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Journal of Asian Studies 11445247.
Published: 08 January 2025
... was a turning point in Gao's career, a time when he successfully turned himself from a discredited artist into an internationally acclaimed master. This change was achieved through his South Asian tour, during which he won great support from Pan-Asianist artists, reaped considerable symbolic capital, and built...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 917–946.
Published: 01 August 2008
.... This essay argues that a theory of symbolic capital best explains this otherwise peculiar inversion of perceived and actual power, and underscores culture's critical role in the nation's political imagination. This essay—in all its versions—has benefited enormously from the thoughtful criticisms...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 953–970.
Published: 01 November 2018
... numbers of Chinese international students as financial and symbolic capital. The shift between 2001 and 2016 from maximizing to distancing shows that Korean universities were straddling a line between the desire to become global institutions and the realization that they are a second-choice destination...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 797–820.
Published: 01 November 2015
... has celebrated, while some users of social media have mocked, the symbolism of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping presiding over recent victory day parades in their respective capitals. The series concludes with a commentary by Srinath Raghavan, a London-trained scholar now based at a New Delhi policy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 531–532.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., in particular, what these words reveal about his interviewees' positioning in the broader field of contentious politics, both in the past and in the present. While Chang invokes such terms as “symbolic power” and “symbolic capital” (p. 93), presumably derived from Pierre Bourdieu's theory, the usage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 421–422.
Published: 01 May 2000
... for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 421 model village in the postreform era, bestowing on local cadres valuable symbolic capital. To better fit to the rapidly changing social conditions in the 1990s, cadres also drew on idioms of family and kinship to cultivate solidarity and labor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 463–464.
Published: 01 May 2005
... to the court for con rmation of their lofty status and for protection of their wealth. In Jun Jing s Knowledge, Organization, and Symbolic Capital: Two Temples to Confucius in Gansu, the most explicitly theoretically grounded contribution, the author shows how cultural, economic, and social capital were...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 243–244.
Published: 01 February 2018
... bureaucracy after 1949. In the epilogue, Christopher Reed and Volland apply the concept of cultural entrepreneurism to study the agency of “cultural workers” in Maoist China. Some artists, they argue, were entrepreneurial in dealing with cultural bureaucracy to pursue “symbolic capital” (p. 263)—i.e...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 252–254.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of the authentic raped woman is continuously generated through cultural productions, state histories, and testimonies assigning the birangona to a site of alterity or abnormality. While the identity of the muktijoddha (freedom fighter) carries symbolic capital and moral personhood, birangonas are relegated...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 835–859.
Published: 01 August 2009
... to mobilize the sentiment for its own political ends. The failure of the residency-general to seize the symbolic capital of the imperial house ultimately helped bring an end to the protectorate administration and usher in the formal colonization of Korea. Figure 1. Sunjong's parade in Pusan, January...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 419–421.
Published: 01 May 2000
... enterprises, which, in turn, enabled them to control a sizable amount of collective property. Moreover, the success of these collective enterprises also made Qiaolou a BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 421 model village in the postreform era, bestowing on local cadres valuable symbolic capital. To better fit to the rapidly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 477–479.
Published: 01 May 2019
... details a further shift in the MDI and JuD, toward social activism. The earthquake in Kashmir and northern Pakistan in 2005 and the devastating floods of 2008 provided the organizations opportunities to evolve into humanitarian activism (p. 204). Through their social work, they garnered extensive symbolic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 464–466.
Published: 01 May 2005
..., and Symbolic Capital: Two Temples to Confucius in Gansu, the most explicitly theoretically grounded contribution, the author shows how cultural, economic, and social capital were deployed, with different outcomes, in the reconstruction and reactivation of the Confucian temples in two proximate but strikingly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1046–1048.
Published: 01 November 1996
..., gifting, ritual, and matrimonial exchange. In an extended concluding chapter, Rudner reviews the implications of his study for many issues of caste, capitalism and South India generally. His emphasis on "social investment" in symbolic capital provides a persuasive connective thread that links...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1183–1185.
Published: 01 November 2007
... judgments on improper deportment is more powerful than the demands of modernity or Al-Huda's call for scriptural Islam. The individuality of a Pukhtun woman ( bibi ) and her anxious self-scrutiny are the symbolic capital that ensures the survival and stability of Pukhtun identity in a shifting social...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 275–301.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in its entirety. On the individual level, it appears that two types of symbolic capital enabled actors to acquire positions in the restructured postwar literary field: that accruing from being a poet in the traditional mold or, on the contrary, a modern author continuing the legacy of the May Fourth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 February 2024
...), and in the context of the accumulation of symbolic capital. A quadrilingual schema “affording English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil (almost) equal recognition and symmetrical representation by way of an even distribution of visual-spatial resources” (25) is employed, or in some cases, an asymmetrical arrangement...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 509–511.
Published: 01 May 2024
... strategic appeals to national history and culture. “Participants” systematically investigates why demographic groups of women, men, and young adults join Trúc Lâm. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 draw on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at Sùng Phúc to trace how followers seek upward mobility and gendered symbolic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 610–611.
Published: 01 May 2001
... a clear idea of a royal tradition, with lineage, names and titles, and sacred centers, to which more than one individual might, and did, aspire. The name of the king, or more precisely his letters, were important symbolic capital in struggles among local leaders in the rantau. Rebellions in various parts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 609–610.
Published: 01 May 2001
..., to which more than one individual might, and did, aspire. The name of the king, or more precisely his letters, were important symbolic capital in struggles among local leaders in the rantau. Rebellions in various parts of the Minangkabau world invoked claims to royal lineage. Disputes over succession...
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