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Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 925–926.
Published: 01 November 1992
...David G. Goodman Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo . By Susan J. Napier . Cambridge : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press , 1991 . x...
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Clearing, “Wasting,” and Regreening: An Environmental History of Bare Hills in Central Vietnam
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1037–1058.
Published: 01 November 2018
... explorers noted eroded slopes in 1877, and imperial land surveyors described stretches of “idle, fallow land” decades earlier. This article describes a longer history of a “wasteland” not only to challenge a presentist framing of environmental decline but also to recognize the historic roles people played...
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Refugees, Land Reclamation, and Militarized Landscapes in Wartime China: Huanglongshan, Shaanxi, 1937–45
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 453–478.
Published: 26 March 2010
... resettled thousands of refugees who fled war-induced natural disasters in Henan to Huanglongshan to reclaim uncultivated wastelands. Land reclamation reflected an ongoing militarization of China's environment, as political leaders looked to land reclamation to provide relief for refugees, further economic...
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Warlord Colonialism: State Fragmentation and Chinese Rule in Kham, 1911–1949
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 299–318.
Published: 01 May 2013
... important effects on Chinese officials' approach to what they considered to be “wasteland.” Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Chinese military forces under the command of Liu Wenhui suppressed the Khampa Tibetan autonomy movements led by Kelzang Tsering (Skal bzang tshe...
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A Limited Forest Conservancy in Southwest Bengal, 1864–1912
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 75–112.
Published: 01 February 1997
...K. Sivaramakrishnan Abstract During the period from 1795 to 1850, the East India Company Raj in India viewed forests chiefly as limiting agriculture. In Bengal, forested lands, classified as wastelands, had been included in zamindari (landlord) estates (Ribbentrop 1900, 60). Colonial administrators...
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Genealogies of the Political Forest and Customary Rights in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 761–812.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Nancy Lee Peluso; Peter Vandergeest Abstract How have national and state governments the world over come to “own” huge expanses of territory under the rubric of “national forest,” “national parks,” or “wastelands”? The two contradictory statements in the above epigraph illustrate that not all...
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The Third Earl Grey and the Maintenance of an Imperial Policy on the Sale of Crown Lands in Ceylon, c. 1832–1852
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 27 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 November 1967
... on Ceylon. 47 Ibid. Torrington made the point that the regulation relating to wastelands in New South Wales could hardly serve as a model for Ceylon since conditions in the two colonies were so totally dissimilar. It was Torrington's contention that the crown lands in Ceylon showed much greater...
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Paths in Dreams: Selected Prose and Poetry of Ho Ch'i-fang
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 44 (1): 184–185.
Published: 01 November 1984
... leftism and communism during the War of Resistance to Japan.' McDougall concludes: Finding in himself only "a barren wasteland," [Ho] resolved his lack of faith by becoming part of a mass movement with unarguable aims, so that from 1937 to 1939 he devoted himself to propaganda for the war effort...
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Fertility Change in Contemporary Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 923–925.
Published: 01 November 1992
..., and political science. SUSAN ORPETT LONG John Carroll University Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. By SUSAN J . N A P I E R . Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1991- x, 258 pp. $28.00. Through an examination...
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Japanese Imperialism and Environmental Disease on a Soy Frontier, 1890–1940
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 809–836.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Chinese officials and migrants viewed as “wasteland” into farmland through settler colonialism seems to have accelerated the depletion of already scarce reserves of the mineral. Keshan Disease, however, only became codified via medical research conducted by Japanese occupiers throughout Manchukuo's...
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Global Environmental Encounters in Southwest China: Fleeting Intersections and “Transnational Work”
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 427–451.
Published: 01 May 2010
... , 2). “[Wasteland] now makes up almost half of the land in [Xishuangbanna] prefecture” (Cheung and MacKinnon 1991 , 23). Like “population pressure,” notions of land degradation were so self-evident to conservationists at the time that few thought to challenge these assertions. During...
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Guo Pu Crosses the River: Migration Anecdotes in Jinshu Biographical Narratives
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 99–112.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., “Alas! Our people will soon be enveloped by other races, our mulberry and catalpa razed into dragon wastelands.” 21 Thereupon he secretly gathered several dozen households of his relatives and associates, then proceeded to flee the land for the southeast. 22 While other divination stories...
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The China-India Border: The Origins of the Disputed Boundaries
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 141.
Published: 01 November 1964
... wasteland that the Chinese in 1957 built a road linking Sinkiang and Tibet, and the retention of this important military artery is clearly China's most immediate goal in the border controversy. Mr. Lamb argues that the area in question was generally regarded by the British during the nineteenth...
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Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1199–1200.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., “as inland bodies of water disappeared” (p. 22). Here Muscolino links the diking of lakes and the filling in of swamps and other “wasteland” to the creation of ever more densely settled and intensely farmed land. As the numbers of fishermen in the Zhoushan archipelago increased, so, too, did...
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Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 578–580.
Published: 01 May 2007
... gods, and upper castes, and the kaadu , the chaotic wasteland outside human ken, a realm of ghosts, demons, fierce gods, and untouchables. The high, the low, the vegetarian, the carnivorous, the pure, the impure, the soft, the fierce, the stable, the changing, the Brahmin, the Dalit. Weren't all...
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The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 590–592.
Published: 01 May 2009
... argues that the Cultural Revolution was much more than disastrous chaos. Rather than being a wasteland in which the arts were limited to a handful of hyperpoliticized model works, in Clark's view, the period witnessed considerable artistic innovation and success. Reminiscent of Joseph Levenson's argument...
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Himalayan Histories: Economy, Polity, Religious Traditions
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 972–973.
Published: 01 November 2019
... founded under the protection of regional kings out of wasteland grants to priests and gods is not considered. Allegiance to the small divinities of place remains strong. An interesting vignette recounts how disputes over the ritual placing of different gods in 2004 reflected political conflicts between...
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China on Film: A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 796–798.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., the book is recommended reading for students and scholars of Chinese cinema and culture. This new collection is comprised of twelve chapters. Chapter 1 challenges the notion that Shanghai cinema in the 1920s was a cultural wasteland. Chapter 2 takes on the hardline leaders of the Chinese Communist...
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Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1069–1070.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Haiyan Lee Remember that the memory landscape of the PRC, for all its officially orchestrated collective amnesia, is not a wasteland riddled with “memory holes” á la 1984 , but rather a flourishing orchard full of luscious (if monocultural) fruit trees. As we know, the memories of certain...
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Compass of the world: a symposium on political geography
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (3): 280–281.
Published: 01 May 1945
... to trespass more upon the Arctic in the past 20 years than in the previous 200; that the Arctic is not the wasteland of our inherited beliefs; that the crude oil from Canada's Norman Wells will move through a pipe when the temperature is 50° F. below zero; that Alaska promises to become a "greater Scandinavia...
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