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...-fourteenth century struts, as well as representative samples from subsequent periods, Slusser connects differences among them to broader shifts in taste, in religious ideology and in their carvers' abilities. She also adroitly melds the archaeological, inscriptional and ethnographic record to consider...

..., the cornice, and the roof strut. The concluding section discusses the evolution of the Pasupati temple type. Drawings and plans clarify design elements such as door frames, with their remarkable lintel and threshold extensions (although detailed study of the semicircular torana additions that often top...

... femininity and middle-class conformity, sports entail unique popular cultural qualities that are “capable of creating overnight sensations” (p. 197), “created, amplified, and maintained” (p. 224) by nationalism, media, and capitalism. In part four, “Strut, Moves, & Shake,” four articles elucidate...

... to the story. We meet chubby and overfed Sun Fo, happy-go-lucky Peng Pai, useless and philandering Guo Moruo, self-aggrandizing Tan Pingshan, treacherous Wang Jingwei, strutting “toady” Li Lisan, the forceful Song Qingling, classes of women comrades from revolutionary academies in Guangzhou and Wuhan...

..., German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Belgian empire-builders and empire-destroyers strut and fret signifying an important part, but not all, of the story since that fateful day in 1492. This is the Rise and Fall of European Empires in an effective shorthand. As Samuel Johnson said of his own...

... to eradicate; "the abolition of debt bondage remains one of the issues around which the government [of India] struts and swaggers as an agent of modern progress in a land of feudal backwardness" (p. 225). But how can a thing (money, grain) attain such power over humans? Prakash's methodology is successfully...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 858 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES roof and ceiling struts of India are compared in abundance to the famous carved brackets of Nepal. The thesis of bracket linkage is well known, but the particular examples are useful. As the summation of his analysis, the author...

... was accompanied by two men, a masterless samurai and a monk. The monk was dressed in robes black as a crow, with a bundle of sacred stoles around his neck and an image of the Buddha descending the mountain placed reverently in a portable shrine on his back. Off he strutted, thumping his staff, alone...

... youth of Japan had two choices of action: either to join the socialist opposition to the "bourgeois tendencies" of the day, or to strut about on the continent as "China ronin." Kita, as he moves toward the latter choice, reveals (as Tanaka sees it) his most serious physical, intellectual and moral...

... TOTMAN strutted them to stay there despite prior requests and arrangements to depart, and that order seems to have been effective.4 During the following two years the fudai attitude toward sanfyin hptai became somewhat more ambiguous. On 64/5/26, just after the shogun returned to Edo from his second trip...

... not to include examples from this commentary in the body of this essay. 88 MARTHA ANN SELBY struts amidst her co-wives, their ornaments made of elephant pearls. The above poem is imbedded to serve as an illustration in one of Anandavardhana's larger and more important expositions on the different genres oidhvani...

... be more than a glossy abstraction of inordinate intellectual pretensions, strutting in the dark, her face all ablur. Chou Pu-yuan, head of a well-to-do family and director of a prosperous coal mine, had, in his undisciplined youth, an affair with one of his house maids. Out of this clandestine...

... the spaces performatively produced in the process of burning, as women sat demurely on the sidelines while men strutted and displayed the pelts. 3 Woeser is a high-profile Tibetan poet who writes in Chinese, and whose book, Notes on Tibet , was banned because it praises the Dalai Lama...

... their allocated seats. Myanmar pop stars excited the crowd with a concert of inspiring SEA Games anthems, strutting their stuff on a massive, blue, futuristic stage spanning the entire far side of the stadium. Enormous LED displays formed the backdrop, while large LED scoreboards streamed the television feed...

... in Seoul as he had been in Tokyo; there is work but still no home, no kohyang ( furusato ) or family. Yi Kwangsu had envied Tokyo's strutting bankara students, but in colonial Korea, Hyŏngsik is depicted as set apart from other young men like Sin Usŏn and Kim Hyŏnsu, who frequent Tea Village...

... denunciation is getting intensified, much to the concern of local authorities on the question of street girls strutting down the street, not in the evening but in broad daylight with their painted lips and glaring neckerchiefs” (AWM 1950b ). The panpan visually transgressed the borders of what...

... of marching armies and contending warlords such as Nam Bo was in the eighteenth century; those who strutted and crowed were about to appear. In another poem, Mac Thien Tich treats a stereotypical literary occasion, viewing the moon reflected in water, in an unconventional manner (see Mac Thien Tich n.d., 48a...