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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (2): 349–353.
Published: 01 February 1967
... the vulgarization of the pro- fession of scholarship and its handmaiden, the art of bookmaking, this aesthetically pleasing effort from Honolulu must, on that score, be greeted with fulsome praise. Du\e University RALPH BRAIBANTI Vietnam Witness 1953-66. BY BERNARD B. FALL. New York: Frederick A. Praeger...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 210–213.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Suzy Kim Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea . By Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland . Washington DC : Peterson Institute For International Economics , 2011 . xvii, 182 pp. $23.95 (paper). Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-Totalitarian Politics...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 30 (1): 245.
Published: 01 November 1970
... Witnesses of Tsushima . By J. N. Westwood . Tokyo : Sophia University (in cooperation with The Diplomatic Press, Tallahassee, Fla.) , 1970 . xiii, 255 pp. Notes on Sources, Bibliography, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK NOTES 245...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 601–602.
Published: 01 May 2001
...: The Politics of Repression and the Future of Ecumenical Witness in the Philippines . By Oscar S. Suarez . Quezon City, Philippines : New Day Publishers , 1999 . 250 pp. $60.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 601 SOUTHEAST ASIA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 868–870.
Published: 01 November 1990
...Rebecca Catz The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600 . By Mary B. Campbell . Cornell University Press , 1988 . 285 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 868 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES as to whether a "conflict...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1095–1097.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Yiman Wang Witness Against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China . By Yomi Braester . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University , 2003 . xii , 264 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S C H...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 961–962.
Published: 01 November 1991
...Patrick Peebles Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon, 1602–1796: A Comprehensive Work of Pictorial Reference with Selected Eye-Witness Accounts . By R. K. De Silva and W. G. M. Beumer . Leiden: E. J. Brill; London : Serendib Publications , 1988 . viii, 495 pp. NFI 200.00 (cloth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 309–328.
Published: 01 May 2019
... ), is constituted in the very process of becoming visible in the social world through virtuous action ( đức ) subject to the intentional acts of being witnessed for ( chứng cho ) by the gods and one's peers. Drawing upon popular Buddhist practice of the female followers of a ritual specialist in Bathing Buffalo...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 February 2022
... in this forum, as well as the anonymous reviewers who provided useful comments for revision. Michelle Williams is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Chairperson of the Global Labour University programme at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa. List of References...
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in “Pioneers of Overseas Japanese Development”: Japanese American History and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 November 2008
Figure 1. Opening ceremony of the Conference of Overseas Japanese, November 1940. With Prince Higashikuni (behind the center podium) as the official convener, this conference featured virtually all top government officials of the time in honor of overseas ethnic comrades—emigrants and colonialist...
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in Memories of Korean Modernity: Yi Kwangsu's The Heartless and New Perspectives in Colonial Alterity
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2018
Figure 2. An ambitious 1914 master plan for “Hausmannization” of Seoul. Published with permission from the private collection of Yoon Daehyung of Bumsoosa Publishing. (Labels added by the author.)
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1005–1007.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Gene Ammarell Abstract For the authors of these papers, as is true for many of us, there is a special urgency associated with the acceleration of environmental degradation and its negative impact on individual human lives to which we bear witness in Asia and elsewhere. While truly “natural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (2): 177–187.
Published: 01 February 1960
...Holden Furber; Kristof Glamann Abstract We present below, accompanied by a translation into English, the Danish text of an eye-witness account of Robert Clive's victory at Plassey which, to the best of our knowledge, has not previously been noticed. Although this account does not significantly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 29 (1): 23–33.
Published: 01 November 1969
..., indeed, can hardly be overestimated. Intellectually, the period saw the conclusion of the ching-shih tradition in the nineteenth century and the beginning of the search for ideological reorientation in the twentieth century. Socially, these years witnessed the differentiation of a hitherto unitary class...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 371–390.
Published: 01 May 1997
... to underly the outbreak of violence in Bombay on a scale never before witnessed in the city. In the winter of 1992–93, Bombay experienced the worst Hindu-Muslim conflagration the city has ever known. According to Human Rights Watch, over 1,000 people were killed, and tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1042–1067.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Hsu Pi-Ching Abstract From past to present all is but talk, and all talk is but laughs. The birth of yin and yang from the original chaos, the voluntary abdication and forceful overthrow of the sage kings-who's ever witnessed this sort of thing? It's nothing more than talk. Future generations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (2): 329–333.
Published: 01 February 1968
... that surprised many, passed legislation in 1965 establishing a public foundation for the arts and humanities. Accompanying this burst of new interest in the humanities and coming to fruition at the same time is the growth and development of computer-oriented humanistic study. We are witnessing the appearance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 489–508.
Published: 01 August 1961
...George Ginsburgs Abstract The twenty years which have elapsed since the adoption of the 1940 Constitution of the Mongolian People's Republic have witnessed important social, economic, and political transformations in the life of the Mongol nation and in the structure of its public authority...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 83–87.
Published: 01 June 1964
...Morris E. Opler Abstract In November, 1949, I witnessed the ritual events of the tenth day of the month of Muharram in a village of north India inhabited by Muslims of the Shiah sect. According to Shiah tradition, on this day of the year in 680 A.D., Husain, the grandson of Mohammed, sacrificed his...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 327–351.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Dafna Zur Abstract Science fiction narratives appeared in the North Korean children's magazine Adong munhak between 1956 and 1965, and they bear witness to the significant Soviet influence in this formative period of the DPRK. Moving beyond questions of authenticity and imitation, however...
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