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Cool Fire: Culture Specific Themes in Tamil Short Stories
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 399–400.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Martha Ann Selby Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 Cool Fire: Culture Specific Themes in Tamil Short Stories . By Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi . Edition Herodot Monographica 3. Göttingen : Rader Verlag , 1983 . viii, 365 pp. $35.00 (paper). BOOK...
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Segregation as Efficiency? Group-Specific Institutions in North India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 631–661.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Nirvikar Jassal Abstract A number of nations have instituted group-specific institutions or “enclaves” for women. The assumption underpinning such bodies—physically distinct, autonomous units in which constituent members belong entirely to a particular group—is that the segregation of female...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (2): 350–352.
Published: 01 February 1984
... friedens?” Globalpolitische bezüge und regionalspezifische entwicklungen [The Indian Ocean: Region of conflict or “zone of peace”? Global political relationships and specific regional developments] . by Dieter Braun . Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft , 1982 . 250 pp. Documents, Maps...
View articletitled, Roots of Confrontation in South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and the Superpowers Der Indische Ozean: Konfliktregion oder “zone des friedens?” Globalpolitische bezüge und regionalspezifische entwicklungen [The Indian Ocean: Region of conflict or “zone of peace”? Global political relationships and <span class="search-highlight">specific</span> regional developments]
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in Life in Ruins: Materiality, the City, and the Production of Critique in the Art of Naiza Khan
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Published: 01 May 2015
Figure 2. Naiza Khan, Henna Hands , 2002, henna pigment on the wall, dimensions variable. Site-specific project near the Cantonment Railway Station, Karachi. Courtesy the artist and Rossi & Rossi, London | HK. Photo by Mahmood Ali.
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Metzger's Predicament
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (2): 245–254.
Published: 01 February 1980
...H. D. Harootunian Abstract Any discussion of Thomas Metzger's book, Escape from Predicament , must begin with an evaluation of its possible meanings, not exegetical arguments over his specific reading and selection of texts. Most exegeses are reduced to quibbling over the interpretation of texts...
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Making Family and Nation: Hindu Marriage Law in Early Postcolonial India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 771–798.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Narendra Subramanian Abstract Postcolonial states responded differently to the group-specific personal laws that were recognized in many colonial societies. While some retained most colonial personal laws (e.g., Lebanon) and others introduced major changes (e.g., Tunisia), most introduced modest...
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Traditional Chinese Fiction—The State of the Field
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 394–426.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of the Tang period; however, the assignment of fictional xiaoshuo to the same category as philosophy continued then as well. Like Aristotle, early Chinese bibliographers saw general truth, rather than the specific truth of history, as the operative criterion in fiction, despite the origins of many fictional...
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The Causes of an Involuted Society: A Theoretical Approach to Rural Southeast Asian History
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (4): 783–795.
Published: 01 August 1971
... of agricultural involution in nineteenth century Java with my own work on Pampanga Province, Philippines, provides some first steps towards a theory of rural change. Specifically, a modern cash crop economy produces more sophisticated contractual relations between tenants and landowners regardless of changes...
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Oriental Society in Transition With Special Reference to Pre-Communist and Communist China
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (4): 469–478.
Published: 01 August 1955
...—operational units whose peculiarity is determined by the interaction of a number of essential technical, organizational, and social elements. Some of these essential elements are not necessarily specific: they may be compatible with several types of society. But they may become specific through...
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Religious Minorities in the 2019 Hong Kong Protests: Ambivalence, Strategies of (Non)participation, and Claims of Belonging
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 372–382.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Venera Khalikova; Ruslan Yusupov Abstract Based on a broader ethnographic study with Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh residents of Hong Kong, this article examines the role of minority religions, specifically Islam, in the 2019 Hong Kong protests. While the protests were dominated by the debates over...
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Chinese Religious Practice as Protest: The Night Assemblies of Hong Kong's 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 334–346.
Published: 01 May 2024
...幽佈施祈褔除惡晚會, was held on August 9, 2019, in the districts of Wong Tai Sin and Shatin and specifically centered religious practice as a creative and potent source of political expression. To better understand this intersection of religion, politics, and identity in Hong Kong, this article analyzes...
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Genre, Place, and the Persian Literary Imagination in the Punjab, ca. 1650–1750
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 980–1000.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Zahra Shah Abstract This article examines descriptions of the Punjab, particularly Lahore and its environs, in Persian writings from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. Specifically, it traces the usage and movement of topographical registers and imagery across genres and literary...
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Kinship and the Transmission of Religious Charisma: The Case of Honganji
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (3): 403–413.
Published: 01 May 1974
... “the journey to self-acceptance,” and an experience that ultimately became a central feature of the doctrine of universal salvation he preached. Although he sought above all to bridge the gulf between priest and layman and specifically disclaimed any ambition to found a new sect, let alone a religious dynasty...
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Bondservants in the T'ai-hu Basin During the Late Ming: A Case of Mistaken Identities
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 675–701.
Published: 01 August 1981
... status, not as a class. It discusses the many causes of bondservitude and its highly varied conditions. Agricultural bondservants accounted for no more than one-fifth of the rural population and usually had to pay rent and perform specific manual duties for their master. Bondservant managers are seen...
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Language and Politics: The Reversal of Postwar Script Reform Policy in Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1175–1198.
Published: 01 November 1994
..., such as constitutional revision, have not. In general, the period since the 1950s has seen a pattern of conservative social change backed by the Liberal Democratic Party. An area that illustrates this trend is that of language policy, specifically the policy toward script. The partial revision of the immediate postwar...
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Carving Out Space: Civil Society and the Women's Movement in South Korea
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 473–500.
Published: 01 May 2002
... that such analyses tend to lapse into abstract discussions of relations between the state and civil society, devoid of a specific historical or social context (Fine 1997; Tempest 1997; Blaney and Pasha 1993). This absence of context can also lead to an inadequate view of civil society as a uniform and homogeneous...
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Translating Dharma : Scottish Missionary-Orientalists and the Politics of Religious Understanding in Nineteenth-Century Bombay
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 471–500.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and Andivasi communities. More specifically, it details the ways in which Bombay missionaries applied and related the concept of religion to diverse configurations of language, text, and practice that they understood as isomorphic species of the religion genus. By examining how Christian missionaries who were...
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An Atomic Age Unleashed: Emancipation and Erasure in Early Korean Accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 144–162.
Published: 01 May 2023
... bombings has long been identified as part of a nationalization of the wartime years, a move that situates the history of the attacks as a specifically Japanese experience. Less understood is how postcolonial intellectuals in Korea encouraged this historiographical trend. Across the peninsula, a common...
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Knowledge and Power in the Discourse of Modernity: The Campaigns against Popular Religion in Early Twentieth-Century China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 February 1991
... have been central to the historical problematique the world over. I have chosen to analyze the modernist understanding of this historical transition in China not only among professional historians in the West, but among Chinese advocates of modernity. Specifically, I will examine the campaigns...
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Dephallicizing Women in Ryūkyō shinshi : A Critique of Gender Ideology in Japanese Literature
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 565–586.
Published: 01 August 1992
...Chieko Ariga Abstract In surveying the history of Japanese literature since the Meiji period (1868–1912), readers immediately recognize that Japanese literature has been approached most predominantly from the perspective of the question of the “modern.” Although specific subjects of focus have...
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