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Speaking on Behalf of the Korean King: Rhetorical Education and Political Imagination in Early Modern China

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Shoufu Yin
Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 549–569.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-10687321
Published: 01 November 2023
... others in a hierarchical world order. [email protected] © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 rhetoric political imagination civil service examination Ming China Chosŏn Korea Ye Xianggao 葉向高 (1559–1627) was a prominent statesman in seventeenth-century global politics. As chief...
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Rāmāyaṇa and Political Imagination in India

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Sheldon Pollock
Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (2): 261–297.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2059648
Published: 01 May 1993
... : Harrassowitz . Ramayana and Political Imagination in India SHELDON POLLOCK . F R O M DECEMBER 1992 THROUGH JANUARY 1993, more than 3,000 people were killed in "communal" rioting across India, from Surat to Calcutta, from Kanpur to Bangalore. The likes of this rioting had not been seen for generations...
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Imagining Indonesia: Cultural Politics and Political Culture

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Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1229–1231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2659386
Published: 01 November 1998
...Felicia Hughes-Freeland Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Imagining Indonesia: Cultural Politics and Political Culture . Edited by Jim Schiller and Barbara Martin-Schiller . Athens : Ohio University Center , Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia...
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The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan

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W. Puck Brecher
Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 842–844.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911816000887
Published: 01 August 2016
...W. Puck Brecher The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan . By Katsuya Hirano . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 . viii, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780226060569 (paper; also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright ©...
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Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory

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David Hunt
Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (1): 225–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002191180600057X
Published: 01 February 2006
...David Hunt Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory . By Christoph Giebel . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2004 . xxii , 255 pp. $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V...
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Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place

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Bendi Tso
Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 567–569.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002191182200064X
Published: 01 August 2022
...Bendi Tso Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place . By Swargajyoti Gohain . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2020 . 246 pp. ISBN: 9789462989320 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Language, the Nation, and Symbolic Capital: The Case of Punjab

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Alyssa Ayres
Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 917–946.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911808001204
Published: 01 August 2008
.... This essay argues that a theory of symbolic capital best explains this otherwise peculiar inversion of perceived and actual power, and underscores culture's critical role in the nation's political imagination. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 No one vaguely familiar...
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The Student Labor Camp Movement, Postcolonial Development, and the Shaping of Citizens-to-Be in Independent India, 1954–65

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Tom Wilkinson
Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 306–326.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11015691
Published: 01 May 2024
... the newly created nation-state came to be constructed as India's model citizen-to-be, and this figure embodies the emergent forms of postcolonial nationalist politics and ideologies of the 1950s and 1960s. This youthful labor force was depicted in the developmentalist imagination of India as literally...
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The Rebirth of Shiv Sena: The Symbiosis of Discursive and Organizational Power

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Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Uday Singh Mehta, Usha Thakkar
Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 371–390.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2646242
Published: 01 May 1997
... as a centerpiece of Shiv Sena events would have been scarcely imaginable in the early years of Shiv Sena. Both the stress on a Hindu identity and the use of Hindi in political sloganeering are indicative of a major shift in the politics of regionalism in Western India. This turn to Hinduism is what seemed...
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Dying against Democracy: Suicide Protest and the 1905 Anti-American Boycott

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Keren He
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 865–888.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002191182100067X
Published: 01 November 2021
...Keren He Abstract The joint rise of popular movements and mass media in early twentieth-century China gave birth to a democratic imagination, which culminated in the anti-American boycott of 1905. The transnational campaign nonetheless disintegrated as a result of partisan division—an ingrained...
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Japanese Colonial Development Policy in Taiwan, 1895–1906: A Case of Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship

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Chang Han-Yu, Ramon H. Myers
Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (4): 433–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2049857
Published: 01 August 1963
.... Aldiough Kodama's career ended in 1906, he stands out as one of the most able and imaginative young officials of the late Meiji period. In Gotō, Kodama had an enterprising, intelligent, and dedicated assistant capable of surrounding himself with able, loyal officials and providing the coordination...
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What Can the Patterns of Renovation Reveal?: Afterlife of the Tibetan Empire in the Tangut Intervention at Dunhuang

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Yong Cho
Journal of Asian Studies (2025) 84 (1): 139–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11445127
Published: 01 February 2025
... portraits of Zhang Yichao 張議潮 and Zhang Huaishen 張淮深 , the figures who were instrumental in establishing the period of Zhang and Cao family rule at Dunhuang—the political lineage to which Cao Yijin imagined himself to belong. Such exuberant inclusion of donor portraits as part of the cave's...
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Witnessing Empire's End: Malayan Refugees’ Anticolonial Futures in Wartime India, 1942–1946

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Darren Wan
Journal of Asian Studies (2025) 84 (2): 382–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11591179
Published: 01 May 2025
... Malaya to shape Malayans’ imaginations of a new political order. Newspaper articles, correspondence, oral history interviews, and biographies show that witnessing the electrifying lead-up to the transfer of power in India generated varied worldmaking projects that envisioned empire's end in Malaya. Even...
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Naming the Reality of Chinese Criticism

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C. H. Wang
Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 529–534.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2053786
Published: 01 May 1979
...C. H. Wang Abstract The philosophical reflections on literary art produced in traditional China cannot be accurately described as literary criticism or literary theory. A scholar or writer set forth his ideas about the nature of literature in general, the value and function of imaginative writing...
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Performing the Village Square in Interwar Japan: Toward a Hidden History of Public Space

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Hoyt Long
Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 754–777.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911811000891
Published: 01 August 2011
... into their own hands and sought ways to reinvent the farm village as social space. They tried to imagine, that is, a public life organized along different cultural, economic, and political lines, where political should be understood broadly as the redistribution of power through the restructuring...
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State, Sovereignty, and the People: A Comparison of the “Rule of Law” in China and India

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Jonathan K. Ocko, David Gilmartin
Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 55–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911809000084
Published: 01 February 2009
... the two regions and the tensions that the “rule of law” generated in both. The importance of an imagined “rule of law” to the broad development of modern political theory has recently been persuasively argued by Paul W. Kahn in The Cultural Study of Law ( 1999 ). Kahn's work is firmly grounded...
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Strategic Hypocrisy: The British Imperial Scripting of Tibet's Geopolitical Identity

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Dibyesh Anand
Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 227–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911809000011
Published: 01 February 2009
... of contesting representations and challenges the divide between the political and the cultural, the imperial and the imaginative. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 How does a place acquire geopolitical identity? The answer is not self-evident. The status of a geopolitical...
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At the Margins of Empire: Feminist-Nationalist Configurations of Burmese Society in the Hindi Public (1917–1920)

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Shobna Nijhawan
Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1013–1033.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911812001192
Published: 01 November 2012
... for the readers of Stri Darpan to instigate change in their own families and localities . In addition, Indian women could be of avail to Burma: Nehru imagined a community of upper-class Indian and Burmese women who one day would mobilize all women to articulate the demand for political emancipation...
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Mediated Massacre: Digital Nationalism and History Discourse on China's Web

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Florian Schneider
Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 429–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817001346
Published: 01 May 2018
... nature rarely is. Nationalism is a form of consciousness that creates meaning by prompting members of the nation to see the world through the lens of communities that are imagined as politically and culturally cohesive. As Billig ( 2009 , 55) has argued, the resulting worldviews do not separate...
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Erasable and Negatable: Invisible Gendered Racialization of “Foreign Women”

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Sohoon Yi
Journal of Asian Studies (2025) 84 (2): 469–483.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11591579
Published: 01 May 2025
... a broader politics of racialization and color that imagines white as superior and darker-colored skin as inferior, or to pretend such logic withstands time and remains constant. Instead, I sought to provide an alternative view of racialization that, owing to a complicated history of colonization, (a) goes...
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