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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (4): 483–484.
Published: 01 August 1963
...Kenneth Starr Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles—Chinese Belt Toggles from the C. F. Bieber Collection . By Schuyler Cammann . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1962 . 256 . Notes, Catalogue, Glossary, Index, Plates. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (4): 396–398.
Published: 01 August 1945
...Jesse F. Steiner Prejudice: Japanese-Americans—symbol of racial intolerance . By Carey McWilliams . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1944 . 337 pp. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 396 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY overseas possessions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 999–1001.
Published: 01 November 2013
... and battlefield during the long fourteenth century, the history of which he has opened up here in exciting new directions. From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan . By Thomas Conlan . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . xiv, 231 pp. $74.00 (cloth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 44 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 November 1984
...F. Gilbert Chan Sun Yat-sen: Founder and Symbol of China's Revolutionary Nation-Building . Edited by Gottfried-Karl Kindermann . Munich : Gunter Olzog Verlag , 1982 . (Vol. 1, East-West Syntheses.) 332 pp. Selected Bibliography. N.p. Liao Chung-k'ai chuan [Biography of Liao Chung...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 495–527.
Published: 01 August 2006
... in Transition: Freeing the Economy . New York : Oxford University Press . Billig Michael . 1995 . Banal Nationalism . London : Sage . Bourdieu Pierre . 1991 . Language and Symbolic Power . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press . Brubaker Rogers . 1996 . Nationalism...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 581–583.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Jack L. Dull Offerings of Jade and Silk: Ritual and Symbol in the Legitimation of the T'ang Dynasty . By Howard J. Wechsler . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1985 . xiv, 313 pp. Index. $27. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 1052–1053.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Cynthia Ann Humes Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol . By Kathleen M. Erndl . New York : Oxford University Press , 1993 . ix, 208 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Walter G. Neevel, Jr. The Body Divine: The Symbol of the Body in the Works of Teilhard de Chardin and Rāmānuja . By Anne Hunt Overzee . Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, No. 2. Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xv, 218 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (2): 463–465.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Theodore McNelly The Japanese Monarchy, 1931–1991: Ambassador Grew and the Making of the “Symbol Emperor System.” . By Nakamura Masanori . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1992 . xiv, 202 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993...
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in Disasters, Natural and Unnatural: Reflections on March 11, 2011, and Its Aftermath
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 November 2013
Figure 2. A catfish being subdued by a monkey wielding a gourd (hyōtan), a symbol both of good fortune and victory. Woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada, Catching a Catfish with a Gourd, 1857. Reproduced with permission of the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. Gift of William Green.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 116–117.
Published: 01 February 1988
...James L. Watson A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought . By Wolfram Eberhard . London and New York : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1986 . 332 pp. $29.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 116 T H E J O U R N A L OF A S...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 22 (1): 79–88.
Published: 01 November 1962
... to be a relationship between the symbolic significance of the number twelve in ancient India and the number forty in Biblical literature. In Genesis VI–VIII, the Lord repents of having created the world because of the wickedness of men. He resolves to destroy all except the family of Noah (who was righteous) and one...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (4): 667–679.
Published: 01 August 1965
...—both actual and ideal—their view of the cosmos and their place in it, their hierarchy of values. Thus, for example, Akbar's palace city of Fatehpur Sikri is more than a vainglorious display of newly-won power; its subtle blending of Hindu and Islamic elements symbolizes Akbar's dream of an ecumenical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 531–532.
Published: 01 August 1961
...A. Bharati; L. Hurvitz Mudrā: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture . By E. Dale Saunders . Bollingen Series LVIII. New York : Pantheon Books , 1960 , xxiii, 296 . Text, Plates, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 31 (1): 63–75.
Published: 01 November 1971
...James W. Boyd Abstract Although Māra, the Buddhist symbol of evil, has been the subject of a number of books and essays, little has been written about the numerous Pali and Sanskrit textual references to a plurality of Māras. In Buddhist literature there are passages, more characteristic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (2): 365–367.
Published: 01 February 1981
...Robert Albright Rorex Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China . By Michael Sullivan . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1979 . xii , 205 pp. Maps, Plates, List of Plates, Note on the Pronunciation of Chinese Names, Chronological Chart of Chinese History...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 1017–1019.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Stephen Frederic Dale Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate . By Blain H. Auer . London : I.B. Tauris , 2012 . iv, 237 pp. $92.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 What he...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 44 (1): 232–233.
Published: 01 November 1984
...S. Razi Wasti The Kh ilāfat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India . By Gail Minault . New York : Columbia University Press , 1982 . x, 294 pp. Abbreviations, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 442–444.
Published: 01 February 1983
...Margaret Trawick Egnor Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience . By Gananath Obeyesekere . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1981 . xiii , 192 pp. Notes, Glossary, References, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (3): 633–634.
Published: 01 May 1983
...Geoffrey Samuel The Tibetan Symbolic World: Psychoanalytic Explorations . By Robert A. Paul . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1982 . N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 633 The Tibetan Symbolic World: Psychoanalytic...
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