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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 848–849.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Chin-Chuan Lee An Orchestra of Voices: Making the Argument for Greater Speech and Press Freedom in the People's Republic of China . By Sun Xupei . Edited by Elizabeth C. Michel . Westport, Conn. : Praeger , 2000 , 143 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 February 1980
... History”; for, Hegel stated, “as the contrast between objective existence and subjective freedom of movement in it is still wanting, every change is excluded and the fixedness of a character which recurs perpetually takes the place of what we should call the truly historical” (The Philosophy of History, J...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (3): 561–567.
Published: 01 May 1985
...Leo Ou-fan Lee Abstract This article surveys the available English translations of contemporary Chinese literature from the People's Republic. In view of the post-Mao Party policy of relative freedom for creative writing, more works are pouring out of China than ever before. Of the most recent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 881–893.
Published: 01 November 2018
... 15 percent). Despite mixed reviews in the press, he has won a series of elections, and in politics that is what counts (Kingston 2018b). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 Asahi censorship comfort women Fukushima Japan #MeToo press freedom sexual harassment...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 361–392.
Published: 01 May 2006
... . Thapa Manjushree . 2001 . “Bhupi Sherchan on Rumor and Hearsay.” Nepali Times 48 (22–28 June). White Barbara . 2001 . “Britain 1688–1880.” In Censorship: A World Encyclopedia , ed. Jones Derek . Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn . World Press Freedom Review. 2002 . International...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (3): 571–573.
Published: 01 May 1985
.... With its forest of statistics, historical narrative, and commentary on the state of "freedom" of the press, the book demands a reader with patience, time, and a commitment to the subject. The book is thus aimed at a limited number of scholars and librarians. 572 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Lent divides his...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 249–250.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 Editorial Foreword Issue 65:2 of JAS brings together four papers that touch on the history of modernity in East Asia. A fth paper testi es to the loss of press freedoms in Nepal since 2001. Conjurations of the Meiji Era How was modernity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 908–909.
Published: 01 August 1998
.... xxvii, 379 pp. $59.95 (cloth). When the Indonesian government complains about meddling by foreigners in the country's internal affairs, the reference is usually to issues that impinge on vertical power relations in Indonesian society (like human rights, press freedom, fairness of elections...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 615–617.
Published: 01 May 1968
... such sentiments. At one point he observes that the frontiers of press freedom in Asia are shrinking fast. Were they ever really broad? "There is something greater at stake," he goes on, "than the old distinction between the public's 'right to know' and its 'need to know.' It is, quite bluntly, national survival...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of democratization in Taiwan. Finally, it is a matter of record that Chen's panoply of reforms promised when he ran for the presidency was quickly put on the back burner when he was in office. Nor is there mention of the reversal of important reforms. Press freedom and ethnic relations are but two examples...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1034–1040.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., a measure that could end up disenfranchising a significant segment of the poor and minorities, especially Muslims. Simultaneously, it has contributed to a loss of judicial independence and overseen a significant diminution of press freedoms. Consequently, while many of the formal attributes of democracy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 906–908.
Published: 01 August 1998
... to issues that impinge on vertical power relations in Indonesian society (like human rights, press freedom, fairness of elections, and the right to form independent organizations). The sort of meddling undertaken by the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) since the mid-1960s in Indonesia...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (1): 229–236.
Published: 01 February 1992
... in Shanghai's Reform Media"; Hsiao Ching-chang and Yang Mei-rong, " 'Don't Force Us to Lie': The Case of the World Economic Herald'; Ruan Ming, "Press Freedom and Neoauthoritarianism: A Reflection on China's Democracy Movement"; Liu Binyan, "Press Freedom: Particles in the Air"; ChinChuan Lee and Joseph Man...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 1032–1036.
Published: 01 August 2009
... promise in quests for press freedom, while George insists that with their control over information and opinions diminished, both Malaysia and Singapore have had to become more overtly coercive, signaling “strains on their hegemony” from which he seems to take heart. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 359–376.
Published: 01 May 2014
... could be published in Thailand's press would take a decisive turn towards the crime story. While a history of the press that emphasizes the print media's role in fostering the creation of the nation 13 and the subsequent struggle to maintain press freedom is an important narrative, other...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 43–61.
Published: 01 February 2022
... became more pressing in Hong Kong after the tragic event in Tiananmen Square, eight short years before the city was to be handed over to the regime that had suppressed the movement in Beijing. To safeguard basic freedom, in 1990, the colonial government introduced the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 129–154.
Published: 01 February 2020
... parliamentarians clearly wrestled with the many possible meanings of a concept like “religious freedom” while, at the same time, actively pressing for one. In fact, throughout the ensuing debates, Pakistan's attorney general noted that Parliament was empowered to guard against any encroachment on Muslim...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 514–517.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Levi McLaughlin Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan . By Jolyon Baraka Thomas . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2019 . 336 pp. ISBN: 9780226618821 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 I find beginning a book...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 237–257.
Published: 01 May 2024
... after the war [World War II] have I felt it an urgent necessity that the freedom of thinking above all should be appropriated by all the intellectuals in Japan. I have emphasized the freedom of thinking repeatedly in my many articles. The freedom of speech and press without the freedom of thinking...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 909–922.
Published: 01 November 2018
...-sponsored fake news is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the broader struggle for a free and open press. What its existence reveals is a global media landscape in crisis. Over the past decade, freedom of the press has been under assault worldwide with global average freedom of the press...
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