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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 641–642.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Clifford Reis Jones The Square and the Circle of the Indian Arts . By Kapila Vatsyayan . Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press , 1983 . xi, 159 pp. Illustrations. $65. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 641 matic life spent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 915–916.
Published: 01 November 1990
...John A. Rapp Tiananmen Square . By Scott Simmie and Bob Nixon . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1989 . xi, 206 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 915 feeling about U.S. ties to their wartime ally...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 754–777.
Published: 01 August 2011
... such a view, offers a corrective to the kind of history it encourages, wherein public space appears politically relevant only at its most visible moments. Framing the analysis is Japanese provincial writer Miyazawa Kenji (1896–1933) and his “Poran no hiroba” (Poran's Square), which survives as a piece...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Haiyan Lee Abstract While a growing scholarship has shed light on the spatial transformations of Tiananmen Square and its environs, not enough attention has been paid to the sacralization of power through symbols, rituals, and mythologies that lend enduring legitimacy to the Chinese Communist Party...
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in The Soundproofed Superpower: American Bases and Japanese Communities, 1945–1972
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2016
Figure 3. Total area of American bases on Japanese main islands in square miles, 1952–70. Based on data in Umebayashi ( 2002 , 108).
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in Beyond Internal Orientalism: Dance and Nationality Discourse in the Early People's Republic of China, 1949–1954
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 4. Han folk dance “Lotus Dance,” performed in Tian'anmen Square in 1955 . Photo courtesy of China Pictorial .
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in Drumming from Screen to Stage: Ondekoza's Ōdaiko and the Reimaging of Japanese Taiko
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2010
Figure 7. Inspired by Ōdaiko , male drummers in Portugal have converted the square frame drum, a “feminine” instrument typically played only by women, into the basis of a masculine performance piece. Photograph by Judith Cohen.
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Published: 01 May 2011
Figure 3. Contemporary Tiananmen Square. 1. Tiananmen Gate; 2. Mao Zedong Mausoleum; 3. Monument to the People's Heroes; 4. Great Hall of the People; 5. Museum of the Chinese Revolution; 6. Qianmen (Hou Renzhi, Lishi dilixue de lilun yu shijian . Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 1979, 249.)
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in Constructing Commonality: Standardization and Modernization in Chinese Nation-Building
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2012
Figure 8. Government headquarters in city A; note square glass center to allow the flow of geomantic force from the mountain, a common feature in government headquarters.
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (3): 411–412.
Published: 01 May 1955
.... Davidson provides a model for the integrated study of religious art in the Far East as a complete revelation of both belief and taste. BENJAMIN ROWLAND, JR. Harvard University Chinese Mandarin Squares. By SCHUYLER VAN R. CAMMANN. Bulletin of the University Museum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 317–339.
Published: 01 May 1992
... of Accounting in Korea}. Seoul : Hanguk yonguwan . Zelin Madeleine. 1984 . The Magistrate’s Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-Century Ch’ing China . Berkeley : University of California Press . Squaring Accounts: Commercial Bookkeeping Methods and Capitalist Rationalism in Late...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 February 1955
..., including all lines in operation on the mainland and Hainan but excluding those on Formosa. This means that there is one mile of railway for every 216 square miles of territory (or approximately 463 miles per 100,000 square miles), and that for every 1,000,000 of population there are 39 miles of rail...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (2): 215–227.
Published: 01 February 1956
... the residential units have expanded and coalesced into large blocks and strips of several square miles, alternating with large uninterrupted areas of irrigated land. Under these conditions, village units have expanded far beyond the daily interaction group, and vaguely denned neighborhoods ( barisan or lingkungan...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 2 (1): 66–76.
Published: 01 November 1942
... Guinea the distance is approximately 3,000 miles and the land area of the region designated herein as Malaysia is somewhat in excess of 1,200,000 square miles. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 THE VEGETATION OF MALAYSIA E. D. MERRILL Harvard University THE Malay...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 539–554.
Published: 01 August 1964
... to share their hegemony with large landowners and were under the Emperor and the militarists, but now there are no militarists or large landowners. The Emperor, too, has become an accessory. The power of Japan now rests squarely in the hands of the Zaibatsu, the sponsors of the Conservative Party...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (2): 221–236.
Published: 01 February 1957
...Franklyn D. Holzman Abstract The Mongolian People's Republic, or Outer Mongolia as it is more commonly known, is a country of some 600,000 square mile area which is bounded on the north by Soviet Siberia, on the south by China, with Manchuria to the east and Sinkiang to the west. Many centuries ago...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 5 (2): 133–142.
Published: 01 February 1946
... of the population but only 6.9 per cent of the area, while Tanah Sabrang accounted for 93.1 per cent of the area but for only 31.3 per cent of the total population. Whereas the over-all average population density of Indonesia was 31.9 persons per square kilometer, that of Java was 316.1 and that of Tanah Sabrang...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 7 (1): 43–65.
Published: 01 November 1947
...George McT. Kahin Abstract Until June 26, 1946, the ihabitants of the State of North Borneo could claim the distinction of being the only population in the world still, subject to chartered company rule. On that date an area of nearly 30,000 square miles inhabited by over 300,000 people ceased...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 6 (1): 5–11.
Published: 01 November 1946
... square miles has been the meeting place of many diverse influences from the Old World, the Americas, the Orient and the Pacific. It became a port of call for early European trans-Pacific voyagers, for the Manila galleon, and for whalers in the nineteenth century. Thus, due to certain accidents of history...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 851–880.
Published: 01 November 1996
... of the enduring axioms of Vijayanagara historiography. From their capital on the banks of the Tungabhadra river, the kings of Vijayanagara ruled over a territory of more than 140,000 square miles, and their state survived three changes of dynasty to endure for a period of nearly three hundred years, from the mid...
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