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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 447–469.
Published: 01 May 2014
... was taken only to hold back the enemy and save the overall situation. For this reason [we] did not hesitate to make this great sacrifice in order to strive for the final victory. (Xiong Xianyu, 1938, in Minguo dangan 1997 , 3:10–11) In June 1938, the leaders of China's beleaguered Nationalist...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (4): 477.
Published: 01 August 1960
...Donn V. Hart A Kind of Fighting . By Patrick Cruttwell . New York : Macmillan Company , 1960 . 272 . $3.95. The Sacrifice and Other Stories . By Donald Moore . London : Arthur Barker, Ltd. , 1957 . 206 . Of Cocks and Kites and Other Short Stories . By Alejandro Roces...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 440–441.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Allen L. Tran Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam . By Merav Shohet . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2021 . 267 pp. ISBN: 9780520379381 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 In the face...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1112–1114.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Claire Pamment Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army . By Maria Rashid . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2020 . 267 pp. ISBN: 9781503611986 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022 2022...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 182–183.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Thomas A. Wilson Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text / Performance in Eighteenth-Century China . By Angela R. Zito . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1997 . xix, 311 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 779–803.
Published: 01 August 1994
... . The Tantras. Studies on their Religion and Literature . Calcutta : Punthi Pustak . Crooke William . 1968 . The Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India. 2 vols. Delhi : M. Manoharlal . Das Veena . 1983 . “ Language of Sacrifice .” MAN (n.s.), 18 . 3 : 445 –62. DĀs...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 256–257.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Nora A. Taylor Between Sacrifice and Desire: National Identity and the Governing of Femininity in Vietnam . By Ashley Pettus . New York : Routledge , 2003 . xi , 244 pp. $79.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 256 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1299–1300.
Published: 01 November 1994
...Laurie Patton The Broken World of Sacrifice: An Essay in Ancient Indian Ritual . By J. C. Heesterman . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1993 . x, 296 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 938–940.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Griet Vankeerberghen To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China . By Michael J. Puett . Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, no. 57. Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center , 2002 . xv, 358 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 812–814.
Published: 01 August 2011
... dedicated to celebrating the birthdays of deities, which were often sponsored by alliances of villages. All of these village festivities lasted many days and required hundreds of participants with specific roles, with ritual spectacle and solemn offerings (i.e. sacrifice) constituting their twin pillars...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1335–1337.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Gilles Boileau Le Sacrifice au Ciel dans la Chine Ancienne: Théorie et Pratique sous les Han Occidentaux . By Marianne Bujard (with a preface by K. SCHIPPER). Paris : École Française d'Extrême-Orient , 2000 (Monographies; 187). xvi, 264 pp. €35.06. Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 355–358.
Published: 01 February 1986
...David M. Knipe Abstract This two-volume study of a great Vedic sacrifice, the Agnicayana, or “piling of the fire altar,” accomplishes two ends. First, the work is detailed ethnographic coverage of the twelve-day Agnicayana performed by the Nambudiri Brahmin community in Panjal, Kerala, South India...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 February 1982
...Dennis Hudson Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Śaiva Tradition . By David Dean Shulman . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press , 1980 . xvi, 471 pp. Bibliography, Index of Motifs, Index of Place Names and Local Deity Names. $30. Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 443–445.
Published: 01 May 1992
...David M. Knipe The Vedic Sacrifice in Transition: A Translation and Study of the Trikāṇḍamaṇḍana of Bhāskara Miśra . By Frederick M. Smith . Poona : Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute , 1987 . Bhandarkar Oriental Series 22. xxxii, 520 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 686–687.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Frits Staal Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa . By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1985 . xiv, 145 pp. $16.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 686 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1127–1128.
Published: 01 November 1997
...Ellison Banks Findly Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India . By Stephanie W. Jamison . New York : Oxford University Press , 1996 . xvi, 340 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 491–492.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Kathryn Lowry State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China: Orthodoxy, Creativity, and Expressiveness . By Joseph S. C. Lam . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1998 . xvi, 205 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 819–853.
Published: 01 August 2008
... deemed deserving of the bodily sacrifice of the citizenry. The archive for the essay is constituted by visualizations of Indian national territory produced by “barefoot” cartographic practice, which routinely supplemented the scientific map form of the nation with the anthropomorphic presence of Mother...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (2): 291–293.
Published: 01 February 1965
... qui correspond au deva du texte cité) capture une hêeng rpuh , I'homme qui correspond à celle-ci tombe malade, le sacrifice d'un animal—qui peut aller jusqu'à être un buffle—permettra de libérer le malade; lorsque les yaang immolent une “âme-buffle” l'homme qui lui correspond meurt. D'autre part...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 83–87.
Published: 01 June 1964
... the acts of sacrifice and devotion performed by Husain and his followers and as he pictured the suffering of the women and children when enemy forces cut them off from water and supplies. His account was punctuated by cries of grief and distress from the audience. Copyright © Association for Asian...
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