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Subject: Nationalism
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Journal of National Essence (國粹學報)
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The Journal of National Essence (國粹學報) was published monthly from 1905 to 1911 in Shanghai at the end of the Qing dynasty by the 國粹派 or the National Essence Group. The National Essence Group held a conservative view and view on political and cultural reform of China tried to identify the national essence of China in order […]
China studies, Chinese Language, Classical Chinese, Confucianism, Cultural politics, Culture. humanities, Education, Heritage studies, History, Humanities, Intellectual History, Literature, Nation-building, Nationalism, Political reforms, Political Science, Teaching
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Creating Laos: The Making of a Lao Space between Indochina and Siam, 1860–1945
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Søren Ivarsson 2008 The existence of Laos today is taken for granted. But the crystallization of a Lao national idea and ultimate independence for the country was a long and uncertain process. This book examines the process through which Laos came into existence under French colonial rule through to the end of World War II. […]
Read moreGoing Indochinese: Contesting Concepts of Space and Place in French Indochina
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Christopher E. Goscha 2012 Why, Benedict Anderson once asked, did Javanese become Indonesian in 1945 whereas the Vietnamese balked at becoming Indochinese? In this classic study, Goscha shows that Vietnamese of all political colours came remarkably close to building a modern national identity based on the colonial model of Indochina while Lao and Cambodian nationalists […]
Read moreBeyond the Singapore Girl: Discourses of Gender and Nation in Singapore
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Chris Hudson 2013 The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite and servile ‘Oriental’ woman dressed in figure-hugging sarong-kebaya is one of the world’s longest running and most successful advertising campaigns. But this image does not simply advertise a service; it is part of a global and national regime of […]
Read moreBurma/Myanmar – Where Now?
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Mikael Gravers & Flemming Ytzen (eds) 2014 Recent changes in Burma/Myanmar have been called the ‘Burmese democratic spring’. While the international media have mainly focused on the economic opportunities offered by these changes and on the doings and sayings of Aung San Suu Kyi, the reality is far more complex. The country is desperately poor, […]
Read moreRecruit to Revolution: Adventure and Politics during the Indonesian Struggle for Independence
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John Coast (edited by Laura Noszlopy) 2015 This gripping memoir narrates the formative years of the Indonesian nation through the lens of English adventurer John Coast. After years in Japanese POW camps where he first met Indonesians and learned Malay, this young British officer made his way back to Southeast Asia in order to help […]
Read moreMobile Citizens: French Indians in Indochina, 1858-1954
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Natasha Pairaudeau 2016 When France laid claim to the territories which became French Indochina, its beleaguered trading posts on the east coast of India gained a new purpose, sending Indians to help secure and administer its newest possessions and to assist in their commercial expansion. The migrants were among those peoples of France’s overseas empire […]
Read moreEnd of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World
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David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb & Li Narangoa (eds) 2016 Aiming to balance the focus on European events in global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II, End of Empire focuses on a brief, 100-day period at the end of the war across a broad sweep of eastern Asia – a time when the […]
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