...Sebastian Veg Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong . By Gordon Mathews . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . xi, 242 pp. $62.00 (cloth); $19.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Chungking Mansions...

...Sebastian Veg Abstract Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement (September–December 2014) represented a watershed in Hong Kong's political culture and self-understanding. Based on over 1,000 slogans and other textual and visual material documented during the movement, this study provides an overview of claims...

...Sebastian Veg Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China . By Arunabh Ghosh . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2020 . 360 pp. ISBN: 9780691179476 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

...Sebastian Veg Voting as a Rite makes a persuasive argument for the continuity of political practices from the late Qing to the one-party regimes on each side of the strait. Hill's command of the literature and the general historical context is outstanding, his primary sources plentiful...

...Eddy U Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals . By Sebastian Veg . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . ix, 352 pp. ISBN: 9780231191401 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Sebastian Veg's Minjian is a stimulating book...

... privately held collections stage public narratives about the past. Popular Memories of the Mao Era promises to lean into the messiness, emphasizing historiographic process over empiricist truth-claims. As Veg puts it in the volume's introduction, the goal of the collection is to focus “precisely...

... Kong's Umbrella Movement,” a work by literary scholar S ebastian V eg that plumbs the meaning of more than 1,000 “artifacts containing texts” the author “photographed during several visits” to the three main protest sites of the eponymous struggle. Veg notes that discussions of the Umbrella Movement...

... : Palgrave Macmillan . Veg , Sebastian . 2017 . “ The Rise of ‘Localism’ and Civic Identity in Post-handover Hong Kong: Questioning the Chinese Nation-State .” China Quarterly 230 : 323 – 47 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741017000571 . Yam , Shui-yin Sharon . 2019 . Inconvenient...

... is mainly a study of the views and visions held by the latter. In this regard, it is more of a study of contemporary Chinese political thought instead of reception history. Together with Sebastian Veg's work on grassroots intellectuals and Els van Dongen's on the “conservative turn” in post-1989 Chinese...

... "Discourses on Vegetable Roots" (Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press, 1959) and Chin Lee-Hua, Chung-Ying tui-chao Ts'ai-ken t'an [Veg- BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 601 etable Roots, with English Translation] (Taipei: Ch'eng Wen Publishing Co., 1979). Chao, who obviously used the so-called Ch'ien-lung version (see...

... on Vegetable Roots" (Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press, 1959) and Chin Lee-Hua, Chung-Ying tui-chao Ts'ai-ken t'an [Veg- ...

... of localism and noted Chin Wan's intellectual influence (Veg 2017 ; Juncker and Chan 2019; Palmer and Alexander 2019 ), so far there has been no comprehensive study of Chin Wan's religion and the cosmological practices associated with it. In this article, I will briefly outline Chin's religious discourses...

.../b50a9b2f2fdf4e98b9ad2aea14e4fede (accessed January 22, 2020 ). Veg , Sebastian . 2016 . “ Creating a Textual Public Space: Slogans and Texts from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement .” Journal of Asian Studies 75 ( 3 ): 673 – 702 . 10.1017/S0021911816000565 Wang Guoxing 王國興. 2020 . “Long Qigong: Quhui wei Jibenfa...

... on the sidelines but as a legal—and marketable—filmmaker” (Osnos 2009a , 95). In this way, Jia hopes to raise “public consciousness” about the problems facing China's underclass (Jia in Veg 2010 , 60). Jia argues that the reason that his films now pass the censors is not because he has changed; rather...

.... Rajasthanis describe this kind of extended interior monologue as a veg literally "speed" but figuratively a "train of thought." The bard uses it effectively and affectively to bring this emotionally racking moment home to his listeners' hearts. As soon as he reached the border, he glimpsed in the distance...