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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 168.
Published: 01 November 1964
...R. A. Rupen Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Pieces . By Arthur Waley . London : George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. , 1963 . 302. 32s. 168 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Although the difficulties of interpretation a new...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 299–300.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of India and Pakistan as separate nation-states. The first of this pair of short pieces was an introductory look at partition by Gerald James Larson, which I asked this prominent scholar of religion to write. I suggested that it take the form of an at-most lightly footnoted overview of the topic, which...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (3): 373–386.
Published: 01 May 1955
...John A. Pope Abstract The museum has acquired from the Hester Collection in Chicago 410 pieces of Chinese and Siamese ceramics from the group collected by Mr. Hester in the Philippines. All are whole pieces and this accession rounds out and supplements in many ways the already important body...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 843–867.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Shawn Bender Abstract In a performance of Ōdaiko, arguably the most iconic and widely performed piece in Japanese taiko drumming, a loincloth-clad man pounds furiously on a huge Japanese drum to the point of near exhaustion. Although this piece often is assumed to descend from Japan's rich heritage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 559–574.
Published: 01 August 1967
... countrymen to view this as the common shame of China's four hundred millions, rather than the shame of one or two persons alone. Wang struck a similar chord in another piece in which he argued that since the interests of all members of society were linked together, people should look upon the whole...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (2): 335–338.
Published: 01 February 1968
... behind. Some years later the font, still incomplete, found its way to the establishment of William Caslon III. They were museum pieces. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 1
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (2): 135–139.
Published: 01 February 1945
... that was foreign to them. I put up a piece of black oilcloth from the Chinese tienda —the government-issue blackboards did not arrive in time for the opening of school—and the first words I wrote were “A is for Apple.” Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 AN UNPARALLELED VENTURE...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 18 (1): 67–79.
Published: 01 November 1958
... about 530), while T'ao is represented there by only eight pieces and Yen Yen-chih b , another contemporary whose name is often coupled with Hsieh's, by nineteen. His fame seems to have rested largely on his ability to depict the natural beauties of the Chekiang mountains which he loved, and to evoke...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 911–926.
Published: 01 November 2020
... index—though Gender Trouble 's numbers are massive. To take the measure of the work that Gender Trouble has done for scholars working in Asian studies (itself a constructed and constantly morphing category, like gender), we should ask how the book traveled. Which pieces were taken up by scholars of Asia...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1944) 3 (2): 144–171.
Published: 01 February 1944
... piece of land among the fields. We then left the main road and walked in the direction of the temple, thinking to seek a little food there. [Li] Han-chün was with us too; Chan Ta-pei had gone on ahead by himself in the sedan-chair. I do not remember the name of the temple. When we arrived there, we...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2006
... was so pleased with the proposal that he promulgated an edict ( shangyu 上諭) the same day taking over Kang’s phrasing. On three occasions in the following weeks, the editorial in the famous Shanghai daily Shenbao 申報 discussed the edict not as a piece of legislation aiming at facilitating the creation ex...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 835–871.
Published: 01 August 2003
... came out that night and saw his reflection, he was so startled to see another creature as big and powerful as himself that he lashed out at the mirror, shattering the glass. But, each broken piece reflected himself back at him. As he turned, these creatures seemed to surround him. He felt they had...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 57–61.
Published: 01 February 2012
... upon whether one is a “pure” Taiwan studies scholar or not. All this stems from Taiwan's continued ambiguous and indeterminate status in the world politically and ethnically. This problem will not go away soon, but that does not mean we should shrink from it. The motivation for writing this short piece...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 121–125.
Published: 01 February 2012
...John Whittier Treat Abstract I begin my rejoinder to Timothy Brook and Michael Shin by reiterating the important question with which Brook ends his piece. “[W]hen Hamid Karzai's government falls in Afghanistan, or Nouri al-Maliki's does in Iraq, who then will be the nation's heroes and who...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 620–638.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the novel as a postmemory generation's struggle over the question of how postmemory generations of a former perpetrator country would be able to ethically respond to a temporally distanced, shameful, and traumatic past. Murakami's postmemory protagonist archives scattered pieces of the wartime and postwar...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 754–777.
Published: 01 August 2011
... such a view, offers a corrective to the kind of history it encourages, wherein public space appears politically relevant only at its most visible moments. Framing the analysis is Japanese provincial writer Miyazawa Kenji (1896–1933) and his “Poran no hiroba” (Poran's Square), which survives as a piece...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 333–335.
Published: 01 May 2011
... author to start any piece by stating just that. While the articles that comprise this Journal of Asian Studies “mini-forum” on North Korea had already been commissioned, it will surprise no reader to learn that their framing and urgency shifted in response to recent events. As this issue goes to press...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (5): 995–1025.
Published: 01 November 1986
... on levels of peasant consumption in the region in that period. The final section considers three indirect indications of changes in economic welfare in Southeast Asia during the depression: Indian immigration and repatriation rates; the import level of cotton piece goods; and mortality rates. The author...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 34 (1): 159–167.
Published: 01 November 1974
... to reconstruct from hundreds of thousands of mythological, philological and iconographical details the language, religion and social structure of an ancient parent culture, while the latter proceed from an equally bewildering variety of geological and oceanographical puzzle-pieces to determine the character...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 814–820.
Published: 01 November 1988
... certainly questions the androcentric assumptions of many scholarly fields and seeks a greater piece of the academic pie for women scholars, but that is not the whole story. In the past decade or so, gender has joined class, race, and ethnicity as an element in theories about the major forces that shape...
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