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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 5–24.
Published: 01 February 2017
..., where I was conducting research for a new book. Johnson describes festivals that helped bind together communities, and in several cases had information showing that some of them had been revived after the Cultural Revolution. One, particularly, seemed noteworthy: Guyi Village in the south of Hebei...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 487–489.
Published: 01 August 1962
...John A. Garraty Abstract These papers throw a great deal of light upon the history of biography. There are a number of striking similarities between Chinese biography and that which developed in the Western world. These similarities, at least until recent times, do not seem to have resulted from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 621–631.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Kenneth Pomeranz Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere near over. Some things, however, seem relatively clear. So far, the agendas of the world's most powerful actors seem unchanged—or, indeed, accelerated. Partly as a result, disease mortality and economic losses have fallen largely on poorer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 477–489.
Published: 01 May 1977
... writings of criminologists suggest that crime is a negative attribute that accompanies economic growth, for levels of affluence and crime seem to move upward together. A pattern similar to that observed in other modern countries was reported for Japan in 1966 by Professors DeVos and Mizushima. What...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (4): 387–400.
Published: 01 August 1963
...E. S. Crawcour Abstract The development of commerce and the rise of a merchant class in Tokugawa Japan have deservedly received considerable attention from both Japanese and Western scholars. In Japan that interest would seem to have been prompted by the problem of the rôle of the pre-Restoration...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (4): 579–591.
Published: 01 August 1973
... by tradition, tied to their village, loyal to their lords, they seem to us simultaneously irreverent, rude, ribald and lacking in respect. We find them shrewd in their economic judgments, but incapable of knowing their own real interests. Though they appear responsive to social and economic change, they also...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 413–425.
Published: 01 May 1978
... of students immersed in a subculture that seemed totally unrestricted by the mores of civilized twentieth-century society. There was a “rustic barbarism” in the students' daily behavior as they swaggered around the campus in worn-out uniforms and battered geta , bellowing out incoherent lyrics of “dormitory...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (3): 431–439.
Published: 01 May 1965
... conducted constitutional change to mark the milestones; when colonial rule ended on February 4, 1948, it seemed that the gentleness and quietness was to continue into the era of independence itself. But with the 1956 elections there came an apparently sudden change. In the elections themselves, a landslide...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (4): 433–449.
Published: 01 August 1963
..., the events in Taiwan seemed to duplicate the Meiji modernization achievement. But one important distinction must be kept in mind. The Meiji bureaucracy, unlike the small group of active bureaucrats in Taiwan's administration, applied their policies of reform and state support to sectors other than...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 724–740.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Patricia G. Steinhoff Abstract A tiny, radical student group seems at first glance to be an unlikely vantage point from which to evaluate continuity and change in the social organization of Japan. Yet social scientists often study extremes and misfits in order to gain new perspective...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 975–987.
Published: 01 November 2014
... dissension even among the technological elite. There were technological arguments: should Bangalore continue to be an outsourcing haven for software services, or did India need a new model of development? Technology itself no longer seemed to unite people and offer exciting futures, as it had a decade ago...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (2): 287–309.
Published: 01 February 1973
...R. William Liddle Abstract Western evaluations of the prospects for economic development in Indonesia seem to have come full circle in the past twenty years. The initially positive appraisals of the immediate post-independence period, based on the extensiveness of untapped resources, the apparent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 661–674.
Published: 01 August 1977
... with finding the form that would produce the greatest stability and administrative efficiency; now the Chinese were obsessed with the issue for life-and-death reasons. 2 Rapid national integration seemed imperative for China's survival. In 1901, Liang Ch'i-ch'ao had discussed the possibilities of a Chinese...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 February 1951
... of their controversial nature. The future of the Netherlands Commonwealth, on the basis of a harmonious co-operation in the realms of trade, agriculture, industry, and cultural exchange between the various partners, seems assured. Although the period of armed conflict between Indonesians and Dutch would justify...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 11 (1): 17–30.
Published: 01 November 1951
...Justus M. van der Kroef Abstract When, in 1926, N. J. Krom published his standard study of the Hindu-Javanese period in Indonesian history, a major gap in the historiography of the Archipelago seemed to have been filled. Krom's later publications enlarged expertly upon the major themes of his great...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 863–874.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of the world for well over two centuries. The following papers show that the diversity of experiences within Asia itself—even within any of its major subregions, East, Southeast, and South Asia—is so great that it might seem foolhardy to claim that some common ideas transcend region and encompass not only Asia...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (4): 743–754.
Published: 01 August 1969
... but by the end of the first decade Pennsylvania had what seemed then to be quite adequate library support for its pioneer program in South Asian studies. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 1
Southern Asian Studies in the United States; a Survey and Plan ( Philadelphia...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 761–768.
Published: 01 August 1972
... of '76.” This exhibition of nonchalance seemed designed to impress on the expectant world that in foreign relations China is its own master. Having established this point, Chairman Mao and Premier Chou turned about to display the classic Chinese hospitality for which their culture is justly famous...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 853–877.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., was relaxing on the ground drinking beer with his wife, passing the time prior to Myanmar's opening men's football match of the 2013 Southeast Asian or SEA Games. Fifteen days later—after a glorious opening ceremony, a slew of gold medals, and a celebratory closing ceremony—his assessment seemed prescient...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 429–442.
Published: 01 May 1977
... fixing a limit to Indian influence in South-East Asia. Important as this influence has been from the cultural and even social point of view, it would seem, roughly speaking, that nowhere in Indochina and Indonesia has the king been dispossessed of his religious prerogatives.” This claim concerns...
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