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Global China
E-book
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
Database
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
Database
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
Database
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
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“Shodhganga” is a common digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set-up by the INFLIBNET Centre and containing over 383.000 full-text theses and dissertations from Indian acadmic institutions. It provides a platform for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access.
Read moreNational Archives of India
Database
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
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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
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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: […]
Area studies, Culture. humanities, Current affairs, Indonesian studies, Nation-building, Political Science, Politics, Public administration, Urban studies
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Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos
E-book
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 […]
Anthropology. Ethnography, Culture, Ethnography, Folklore, Folklore studies, Heritage, Kinship, Lao studies
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Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45
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by Bill Sewell Diplomats and soldiers carve out empires, but civilians play crucial roles in building them. This was also true of Japanese Manchuria. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, their visions shifting over time. Japanese imperialism in Manchuria before […]
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