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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (3): 464.
Published: 01 May 1956
...Nikki R. Keddie Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization . Ed. Gustave E. von Grunebaum . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1955 . xii , 385. Appendix, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 464 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY from American...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (4): 497–505.
Published: 01 August 1956
...V. Raghavan Abstract Even if one uses Sanskrit only as the instrument of investigation, it is apparent that Indian culture was a current which, as it flowed and spread, was fed by many a stream and absorbed many a small and stagnant pool. With volume, it gathered often bewildering variety, which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 206–210.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Bruce McCoy Owens Vernacular Religion: Varieties of Religiosity in the Nepali Diaspora . Edited by David N. Gellner and Sondra L. Hausner . Kathmandu : Vajra Books; Reading: Centre for Nepal Studies UK , 2019 . xix, 261 pp. ISBN: 9799937733045 (cloth). Global Nepalis: Religion...
View articletitled, Dynamic Divergences: Religion, Identity, and Community in the Nepali Diasporas - Vernacular Religion: <span class="search-highlight">Varieties</span> of Religiosity in the Nepali Diaspora and Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 778–779.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Bruce J. Dickson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017 2017 Jie Lu has written an impressive first book on why some villages are better governed than others. Varieties of Governance in China exemplifies many of the best features of good scholarship: it is embedded...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Varieties</span> of Governance in China: Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (3): 606–608.
Published: 01 May 1981
...William E. Steslicke East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience . By Margaret M. Lock . Berkeley : University of California Press (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, No. 4), 1980 . 311 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrations, Index. $20...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 288–289.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Anna M. Gade Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account . By Andrew Beatty . Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, no. 111. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 1999 . xv, 272 pp. $23.95 (paper); $64.95, (cloth). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 February 2017
... diversity were particularly tangible in the imperial bureaucracy. This article analyzes how the great variety of local challenges factored into administrative strategies under the Qing (1644–1911), China's last dynasty and one of its longest-lasting. Unable to cover the realm with a uniform blanket...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 561–563.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Edward R. Beauchamp Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan . Edited by John Singleton . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . xvi, 376 pp. $64.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 56l...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 843–862.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Sanjay Joshi Abstract Through the historicization of one episode, this essay addresses a variety of questions related to class, caste, gender, religion, and social life as well as cultural attitudes in Kumaon between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The politics of naming—who among...
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in Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Drama, Gramophone, and the Beginnings of Tamil Cinema
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2007
Figure 5. This image accompanied a gramophone record review in a weekly arts criticism feature, aadal paadal (Song and Dance), written by Kalki R. Krishnamurthy and published by the leading Tamil variety magazine. Source: Ananda Vikatan , May 20 1934, 28.
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1954) 13 (3): 305–327.
Published: 01 May 1954
.... In the Western world, translation is considered more frequently from the linguistic than the cultural point of view, for the West has a common pattern of culture underlying its linguistic variety. The problem of communication between the East and the West is more difficult in that there are not only language...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 7 (2): 165–175.
Published: 01 February 1948
... breakfast. The total was an amazing one. But what if one were to attempt to analyze the sources of the ideas and attitudes which are common among us? Would he not find there also the flowing together of a vast variety of influences from widely diversified sources? What the social scientists call...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 655–673.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Changyong Choi Abstract This article examines daily life in North Korea from the perspectives of recent North Korean defectors from a variety of social backgrounds. The following three questions are explored: how does the individual live from day to day; what tactics does one continuously evolve...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1943) 2 (3): 259–271.
Published: 01 May 1943
...Charles Nelson Spinks Abstract The origin of Japan's interests in Manchuria may be regarded as the base-point from which during the past half century a variety of economic, political and territorial ambitions has radiated, enveloping today virtually all of Eastern Asia and leading directly to war...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 75–90.
Published: 01 November 1964
... trade in Malaysian or Arab hands, Indonesian migration to the Peninsula, the pilgrimage to Mecca and its subsidiary activities in the fields of Islamic teaching and publication, brought together in Singapore a great variety of Malaysian and Muslim peoples from differing social and economic background...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 123–138.
Published: 01 February 2018
... of the reason lies in how religion served as both a European technique of colonial governmentality and a local repository of techniques for comprehending and responding to change. More than this, religion seems to have offered a multivalent medium for a variety of innovations. Pali examinations were central...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 423–430.
Published: 01 May 2021
... subdisciplines of South and East Asian studies. It does not matter that Scott's books have touched on a wide variety of subjects: the central concerns with power, agency, space, and the essence of a shared humanity have all resonated with his professional interlocutors. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 865–888.
Published: 01 November 2021
... predicament of democratic agonism that is best illustrated by the story of Feng Xiawei, a grassroots activist whose suicide in Shanghai constituted a key moment in the boycott. Juxtaposing a variety of accounts about Feng's death in journalism, political fiction, reformed opera, and advertisements...
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Captives, Deserters, and Exiles: Control of Migrant Mobility in the Northern Wei Period (386–534 CE)
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 129–143.
Published: 01 February 2021
.... Ancient states, from the Qin to the Mongol empire, achieved their imperial goals through a variety of measures, one of the most important of which was the relocation of subjects and conquered peoples whenever and wherever they saw fit. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (2): 255–271.
Published: 01 February 1981
...David Johnson Abstract The interconnected body of stories about Ch'un-ch'iu-Warring States times, known to most Chinese and embodied in a wide variety of verbal forms both oral and written, was a secular mythology—secular because it concerned men acting in the datable past, mythology because...
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