Asia-Studies Humanities

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Humanities represents an important part of Asian Studies. Asia-Studies Full-text Online has created a section of the database service devoted to Asian Humanities. This is comprised of an infusion of new Asian Studies Humanities content providers to make the Humanities section as robust and comprehensive as the Social Sciences section.

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August, 2020		Source

	Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2020 Confucian Ideas in the Making of American Democracy Reflections on Education About Asia’s 25th Anniversary: a Personal Pedagogical Essay The Murder of Peter Dewey, Cold War Asia, and the Genesis of America’s Involvement in Vietnam Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, the Last “Bushido Admiral” and the Battle of Midway Cheng Yanqiu and the Development of Jingjiu in Modern Times Chinese Cinema Technicians at Manying Where Professionalism Triumphed Over Ideologies The Asean Regional Forum (Arf) and “Resetting” the North Korean Nuclear Talks: An Opinion How Jack London’s First Two Japanese Stories Show the Foundation Themes of Many of His Later Literary Masterpieces Celebrating the Work of Anthropologist Alfred MěTraux : “Mysteries of Easter Island” and “Does Life End at 60?” Book Reviews Jayant Menon and Cassey Lee, Eds. An Evolving ASEAN: Visions and Reality Reviewed by Robert Curry Joanna Reed Shelton, A Christian in the Land of the Gods: A Journey of Faith in Japan Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase, Age of Shōjo: The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Fiction. Jennifer Robertson, Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family and the Japanese Nation. Elisabeth Schober, Base Encounters: The U.S. Armed Forces in South Korea. Other books Received Robert Grotjohn, Korean American Poetry in the Early Twenty-first Century.	VRAS
	Journal of Bhutan Studies, Volume 40, Summer 2019 A Dharma Raja and a Mahasiddha: A Note on the Spiritual Relationship Between His Majesty King Ugyen Wangchuck and Togden Shakya Shri Putting the Festival Participants Back Into the Festival: Rethinking Communal Identity Formation In Buddhist Cham Festivals in Bhutan Who is the Tigress in the Lair? A Preliminary Enquiry About Khandro Yeshe Tshogyel’s Visit to Taktsang A Bibliometric Analysis of the Journal of Bhutan Studies, 1999-2017 Media Reporting of Suicides in Bhutan: Analysis of Adherence to WHO Guidelines	Bhutan
	Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 8, 2019 Editior's Introduction Research Articles Wonderful Wellington 嘩崙頓: The Longevity of the Chinese Community in Wellington, New South Wales "The Most Beautiful Joss House": Chinese Temples in Emmaville and Tingha Melbourne's See Yup Kuan Ti Temple: A Historical Overview Dr George On Lee (葉七秀): Not Just a Medical Practitioner in Colonial Australia Lost Opportunities: The Case of a Chinese Merchant of Late Colonial Sydney Getting Chinese Gold off the Victorian Goldfields Daughters of the Flowery Land: Chinese Women in Queensland, 1860–1920 Tenacity in the Tropics: Chinese Overland Migration in Northeast Australia during the Nineteenth Century Palmer River Goldfield Chinese Coin Hoard: New Evidence Challenging Its Authenticity Research Notes China's 'Century of Humiliation' and Chinese- Australian History "Reconsidering Race": How Far has Barry McGowan's "Refreshing Sea Breeze" Blown?	CSDS
	Hmong Studies Journal, Vol. 20, 2019 Research Articles Neo-Rural Hmong in French Guiana by Marie-Odile Géraud A Hmong Story Cloth Featuring Mak Phout (Lima Site 137) In Northern Laos: Rare in Content and Artistic Detail by Linda Gerdner, Lee Gossett and Frederic C. Benson The impact of language brokering on Hmong college students’ parent-child relationship and academic persistence by Kikuko Omori and Kyoko Kishimoto The Miao in China: A Review of Developments and Achievements over Seventy Years by Tian Shi, Xiao Hua Wu, De Bin Wang and Yan Lei Influence of Perceived Parental Involvement on Hmong Children’s Academic Performance by Zha Blong Xiong, Kyle Nickodem, Jordan St. Charles, Sun-Kyung Lee, Jacqueline Braughton, Chen Vue, and Nancy Lo Commentary Commentary: Constructing Refugees in the Academic Discourse: The Hmong in America by Marc Dorpema	HSJ
	Journal of Global Buddhism, Volume 20, 2019 Research Articles Inclusion and Exclusion in the White Space: An Investigation of the Experiences of People of Color in a Primarily White American Meditation Community CRAIG NICHOLAS HASE, JAMES C. MEADOWS, STEPHANIE L. BUDGE Special Focus: Buddhism and Economics Introduction: Buddhism and Economics ELIZABETH WILLIAMS-OERBERG An Entangled Relationship: A Lived Religion Approach to Theravāda Buddhism and Economics BROOKE SCHEDNECK Spiritual Capital and Religious Evolution: Buddhist Values and Transactions in Historical and Contemporary Perspective JØRN BORUP Religion, Self-Help, Science: Three Economies of Western/ized Buddhism RICHARD PAYNE Buddhism Without Merit: Theorizing Buddhist Religio-Economic Activity in the Contemporary World JEFF WILSON The Aura of Buddhist Material Objects in the Age of Mass-Production TRINE BROX Book Reviews Cold War Monks: Buddhism and America’s Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia, by Eugene Ford ELISE DEVIDO Buddhism beyond Gender, by Rita Gross AMY LANGENBERG	JGB
	Journal of Global Buddhism, Volume 19, 2018 Research Articles Tibet and China's Orientalists: Knowledge, Power, and the Construction of Minority Identity JOHN POWERS Special Focus: Translating Buddhism Translating Buddhism and the Politics of Ownership: Between Asia(s) and West(s) CAROLINE STARKEY, MATT COWARD-GIBBS Dharmavidya's Engagement with Honen: How a Contemporary British Pureland Buddhist Teacher retrieves his Japanese Spiritual Heritage RICHARD OLLIER Of Demons and Drama: Ritual Syncretism of Sinhala Exorcism and Forum Theatre MATT COWARD-GIBBS Environmental Buddhism Across Borders SUSAN DARLINGTON The Buddhist Dharma for Sale: Who Owns the Past? The Internet and Objects of Worship LINDA WALLINDER-PIERINI Adapting the Dharma: Buddhism and Contemporary Theatre Training DEBORAH MIDDLETON, DANIEL PLÁ Book Reviews The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw, by Erik Braun MICHAEL CHARNEY Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts, by Scott Mitchell FUNIE HSU Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China's Southwest Border, by Thomas A. Borchert ZHEN MA Seeing Like the Buddha: Enlightenment through Film, by Francesca Cho RON GREEN Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism, by Paul Cohen ALEXANDER HORSTMANN Meditation, Buddhism, and Science. Edited by David McMahan and Erik Braun IRA HELDERMAN	JGB
	Management Careers, Internal Control and Corporate Governance. Where Japan and Germany Differ, Published 2017. Career concerns of managers function as an important control mechanism in the context of corporate governance. They bear important motivating and disciplining effects. In Japan, where – in the absence of a well-functioning external market – management careers have been generally restricted to in-house promotions, career concerns also result in efforts by middle management to exert control over and influence top management decisions as they impact their career perspectives. Takaaki Eguchi’s paper explains the background and implications of such internal control mechanisms in Japan and points to their limitations in recent years given the increasing need for a stronger top management function...	DIJ
	Disasters, Donations, and Tax Law Changes: Disentangling Effects on Subjective Well- Being by Exploiting a Natural Experiment, Published 2015. This paper sets out to investigate (i) whether an increase in donations in the aftermath of disasters can mitigate the negative effects on subjective well-being (SWB), and if so, (ii) whether policy measures such as tax law changes can amplify this mitigating effect by providing further incentives for donations. To analyse these questions we use data on a recent, impactful disaster: the triple disaster that occurred on March 11, 2011 in Japan (3-11). Coincidentally, only three month after the disaster, a long planned change in tax law was put into effect which allows higher tax deductions for charitable donations...	DIJ
	Latest Monographs: The Royal Family Tree of Bhutan by Dasho Karma Ura, Jume 2017 Proposed GNH of Business, Published 2017 Fruits of Happiness: How Horticulture Enhances Gross National Happiness in Mongar, Bhutan, Published 2017 Leadership of Wise: Kings of Bhutan, Published 2010	Bhutan
	Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Volume 39, 2017 ARTICLES The Overlooked Neglect of ‘Civility/Civilization’ (Wén) in Mencius UFFE BERGETON Defining War & Its Criminals: Dictionaries in Japan, 1943–72 CHRISTOPHER M. MAYO Shimoda Utako’s Ryōsai Kenbo: A Patriotic Japanese Woman’s View of the West MASAKO RACEL A Sacrifice for Chinese Unity: The Sino-Vietnamese War through Domestic Media ZACHARY N. REDDICK Yū Miri’s Country of Masks & the Debates about Japan’s Wartime Past ERIK ROPERS Yuan Shu: Chinese Special Service Agent & Spy, 1931–45 JOSEPH K.S. YICK ESSAYS & IDEAS The Third Cry of the Gibbon: A Translation of Xu Wei’s Mulan LI-LING HSIAO & DAVID A. ROSS Expressing Ambivalent Identities through Popular Music: Socio-Cultural Analysis of Japanese Writing Systems YUKI MATSUDA Lin Fengmian’s Descent into the Dark: His Late Paintings of Crucifixion & Apocalypse DAVID A. ROSS BOOK REVIEWS Asia Francis R. Bradley, Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of Shaykh Daud bin ’Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia. JARROD W. BROWN Justin Jacobs, Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State. David Brophy, Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier. RICHARD B. RICE Jonathan Goldstein, Jewish Identities in East and Southeast Asia. JOAN G. ROLAND China Michael Puett & Cristine Gross-Loh, The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life. UFFE BERGETON D.E. Mungello, The Catholic Invasion of China: Remaking Chinese Christianity. THOMAS A. BRESLIN Xiaoming Zhang, Deng Xiaoping’s Long War: The Military Conflict: Between China and Vietnam, 1979–1991. ZACHARY N. REDDICK Japan Katrina L. Moore, The Joy of Noh: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan. JAN BARDSLEY Matt Goulding, Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels through Japan’s Food Culture. STEVEN E. GUMP Mark Teeuwen & John Breen, A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital. STEVEN E. GUMP Daniel A. Métraux, How Journalists Shaped American Foreign Policy: A Case Study of Japan’s Military Seizure of Korea in 1905. WILLIAM P. HEAD Chris Uhlenbeck et al., Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints, 1900 to 1960 (Selections from the Nihon no hanga Collection, Amsterdam). DAVID A. ROSS	SERAS
	How Journalists Shaped American Foreign Policy: A Case Study of Japan’s Military Seizure of Korea in 1905, Published 2017. By Daniel A. Métraux, Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor, Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, VA.	VRAS
	Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 2011-2016	Nanzan
	Asian Ethnology 2011-2016	Nanzan
	Te Reo, Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, Volume 58, 2015 Contents Acquiring Some Like-Ness to Others: How Some Polish Teenagers Acquire the Scottish Pragmatics of Like Category Ambiguous Words Compared Across Three Types of Corpora Review of Barbour, Julie. 2012. A Grammar of Neverver. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton Bringing Linguistics to Life: An Anchored Approach to Teaching Linguistics to Non-Linguists Language Teachers' Need for Linguistics Can an Entire Paper Be Project-Based Group Work? First Year Sociolinguistics and the Teaching/Research Nexus Editor's Noticeboard	Te Reo
	Te Reo, Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, Volume 56 & 57, 2013-2014 Contents Regularities in Irregularities in English Inflection English-Origin Discourse Markers in New Zealand SerbianContents Deficiency in Maori Phrases The English Spoken by Maori: Changes in Rhythm over Time Narrative Perspectives and Perspectives on Narrative Locating Research Methods within an Applied Linguistics Narrative Framework Southern Celts: Narrative as Method and Text Story Sharing in Narrative Research Narrative Construction of the Self Norfolk Pitcairn Bounty: Myth Narrative Place Talanoa: Differentiating the Talanoa Research Methodology from Phenomenology, Narrative, Kaupapa Maori and Feminist Methodologies Editor's Noticeboard	Te Reo
	German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Working Papers Happiness, Civil Society Participation and Voluntariness: Analyzing the Case of Neighborhood Associations in Japan, Published 2014 Disentangling the Happiness Effects of Natural Disasters: The Mediating Role of Prosocial Behavior, Published 2013 Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima, Published 2013 Scientific Social Responsibility and Happiness, Published 2013 Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Japan by Gender and Age, Published 2013 Happiness from the Viewpoint of Economics: Findings from Recent Survey Data in Japan, Published 2013	DIJ
	New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 11 No. 1, June 2011 Behind the Hyperreality Experience: The 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony A Haunting Voice: A Place for Literary Wives in the History of the Civil Examinations in Qing China Japanese Aid to the Pahang-Selangor Water Transfer Project in Malaysia: Aid Guidelines and Decision-Making Bridging the Cultural Gulfs: CHC Teachers in New Zealand Schools Globalization and the Indian Agriculture Sector “Rustic Fiction Indeed!”: Reading Jia Yu-cun in Dream of "The Red Chamber" Reviews	NZJAS
	New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 2009-2010	NZJAS