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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 996–998.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam . By Michael G. Vann and Liz Clarke . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xvi, 263 pp. ISBN: 9780190602697 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (2): 486–488.
Published: 01 May 1993
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 574–575.
Published: 01 May 2011
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 726–728.
Published: 01 August 2013
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 248–249.
Published: 01 February 2007
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 7 (3): 254–267.
Published: 01 May 1948
... consists mainly of deer and wild pigs; rats, mice, and five species of deadly venomous snakes are also found, and mosquitoes, lice, fleas, and other insect pests abound. Its mineral deposits are of little consequence, but abundant limestone, sand, and gravel supply valuable construction materials...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (4): 603–610.
Published: 01 August 1974
... the moonlightand then he saw what spirit? Why did he wake from sleep? Or perhaps sleep was a long time comingand now he lies in sleep, in the dissecting room. Perhaps he wanted this sleep. Like a plague rat, face smeared with bloody foam, neck twisted, in a lightless hole he sleeps now; he will awake no more. ;He...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 381–415.
Published: 01 May 2002
... on rooftops, and even squirming on kangs next to slumbering women and children. Government reports praise the inherent wisdom and decisiveness of the Gannan villagers. Well-versed in the natural flora and fauna of the region, they immediately suspected that these rat-like animals were an alien species, a form...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 757–760.
Published: 01 August 2020
...). Otherwise, one must look into “entertainment literature and popular ballads, genres beyond the legislating power of traditional poetics” to find talking animals in China (p. 11). In chapter 1, we are introduced to an array of rat and cat motifs in elite literature from early to late imperial China...
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Journal of Asian Studies 11337063.
Published: 03 September 2024
.... The cause of the plague, the bac illus Yersinia pestis, and its mode of transm is sion, fleas, were both discovered within months of the outbreak. Rat fleas were iden tified as the disease vector and rats as the disease reservoir; the fleas bit humans when rat popu lations were decim...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1041–1048.
Published: 01 November 2016
... conditions of civilian life; popular mobilization through propaganda, public covenants, and compulsory discussions (as well as quotas for the collection of rats’ tails) affected residents’ social and cultural life. ROC planners were explicit about the motivation behind the shift: “our free and democratic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 161–163.
Published: 01 February 1990
... for a supernatural sheep that in 1936 entered the body of his "Boss," empowering him to be a right-wing tycoon who has controlled Japan's politics and economy ever since. But the sheep recently abandoned the Boss and appeared in a scenic photograph, which the hero's friend "Rat" had sent him for publication...
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Journal of Asian Studies 11337056.
Published: 03 September 2024
.... The cause of the plague, the bac illus Yersinia pestis, and its mode of transm is sion, fleas, were both discovered within months of the outbreak. Rat fleas were iden tified as the disease vector and rats as the disease reservoir; the fleas bit humans when rat popu lations were decim...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 311–344.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of cholera that explained the disease was caused by tiny germ particles that were invisible to the naked eye (NAR6 N 7.5/1). At this point, germ theory had taken a firm place in the Thai elite's minds and provided a new mode of battling the chuea rok . Rats, lice, fleas, mosquitoes, flies, and so on became...
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Published: 01 February 2009
Figure 3. Photographs of mammal embryos at the tailbud stage except for a. which is slightly younger. a. echidna or spiny anteater; b. brush-tailed possum; c. eastern Australian native “cat”; d. domestic cat; e. domestic dog; f. domestic sheep; g. scaly anteater; h. rat; i
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 939.
Published: 01 August 1972
... on the eve of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Tolley claims the operation to be the longest in the history of the Navy. Tolley himself twice served as one of the patrol's "River Rats" during the decade before the Pacific War, escaping to the Philippines and then to Australia as the war was breaking out. His...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 450–452.
Published: 01 May 2006
..., the development of the veneration of the tomb (maza¯r, darga¯h, or maqbara), the practice of visiting the shrine (ziya¯rat), and the offering of foods and its return to devotees in the form of blessed food or prasa¯d (a Hindu practice) are examined. The tombs are not merely the graves of dead persons...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 354–378.
Published: 01 May 1998
... by means of a close friend named Rat, who sends him a photograph of the sheep with the request that it be given a lot of exposure. Having followed these instructions, the entire world of the Boss's elusive State suddenly threatens to come down on the protagonist's shoulders, and, by extension, onto Rat's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 116–117.
Published: 01 February 1988
..." (p. 35). Eberhard is especially good at unraveling the symbolic associations of animals, a topic that never ceases to fascinate anthropologists: if a strange cat enters your house, this is a bad omen indicating the onset of poverty; the cat is awaiting the invasion of rats that will soon devour your...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 548–549.
Published: 01 August 1961
... that scrupulously listed dered? rat-free and rat-infested hotels, but said nothing 4. Are there separate entries for variants about the town, its history, or its surroundings. and are they adequately cross-referenced ? Alhamdulillah, this dictionary is far from be- 5. Are the abbreviations and symbols de- ing...
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