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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 297–298.
Published: 01 February 1994
...Geoffrey C. Gunn Hmong at the Turning Point . By Yang Dao . Minneapolis : WorldBridge Associates , 1993 . xvi, 168 pp. $29.99. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 297 but, by 1975, had turned Saigon "into an overripe fruit...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1034–1040.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Khosla . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2020 . 219 pp. ISBN: 9780674980877 . Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point . By Gyan Prakash . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2019 . 456 pp. ISBN: 9780691186726 . The Paradox...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (4): 634–635.
Published: 01 August 1956
...Fred Eggan The Philippine Plaza Complex: A Focal Point in Culture Change . By Donn V. Hart . New Haven : Yale University Southeast Asia Studies , 1955 . v, 57 (multilithed). Charts, Bibliography. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 634 FAR EASTERN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (4): 831–850.
Published: 01 August 1983
...Paul R. Greenough Abstract The author questions the assumptions of an “Asian school of scarcity and risk,” of which James C. Scott is the principal exponent, using Bengali peasant history as a case in point. He argues that it is more likely that the subsistence traditions of Bengal derive from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (3): 380–381.
Published: 01 May 1961
...D. S. Willis Abriss der Japanischen Grammatik: auf der Grundlage der klassischen Schriftsprache . By Bruno Lewin . Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz , 1959 . xiii, 269 . DM 28 (paper). The Sound System of Standard Japanese: A Tentative Account From the Teaching Point of View . By F...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 November 1977
...John H. Boyle Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 The Sian Incident: A Pivotal Point in Modern Chinese History . By Tien-wei Wu . Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies 26), 1976 . xiv , 285 pp. Bibliography, Index, Glossary...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (3): 412–413.
Published: 01 May 1962
...Ruth T. McVey The Wilopo Cabinet, 1952–1953: Turning Point in Post-Revolutionary Indonesia . By Herbert Feith . Modern Indonesia Project, Monograph Series. Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University , 1958 . 212 . $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 412...
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Published: 01 August 2023
FIGURE 4 Tensions between the eagles and bunnies have escalated to the point that they have begun to throw things at each other. Year Hare Affair , season 1, episode 6. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (3): 429–431.
Published: 01 May 1964
... concept has been used. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 1 The Religion of Java , (Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1962). 2 Politics, Personality, and Nation Building , (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962), pp. 74–77. Perspective Requires Two Points...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 271–281.
Published: 01 February 1979
... Points of Departure: Comments on Religious Pilgrimage in Sri Lanka and Japan WILLIAM LAFLEUR ' T ' h e r e are probably few contemporary social scientists who are read as widely by X humanists as Victor Turner. We humanists are so drawn to his works, I suspect, because we detect in them a conception...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 856–857.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Mark Caprio The Historical Perceptions of Korea and Japan: Its Origins and Points of the Issues Concerning Dokdo-Takeshima, Yasukuni Shrine, Comfort Women, and Textbooks . Edited by Dae-Song Hyun . Paju Book City, ROK : Nanam , 2008 . 465 pp. $26.90 (used cloth); eBook: Google and Hathi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 565–567.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the context of 1940s dialect debates, Bhowmik concludes that Okinawan authors reacted to “colonial modernity” by utilizing “nostalgia as a pointed political tool” (p. 87). The second half of the book addresses literary works from the post-WWII era. Bhowmik demonstrates how under the U.S. occupation Oshiro...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 23 (1): 123.
Published: 01 November 1963
... of more systematic and careful study than we see displayed here. GEORGE K. OSBORN, III. West Point, N. Y. Local Government in China under the Ch'ing. By T'UNG-TSU CH'U. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. xiv, 496. $9.50. The purpose of this very important book is "to describe, analyze...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 27 (1): 160–161.
Published: 01 November 1967
... itself often a subject of public dispute as it is employed and pursued at one point in time tends to place restrictions on future choice. Mr. Gopal has proposed that the incongruity between declaration and action in the case of linguistic affairs in India has encouraged ambiguity towards her linguistic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1128–1130.
Published: 01 November 2016
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 569–570.
Published: 01 May 2016
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (4): 681–682.
Published: 01 August 1965
... could use the questions posed in the volume as a starting point for the derivation of needed revolutionary models from the recent and current Asian revolutions. Professor Paret's book is quite another cup of tea. He sets out to analyze the French doctrine on revolutionary war doctrine developed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 891–893.
Published: 01 November 2019
... disavowed singular national responses, we would learn about all of the possible responses to the film, from adoration to condescension, and so on. But at the end of the day, even texts that consider multiple points of view are limited by the written word, which, perhaps unlike the image, tends to be capable...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1110–1112.
Published: 01 November 1998
...) without fear of being its junior partner, but later China is described as a junior partner of the United States. By the same token, on one occasion, it is said that China had sufficient power to pose a significant military threat to either superpower, and at another point it is stated that China could...
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Published: 01 February 2023
FIGURE 5 (a) Map of Jamaica from the late nineteenth century published by the London-based Edward Stanford atlas company in 1901. I have added marks to the map to indicate reported points of conflict in the 1918 riots. “Jamaica,” David Rumsey Map Collection, https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna More