Search Results - "The Journal of Asian studies"

Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies by Ho, Engseng

“…This essay proposes that the study of Asia, thought of as an Inter-Asian space, can provide concepts that shed light on the social shapes of societies that are…”
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The Asian Anthropocene: Electricity and Fossil Developmentalism by Chatterjee, Elizabeth

“…Much scholarship extrapolates global narratives of the Anthropocene from the “fossil capitalism” of European imperial powers. This analysis deploys the…”
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Precarization or Empowerment? Reflections on Recent Labor Unrest in China by Lee, Ching Kwan

“…Labor scholars have highlighted the predicament of “precarization” besetting the working class everywhere in the twenty-first century. Beneath the…”
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A History of Pigs in China: From Curious Omnivores to Industrial Pork by Lander, Brian, Schneider, Mindi, Brunson, Katherine

“…Pigs have played a central role in the subsistence and culture of China for millennia. The close relationship between pigs and people began when humans…”
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Food Safety and Social Risk in Contemporary China by Yan, Yunxiang

“…Food-safety problems constitute a new, urgent, and multifaceted challenge to Chinese people, society, and the state, involving a number of social, political,…”
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Sinophone Classicism: Chineseness as Temporal and Mnemonic Experience in the Digital Era by Yang, Zhiyi

“…In recent decades, highly heterogeneous literary and artistic articulations harking back to China's classical past have gained increasing currency in the…”
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Inside Taiwan's Sunflower Movement: Twenty-Four Days in a Student-Occupied Parliament, and the Future of the Region by Rowen, Ian

“…“Say goodbye to Taiwan,” wrote political scientist John Mearsheimer in a widely read article in the March-April 2014 issue of The National Interest. Threatened…”
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Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis by Chen, Tina

“…This essay draws on the philosophy, principles, and practices animating Global Asias scholarship to consider how this conceptual rubric shifts the ways in…”
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“Modernization” and Agrarian Development in India, 1912–52 by Kumar, Prakash

“…India's agrarian history has for the most part been cast within colonial and nationalist frameworks or in analyses of modernity and development in the South…”
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The Media Spectacle of a Techno-City: COVID-19 and the South Korean Experience of the State of Emergency by Kang, Jaeho

“…This essay provides a critical observation of the South Korean government's distinctive management of COVID-19 with particular reference to the state of…”
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Refugees and Rebels: Indonesian Exiles in Wartime Australia. By Jan Lingard. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008. 312 pp. A$39.95 (paper) by Horton, William Bradley

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“Surplus Woman”: Female Sexuality and the Concept of Endogamy by Mitra, Durba

“…This essay traces the colonial origins of the concept of endogamy and its history as a foundational idea in the modern study of society in South Asia. The…”
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The Platformization of Culture: Webtoon Platforms and Media Ecology in Korea and Beyond by Cho, Heekyoung

“…This article examines the webtoon (wept'un)—a term coined in Korea to refer to webcomics—which is arguably the most pervasive and powerful form of digital…”
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Tangled Lands: Burma and India's Unfinished Separation, 1937–1948 by Guyot-Réchard, Bérénice

“…In 1937, Burma formally separated from India. The separation might seem self-evident, given India and Burma's framing as distinct, bounded spaces. Yet, in the…”
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China–India Studies: Emergence, Development, and State of the Field by Sen, Tansen

“…This essay traces the development of China–India studies from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in order to take stock of the field, which has…”
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Pandemic India: Coronavirus and the Uses of History by Arnold, David

“…The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has produced two different narratives in India. One, here described as “historical,” looks back to the pandemics of the…”
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Constructing the Legitimacy of Governance in Hong Kong: “Prosperity and Stability” Meets “Democracy and Freedom” by Wong, John D.

“…The current political crisis in Hong Kong is characterized by a level of social unrest that the city has not seen since the riots of 1966–67. After that…”
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Protesting Precarity: South Korean Workers and the Labor of Refusal by Chun, Jennifer Jihye

“…This essay examines the crisis of solidarity affecting workers who protest labor precarity under South Korea's capitalist democracy. Once considered…”
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Governing Nonconformity: Gender Presentation, Public Space, and the City in New Order Indonesia by Hegarty, Benjamin

“…The regulation of public space is generative of new approaches to gender nonconformity. In 1968 in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, a group of people who…”
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A Hindu Champion of Pan-Islamism: Lajpat Rai and the Khilafat Movement by Bhargav, Vanya Vaidehi

“…Lala Lajpat Rai is increasingly viewed in historiography as a “Hindu nationalist” with a strong affinity with Savarkarite Hindutva. This article demonstrates…”
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