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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1196–1197.
Published: 01 November 2001
... collector and scholar, authored the second text, Souvenirs d'un vieil amateur d'art de I'Extreme-Orient (Memoirs of an Old Collector of East Asian Art), in 1930. Souvenirs is an autobiographical memoir spanning the years 1875 and 1914, a period when Western interest in Japanese art was at its highest. Max...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 747–748.
Published: 01 August 2005
..., and Japanese art enshrined in museums was highbrow (p. xix). Chapter 3, Paradise of Curios, discusses ways in which tourists shopped for treasures during this period. Longfellow was wealthy enough to collect curios energetically, but most of his Japanese souvenirs are now unidenti ed, as they have been...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 32 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 November 1972
... and the Making of the Entente-Cordiale ( New York and London , 1968 ), pp. 256 –7 , and
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, “Le Chemin de Fer du Yunnan,” pp. 256 –9, 273 –4. 8
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, Souvenirs d'un Révolutionnaire Chinois ( Paris , 1933 ), p. 173
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, Sun Yat-sen , p. 103...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 748–750.
Published: 01 August 2005
... the individual pictures (a dragon y, a butter y, a woman with a parasol, and others) are displayed on his body like souvenirs in a collection. The unusual design on his chest is the most intriguing: The subject appears to be the Buddhist deity Kannon seated in the mouth of a dragon (p. 153). Could it really...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1341–1364.
Published: 01 November 2008
... as souvenirs, along with framed calendar prints of Dera Ballan and the Ravidass temple (Seer Goverdhanpur) with the images of Guru Ravidass and B. R. Ambedkar embossed on them. 24 The Dera also publishes and sponsors books on Dalit literature. In addition, the Dera confers honors on Dalit scholars...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 18 (5): 633–635.
Published: 01 September 1959
... Oceanography 1955, Tokyo. Pro- d'Indochine, souvenirs plus recents d'Afrique ceedings. 1957. 182-3.) du Nord. Rodez, Subervie [1957] 100 p. BUTTINGER, JOSEPH. The smaller dragon; a politi- VIETNAM CAMBODIA LAOS cal history of Vietnam. N . Y., Praeger, 1958. 535 p. ports., maps (part col.) facsims. (Books...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1285–1286.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., and folk toys grained wide currency to describe everything that was rural, traditional, and even vulgar in Japan. Brandt sees this vulgarity in the mass restaurants and cheap souvenirs that proliferated after the war. Again, I would like to know, who were the consumers of this vulgarity, and how did...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 287–288.
Published: 01 February 2012
... these are four chapters of semiotic analyses of decoration layout and symbolism. The last chapter considers Pakistani truck arts and crafts as outsider-designated “Art,” appreciated in exhibitions, borrowed in art installations, or commodified for the souvenir trade. The study also provides an appendix...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1280–1282.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in which representations by non-Tibetans are met by Tibetans themselves, whose responses include the reconstruction of “traditional” family homes and marketing “Tibetan” souvenirs. Chapter 7 briefly describes some of the effects of tourism development on the Shangrila county seat, and explores the links...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 153–174.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of the bottle. Some are purposefully looking for souvenirs. One could also see the fellows who were staring intently at women wearing lipstick. One should not be surprised that there are not very big differences between soldiers of any nation. (Tanaka 1961 , 106–7) Tanaka noted that some soldiers sought...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (4): 493.
Published: 01 August 1960
... Original. 192. Illustrated, Index. $1.95 (paper). Tours of Okinawa, A Souvenir Guide to Places of In- A new journal devoted to "publishing articles by terest. Compiled by GASEI HIGA, ISAMU FUCHAKU, specialists on all aspects of contemporary Chinese developments. In our Quarterly Chronicle and Documentation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (5): 178.
Published: 01 September 1969
.... Spillmann, Georges. Souvenirs d'un colonialiste. Paris, Presses de la cite, 1968. 320 p. plates. [Collection "Coupd'oeil"] 6899. Starobin, Joseph Robert. Eyewitness in IndoChina. With an introd. by the author written especially for the Greenwood reprint ed., and three original photos. New York, Greenwood...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 February 2000
... oldest popular "iconic" traditions, have been produced for centuries associated with the regional cult of Jagannatha and with the ancient pilgrimage center of Puri. Originally created for ritual use and as souvenirs for pilgrims, they are now primarily sold to tourists both national and international...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 701–703.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of the bazaar, Chopra examines its objects, such as the souvenir as the “portable sacred” or the material of her much more generous understanding of Sikh religion. These reach out and allow the devout and others to experience the sacred in intriguing ways. This chapter thus situates Sikh tradition within its...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 208–209.
Published: 01 February 2000
... pilgrim's souvenir paintings the strangely compelling yet simple work painted on newspaper (fig. 29) with the intricately detailed and elegant painting on cloth (fig. 30). From the Ocean of Painting provides a ready resource for identification of India's popular painting, which is enhanced by Rossi's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 566–567.
Published: 01 May 1999
... or inside Buddha images, suggesting a dedicatory function. Others served as souvenirs of visits to particular temples or revered monks. The process of making such tablets was an act of merit. Since the mid-nineteenth century, tablets have also served as amulets. Buddhist votive tablets were first produced...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 752–753.
Published: 01 May 2002
... and tourists" (p. 163), is perhaps thoroughly implicated in a voyeuristic consumption of poverty and exoticity. So are the souvenirs through whose associations the travelled periphery is continually reproduced in the imagination of the center (chapter 5), and the maps that inform as well as control...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 693–695.
Published: 01 August 2013
... on, railway tickets were provided and allocated, and souvenirs were manufactured to be given as an inducement to students who signed up to return home. While many of those who came spent much of their time sightseeing, others took an active part in political events in Shanghai. The city government provided...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 209–210.
Published: 01 February 2000
... be witnessed by comparing two pilgrim's souvenir paintings the strangely compelling yet simple work painted on newspaper (fig. 29) with the intricately detailed and elegant painting on cloth (fig. 30). From the Ocean of Painting provides a ready resource for identification of India's popular painting, which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1212–1214.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of aristocratic status, but they are now embraced (one could also say “usurped”) by non-elites, who have transformed a symbol of social division and hierarchy into one of ethnic unity and identity. Featured on t-shirts and miniaturized as souvenirs, the tongkonan is now a ubiquitous “symbol” of the Toraja...
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