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Historical maps of Southeast Asia and Singapore
“On August 30, the online platform Historical Maps of Southeast Asia was launched. The platform provides access to over 1,400 digitised maps of Southeast Asia from the collections of the National Library Board Singapore (307 maps), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library – Yale University (150 maps), Bodleian Libraries – University of Oxford (387 maps) […]
Global China
Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere have co-authored a short book titled Global China as Method. The book argues that even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned by a core assumption: that the country represents a fundamentally different ‘other’ that somehow exists outside the ‘real’ world. […]
Read moreSoutheast Asian Newspapers
East View has announced OA access to a Southeast Asian Newspapers collection covering 125 titles from within the period 1839-1976. All the 125 titles with location, language and available years can be found here “The Southeast Asian Newspapers collection chronicles the changes that took place throughout the region during this period, and the challenges of early […]
Read moreSouth Asian Newspapers
East View has announced OA acces to a collection of South Asian Newspapers, including 9 titles from the period 1850-1992: Daily Business Post Dainika basumatī (দৈনিক বসুতী) Dnyānaprakāśa (ज्ञानप्रकाश : the daily Dnyan Prakash) Eastern Examiner Kerala chronicle Lahore Chronicle Malabar Herald Pakistan Observer Samaja The 9 titles with language, location and available years can […]
Read moreLate Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers
East View has announced OA access to the Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese News papers collection. All the 292 journal titles with location and available years can be found here “The Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers collection provides invaluable perspective on this critical period. The press of more than twenty cities is represented, spanning the […]
Read moreShodhganga – Reservoir of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations
“Shodhganga” is a digital repository of Indian electronic theses and dissertations containing over 444.000 theses . Submission of an electronic version of PhD theses and dissertations by researchers in Indian universities is mandated since 2016 in order to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world-wide. The word “Shodh” originates […]
Read moreNational Archives of India
The National Archives of India proides free online access to some of their collections of historical material via the Abhilekh Patal portal for access to archives and learning. There are 16 different collections incl. e g Education and health, home political, private records, public records. There is also the possiblity to ask for digitization on […]
Read more緣起香港:張愛玲的異鄉和世界
Author: 黃心村. A study on the author Zhang Ailing’s time in Hong Kong. Click on 線上看 to read the book. If the button text is “試閱” then the book is at the moment being read by someone else. Please note: only 1 simultaneous reader.
Read moreNation, City, Arena: Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia
by Friederike Trotier In 1962, Indonesia celebrated its national rebirth, modernity and international arrival by hosting the 4th Asian Games in Jakarta. Since then, Indonesia has hosted several other major multi-sport events as well as numerous tournaments in a single sport. But the return to Jakarta in 2018 of the 18th Asian Games was significant: […]
Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos
by Rosalie Stolz How can we conceive of kinship and sociality in the rapidly transforming uplands of mainland Southeast Asia? How to bridge the divide between classical ethnography and modern approaches to kinship studies? Using her rich findings from extensive fieldwork among the Khmu of northern Laos, the author offers a fresh perspective on kinship […]