal of Asian Studies 2150 LNCO University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 U.S.A. Phone: 801-585-7269 Fax: 801-585-5190 E-mail: [email protected] DAVID D. BUCK 1075 ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 491–517.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... The number of staff required to service 1,000 direct exchange lines in India came down from more than seventy in 1990 to just five in 2003. Cell phone connections rose from 13 million subscriptions to 35 million subscriptions between 2002–3 and 2003–4. While the New Telecom Policy of 1999 set itself the aim...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 251–272.
Published: 01 May 2013
... jewelry. Emily kept in close touch with Hessler, writing letters and sometimes phoning him at night. She confided in him, and he offered his advice freely when she faced problems with men or at work. In one phone conversation, Emily told Hessler that her sister had found a job with “a lonely hearts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 893–897.
Published: 01 November 2019
...” Uyghurs. They were looking for men with facial hair or women with veiled faces. Phones and computers were scanned regularly. When I visited Bay County in January 2015 as an ethnographer, I myself had my phone checked by a police officer during one of the nightly inspections. The cycle of violence...
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