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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 874–875.
Published: 01 November 1992
...Paul A. Carter The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844–1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent . By Thomas A. Tweed . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1992 . xxiv, 242 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 874 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 892–893.
Published: 01 November 1990
...Michael Adas Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration and Victorian Imperialism . By Robert A. Stafford . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1989 . xii, 293 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 892 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 883–885.
Published: 01 November 1988
... savings.) MARTIN BRONFENBRENNER Aoyama Gakuin University Pro tempore, Cornell University Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports. By H U G H CORTAZZI. London: The Athlone Press, 1987. xviii, 365 pp. $39.95. Japan in the Victorian Mind: A Study ofStereotyped Images ofa Nation, 1850-80...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 611–612.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Brian H. Collins The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Ango-Indian MP and Chancery “Lunatic.” . By Michael H. Fisher . London : C. Hurst & Co. , 2010 . xx, 396 pp. $27.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Since post...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 207–208.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Peter J. Kitson China and the Victorian Imagination: Empires Entwined . By Ross G. Forman . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . 318 pp. ISBN 9781107013155 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 The subject of British cultural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 456–458.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Murray A. Rubinstein Striving for the “Whole Duty of Man”: James Legge and the Scottish Protestant Encounter with China; Assessing Confluences in Scottish Nonconformism, Chinese Missionary Scholarship, Victorian Sinology, and Chinese Protestantism . By Loren F. Pfister . Scottish Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 165–166.
Published: 01 February 1996
...William Steele Meiji Revisited—The Sites of Victorian Japan . By Dallas Finn . New York : Weatherhill , 1995 . ix, 276 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 165 chapters on Hokusai works in European and American collections...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 30 (1): 198.
Published: 01 November 1970
...Dorothy M. Spencer Bound to Exile: The Victorians in India . By Michael Edwardes . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1969 . xii, 283 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Index. $7.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 198 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Bound to Exile...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (4): 503–527.
Published: 01 August 1957
..., individual, or generation can accomplish. But the undertaking nevertheless seems necessary today, when we can no longer be satisfied with the older extremes of Victorian condescension towards “Japanese epigrams”; the exclusively historical or biographical treatment which evades direct analysis of the poetry...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 829–858.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Bozhou Men Abstract Since the 1970s, institutionalized enfreakment as represented by the Victorian freak show has provided scholars with a lens through which to examine nineteenth-century Western societies. However, current scholarship sidesteps questions such as how people in colonized countries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 339–360.
Published: 01 May 1987
... their charitable choices to changes in the ideology of these overlords as they sought to obtain influence with and honors from the ruling power. Involvement in philanthropy reflected a “negotiated” accommodation to Victorian values through which elite merchants maintained a relatively secure commercial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 248–276.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Mariko Asano Tamanoi Abstract Was knowledge always the basis of colonial power? If so, were colonial rulers invariably confident of the accuracy of their knowledge? Among the Victorian British, for example, there was widespread agreement that India could be known and represented as a series...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 31 (1): 41–48.
Published: 01 November 1971
... Victorian West, defined Japan's identity and role in the world in cosmopolitan, even revolutionary terms. By contrast, it is said, the nationalists of the 1930's were “frogs at the bottom of a well,” whose vision of the nation was clouded by folkish myths of national superiority or who were moved at most...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 267–287.
Published: 01 February 1970
...-Hindu ideology inaugurated by such charismatics as Vivekananda, other “Swamis” and interiorized by Indian nationalists, expresses itself in a highly stereotyped coded parlance, informed by Victorian English as well as by diffuse elements which could be described as a Hindu Protestant Ethic. Both...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 1014–1016.
Published: 01 November 2005
... and exposing the inner working of these referential norms, Reinders undertakes to disclose critical knowledge about the Victorian imagination of China and Chinese religions in particular. Reinders questions and investigates the cultural and ideological mechanisms in which knowledge (or cultural knowledge...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 659–661.
Published: 01 May 1968
... have been slow to appear, partly because the subject demands an author's familiarity both with England and India. Francis Hutchins' broadly ranging study in intellectual history has the virtue of balancing Victorian attitudes in England equally with their expression in India. Hutchins draws on widely...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 881–883.
Published: 01 November 1988
... 20 25 years, by analogy with those of Victorian Britain and the industrializing United States of 1890-1950. (One can of course question the generality of such stage theories. The United Kingdom case is a series of microeconomic product cycles resulting from temporarily superior productivity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1044–1047.
Published: 01 November 1997
... male same-sex practices in the non-Western world are thus identified by Bleys as grist to the mill of a sexologically-produced minority discourse of Western homosexual identity. Bleys adds his voice to the chorus of many other historians of homosexuality who identify Victorian debates around biological...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 February 2004
... and its Guardians, 1850–1940 . Stanford : Stanford University Press . Bentham Jeremy . 1995 . The Panopticon Writings . London : Verso . Burton Antoinette . 1998 . At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Britain . Berkeley and Los Angeles...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 18 (2): 304–305.
Published: 01 February 1959
...-intellectuals. It is difficult for one to realize that within a few years of Sir Edwin's publication of his poetic narrative of the life of the Buddha in 1879 it was to become in middle-class Victorian homes almost as ubiquitous as bric-a-brac. In an era when such best sellers as Ramona and Little Lord...