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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 206–210.
Published: 01 February 2021
... , 1996 ), 194f . 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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1105–1111.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... Much of critical attention to these infelicitous events has been focused on the state of the elite English-language press. Scant discussion, however, has been devoted to the condition of the vernacular press and especially the Hindi-language press. Such inattention may not be entirely surprising...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1134–1136.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Benjamin Baumann Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema . By Arnika Fuhrmann . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2016 . 272 pp. ISBN: 9780822361190 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 267–292.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of southern China, Ishwardas's text runs close to 400 pages and was patronized by a prominent stratum of Bombay's Gujarati-speaking commercial and bureaucratic elite. The primary intervention in this article is to analyze Ishwardas's account as a neglected relic of vernacular capitalism and vernacular...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 303–322.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Doreen Lee Abstract Activist art and political resistance became popular aesthetics in the work of Indonesian artists after the fall of the New Order in 1998. In subsequent years, more art alternatives have emerged in cities and small towns across Indonesia, including diverse and vernacular modes...
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Published: 01 August 2015
Figure 1. A commoner woman Kim's vernacular petition (land dispute). Komunsŏ 194167. Courtesy of Kyujanggak Archives, Seoul National University. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 994–996.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Ghassan Moazzin Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940 . By Eugenia Lean . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . 416 pp. ISBN: 9780231193481 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 735–736.
Published: 01 August 1977
...Winston L. Y. Yang Chinese Vernacular Fiction: The Formative Period . BY W. L. Idema . Leiden : E. J. Brill, Institutum Sinologicum Lugduno Batavum, Sinica Leidensia , Vol. XIII , 1974 . lxiv, 146 pp. Bibliography. 68 D.Gld. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 764–765.
Published: 01 August 1981
...David Roy The Chinese Vernacular Story . By Patrick Hanan . Cambridge : Harvard University Press (Harvard East Asian Series 94), 1981 . viii, 276 pp. Preface, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $18.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 764...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 775–776.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Richard VanNess Simmons The Language of the Sangleys: A Chinese Vernacular in Missionary Sources of the Seventeenth Century . By Henning Klöter . Leiden : Brill , 2011 . xxii, 411 pp., 32 pages of color plates. $179.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 45 (1): 21–57.
Published: 01 November 1985
...Kristofer Schipper Abstract Rituals that accompany community celebrations in China come in two kinds: vernacular and classical. The reason why these two forms exist is not easily explained. To the two forms of liturgy correspond two kinds of specialists: the tao-shi (Taoist dignitary) and the fa...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 585–587.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Virignia Skord The Riverside Counselor's Stories: Vernacular Fiction of Late Heian Japan . Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Robert L. Backus . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1985 . xxxiv, 234 pp. Introduction, Notes, Bibliography. $35. Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 647–666.
Published: 01 August 2000
... the Vernacular Landscape . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press . Kaempfer Englebert. 1906 . The History of Japan . 3 vols. Glasgow : James MacLehose and Sons . Hirotada. Kawamura 1984 . Edo bakufu-sen kuniezu no kenkyu . Tokyo : Kokon Shoin . Korhonen Pekka. 1998 . Japan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 707–751.
Published: 01 August 1994
...” or “Literary Chinese”). Beginning in the medieval period, however, an undercurrent of written Vernacular Sinitic (hereafter VS, pai-hua[-wen]) started to develop. The written vernacular came to full maturity in China only with the May Fourth Movement of 1919, after the final collapse during the 1911 revolution...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 795–797.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Tamara Heimarck Bentley Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China . By James Cahill . Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London : University of California Press , 2010 . ix , 265 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 879–881.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Ian Talbot The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab . By Farina Mir . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2010 . v, 278 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 The history of late colonial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 696–697.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Martin W. Huang Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction . By Liangyan Ge . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2001 . ix , 328 pp. $47.00 (cloth). 696 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The "what...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 758–759.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Norman Cutler The Vernacular Veda: Revelation, Recitation, and Ritual . By Vasudha Narayanan . Columbia, S.C. : The University of South Carolina Press , 1994 . xvii, 265 pp. $42.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 758 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 513–515.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Madelon Djajadiningrat-Nieuwenhuis The Vernacular Press and the Emergence of Modern Indonesian Consciousness (1855–1913) . By Ahmat B. Adam . Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1994 . xiii, 206 pp. $16.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1101–1104.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Sree Padma Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homeopathy . By Shinjini Das . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . 304 pp. ISBN: 9781108420624 (cloth). Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 . By Rohan Deb...