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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 587–588.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Diego Fossati Coalitions of the Well-Being: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries . By Joel Sawat Selway . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . xiii, 292 pp. ISBN: 9781107501225 (paper, also available in cloth and as e...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 246–249.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Anne Rademacher No One Will Let Her Live offers a view of resilience more grounded in sociality and self-making than in spatial reproduction. Snell-Rood examines the personal strategies for cultivating health and well-being employed among her women interlocutors in a Delhi slum. She queries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 956–958.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Anna M. Shields Words Well Put: Visions of Poetic Competence in the Chinese Tradition . By Graham Sanders . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2006 . 316 pp. $44.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In the narratives...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 190–191.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Barbara N. Ramusack Politics, Women and Well-Being: How Kerala Became “a Model.” . By Robin Jefferey . Houndmills : The Macmillian Press Ltd. xviii, 285 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 190 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES fathers Mohan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 724–725.
Published: 01 August 1993
...William R. Bryant Doing Good or Doing Well? Japan's Foreign Aid Program . By Margee M. Ensign . New York : Columbia University Press , 1992 . xiv, 184 pp. $24.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 724 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Doing Good or Doing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 935–936.
Published: 01 November 1988
...Mario D. Zamora On the Road to Tribal Extinction: Depopulation, Deculturation, and Adaptive Well Being Among the Batak of the Philippines . By James F. Eder . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1987 . xvi, 276 pp. $36.00. Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 February 1996
...Gale Summerfield EnGENDERing Wealth and Well-Being: Empowerment for Global Change . Edited by Rae Lesser Blumberg , Cathy A. Rakowski , Irene Tinker , and Michael Monteón . Boulder, Colo. : Westview , 1995 . xv, 311 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996...
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in How Chinese Turkestan Became Chinese: Visualizing Zhang Zhizhong's Tianshan Pictorial and Xinjiang Youth Song and Dance Troupe
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2008
Figure 15. “Let us develop well our national art of Turkestan.”
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in Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Drama, Gramophone, and the Beginnings of Tamil Cinema
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2007
Figure 2. A record advertisement for a duet from a well-known “mythological” drama that was also released as a Tamil film, Savitri (Madan Theatres, Calcutta, 1933). Source: The Hindu , July 12, 1933, 19.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 141.
Published: 01 November 1964
.... (paper). BOOK REVIEWS 141 issues arising out of Japanese policy. One thing that did not change, however, was the determination of Washington not to let the United States be forced into any position of international leadership in the Far East against Japan. Dr. Borg makes clear the methods as well...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 648–649.
Published: 01 August 2022
... “mobile merchant networks,” as well as both the surface and the “underbelly of empire” (pp. 184, 194), Seema Alavi explores how Omani princes weathered and leveraged various imperial crises to enhance their political fortunes in the mid-nineteenth century. In his equally transnational exposé, James...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (2): 239–240.
Published: 01 February 1961
...K. E. Wells Angkor et Le Cambodge . By Bernard P. Groslier . Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 1958 . 174 . Notes, Glossary, Index, Illustrations, Plans. 14 NF (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS writing is graceful enough...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 47–67.
Published: 01 February 2017
... entwined with an inability to distinguish good and evil,” because the market creates an amoral world in which such judgments are impossible. On the other, there is Taussig's ( 1980 ) well-known argument about Colombian devil worship rumors, which sees rather similar stories of evil as critiques...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (3): 426–427.
Published: 01 May 1955
...Kenneth E. Wells Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 The Siam Society Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Publication . Selected Articles from The Siam Society Journal. In 2 volumes. Vol. I, 1904–1929; Vol. II, 1929–1953. Bangkok, 1954 . 300 , 290. $5.00 per...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 February 2005
... other issues, Guo takes up the problem of how the Five Furies related to the very similar Wutong spirits, who also thrived in the same general region. His explanation is the most convincing that I have seen and is well grounded in the detailed variations of local social and political history...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 631–632.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Andrew Wells-Dang Nothing Is Impossible: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam . By Ted Osius . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 2022 . xxv , 317 pp. ISBN: 9781978825161 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Most accounts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 146–147.
Published: 01 February 1989
... of the author's standard An Introduction to the Sources. The main text is followed by essay-style bibliographic notes on the narrative chapters, varying in length and approach. A bibliography of materials cited in footnotes and an excellent, analytical glossary-index follow. The well-made volume is printed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 379–396.
Published: 01 May 1998
... is the largest civic organization in Taiwan, claiming 4 million members worldwide in 1994, and nearly 20 percent of Taiwan's population. It gives away well over US $20 million in chanty each year, runs a state-of-the-art hospital, and has branches in fourteen countries. Merit And Mothering: Women and Social...
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in Eastward Ho! Japanese Settler Colonialism in Hokkaido and the Making of Japanese Migration to the American West, 1869–1888
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2019
Figure 4. These two pages in Hokkaido kaitaku zasshi introduce different types of salmon in Hokkaido. The same issue also discusses tips for salmon fishing and canning as well as incubating salmon eggs (HKZ 1881b , 242–43).
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Published: 01 August 2010
Figure 3. This photograph of local guards searching passing vehicles for ninjas in Jember appeared in the Surabaya Post on October 13, 1998. Note the knife ( clurit ) in the left hand of the man pictured in the foreground, as well as his style of dress, which is associated with martial arts.
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