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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 444–448.
Published: 01 May 2019
...). Makimura's study does not disagree. He concludes that during the Meiji era, “the story of early industrialization in Japan is primarily a story of private industry,” rather than the state-run silk filatures, cotton plants, steel mills, or coal mines (Makimura, p. 215). But his contextualization of the silk...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Ronald C. Po Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road . By Susan Whitfield . Oakland : University of California Press , 2018 . xi, 339 pp. ISBN: 9780520281783 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 497–498.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Peter C. Perdue Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China . By Robert B. Marks . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . xv, 383 pp. $64.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 497...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 730–732.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Thomas T. Allsen The Camel's Load in Life and Death: Iconography and Ideology of Chinese Pottery Figures from Han to Tang and Their Relevance to Trade along the Silk Routes . By Elfriede Regina Knauer . Zürich : Akanthus Verlag für Archäologie , 1998 . Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Frederick Lau “Silk and Bamboo” Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition . By J. Lawrence Witzleben . Kent, Oh. and London : The Kent State University Press , 1995 . xxi, 197 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 174...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (3): 833–834.
Published: 01 August 1999
...David M. Kalivas Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road . By Annabel Walker . London : John Murray ; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998 . xiv, 393 pp. $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS INNER ASIA 833 ethnographers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 164–165.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Lawrence Olson Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage . By Haru Matsukata Reischauer . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1986 . xx, 371 pp. Illustrations, Map, Figures, Notes, Index. $20. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 164 JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (3): 641–642.
Published: 01 August 1987
...Robert P. Gardella Economic Imperialism in China: Silk Production and Exports, 1861–1932 . By Robert Y. Eng . China Research Monograph 31. Berkeley : University of California, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies , 1986 . x, 243 pp. Tables, Maps, Figures, Notes, Glossary...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 761–763.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Eugenia Lean Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010 . By Carol Benedict . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . xiii, 334 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Spanning four hundred years, Carol...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (4): 813–815.
Published: 01 August 1982
...Phyllis Waldman China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842–1937 . By Lillian M. Li . Cambridge : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University (Harvard East Asian Monographs, No. 97), 1981 . xv, 288 pp. Tables, Figures, Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Glossaries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 582–583.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Michael R. Drompp Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present . By Christopher I. Beckwith . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2009 . xxv , 472 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 861–862.
Published: 01 August 2001
...David M. Kalivas Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century . By Richard C. Foltz . New York : St. Martins Press , 1999 . 186 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS INNER...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 821–823.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Danielle Ross Along the Silk Roads is an excellent addition to both Mongol Empire studies and the Global Middle Ages. Collectively, its chapters illustrate well the sheer scale of the political, economic, and intellectual world forged through the Mongol conquests and the ways in which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 145–165.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Jin Xu Abstract The Shi Jun sarcophagus (580 CE), a house-shaped stone coffin of a Sogdian immigrant couple, is one of the most important Silk Road discoveries ever made (figure 1). Excavated in Xi'an (Shaanxi Province, China) in 2003, it belongs to a group of sarcophagi created for Sogdian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 February 2020
... namāz five times each day will go to this place” (p. 37). He never loses sight of the many, quite conscious, connections to the broader Islamic world. Satuq's conversion is foretold by the Prophet Muhammad in one example. Warrior Saints of the Silk Road also provides a resource for those who wish...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 604–605.
Published: 01 August 1964
...Joseph Needham Written on Bamboo and Silk; The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions . By Tsuen-hsuin Tsien [Ch'ien Ts'un-Hsün]. Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1962 . xiv, 233 . Illustrations. $7.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 604...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 1031.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Xin Wen The most provocative and potentially significant point is, however, made in the conclusion by Philip Kohl, where he argues that “the real Silk Roads began in the Iron Age at the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 1st millennium BC” (p. 94). The tentative nature of such a claim reflects...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 539–540.
Published: 01 August 2023
... are significant. Unfortunately, this book falls short, conceptually and empirically, as scholarship on China's BRI. In chapter 2, the dense retelling of the Silk Roads biography sheds little light on China or the BRI debate. Despite a rich Silk Roads history, the book offers almost no discussion of the literature...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (2): 285–286.
Published: 01 February 1967
...L. Carrington Goodrich The Silk Road . By Luce Boulnois . New York : E. P. Dutton & Co. , 1966 . 250 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS The Silk Road. BY LUCE BOULNOIS. New York...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 706–708.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Mary Somers Heidhues The Malay Peninsula: Crossroads of the Maritime Silk Road (100 BC–1300 AD) . By Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h . Translated by Victoria Hobson . Handbook of Oriental Studies, sec. 3, vol. 13. Leiden : Brill , 2002 . xxxv , 607 pp. €171.00/$199.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...
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