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Subject: Politics
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Doing Theory in Southeast Asia
This website from the Chinese University of Hong Kong collates information on resources for Southeast Asian studies, including journals, books and websites for general SEA studies or for individual countries.
Decoding China dictionary
What does Xi Jinping mean when he talks about the rule of law? How does the Chinese leadership define multilateralism? Did you know that China’s Socialist Core Values include democracy and freedom? What is Document No. 9 and why does it reject universal values? And what is meant by “a community of shared future for mankind”? The Decoding China Dictionary seeks to answer these questions and to serve as a guide to […]
Early Chinese Periodicals Online (EPCO)
ECPO joins together several important digital collections of the early Chinese press and puts them into a single overarching framework: WoMag (http://womag.uni-hd.de) is a richly-tagged database of the contents of four influential women’s magazines published between 1904 and 1937, including scanned copies and additional high-level scans of images and fukan/insert materials. Xiaobao (http://xiaobao.uni-hd.de) provides basic publication data […]
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 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 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 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: […]
Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia
by Chris Chaplin Recent studies of Indonesian Islam have pointed to the growing prominence of ‘conservative’ and globally expansive Islamic doctrines. Salafism is one such doctrine, and it has gained increasing popularity in Indonesia over the past several decades. Aiming to propagate a ‘literalist’ interpretation of Islam, Salafi activists argue that many local Islamic traditions, […]
Read moreNeliti
Neliti is a collection of over 300,000 books, datasets and journal articles from Asia, funded by the National Library of Indonesia. Neliti is a research repository that helps researchers and decision makers in Indonesia find research, data and evidence. Journal articles, books, research reports, policy papers, conference papers and datasets from universities, government bodies, corporate […]
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