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...Eddy U Abstract Through an analysis of Third Sister Liu , a popular musical of the early 1960s, this article illustrates how the Chinese Communist Party mobilized state and society to express disparaging ideas about the intellectual during the Great Leap Forward. The Chinese intellectual...

... equality is Sisters in Islam (SIS), an organization founded in 1993. SIS has gradually transformed from a small, relatively elite group of friends to one of the country's most prominent women's rights NGOs. It was one of the first organizations to advocate for women's rights from within an Islamic...

...Parks M. Coble Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919–1949 . By Emily Honig . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1986 . x, 299 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index, Tables, Maps. $37.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 BOOK...

...Nandini Deo Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism . By Elora Shehabuddin . Oakland : University of California Press , 2021 . ix, 398 pp. ISBN: 9780520342514 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

...Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Sisters and Lovers: Women and Desire in Bali . By Megan Jennaway . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2002 . xx , 309 pp. $96.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Since the publication...

...Eva Friedlander Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High-Caste Women in Nepal . By Lynn Bennett . New York : Columbia University Press , 1983 . 352 pp. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 160 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES produced...

...Sara Dickey Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India . By Karin Kapadia . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1995 . xv, 269 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 528 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Siva and Her...

...Karen A. Smyers Goddesses, Priestesses, and Sisters: Mind, Gender, and Power in the Monarchic Tradition of the Ryukyus . By Arne Røkkum . Oslo : Scandinavian University Press , 1998 . xviii, 281 pp. $43.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 226...

...Charles E. Hamilton Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 The Makioka Sisters . By Junichiro Tanizaki . Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1957 . vii, 530 . $4.95. BOOK REVIEWS 629 date, or otherwise...

... thirty rooms, including a detached section of private quarters. This structure, now utilized as a dwelling by the Collector of Ratnagiri, was for some 25 years the home of King Thebaw and his two Queens. Except for Kipling's famous song, Thebaw and Su Paya Lat and Su Paya Gale (who were sisters to each...

...Stuart H. Blackburn Abstract A folktale about two sisters who make a wager on the color of a white horse has been told in India for at least three thousand years; it is recorded in the oldest Vedic texts, and it is still sung today in a Tamil oral tradition. A survey of this historical depth shows...

... the corpse had lain in its coffin seven days before, a crude trough had been scratched into the earth, with a shallow hole at the end where the corpse's mouth had been. The dead woman's daughter, her husband's sisters and their daughters, and some of their female friends sat on benches on either side...

..." are the children of siblings of the opposite sex, while "parallel cousins" are the children of siblings of the same sex. Thus, children of two brothers are parallel cousins as are the children of two sisters, whereas the children of a brother and a sister are cross-cousins (Tylor 1889). Logically, a man or a woman...

... explain the fact that the version of the play performed today is still closer to the film, most significantly in the elimination of the caidan role and of Seventh Sister's acrobatic movements in the final act. Idema mentions a final, standard edition by Lu Hongfei written in the spring of 1957, although...

... tale of Gopi Chand falls into four segments: (1) the circumstances of Gopi Chand's birth; (2) Gopi Chand's begging alms from his own palace and calling his wife "mother"; (3) Gopi Chand's journey to Bengal to meet with and part from his sister; and (4) Gopi Chand's becoming immortal. Part one begins...

... men and women. Letters to Rosa Abendanon in the 1992 edition make this point explicitly. Of Kartini's husband, her sister Roekmini writes: "it had been his wish to have no other wife than one who was completely at ease in [Dutch], sparkled in its use, who moved in modern circles, because he very much...

... detail is given to who sang these songs after their initial creation. For example, were mothers and older sisters singing songs about the punishment of secret love affairs as admonitions to their daughters and younger sisters so the young women could dodge getting into a similar fate? How may different...

... and escaping an Uzbek conquest marriage. Babur's own sister, Khanzada Begim, was afterward revered for accepting a forced marriage to Shibani Khan in order to protect Babur in his escape from Uzbek Samarqand (see Balabanlilar 2007a for a more complete list and discussion of the circumstances of these conquest...

... this matter that she eloped with her love to Kunming. Her fiance went to Kunming and found her and persuaded her to return to the village. She returned to the village with her fiance but her own parents declined to take her in their house. The fiance asked his own brother and sister-in-law to take her...

... the musical genre and treats “updating” as a special type of remaking. Using “re-version” to emphasize continuous transformation and localization (p. 49), Wang elaborates gender and class inequalities in Sister Flowers (1933) from Shanghai and traces their refiguration from “a prourban, nonleftist...