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The Ruin of Ancient Ceylon

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Rhoads Murphey
Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (2): 181–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2941377
Published: 01 February 1957
... ), p. v . The Ruin of Ancient Ceylon RHOADS MURPHEY THE study of abandoned civilizations, and of the reasons for the disaster, is a field in which many imaginations have wandered. In several parts of Southeast Asia, notably in Cambodia, northern Siam (the Kingdom of Haripunjaya), the Pagan area...
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Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific

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Christian Jil R. Benitez
Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 523–524.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11015739
Published: 01 May 2024
...Christian Jil R. Benitez Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific . Edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana , Heidi Amin-Hong , Rina Garcia Chua , and Zhou Xiaojing . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2022 . xiv, 289 pp. ISBN: 9780472054930 . © 2024 Association...
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Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border

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Mehnaaz Momen
Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 274–275.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817001887
Published: 01 February 2018
...Mehnaaz Momen Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border . By Delwar Hussain . London : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9781849042321 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018...
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Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border

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Dina Siddiqi
Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 511–513.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911815000443
Published: 01 May 2015
...Dina Siddiqi Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border . By Delwar Hussain . London : Hurst and Company , 2013 . xviii, 187 pp. ₤20.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 The 4,010-kilometer-long international...
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Life in Ruins: Materiality, the City, and the Production of Critique in the Art of Naiza Khan

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Karin Zitzewitz
Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 323–346.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911814002228
Published: 01 May 2015
... project, nearly all of Manora's civilian population was bought out by investors in 2006 for a now-abandoned real estate development. Khan has recorded the island's abandoned architecture in photographs and video, documenting its descent into ruins. Her visual archive, which also includes drawings, prints...
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Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era

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Haiyan Lee
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1069–1070.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821001728
Published: 01 November 2021
... search-and-rescue operations, Utopian Ruins will be treasured by scholars and lay readers alike. All of these exhibits are tied to specific historical figures, events, and places, but none are frozen in their valence and fungibility. Li is at her best in tracing the zigzag of mnemonic memes...
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Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo

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L. Halliday Piel
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 742–744.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821000954
Published: 01 August 2021
... and Environments 18 , no. 1 ( 2008 ): 1 – 29 . 5 Gregory Clancey , Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930 ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 2006 ) . Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo . By Janet...
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Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire

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Loretta E. Kim
Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 909–910.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819001384
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and the cultural consequences of the Qing dynasty's end, for readers in other disciplines. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire . By Matthew W. King . New York : Columbia University Press...
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A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

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Tong Lam
Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 990–991.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911813001332
Published: 01 November 2013
... interested in Chinese visual culture as well as ruins in general. As always, Wu's reading of images is thorough and perceptive. This book is a real gem also because of its beautifully reproduced images from a great variety of visual sources, including paintings, prints, films, photographs, and architecture...
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Reconnecting to Home, Redefining Risks, and Imagining a Future: The Emerging Ethnography of Post-3.11 - Fall-out from Fukushima: Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection after the Triple Meltdown and Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone and Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape

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William W. Kelly
Journal of Asian Studies (2025) 84 (1): 277–283.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11445303
Published: 01 February 2025
... in Fukushima's Gray Zone . By Ryo Morimoto . Oakland : University of California Press , 2023 . viii, 339 pp. ISBN: 9780520394100 . Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape . By Satsuki Takahashi . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2023 . xviii, 170 pp...
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A Heritage of Ruins: The Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia and Their Conservation Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia

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Ian Lowman
Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 1061–1063.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911815001503
Published: 01 November 2015
...Ian Lowman A Heritage of Ruins: The Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia and Their Conservation . By William Chapman . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . xviii, 340 pp. $59.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780824836313 ). Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia...
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Song among the Ruins

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Theodore M. Critchfield
Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 943–944.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2058292
Published: 01 November 1990
...Theodore M. Critchfield BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 943 Song among the Ruins. By W I L L I A M J . SCHULL. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. vii, 305 pp. $25.00. Song among the Ruins is an anecdotal account of Dr. William Schull's stay in Japan during the late years of Allied occupation and during...
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Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands

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William Wayne Farris
Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 742–743.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2658978
Published: 01 August 2000
...William Wayne Farris Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands . By Mark J. Hudson . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1999 . ix, 323 pp. $31.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 742 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Ruins...
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

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Jason Cons
Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 798–800.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911816000656
Published: 01 August 2016
...Jason Cons The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins . By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2015 . xii, 311 pp. ISBN: 9780691162751 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright ©...
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The Great Wall in Ruins: Communication and Cultural Change in China

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Huang Shu-min
Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 910–912.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2059748
Published: 01 August 1994
...Huang Shu-min The Great Wall in Ruins: Communication and Cultural Change in China . By Godwin C. Chu and Yanan Ju . Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press , 1993 . xiv, 365 pp. $18.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 910 THE JOURNAL...
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A large sculpture made of camouflage fabric and stuffed with kapok fiber depicts a seated figure with three stacked faces, placed against a corner wall on a wooden floor.

Sareth Svay, Ruins ( Asura Tower ). Cotton camouflage fabric stuffed with...

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in The Skin of Trees: Escape and Healing in Cambodia > Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2025
FIGURE 5 Sareth Svay, Ruins ( Asura Tower ). Cotton camouflage fabric stuffed with kapok fiber, 2014. Courtesy of Marc Bollansee, Berlin. More
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The Oppression Argument on Foreign Investment in China, 1895–1937

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Chi-Ming Hou
Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 435–448.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2049953
Published: 01 August 1961
... to the development of the Chinese economy. First, it is argued that foreign trade and foreign investment in China upset the Chinese economy by ruining handicraft industries and disrupting agriculture. Secondly, foreign trade and investment in China are alleged to have drained the Chinese economy of its wealth...
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A Poet with the Northern Expedition

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Kuo Mo-jo, Josiah W. Bennett
Far Eastern Quarterly (1944) 3 (2): 144–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2049764
Published: 01 February 1944
... found that it was only a ruined one; there was not the shadow of even a beggar. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1944 1944 * The first installment of this translation appeared in the November 1943 issue of the Quarterly. ** It being considered an act of piety...
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Exchange and the Protection of Java's Antiquities: A Transnational Approach to the Problem of Heritage in Colonial Java

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Marieke Bloembergen, Martijn Eickhoff
Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 893–916.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911813001599
Published: 01 November 2013
... . By exploring how site-related objects traveled from temple ruins in Java to places elsewhere in the world (here: Siam, the Netherlands, France, and Great Britain) and back to Java, we show the transformation of heritage engagements around 1900 at multiple locations, and we make clear why, despite...
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Nocturnal Labors in the Light of Day

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Michael Dalby
Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 485–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2054676
Published: 01 May 1980
... to have seen in the past several weeks: In Japan we have no Nineveh or Babylon to disentomb, no Jerusalem to uncover of its superincumbent debris, in order to identify its ancient topography, no Ilium that was, to bring to light, after the oblivion of the ages, nor ancient ruins of any kind whatever...
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