What dose it mean to have “discovered” a new species in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century China? Today, the term “discovery” is heavily criticized in postcolonial studies. Scholars have pointed out that the notions of “new species discovery” reflect a profound Eurocentrism, where explorers claim to have discovered a place or an object as if the local people were unaware of its existence, thus perpetuating a narrative strategy that serves imperialistic knowledge production.
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CFP World History Connected Guest Forum: “The Vietnam War in World History”
Type: Call for Papers
Submission Date: November 30, 2024
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We are pleased to announce that Volume 24 Issue 1 of the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies is now available, at:
https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol24/iss1/index.html
The Table of Contents is as follows:
Peer-reviewed articles
Antonija Cavcic, Mass Female Exodus: The Working Holiday as a Gateway to Opportunity for Japanese Women
Rosa Isabella Furnari, The diffusion of jōruri’s librettos of bun’yabushi in rural Japan
Pagination
Recent Reviews
Barbieri-Low, Anthony J.. The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. 360 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780295750224.
Reviewed by
Glenda Chao (Ursinus College)
Published on
H-Asia (January, 2024)
Commissioned by
Jenny H. Day (Skidmore College)
Moazzin, Ghassan. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xviii + 334 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781316517031.$34.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781009037891.
Greene, J. Megan. Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II (Harvard East Asian Monographs). Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. xiv + 319 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780674278318.
Berry, Michael, ed.. The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan. Global Chinese Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231197465.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231197472.
Recent Threads
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Chinese Business History Webinar Series
Tales from a Small North China Commercial Town
Professor Linda Grove
Sophia University
Date and Time: April 26, 2024 (Fri), 9:00-10:00 am (HKT) | April 25, 2024, 9:00-10:00 pm (EDT)
Register now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__KSfU3Y2Q1iU5mtzNut1tA#/registration
Abstract
In the early 1930s Gaoyang (in Hebei province) was the center of one of China’s best known rural industrial districts, producing cotton and rayon textiles that were sold through a nation-wide marketing network. My own earlier
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar
Halal or Qingzhen?: A Question of Sinicization of Islam in China
Professor James Frankel
Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date and Time: April 30, 2024 (Tue), 12:30 - 1:30 pm (HKT) | April 29, 2024, 9:30 – 10:30 pm (PDT)
Venue: Lecture Hall at May Hall, HKU
Join us in person at May Hall or via Zoom using the following link: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eflaLsOYS0y3qPjCoY2LBQ#/registration
(Light refreshments will be served for those attending the
Dear colleagues,
I’m happy to share that the Library of Congress Asian Division has launched the South Asian Digital Collection (SADC), which is also the topic of the latest post on LC’s 4 Corners of the World blog. This new collection framework wraps around some 900 books, rare books, a few manuscripts, and a couple of serials that have been digitized over the last 10-15 years as part of routine and project-based digitization efforts. All items are open access. With this new framework, SADC will enhance the discoverability of the Library’s South Asian digital holdings and create the
This issue was originally published on the Global Taiwan Institute's website and the full articles are available at: https://globaltaiwan.org/issues/vol-9-issue-8/)
Ma Ying-jeou’s Trip to China Further Illustrates the CCP’s United Front Cultivation of Taiwan Youth
By: John Dotson
Where Does Kinmen’s Political Future Lie?
By: Uma Baron
Whose Story Is It? Funding and Representation in Taiwan’s Documentary Film Industry
By: Diana Chiawen Lee
The Kuomintang’s Uncertain Path to Reform
By: Yaokun Shen
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