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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 269–271.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Jinyoung Jin Being Political Popular , edited by Sohl Lee, is at one level a visual and prescriptive record catalog of the exhibition of the same title that was part of the 2012 conference entitled Political Popular: Intersection of Democracy & Popular/Public Culture in South Korea...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 783–785.
Published: 01 August 2018
..., bureaucracy, popular culture, and society of Qing China. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State . By Mark McNicholas . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2016 . xvi, 265 pp...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 918–919.
Published: 01 November 2019
... ) . At its best, Popular Memories of the Mao Era makes good on its interest in the ways in which history is forged out of and through memory. It does not always succeed in this arena, however. The Party-state looms so large at times, especially in part three, for example, that the volume's overarching...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 February 2015
... commitment to communism can so smoothly be merged with an even stronger commitment to capitalism” (p. 14). Written from interdisciplinary perspectives across global urban, cultural, and area studies, the thirteen essays collected in Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 226–228.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Youjeong Oh The Korean Popular Culture Reader . Edited by Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2014 . xi, 450 pp. $99.95 (cloth); $28.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 The Korean Popular Culture...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 842–844.
Published: 01 August 2016
... edified. Hirano's deployment of (predominantly) twentieth-century Western theorists to Edo period popular culture helps illuminate the genres, motifs, styles, and aesthetics of that era but at times seems superfluous. In such cases it distracts from his own voice, which shines brightest when speaking...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 814–815.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of the avant-garde, which correspond to key historical-cultural moments. This book identifies avant-garde performance as an important political force shaped by and shaping popular culture in modern China. Liang Luo proposes, in fact, that the popular avant-garde was the cultural force that called...
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 2. One of the more popular pictorial representations of the weizzā committee. The names of each of the members and where they are placed in the picture are noted at the top. From the author's collection. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of popular songs by famous Mongolian, Uyghur, and Tibetan musicians, along with interviews with the musicians who created them and other minority intellectuals, this article proposes that China's minority intellectuals have appropriated the global discourse of environmentalism to construct minority...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 546–547.
Published: 01 May 2016
... mantra [verse or spell])—but to those who use these phrases, that hybridity is undetected. Afsar Mohammad's book, The Festival of Pirs , is a richly detailed study of a popular shrine in the village of Gugudu in Andhra Pradesh, South India. The shrine is dedicated to a Sufi Saint, Kullayappa, who...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Jennifer Milioto Matsue Abstract Popular music is a dynamic portal through which to gain a greater understanding of a vast array of social phenomena within Asia. In particular, the power of pop to actively shape conceptions of self and inform the ways in which we interact with others...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 929–943.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of masculinity that have resulted from popular culture and its impact in CJK, I will present the more standard version of modern Chinese masculinity that so seamlessly integrates the Japanese salaryman and Western metrosexual images of recent years. The emergence of the Chinese metrosexual is especially evident...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1174–1176.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Daniel A. Jasper Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular . By Bishnupriya Ghosh . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2011 . xiii , 383 pp. $94.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 In Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 460–462.
Published: 01 May 2021
...,” China Quarterly , published online July 2, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741020000491 . 2 King et al., “How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression.” Zoning China: Online Video, Popular Culture, and the State . By Luzhou Li . Cambridge...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 258–259.
Published: 01 February 2021
... a bridge between these two case studies by (re)presenting the two artists “as cultural brokers, opening up a popular modernity and popular cosmopolitanism for the working to middle classes. It did not produce an avant garde cosmopolitan art for elites ” (p. 238; emphasis added). Significantly, Borromeo...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 211–212.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Akshya Saxena Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture . By Ulka Anjaria . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2019 . 264 pp. ISBN: 9781439916650 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Literary industries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 459–461.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Brook Bolander Language, Media and Globalization in the Periphery. The Linguascapes of Popular Music in Mongolia . By Sender Dovchin . New York : Routledge , 2018 . 161 pp. ISBN: 9781138051676 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 The eight...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 309–328.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Lauren Meeker Abstract In popular Buddhist practice in rural northern Vietnam, moral personhood does not merely belong to the self but is embedded in the intersubjective relationship among individuals, the gods, and the community. The inner moral person, characterized as heart/mind ( tâm...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 179–180.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Angela Ki Che Leung Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China . By Andrew Schonebaum . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2016 . viii, 283 pp. ISBN: 9780295995182 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1125–1129.
Published: 01 November 2017
... not be more different. While Andrew Robinson's The Indus is a journalistic attempt to synthesize contemporary archaeologists’ understanding of the Indus Civilization for a popular audience, Shereen Ratnagar's Harappan Archaeology is a set of critical essays that seeks to challenge widely held positions...