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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 505–518.
Published: 01 August 2013
.... Ehrlich Paul R. 1968 . The Population Bomb . New York : Ballantine . Eichengreen Barry , Donghyun Park , and Kwanho Shin . 2011 . “When Fast Growing Economies Slow Down: International Evidence and Implications for China.” NBER Working Paper No. 16919, National Bureau of Economic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1164–1165.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Masao Imamura Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the Iu Mien . By Hjorleifur Jonsson . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications , 2014 . xv, 154 pp. ISBN: 9780877277644 (paper, also available in cloth). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 365–368.
Published: 01 May 2018
... but to serve a community—for the collective character of the landscape is one thing that all generations and all points of view have agreed upon. A landscape is thus a space deliberately created to speed up or slow down the process of nature” (Berger 2002 , 151). Alan Berger writes that “the word landscape...
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Published: 01 February 2017
Figure 3. Slow institutional change in Shandong. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 31 (1): 131–141.
Published: 01 November 1971
... was clubby, the pace was slow, and there was usually time for patient professional attention. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 1 JAS , XXIII/4 (1964) and XXIV/i (1964). 2 Professor F. W. Mote has written very effectively on this problem in “ Reflections...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 475–483.
Published: 01 May 1968
..., the Chinese Civil War and the triumph of Communism slowed the development of what had been a promising academic field. New Developments in Western Studies of Chinese Law: A Symposium Introduction JEROME ALAN COHEN WHATEVER else the nineteen sixties may be remembered for the proliferation of macroweapons...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 785–792.
Published: 01 August 1985
... media and blamed for slow rates of development. However, in retrospect, it is not completely clear that the form itself was to blame. Three of the four books under review are in part defenses of the past and critiques of present-day policies. Basing their work on interviews with peasants and rural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 February 2010
... departments have done this in Japan. Their transformation from centralized war instruments of an authoritarian regime to local community safety organizations of a full-fledged democracy did not happen overnight. A slow process of demographic and value changes helped the organizations adjust to more democratic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 439–478.
Published: 01 May 2001
... the characteristics attributed to the Indian martial races. Thus Major-General George MacMunn wrote of the Sikhs: As a fighting man his slow wit and dogged courage give him many of the characteristics of the British soldier at his best. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 List...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 673–687.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., using him as the model for the novel's lead character. Hyakuta claims to have aimed to inspire the country, reeling from decades of slow growth as well as the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, by featuring a visionary Japanese leader motivated primarily by love for his employees and his country...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 447–469.
Published: 01 May 2014
... China's Nationalist government deliberately breached a major dike in a desperate attempt to “use water instead of soldiers” to slow the brutal Japanese invasion. The Nationalist state's technologization of disaster, its rejection of cosmological interpretations of calamity, and its depiction of flood...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 951–976.
Published: 01 November 2000
... despite this contemporary recognition of the significance of empire, English-language studies of Japan have been slow to interweave the colonial experience into the history of modern Japan. Today, for modern historians, the question of how, or even whether, to incorporate these events into the history...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 719–734.
Published: 01 August 1981
..., the high degree of land fragmentation, the slow speed of land accumulation in land-owning families, the low turnover rate of land transactions, the substantial bargaining power of tenants, the high frequency of rental defaults by tenants, the remarkable stability of land value between 1500 and 1760...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 31 (1): 5–16.
Published: 01 November 1971
... seen as necessary and beneficial, nationalism came in the post-war period to be villified or simply ignored amidst the scholars' preoccupation with their anti-establishment liberal heroes. With some notable exceptions, nationalism has been slow to receive in Japan the thoughtful, dispassionate study...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 171–192.
Published: 01 February 2012
... in their attempts to cultivate safer drivers and slow the epidemic of traffic accidents. On the one hand, the discourse on driving manners suggests a widespread embrace of the Traffic Bureau's and other government agencies' concern with safety. On the other hand, the emphasis on manners may lead to angrier driving...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 515–537.
Published: 01 May 1972
...). Rather, the slow rate of growth was due to the smallest number of children ever born to women in the village (mean of just over three), resulting from a high age at first birth (24.6 years) and a relatively low age at last birth (35–37 years). The low age at last birth, added to a statistically biased...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (3): 753–773.
Published: 01 August 1999
..., spatial, occupational, and political discipline (Sen 1998). The slow transition from a convicted criminal to a prisoner in a chain gang, to employment as a Self-Supporter or a convict officer in the service of the prison regime, to life as a free settler in a penal colony was in effect a process by which...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1949) 8 (3): 319–322.
Published: 01 May 1949
...Hellmut Wilhelm Abstract In contrast to the general tendency of resurgence of academic life in Germany, which has been reported from all the former academic centers and even from an additional one at Mainz, the pace of the recovery of German Sinology has been rather slow. Some of the main former...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 333–350.
Published: 01 May 2018
... offer insight into not only the ecological implications of war on the Korean landscape, but also the bodily privations that defined everyday life under total war—what might be called the “slow violence” of caloric control. List of References Bullard Arthur . 1919 . “ Expanding Japan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 413–414.
Published: 01 May 1989
... and national accounts data. "The overall picture that emerges is that of a marked slowdown in the growth of heavy industries after the mid-sixties combined with a continuing slow growth of consumer goods industries all through. This evidence of poor growth is associated with some alarming evidence...