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Suffragist Women, Corrupt Officials, and Waste Control in Prewar Japan: Two Plays by Kaneko Shigeri

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Mariko Asano Tamanoi
Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 805–834.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911809990064
Published: 01 August 2009
... on democracy and waste control. Relying on the idea of “purity” (jôka), these women gendered the discourse of democracy along the divide of “pure” women and “impure” men, and succeeded, to a certain extent, in eliminating corrupt officials from the Tokyo prefectural and city assemblies. Yet their efforts...
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Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh

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Tammara Soma
Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 790–792.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11179359
Published: 01 August 2024
... and their associated packaging quickly overwhelmed Phnom Penh's ability to manage the waste, for some it also represented modernity, prosperity, and wealth. It is important to note that only 1 percent of the plastic waste in the city is actually recycled locally. Thus, the role of Ed Jais in collecting, trading...
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Scavengers, Recyclers, and Solutions for Solid Waste Management in Indonesia

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David Hicks
Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 223–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2059226
Published: 01 February 1993
...David Hicks Scavengers, Recyclers, and Solutions for Solid Waste Management in Indonesia . By Daniel T. Sicular . Berkeley : Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley , 1992 . xi, 201 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993...
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Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan

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Nick Kapur
Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 952–954.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819001566
Published: 01 November 2019
...Nick Kapur Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan . By Eiko Maruko Siniawer . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2018 . xxii, 398 pp. ISBN: 9781501725845 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 One of the great paradoxes of recent times...
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Beijing Garbage: A City Besieged by Waste

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Adam Liebman
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 456–458.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821000152
Published: 01 May 2021
...Adam Liebman Beijing Garbage: A City Besieged by Waste . By Stefan Landsberger . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2019 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9789463720304 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Beijing Garbage provides a “snapshot...
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Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India

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Amy Zhang
Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 705–706.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819000986
Published: 01 August 2019
...Amy Zhang Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India . By Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2018 . xv, 393 pp. ISBN: 9780674980600 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 More importantly, caste...
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“Affluence of the Heart”: Wastefulness and the Search for Meaning in Millennial Japan

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Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 165–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911813001745
Published: 01 February 2014
...Eiko Maruko Siniawer Abstract In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Japan experienced a surge in the evocation of the word “ mottainai ,” most simply translated as “wasteful.” Children's literature, mass-market nonfiction, magazines, newspapers, songs, government ministries, corporations...
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Clearing, “Wasting,” and Regreening: An Environmental History of Bare Hills in Central Vietnam

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David Biggs
Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1037–1058.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002191181800089X
Published: 01 November 2018
...David Biggs Abstract A recent trend of regreening formerly bare hills in central Vietnam is often described in the media as a form of recovery from 1960s wartime destruction. However, this modern framework of wartime “wasting” and regreening obscures a longer history of bare hills. Colonial...
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Japan in the Passing Lane Japan's Wasted Workers

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William H. Newell
Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (2): 344–346.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2055341
Published: 01 February 1984
...William H. Newell Japan in the Passing Lane . By Satoshi Kamata . Translated by Tatsuru Akimoto . Introduction by Ronald Dore . New York : Pantheon Books , 1982 . 211 pp. $14.95. Japan's Wasted Workers . By Jon Woronoff . Totowa, N.J. : Allanheld, Osmun Publishers , 1983 . 296...
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War-Wasted Asia: Letters 1945–46

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Lawrence Olson
Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 36 (1): 150–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2053870
Published: 01 November 1976
...Lawrence Olson War-Wasted Asia: Letters 1945–46 . Edited By Otis Cary . Tokyo and New York : Kodansha International , 1975 . 322 pp. Plates. $15.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 150 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES agony's red wounds," p. 138); Iwata Hiroshi...
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A Susume Hanchō-san comic depicting a confrontation over wasted charcoal (Maeil Sinbo 1942, 4).

A Susume Hanchō-san comic depicting a confrontation over wasted charcoal ( ...

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in Wartime Forestry and the “Low Temperature Lifestyle” in Late Colonial Korea, 1937–1945 > Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 1. A Susume Hanchō-san comic depicting a confrontation over wasted charcoal ( Maeil Sinbo 1942 , 4). More
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Remembrance of Nanjido: Space, Archive, and History of the World Cup Park

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Se-Mi Oh
Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 163–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-10290630
Published: 01 May 2023
... on ecological restoration and urban regeneration and how the history of Nanjido was subsequently framed as the undoing of the industrial past of the city, most notably seen in its waste management. This article analyzes this contested space through a careful reading of two documentary sources: The Millennium...
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Socialism and the Chinese Peasant Family

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William L. Parish, Jr.
Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 613–630.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2052546
Published: 01 May 1975
... interfence. There should be no buying and selling of brides, and big, ostentatious and wasteful wedding feasts should be stopped. In an effort to limit births, marriages should be delayed to age twenty-three for girls and age twenty-five for boys in rural areas. As part of the program for more equal...
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Gardens in Ch'i Piao-chia's Social World: Wealth and Values in Late-Ming Kiangnan

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Joanna F. Handlin Smith
Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (1): 55–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2058347
Published: 01 February 1992
... in accord with your financial resources is not what I am calling wasteful” (cited in Ebrey 1984:265). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 List Of References Anon . 1984 . Hu Hsüeh-yen wai chuan [An unofficial biography of Hu Hsüeh-yen]. In Wan-Ch'ing hsiao-shuo ta...
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The Tax System of Outer Mongolia, 1911–55: A Brief History

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Franklyn D. Holzman
Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (2): 221–236.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2941380
Published: 01 February 1957
..., the western world lived in fear of the Mongol hordes which swept westward as far as the Danube laying waste to all which lay before them. Over the years, the power and importance of Mongolia declined and it fell, at different times, under Russian and Chinese influence respectively. More recently it was under...
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Hungry in Japan: Food Insecurity and Ethical Citizenship

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Aya H. Kimura
Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 475–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911818000037
Published: 01 May 2018
... citizenship, which suggests that volunteerism is entrenched in neoliberalization. The programs are constructed in terms of moral matters, such as creating ibasho (space) for citizens’ mutual help and reducing food loss by “bringing back mottainai ” (wasting nothing). This championing of community power risks...
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Jinnai Kōji's photograph collection can be viewed once the game is completed. Here, photograph number twenty-six captures Jinnai (foreground) with Masayuki, Mari, and Natsumi in the background next to the Capital City Tower. Jinnai laments wasting film on this silly shot. © Granzella Inc.

Jinnai Kōji's photograph collection can be viewed once the game is complete...

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in Virtual Earthquakes and Real-World Survival in Japan's Disaster Report Video Game > Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2019
Figure 5. Jinnai Kōji's photograph collection can be viewed once the game is completed. Here, photograph number twenty-six captures Jinnai (foreground) with Masayuki, Mari, and Natsumi in the background next to the Capital City Tower. Jinnai laments wasting film on this silly shot. © Granzella More
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The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China

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Alexa Alice Joubin
Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 575–576.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911822000687
Published: 01 August 2022
... imitation. The variegated artistic engagements with zhuang as analyzed in The Art of Useless constitute a major insight. These range from Never Forget (chapter 2), a cautionary tale of consumer culture in the context of Chinese socialism, to Wang Jiuliang's film Beijing Besieged by Waste (chapter 6...
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Radiation and Revolution

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Christine L. Marran
Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 732–735.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-10773541
Published: 01 November 2023
... will to power. As he shows, the Japanese state has worked to assure the longevity of state hegemony by institutionalizing apparatuses of nuclear energy and waste management. Kohso offers a speculative vision of how to resist the rule of the nuclear nation and leakage-as-management. It will require “forgetting...
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The Bunker Papers: Reports to the President from Vietnam, 1967–1973

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Edwin E. Moïse
Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 222–223.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2059225
Published: 01 February 1993
... to the undergraduate writing a term paper, will find it useful to check what Bunker said during a particular month, or on a particular topic. Every university library should have these volumes. EDWIN E. MO'ISE Clemson University Scavengers, Recyclers, and Solutions for Solid Waste Management in Indonesia. By D A N I E...
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