We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Literature Hub, a new home base on the H-Net Commons for scholars working in the fields of literary studies, critical theory, literary histories, comparative literature, poetics, and more: https://networks.h-net.org/literature-hub
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You are cordially invited to: Virtual Book Launch: A Global Humanities Approach to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
Date: March 28, 2024, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Online
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies has been published. The journal is available online through Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51602. Submission and subscription information is available at http://hjas.org/.
HJAS Volume 83, Issue 1 (June 2023)
Contents
India's future in the year of elections
Among temples, religious fervor, and the never-fully-achieved promise of development, ten years of Modi government have refashioned India. On the international stage, the country has gained centrality as a leading geopolitical actor; internally, beneath the surface of glorious claims and shining new projects, the political trajectory of the past ten years has brought about increasing contradictions, further marginalization for the most vulnerable strata of society, and insecurity.
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
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar
The Archaeology of Ancient Southwest Asia: Investigating the Human Past in the Vedi River Valley of Armenia
Professor Peter Cobb
School of Humanities
The University of Hong Kong
Date and Time: April 9, 2024 | 12:30-1:30 pm (HKT) / April 8, 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_o2GPhTHGSYitY_9FcnFzbQ
(Light refreshments will be served for those attending the seminar in person)
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Dear colleagues and students,
We are delighted to let you know that we are hosting a one-day workshop on ‘Learning and Use of French as a Foreign Language: A Modern Global History' on Friday 26th April, from 9:30 am to 4:45 pm (UK time), at King’s College London. The workshop comprises three keynote speeches and four presentations, delivered by scholars based in the UK, France, and Hong Kong. The event is in person only. Coffee, light refreshments, and lunch will be provided to all participants including the audience.
You are most welcome to join us! Please register at: https://buytickets.at
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-6/)
What US Air Force Re-Optimization Means for Taiwan
By: Eric Chan
At the 2024 “Two Sessions” in Beijing, China Talks Tough on Taiwan
By: Amrita Jash
Decoding Beijing’s Gray Zone Tactics: China Coast Guard Activities and the Redefinition of Conflict in the Taiwan Strait
By: Sze-fung Lee
The Nexus of Cybersecurity and National Security: Taiwan’s Imperatives Amidst Escalating Cyber Threats
By: Enescan Lorci
China’s New Civil Flight Routes
The American Institute for Lankan Studies Colombo is holding zoom seminars on two new books on Sri Lanka:
March 27th, 2024: Neena Mahadev, Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka. Chair and Discussant: Charles Hallisey.
April 3rd, 2024: Alexander McKinley, Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka. Chair and Discussant: Anne M. Blackburn.
All events are at 9:00--10:00 PM in Sri Lanka (11:30 AM--12:30 PM EDT).
REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND MORE DETAILS ARE AT https://www.aisls.org/virtual-events/