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125517 results in Asian Studies

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Law and Custom in Korea
  • Comparative Legal History
  • Marie Seong-Hak Kim
  • Published online:
    05 October 2012
    Print publication:
    27 August 2012
  • This book sets forth the evolution of Korea's law and legal system from the Chosǒn dynasty through the colonial and postcolonial modern periods. This is the first book in English that comprehensively studies Korean legal history in comparison with European legal history, with particular emphasis on customary law. Korea's passage to Romano-German civil law under Japanese rule marked a drastic departure from its indigenous legal tradition. The transplantation of modern civil law in Korea was facilitated by Japanese colonial jurists who created a Korean customary law; this constructed customary law served as an intermediary regime between tradition and the demands of modern law. The transformation of Korean law by the forces of Westernisation points to new interpretations of colonial history and presents an intriguing case for investigating the spread of law on a global level. In-depth discussions of French customary law and Japanese legal history also provide a solid conceptual framework suitable for comparing European and East Asian legal traditions.

Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India
  • Prakash Kumar
  • Published online:
    05 October 2012
    Print publication:
    27 August 2012
  • Prakash Kumar documents the history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalisation on this colonial industry. Charting the indigo culture from the early modern period to the twentieth century, Kumar discusses how knowledge of indigo culture thrived among peasant traditions on the Indian subcontinent in the early modern period and was then developed by Caribbean planters and French naturalists who codified this knowledge into widely disseminated texts. European planters who settled in Bengal with the establishment of British rule in the late eighteenth century drew on this information. From the nineteenth century, indigo culture became more modern, science-based and expert driven, and with the advent of a cheaper, purer synthetic indigo in 1897, indigo science crossed paths with the colonial state's effort to develop a science for agricultural development. Only at the end of the First World War, when the industrial use of synthetic indigo for textile dyeing and printing became almost universal, did the indigo industry's optimism fade away.

  • BSO volume 75 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume 75 / Issue 3 / October 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 October 2012, pp. f1-f5
    Print publication:
    October 2012
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  • A comparison of the Pāli and Chinese versions of the SakkaSaṃyutta, a collection of early Buddhist discourses on ‘Śakra, ruler of the gods’*

  • CHOONG MUN-KEAT
  • Journal:
    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society / Volume 22 / Issue 3-4 / October 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 October 2012, pp. 561-574
    Print publication:
    October 2012

  • This article first briefly examines the textual structure of the SakkaSaṃyutta of the Pāli Saṃyutta-nikāya in conjunction with two other versionspreserved in Chinese translation in Taishō vol. 2, nos 99 and 100. Then itcompares the main teachings contained in the three versions. These threeversions of this collection on the subject of Śakra, ruler of the gods,represent three different early Buddhist schools within the Sthavira branch.This comparative study of these three different versions focuses on someshared images of Śakra and on disagreements of some teachings presented inthe three versions. It reveals similarities and significant differences instructure and doctrinal content, thus advancing the historical/criticalstudy of early Buddhist doctrine in this area.

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