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Between Collective Will and Individual Standards: Levels of Discourse within the Japanese Military’s Kōgun Ideal, 1937–1945 Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Yi Sui, Chao Guo
During the Second Sino–Japanese War, the Japanese military constructed the kōgun ideal as a code of conduct for its soldiers, stimulating their fervour for a ‘holy war’. The basic principles of kōg...
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No Royal Road: Urban Transportation, Capitalist Development, and Monarchy in Thailand Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Puangchon Unchanam
This article examines the role of the Thai monarchy in shaping urban transportation in Bangkok, Thailand’s capital and one of the world’s most congested cities. With an inquiry into the history of ...
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BOOK REVIEW Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Anna Woźny
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Rubber Stock Boom in Shanghai and the Kadoorie Enterprises, 1910–1949 Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Stephanie Po-yin Chung
Drawing on rarely used primary sources and grounded in a broad historical framework, this article reveals the dynamic history of the Rubber Trust Company Limited in Shanghai and examines how its fo...
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Federalism in Myanmar Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Michael G. Breen
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Evaluating Everyday Politics in North Korea Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Alexander Dukalskis, Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
In North Korea, as elsewhere, there exists a society beyond the state, and an everyday life where government authority meets and mixes with the private sphere. Examining this sphere is crucial for ...
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Chinese English: names, norms and narratives Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Ying Zhang, Shujun Chen
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The stage in the temple: ritual opera in village Shanxi Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Yunjie Hu
Published in Asian Studies Review (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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Contributors Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-02-11
Published in Asian Studies Review (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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Beyond the Middle Classes, Beyond New Media: The Politics of Islamic Consumerism in Indonesia Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Julian Millie, Emma Baulch
This introduction considers two developments that have hitherto occupied separate realms of scholarship: the increasing visibility of pious consumption, and the proliferation in Indonesia of Muslim...
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Authoritarianism at School: Indoctrination Education, Political Socialisation, and Citizenship in North Korea Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Myunghee Lee
It is well known that North Korea uses political propaganda to elicit popular support, and this article focuses on how primary and secondary schools play an essential role in conveying the regime’s...
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Buying the Tokyo Dream! Working Women’s Metropolitan Romance in Japanese Television Drama Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Mina Qiao
Building on existing scholarship on the representation of female singlehood in Japanese television dramas, this article examines depictions of female romantic and professional development in two sc...
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Middleman Minority Nation: A New Conceptualisation of the State in Singapore Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Jacob Hjortsberg
The Singaporean state is often conceptualised as neoliberal, but I argue that this conceptualisation is mistaken. While Singapore embraces the neoliberal ‘all you have is yourself’ ethos, I contend...
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‘The Rat Sh*t Chilli’: Historical Memories and Chinese Power in Upland Far-North Laos Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Paul-David Lutz
This article offers historical and anthropological insights into China’s growing presence in an understudied but important part of the Sino–Southeast Asian frontier: the uplands of Phongsali provin...
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Cross-Border Religiosity and the Revival of Theravada Buddhism in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Zhen Ma
Since the early 1980s, China’s southwestern borderland area of Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province has witnessed an astounding rejuvenation of Theravada Buddhism among the Dai-Lue and Bulang ethnic gr...
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Migration, Vulnerability, and Protection: Changing Labour Law Regime in Contemporary India Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Kunal Munjal, Ishaan Bamba
This article undertakes a socio-legal analysis of India’s changing labour laws and situates migrant workers within the broader context of the changing relations between state, capital, and labour a...
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BOOK REVIEW Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Yung-Hang Bruce Lai
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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BOOK REVIEW Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Junchen Zhang
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Gendering and Sexualising Opium Consumption in Manchukuo, 1932–1945 Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Ming Gao
This article explores the sociocultural history of opium consumption and its popularisation through the beauty of female attendants in Manchukuo, which was a crucial part of the Japanese Empire and...
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A tiger rules the mountain: Cambodia’s pursuit of democracy Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Soksamphoas Im
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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BOOK REVIEW Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Hitomi Fujimura
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Japanese Business Leadership: Business for Peace in Practice Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Mari Katayanagi, Frens Kroeger
This empirical study draws from the extensive academic literature on leadership as a phenomenon and a topic of study, the leadership and peace nexus, and business leadership theories such as resist...
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Contributors Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-10-08
Published in Asian Studies Review (Vol. 47, No. 4, 2023)
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Informality, Paradiplomacy, and Cross-Border Cooperation: The Development of Tourism on Bintan Island, Indonesia Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Moch Faisal Karim, Tirta Nugraha Mursitama, Sayed Fauzan Riyadi, Roseno Aji Affandi, Fairuz Muzdalifa
This article examines how informality has enhanced the ability of the local government in Indonesia’s Bintan Island to achieve cross-border cooperation for tourism development, despite the constrai...
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The Process of Marketisation and Economic Realities in the DPRK Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Phillip H. Park
This article analyses the pattern and degree of marketisation in the DPRK by drawing on sources from within that society. In doing so it creates a point of departure from most conventional analyses...
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Systemic silencing: activism, memory, and sexual violence in Indonesia Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Vannessa Hearman
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Semiotics of rape: sexual subjectivity and violation in rural India Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Rituparna Bhattacharyya
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Business Leaders and Nationalism in Japan’s Oil Diplomacy in the Middle East Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Sinan Levent
This article examines Japan’s resource diplomacy in the Middle East by focusing on the activities and ideologies of business leaders before the First Oil Crisis in 1973. By analysing the roles play...
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Deities and divas: queer ritual specialists in Myanmar, Thailand, and beyond Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Poonnatree Jiaviriyaboonya
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Language and truth in North Korea Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Minkyu Sung
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The fragrant companions: a play about love between women Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Yihui Sheng
Published in Asian Studies Review (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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Dirty hearts – the history of Shindo Renmei Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Jane Munro
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Spirit of antiquity: an art archaeological study on the origin of the artistic style of bronze mirrors in the Sui and Tang dynasties (Guyi: Sui-Tang tongjing yishu fengge yuanyuan de meishu kaoguxue yanjiu) Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Biqing Ouyang
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The political economy of North Korea: domestic, regional, and global dynamics Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Justin V. Hastings
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Madness in the family: women, care, and illness in Japan Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Nicolas Tajan
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia: ethnicity, education, and enterprise Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Yan Liu
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Fragrant frontier: global spice entanglements from the Sino–Vietnamese uplands Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Anthea Snowsill
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Contributors Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-16
Published in Asian Studies Review (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)
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Article about Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech Wins Wang Gungwu Prize for 2022 Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-16
Published in Asian Studies Review (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)
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Colonial Hero: Son Kijŏng in Narratives of Popular and National Korean History Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Jonathan Glade
ABSTRACT Son Kijŏng’s monumental victory in the 1936 Berlin Olympic marathon propelled him to the status of hero in both colonial Korea and Imperial Japan. His triumph symbolised the successful fulfilment of Japan’s colonial policy of assimilation (dōka). Yet, this very event – the moment when assimilation was ostensibly realised – created the opening for a legendary act of resistance to Japanese colonial
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Constructing ‘Responsive’ Publics: The Politics of Public Engagement under India’s ‘Decade of Innovation’ Framework Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Anwesha Chakraborty, Poonam Pandey
Starting from the global innovation turn in science policies, especially discourses on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) through democratic involvement of the public in the scientific enter...
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Legitimation and Perversity: A Comparison of the Politics of Minimum Wage Reforms in Japan and South Korea Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Ji-Whan Yun, Inhye Heo
There has been a scholarly consensus that the perversity rhetoric – the claim that reforms for improving social conditions will worsen the very same conditions – is a myth crafted by the political ...
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Collective Memory and Everyday Politics in North Korea: A Qualitative Text Analysis of New Year Statements, 1946–2019 Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Junhyoung Lee
ABSTRACT Rulers often use a mythologised understanding of the past to further their political interests in the present. In authoritarian societies, rulers often manipulate collective memory to justify their hold on power. When rulers manipulate specific aspects of the past, they can shape the collective memory of ordinary people and thus have a significant impact on everyday politics. Using the case
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Salvaging Buddhism to save Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Don Baker
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Higher Education as an Instrument of Decolonisation: The Community Service Programme in Indonesia, 1950–1969 Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Agus Suwignyo
ABSTRACT This article examines the origins of community service in Indonesia’s higher education (HE) system during the early years of its development in the 1950s and 1960s. Community service helped to establish a wide variety of connections between HE and Indonesian society, but it has received little scholarly attention and is virtually neglected in contemporary indicators of HE performance even
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‘I Didn’t Realise There Are So Many of Them’: Ethnic Chinese Women in Civic Life in Australia Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Qiuping Pan, Claire Maree
ABSTRACT This article explores the under-studied gender dimensions of immigrants’ civic life by focusing on the role of ethnic Chinese women in community-led volunteering in Victoria, Australia. It integrates population-based cross-sectional data from the 2016 Australian Census and qualitative data gathered from ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 2016 to 2019. Census data identifies a more salient
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Language learning motivation in a multilingual Chinese context Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Keith Chau
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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How Legislators Frame Contentious Megaprojects: Insights from Parliamentary Debates on Letpadaung Mines and Myitsone Dam in Myanmar Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Renaud Egreteau
ABSTRACT Little is known about how legislative actors engage with social movements in framing contests over conflictual policy issues. This article investigates the case of Myanmar and enquires into how such framing activity can play out in a resurgent legislature. It focuses on two megaprojects that generated intense public debate during the country’s decade of liberalisation (2011–2021): the Letpadaung
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Bordering Ladakh, Again: From Ecological Flows to Cartographic Competition Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Ruth Gamble, Alexander E. Davis
In August 2019, the Indian government dissolved the state of Jammu and Kashmir, designating its Northern region as the Union Territory of Ladakh. Two months later, it released a new Political Map o...
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The all-seeing eye: collected poems Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Sophia Huei-Ling Chen
Published in Asian Studies Review (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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China–Swiss relations during the Cold War, 1949–1989: between soft power and propaganda Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Jessica Imbach
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Spatial Dunhuang: experiencing the Mogao Caves Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Chen Liu
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Correction Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-05-14
Published in Asian Studies Review (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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Affective geographies and narratives of Chinese diaspora Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Yahia Ma
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Islam, education, and radicalism in Indonesia: instructing piety Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Mochammad Zaka Ardiansyah, Fikri Yanda
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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River life and the upspring of nature Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Women’s work in the unorganized sector: issues of exploitation and globalization in the beedi industry Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Madhuri Kamtam
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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On saving face: a brief history of Western appropriation Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Jocelyn Chey
Published in Asian Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Making peace with nature: ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Ivanna Sang Een Yi
Published in Asian Studies Review (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)
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Cross-border traders in northern Laos: mastering smallness Asian Studies Review (IF 1.278) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Kearrin Sims
Published in Asian Studies Review (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)