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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 23 (1): 137–138.
Published: 01 November 1963
...Alexander Soper From Castle to Teahouse: Japanese Architecture of the Momoyama Period . By John B. Kirby Jr. , Rutland and Tokyo : Charles E. Tuttle Company , 1962 . xv , 268 . Illustrations; Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1009–1041.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Qin Shao Abstract The Chinese Teahouse was one of a few traditional institutions of sociability whose wider social and cultural appeal overshadowed its primary business. Historically, it was closely woven into the fabric of Chinese life. In many communities the teahouse served as a center...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 753–779.
Published: 01 August 2003
... legendary outings disguised as a commoner (Liao 1997, 80). Yet in spite of their reputation for breeding disorder and moral vice, commercial theaters—commonly known as teahouses ( chayuan )—increasingly thrived, and in this new social space, the genre of Peking opera came into full flower during the last...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 11 (3): 428.
Published: 01 May 1952
...William Leonard Schwartz The Teahouse of the August Moon . By Vern Sneider . New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1951 . 282 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 428 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY The Teahouse of the August Moon. By VERN SNEIDER. New York: G...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 947–948.
Published: 01 November 1998
... highlanders grieve for the deceased. Thus, he links the material and political aspects of labor with the affective domain of grief. QlN SHAO analyzes teahouse culture in Nantong county (Jiangsu Province) in early Republican China as a public space located in and contested by the emergence of bourgeois culture...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 539–562.
Published: 01 August 2013
... of entertainers—not all of them women—whose business was closely associated with the brothels and teahouses of the demimonde. The first geisha were men who entertained at parties in Yoshiwara, the famous “pleasure quarter” in the shogunal capital of Edo. In the mid-eighteenth century, female dancers and musicians...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 93–123.
Published: 01 February 1995
... areas. The hot-water stores not only provided hot water but often became community centers for the neighborhood: they served as teahouses and bathhouses for the residents and were conveniently located next to a snack shop and sometimes a wineshop. The laohuzao usually was a small store facing the street...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 11 (3): 428–429.
Published: 01 May 1952
.... 1952 1952 428 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY The Teahouse of the August Moon. By VERN SNEIDER. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. 282 p. $3.00. The publication of this novel marks the first appearance of RyTikyu in the exotic fiction of world literature, for the Okinawans appear to have been neglected even...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 745–751.
Published: 01 August 2003
..., and Tianjin during the early Republican period and suggests that the transformation of theatrical space from teahouses where patrons, vendors, and actors intermingled into theaters where various arenas of activity were clearly demarcated suggests a change in the nature of representation. He shows ways...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 23 (1): 136–137.
Published: 01 November 1963
... libraries and agencies concerned with foreign affairs should become apparent. GEORGE O. TOTTEN The University of Rhode Island From Castle to Teahouse: Japanese Architec- ture of the Momoyama Period. By JOHN B. KIRBY, JR. Rutland and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1962. xv, 268. Illustrations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 3–43.
Published: 01 November 1964
... of the peasant are also usually organized in the teahouses on market day and are thereby restricted to villagers from within the system.51 In addition, certain landlords maintain an office in the town which collects rent from tenants.52 With regard to transport, village communities normally include a few...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1114–1116.
Published: 01 November 2011
...); Cao Yu's Thunderstorm (1934) (anthologized, I believe, for the first time, and a welcome presence it is); Lao She's Teahouse (1958); and Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian's Bus Stop (1983); alongside plays available for the first time in English, such as Ding Xilin's A Wasp (1923); Yang Limin's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 460–462.
Published: 01 May 2015
... rather than abolition of prostitution was in the interest of public health (especially, in this case, the health of white men). Governments in both Hong Kong and Guangzhou turned out to be better at taxing businesses than regulating what went on in brothels, restaurants, and teahouses where women worked...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 767–768.
Published: 01 August 2020
... for leisure activities, including temples, theaters, brothels, pleasure boats, wine shops, teahouses, public baths, and cricket and quail-fighting courts. Most of these were not new, but they enjoyed further growth and spread from urban centers to market towns. This urban space was stratified in response...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 207–209.
Published: 01 February 2014
... decades, he would be better known as Lao She, the famous author of Camel Xiangzi (1936) and Teahouse (1957), both considered foundational works of modern Chinese literature. Born Shu Qingchun, an ethnic Manchu in the declining days of the Qing dynasty, Lao She had a difficult childhood marked...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 219–221.
Published: 01 February 2012
... depicts the life in courtesan houses, restaurants, opium dens, teahouses, theaters, and gardens as well as activities and events in public spaces such as storytelling, parades, and spectatorship. The centerpiece of the study is the numerous courtesan houses in the then newly established “foreign...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 604–606.
Published: 01 May 2009
...” of the cha tsan ting (teahouse, p. 205). Accounting for the persistence of traditional Cantonese opera, Lee argues that although this persistence represents the “dynamism of native culture” that “refuses to be overwhelmed by globalization” and the “uneven” development of Hong Kong's modernization...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1141–1142.
Published: 01 November 2007
... such as teahouses, amusement halls, and modern movie palaces, and the gendered body spectacles presented in “body genres” such as martial arts films (chapter 6) and horror films (chapter 8). To underscore the materiality of Shanghai's early cinema culture and to “excavate and reimagine the multiple...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 914–916.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Movement also stressed the importance of organization, theorizing that social education through local institutions could help transform villagers by leading them to economic cooperatives and scientific farming. In Dingxian, reformers used teahouses, libraries, and opera houses as spaces for social...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (2): 384–385.
Published: 01 May 1990
... the central concept of the public sphere. The settings, illustrated with numerous photographs, are public arenas: streets, squares, and parks; teahouses and restaurants; the offices of the professional associations, the press, and the police. Within local city contexts, Strand shows the development...
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