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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 354–378.
Published: 01 May 1998
... (The Song of Murakami Haruki). Tokyo : Seikyūsha . Hutcheon Linda . 1991 . The Politics of Postmodernism . New York : Routledge , 1989 Reprint. Huyssen Andreas . 1986 . After the Great Divide . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . Kiyoto Imai . 1990 . OFF no Kankaku...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 455–457.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Christine R. Yano Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives . Edited by Charles Wei-Hsun Fu and Steven Heine . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1995 . xxiii, 334 pp. $14.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 455...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1156–1157.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Joshua Breslau Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern . Edited By Donald Denoon , Mark Hudson , Gavan McCormack Tessa Morris-Suzuki . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . viii, 296 pp. $59.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 1156...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Roger Des Forges Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context . By Charles Horner . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2009 . xiv, 224 pp. $34.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This slim volume...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 659–661.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Douglas Allen Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays: Gandhi in the World and at Home . By Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2006 . x , 259 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 789–790.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Ban Wang The Chinese Postmodern: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction . By Xiaobin Yang . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2002 . ix, 286 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 789 The Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1243–1245.
Published: 01 November 1994
...Jeffrey C. Kinkley Inside Out: Modernism and Postmodernism in Chinese Literary Culture . Edited by Wendy Larson and Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg . Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press , 1993 . 203 pp. DKK 214. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 1041–1042.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Barbara D. Metcalf Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise . By Akbar S. Ahmed . London and New York : Routledge , 1992 . 294 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1041 of a critic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 963–974.
Published: 01 November 2014
... universalizing theorists have been laid to rest over the last quarter-century by poststructural, postmodern, and postcolonial thought, so too apparently has any new mythology of our common humanity (much less its actualization). Nevertheless, one can certainly wonder whether Campbell would not have interpreted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 667–692.
Published: 01 August 2000
... to observe the excesses of this kind of postmodern tribalism, China comes to represent the ultimate form of spatialized cultural identity. In The Diamond Age , China is represented more as an organic cultural system than a historically progressing nation. But it is only China's interior that is represented...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 449–454.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of Modernity ( London : Routledge , 1996 ), 12 . For Nakamura, the uncanny, or ambiguity, conceptually questions an episteme. On the other hand, for Robertson, reactionary postmodernism looks longingly backwards at the specific structures of the Japanese modern era in order to shape the future...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 February 1999
... is brilliantly provocative, his conceptual arguments thoughtful and important, and his writing remarkably lucid. Scholars who do not work in the "postmodern" tradition normally complain that postmodern writing is oddly incapable of clarity and precision, often privileging convolution and jargon at the cost...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1243–1245.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., but controversial reading and analysis by applying Western postmodernism to the study of this medieval Chinese anthology (pp. 10–13). She believes that postmodern approaches can provide “new strategies for analyzing silent codes and hidden structures” (p. 341) in the poems, arguing that poets skillfully conceal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 960–962.
Published: 01 November 1996
... of agency, heretofore centrally related to Western individualism and modernism, by nine authors who for the most part are thoroughly grounded in a postmodern sensibility. The contributors are oriented toward contextual analyses of social, cultural, and historical factors that constitute a pluralistic self...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 942–943.
Published: 01 August 1994
.... The first part of his study addresses issues related to Dogen the international philosopher, by subjecting his thought to the methodologies ("discourse analysis") of the new, postmodern age. The second part is a textual-critical attempt to assess Dogen's approach to koan study within the context of Song...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 460–461.
Published: 01 May 1996
..." (p. 22). No one can grasp the origin of the vanishing objectively. Such an origin produces its effects through its displacement and repetition. I must make it clear, though, that Ivy's book does not celebrate postmodernism; it instead rejects the totalizing characterization of contemporary Japan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1222–1223.
Published: 01 November 1994
...) occurred during the colonial period, and how do "postmodern eco-politics" (Turner, p. 300) of the present period challenge the hegemonic assumptions and knowledge that continue to envelop the fourth world. The West has only started to scratch the surface regarding potential indigenous rights...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (3): 916–918.
Published: 01 August 1999
... in processes of history, politics, and culture. Other articles took up similar critical concerns: the relations among suicide, narrativity, class, and the postmodern; postmodernity's mind-numbing juxtaposition of mass production, commodity abundance, and weapons of mass production; the imperialism of modern...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 670–672.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., this reluctance to see "the modern moment" in a broader historical perspective characterizes the volume as a whole. The reluctance is most evident first in the striking absence of any sustained engagement with the question of postmodernity and postmodernism: the simple assertion in this volume that modernity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 940–942.
Published: 01 August 1994
... to the methodologies ("discourse analysis") of the new, postmodern age. The second part is a textual-critical attempt to assess Dogen's approach to koan study within the context of Song Chan. The author has three self-proclaimed aims: (1) to introduce and evaluate recent Japanese scholarship concerning Dogen's two...