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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 726–729.
Published: 01 May 2008
... are excellent representatives of financial policy, as their careers spanned that of the gold standard and illustrate Japan's rapid rise from inexperienced apprentice. (As a young man stationed in London, Takahashi actually worked as a house servant to a British banker who later advised Japan's Finance Ministry...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 13 (1): 101–104.
Published: 01 November 1953
...Robert H. Brower Morphophonemics of Standard Colloquial Japanese . By Samuel E. Martin . Language : Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, 28, No. 3 (July–September 1952). Baltimore : the Waverly Press , 1952 . 115 . Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 43 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 November 1983
...Jeff Dreyfuss Contemporary Indonesian-English Dictionary: A Supplement to the Standard Indonesian Dictionaries with Particular Concentration on New Words, Expressions, and Meanings . By A. ED. Schmidgall-Tellings and Alan M. Stevens . Athens, Ohio : Ohio University press , 1981 . xvi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (3): 380–381.
Published: 01 May 1961
...D. S. Willis Abriss der Japanischen Grammatik: auf der Grundlage der klassischen Schriftsprache . By Bruno Lewin . Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz , 1959 . xiii, 269 . DM 28 (paper). The Sound System of Standard Japanese: A Tentative Account From the Teaching Point of View . By F...
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Published: 01 May 2009
Figure 14. “Standard Portrait” of Confucius, 2006, designed for the China Confucius Foundation by Hu Xijia 胡 希 佳 (b. 1956), bronze, height 255.7 cm. Qufu. Photo by Julia K. Murray. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 337–339.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Stephen M. Graw Health and Wealth in Vietnam: An Analysis of Household Living Standards . Edited by Dominique Haughton , Jonathan Haughton , Sarah Bales , Truong Thi Kim Chuyen , and Nguyen Nguyet Nga . Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 1999 . xxi, 276 pp. $32.00...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 611–633.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Jeffrey Weng Abstract Scholars who study language often see standard or official languages as oppressive, helping the socially advantaged to entrench themselves as elites. This article questions this view by examining the Chinese case, in which early twentieth-century language reformers attempted...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (4): 413.
Published: 01 August 1953
...Lennox A. Mills Preliminary Report on the World Social Situation: with special reference to standards of living . The United Nations, Department of Social Affairs. United Nations Publications Sales No. 1952. IV. 11. New York , 1952 . v, 180 . $1.75. Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 495–497.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Selma K. Sonntag Standardizing Diversity: The Political Economy of Language Regimes . By Amy H. Liu . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9780812246728 (cloth). The Fall of Language in the Age of English . By Minae Mizumura . Translated...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 611–629.
Published: 01 August 2021
... standardization surveillance urbanization China has been undergoing rapid urbanization since the beginning of its reform era in the 1980s, and especially since the turn of the millennium. With the transformation of rural and semirural areas into urban centers and massive population movements from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 151–152.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Carl Mosk Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700–1900 . By Tommy Bengtsson , Cameron Campbell , James Z. Lee , et al. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press , 2004 . xiv , 531 pp. $45.00 (cloth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 547–549.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Hoyt Cleveland Tillman Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127–1279) . By Hilde De Weerdt . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xvi , 495 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 731–755.
Published: 01 August 2012
... with the standardized forms of Chinese nationhood that produce the Chinese nation as a form of social fact. To tie together the three sections of the paper, consider one mundane encounter I had with a young Chinese man in a mid-sized Shandong province city. He was 21, came from a rural area of Henan province...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 471–472.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Anita Chan Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia's Four New Tigers: A Comparative Perspective . By Marvin J. Levine . New York : Plenum Press , 1997 . xv, 476 pp. $69.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 471...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 February 1997
... . Watson James. 1985 . “Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of T’ien Hou (“Empress of Heaven”) Along the South China Coast, 960–1960.” In Popular Culture in Late Imperial China , edited by Johnson David et al. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Wuhuang xizhuan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 457–463.
Published: 01 August 1962
..., it is customary to point first to the chengshih , the so-called “standard histories,” dealing with all of Chinese history down to 1644. There are twenty-five histories, all bulky, in this “official” group. All contain large collections of biographies, elaborately sorted out: loyal officials, villainous officials...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 33–55.
Published: 01 February 2002
... of standard dual-economy models has been broken down, and scholars have recognized the implications, both theoretical and policy-related, of the existence and development of the “pluriactive” rural household that derives its income from a variety of sources alongside agriculture. Various ways of analyzing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 391–409.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Margherita Zanasi Abstract This article examines the development of the Chinese discourse on consumption and standards of living from the early twentieth century to the implementation of the New Life Movement in the mid-1930s. During this period, the idea that China's economy was characterized...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 605–609.
Published: 01 May 1972
...M. Bronfenbrenner Abstract A review article on two books, each of which proposes to apply standard economic anlaysis to an aspect of economic life (labor markets) and a society (Japan) where years of conventional wisdom has suggested that such analysis may be out of place. Robert Evans, Jr.'s Labor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 515–537.
Published: 01 May 1972
...Susan B. Hanley Abstract While Japanese historians have characterized the period from the 1720's to the mid-nineteenth century one of a “stagnant” population due to depressed economic conditions, recent economic evidence suggests that peasants were enjoying a higher standard of living. By making...