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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (4): 935–936.
Published: 01 November 1987
...Susan S. Wadley BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 935 Songs for the Bride: Wedding Rites of Rural India. By WILLIAM G. ARCHER. Edited by BARBARA STOLER MILLER and MILDRED ARCHER. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xl, 188 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography of the Writings of William G. Archer, Notes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 691–712.
Published: 01 November 2006
... Manuals of the Sung Dynasty (Eleventh through Thirteenth Centuries).” In Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives , ed. Zurndorfer Harriet T . Leiden, Netherlands : Brill . De Certeau Michel . 2001 “ Premodern Chinese Weddings and the Divorce of Past and Present .” Positions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 February 2007
... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Guests at God's Wedding: Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares . By Tracy Pintchman . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2005 . xii , 241 pp. $86.50 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). ...
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Published: 01 February 2021
Figure 8. Left: Wedding of Shi Jun and Kang Shi, N2 on the Shi Jun sarcophagus. Right: Wedding of Prince Siddhartha, Cave 290 at Dunhuang. More
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Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 14. A 1917 wedding photograph of Lin Maosheng and his wife in traditional Japanese dress. Source: Xie ( 1993 ). Courtesy of Lin Zongren. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 462–463.
Published: 01 May 1991
...Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Bugis Weddings: Rituals of Social Location in Modern Indonesia . By Susan Bolyard Millar . Berkeley : Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of California , 1989 . xx, 236 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 462...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 227–229.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Sabine Frühstück Packaged Japaneseness. Weddings, Business, and Brides . By Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1997 . xii, 195 pp. $38.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 227...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 855–857.
Published: 01 November 1989
...L. L. Cornell Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal . By Walter Edwards . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1989 . xii, 173 pp. $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 855...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 232–233.
Published: 01 February 2010
... China's middle period. But here he goes astray. De Pee builds on the work of others; he is not the first to address wedding practice or ritual, or the first to consider the meaning of ritual in China's middle period. Nor does he claim to be. What he does claim, however, is to be the first to read...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 197–206.
Published: 01 February 1958
... of reason and fair play of officials. Tilak saw little profit in such method, but his rivals in the Nationalist leadership, particularly G. K. Gokhale, were wedded to the traditions of British parliamentary procedure. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 1...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 613–630.
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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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (4): 805–829.
Published: 01 August 1983
... of the moral economy school's claim that revolutionary movements in twentieth-century Asia have successfully wedded themselves to such traditional patterns of action in order to achieve larger political purposes. This analysis of the politics of mobilization inside the soviet area finds that peasant society...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1051–1084.
Published: 01 November 2001
..., but it remained basically undocumented and unknown to the outside world until the 1980s, just as it was becoming extinct. Prior to Liberation, Jiangyong women had used nüshu to write sisterhood letters, biographic laments, wedding literature, folk stories, and other narratives in verse form. Combined with nüge...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 506–508.
Published: 01 May 1997
..., 1996. xiii, 259 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper). Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity is many ethnographies and endeavors in one. Proceeding from its apt opening line, "this book is and is not about Korean weddings" (p. ix), Kendall guides us through the South Korean sites...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 676–678.
Published: 01 August 2013
... and influential The Wedding Banquet (1993) and uses this to meditate on the trope of the Chinese wedding banquet in a variety of commercial and independent films. Though The Wedding Banquet presents the perfect storm for diasporic and seemingly progressive themes to play out, the farce that ensues, and which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 453–474.
Published: 01 May 2018
... . “ Sems chung sde ba'i ston mo ” [Careful Village's Wedding]. In Ru sde khra mo [The Vibrant Nomad Camp]. Ziling [Xining]: Nub mtsho mi rigs sgra brnyan par skrun khang [West Lake Nationalities Audio-visual Publishing House]. Audio cassette. Sman bla skyabs and Phag mo bkra shis . 1996d...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 525–544.
Published: 01 August 1989
... was a definitive rupture with their natal families. The anticipation of this break caused women to be viewed as only temporary and marginal members of their natal families. The break itself could be underlined with a specific ritual event on the wedding day the breaking of a cup or the spilling of water...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 226–227.
Published: 01 February 1998
... is important, but it is only a first step. Further research is needed to come to grips with the complex cinematic and social delirium that is the Seijun phenomenon. AARON GEROW Yokohama National University PackagedJapaneseness. Weddings, Business, and Brides. By OFRA GOLDSTEINGlDONl. Honolulu: University...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 757–760.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., the house is kept dark and the children are sent to bed early so the wedding can proceed smoothly. This story rarely appears as an independent text but is often portrayed in New Year prints and paper-cuts and as folklore. The plot usually involves the selection of the groom. Contrary to the happy ending I...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 941–942.
Published: 01 August 2010
... weddings. These served to extend the liberal paradigm of reform by curbing the excesses of ritual performance and expenditure in weddings. Interiority, in the form of “heartfelt sincerity” and “spirituality,” was emphasized as the core of Bengali marriage (chapter 3). On the other hand, social and ritual...