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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 566–568.
Published: 01 May 1997
...David Martin Jones Strategic Pragmatism: The Culture of Singapore's Economic Development Board . By Edgar H. Schein . Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press , 1996 . xvi, 275 pp. $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 566 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (4): 882–884.
Published: 01 August 1986
...Owen M. Lynch The Untouchable as Himself: Ideology, Identity, and Pragmatism Among the Lucknow Chamars . By R. S. Khare . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1985 . xv, 189 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $34.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 551–570.
Published: 01 May 1968
...Chan Lien Abstract The relationship between pragmatism and Chinese Communism is a question important in its consequences but ambiguous in its content. By careful reading of the intellectual history of China during past half-century, certain implications on the intertwined relationships between them...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 605–607.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Education and the Politics of Language: Hegemony and Pragmatism in Cambodia, 1979–1980 . By Thomas Clayton . Foreward By Mark Ginsburg. CERC Studies in Comparative Education 8. Hong Kong : The University of Hong Kong Comparative Education Research Center , 2000...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 775–777.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Bob Currie Pragmatism and Development: The Prospects for Pluralist Transformation in the Third World . By Murray J. Leaf . Westport, Conn. : Bergin and Garvey , 1998 . xiv, 229 pp. $59.95 (cloth). The Development Dilemma: Displacement in India . By S. Parasuraman...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 545–546.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Naomi Hanaoka McGloin Japanese/English Code-Switching: Syntax and Pragmatics . By Miwa Nishimura . New York : Peter Lang Publishing , 1997 . xx, 176 pp. $43.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 545 story? To one deeply interested...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 792–793.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Ramdas Menon Development Success in Asia Pacific: An Exercise in Normative-Pragmatic Balance . By A. H. Somjee and Geeta Somjee . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1995 . ix, 222 pp. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 792 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 615–616.
Published: 01 May 1979
... have been useful. DURGAPRASAD BHATTACHARYA Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics: A Kannada System of Address. By SUSAN S. BEAN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. xvi, 163 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $17.00. In Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (3): 491–519.
Published: 01 May 1985
...Chad Hansen Abstract Pre-Han philosophical tradition did not address issues for which the concept of truth was central. Classical Chinese philosophy had virtually no metaphysical theory. The theory of language was mainly pragmatic. The semantic doctrines that were developed focused on terms rather...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 835–845.
Published: 01 August 1968
... this, it would be helpful to keep these questions in mind: how did the mineral industries fit into the general framework of an agrarian-based civil bureaucracy? In the application of policy, did the government invariably let its actions be determined by a priori conceptions, or did it base decisions on pragmatic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 71–89.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Susan J. Napier Abstract In japan in the late 1980s, a society that is arguably one of the most modern, pragmatic, and materialist in the world, the problem of the emperor system initially seems almost irrelevant. And yet the imperial house continues to excite controversy and concern, as is clear...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 324–332.
Published: 01 May 1989
... influence. The other has been a long-standing, increasingly experienced, and cautiously pragmatic contingent of Liberal Democratic party (LDP) leaders and legislators. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 Masayuki Fukuoka . Nihon no seiji fūdo: Niigata Sanku ni miru...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 730–753.
Published: 01 August 2011
... thus helps resolve the puzzle of Sri Lankan Muslims: they are surrounded by hostility, but they continue to be internally divided. Akkaraipattu's Muslims jockey between principled politics, pragmatic politics and anti-politics, because they have to navigate different trajectories. This article thus...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 February 2014
... sabotaging such expeditions, instead became the handmaiden of domestic geopolitical competitors who attempted to turn Stein and Hedin into exploitable resources for their own agendas. The logistical pragmatism revealed in these sources relegates principled nationalist intellectuals and their imperialist...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 497–532.
Published: 01 May 2007
... is Confucius's pragmatic approach, which emphasizes the intention and purpose of the speaker, and the other is Gongxi Hua's approach, which focuses on the literal meaning of the speech. Examples of each paradigm can be found in the long history of the exegeses of the Analects. Commentaries by two groups...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 614–615.
Published: 01 May 1979
... 1931 smoothing formula for raw single-year age data to the more complete 1961 census figures, and then reapplying the formula to the 1931 data. He has dealt thoroughly with each factor that interferes with comparability of data on age distribution from census to census. This work takes a pragmatic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 44 (1): 215–216.
Published: 01 November 1984
... Waters prove his rule: real history is dull, human passivity is common, stability is good, pragmatism is even better. Waters, in short, finds virtue in the banal. Waters has two apparent reasons for writing this little book. His first, and I think most praiseworthy, is to demonstrate the importance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 5–20.
Published: 01 June 1964
..., however, are for keeping the world in order or for bestowing supernal merit rather than for protecting against disease or granting specific boons. The latter are in the keeping of the lesser deities, but the pragmatic good they can grant is tempered by their inclination to malevolence toward men...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 35 (1): 154–155.
Published: 01 November 1975
... and the felicity of language with which he recorded his impressions. Since Pak was one of the thinkers who belonged to what is known as the "pragmatic" school of thought {Sirhakp'a), the Yorha Ilgi has been regarded as a valuable source for understanding not only the conditions of life and society in eighteenth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 44 (1): 216–218.
Published: 01 November 1984
... understand how to maximize goods and minimize injuries; hence, they always formulate utilitarian survival strategies. But those who argue that the rational/pragmatic peasant is the "real" (or representative) peasant fail to see that utilitarian behavior may be other than accommodationist. The proponents...