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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 291–307.
Published: 01 February 1983
...). Madison : Department of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin . VOL. XLII, N O . 2 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1983 Excommunication as Everyday Event and Ultimate Sanction: The Nature of Suspension from an Indian Caste ROBERT M. HAYDEN E xcommunication, or outcasting, is generally...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 881–882.
Published: 01 November 1991
...James W. Boyd Desire, Death and Goodness: The Conflict of Ultimate Values in Theravāda Buddhism . By Grace G. Burford . New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. , 1991 . xii, 213 pp. $38.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL...
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Published: 01 May 2009
Figure 5. Line drawing of the Qufu temple icon of Confucius, entitled “Ultimate Sage and First Teacher, Master Kong” ( Zhisheng xianshi Kongzi 至 聖 先 師 孔子), Qing period, woodblock print. Lü Weiqi 呂 維 祺, Shengxian xiangzan 聖 賢 像 賛, 1837 edition. Source: National Diet Library, Tokyo. More
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Published: 01 May 2009
Figure 7. Confucius and Four Correlates, entitled “Great Completion Ultimate Sage and First Teacher, Master Kong” ( Dacheng Zhisheng xianshi Kongzi 大 成 至 聖 先 師 孔子), early twentieth century, woodblock print from Yangliuqing 楊 柳 青, Hebei. 42 × 34.5 cm. Source: Kongzi baitu ( 1997 , 18:4). More
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Published: 01 May 2009
Figure 8. Confucius and Four Correlates, entitled “Ultimate Sage and Ancestral Teacher” ( Zhisheng zongshi 至 聖 宗 師), early twentieth century, color woodblock print from Beijing; 31×20 cm. Source: Kongzi baitu ( 1997 , 15:1). More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 931–962.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Nile Green Abstract This article uses a case study of an Urdu translation of the classical Chinese Shujing ( Book of Documents ) to bring to light a process of multiperson, mediated, and ultimately transimperial translation in which European source texts played crucial roles in transmitting...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 283–302.
Published: 01 February 1977
... see religion serving both as a set of symbols that makes human experience ultimately meaningful, and as a set of symbols that provides an ultimate basis for human action. 91 See note 29 above. 90 Ishii (n. 35 above), p. 126; he has taken his information from Thai N i, Nāyokratthamontn...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (3): 403–413.
Published: 01 May 1974
... “the journey to self-acceptance,” and an experience that ultimately became a central feature of the doctrine of universal salvation he preached. Although he sought above all to bridge the gulf between priest and layman and specifically disclaimed any ambition to found a new sect, let alone a religious dynasty...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 594–619.
Published: 01 November 2023
... century. Substantiated by the archeological findings of the twentieth century, this transition was ultimately propelled by three interweaving forces, namely, Chinese researchers' ideological undertakings, their factional struggle for academic supremacy, and commitment to local interest and identity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 287–316.
Published: 01 May 1992
... experiments in bourgeois democracy. French liberalism, which had no Thomas Hobbes seeking eloquently to defend monarchical absolutism, ultimately could not accommodate royal prerogative to democratic politics; and, lacking an Adam Smith to assert the primacy of economic laissez-faire, it showed no fundamental...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 575–587.
Published: 01 August 1967
... investigation of caste phenomena, and thus ultimately increases our knowledge. But it also leads to the danger that competing definitions will masquerade as factual explanations, or that theoretically valid distinctions are lost in the rhetoric of definitional arguments. Especially in studies of the breakdown...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 523–539.
Published: 01 May 1968
...N. Gerald Barrier Abstract One of the most controversial interpretations of recent Indian history is that the British governed the subcontinent through a strategy of divide and rule which led to Hindu-Muslim conflict and ultimately the 1947 partition. Divide et Impera has often been portrayed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 38 (1): 99–116.
Published: 01 November 1978
... prominent court scholar of his time, Yii Chi devoted himself to the enhancement of Tugh Temiir's prestige, authority, and legitimacy. The paper explores Yii's activities in detail and speculates on his motivations in serving his Mongol emperor. In particular, it suggests that Yii Chi's ultimate aim...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 793–819.
Published: 01 August 1972
... and not ultimate intentions? Were Japan's leaders only biding their time until domestic strength made foreign adventurism possible, as is often charged? There is little evidence that Iwakura's group had such ulterior motives. In the grosser sense of the existence of an elaborate plan of conquest...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (2): 221–235.
Published: 01 February 1976
... an increased taxation burden on the peasantry, who revolted in several areas, ultimately with such success that the empire was weakened. More money was needed to crush more revolts, so there was more oppressive taxation and so more revolts. This is less than convincing, for peasant revolts—whether or not led...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 481–484.
Published: 01 May 1980
... to the Journal with a proposal which the editor ultimately encouraged, accepted, and brought to publication; this time the editor initiated the Said symposium himself, persuaded his colleagues to participate, and then subjected them to varying degrees of editorial suggestion before sending the whole package off...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (4): 771–782.
Published: 01 August 1980
... ultimately greets the project, no one is likely to complain that the author tried to keep us in the dark about the theoretical assumptions, much less the analytical approach, that he means to bring to bear upon his subject. Indeed, the entire long introduction (pp. 1–26) with which the first volume of Katō's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (3): 455–479.
Published: 01 May 1981
... continuity of China's Marxist-Leninist tradition from the 1950s to the 1980s. To China's officialdom, Liu will represent the ultimate integrity of the Party apparatus, an avatar of the self-cultivated rectitude of the “clean official.” Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 1...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (3): 351–365.
Published: 01 May 1974
... and economic disparities among the GSB. This illustrates the inaccuracies of characterizing castes by reference only to those members who hold elite positions in public affairs. The Parisad ultimately atrophied after 1917 although its related institutions have survived. Though the structural unity of caste...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (3): 603–616.
Published: 01 May 1970
... civilization in soutliern Tamil Nadu developed parallel with this, and most of its intrusive features were analogous with those in the island, or were inspired by them. The earliest attractions of the far southern coasts were pearls and gems, which brought merchants, and ultimately, script, religions...