Welcome to H-Asia, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online. The primary purpose of H-ASIA is to enable historians and other Asia scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching. H-Asia is especially committed to discussing region wide, comparative and professional issues important to scholars of Asia.
From H-Net Job Guide https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=50623
University of Southern California, USC Libraries
Japanese Studies Librarian
Institution Type: College / University
Location: California, United States
Position: Librarian
For full details, see H-Announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220506
The Politics of Satire: Representation and Reaction in France, Japan and the United States
Location: Japan
Symposium Date: 2015-03-04 (in 7 days)
Date Submitted: 2015-02-18
Announcement ID: 220506
* Please note that this event starts at 7:00 PM, 30 mins earlier than regular ICAS events.
For full details, see H-Announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220667
The Indian Vernacular: Languages, Literatures and Histories
Location: India
Conference Date: 2015-03-25 (in 28 days)
Date Submitted: 2015-02-23
Announcement ID: 220667
Department of English, University of Delhi, India
The Indian Vernacular: Languages, Literatures and Histories (25-26 March 2015)
Call for Papers
For full details, see H-Net Announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220507
2015 The 3rd Asia -Pacific Conference on Business & Social Science (APCBSS 2015)
Location: Thailand
Conference Date: 2015-11-18
Date Submitted: 2015-02-18
Announcement ID: 220507
For full details, see H-Announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220628
Asian Conference on Teacher Education
Location: Kazakhstan
Conference Date: 2015-05-28
Date Submitted: 2015-02-22
Announcement ID: 220628
We would like to invite you to the “Asian Conference on Teacher Education” which will take place on 28-30 May 2015 in Kazakhstan, Almaty.
Open Library of Humanities, a new open-access journal, invites articles on South Asian history (1) that synthesize findings from more geographically or temporally restricted studies to offer a picture of large-scale processes, or (2) that offer an example of collaborative research toward the same end. Topics may include but are not limited to:
The Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, in cooperation with the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (CCKF-ERCCT), is inviting contributions for a new Taiwan edition on the topic:
Assessing the Administration of President Ma Ying-jeou
guest edited by Sabrina Habich & Stefan Fleischauer (ERCCT Tübingen)
Crossposted from H-Diplo -- ed.
Selected from: H-Net Reviews <hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 16 Feb 2015 and 23 Feb 2015 (Asia-related).
Reviewed for H-Histsex by Joanna Bourke
Rittner, Carol; Roth, John K., eds.. _Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide_. St. Paul: Paragon House, 2012. liv + 263 pp. $21.95, ISBN 978-1-55778-898-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39703
For full details, see H-Announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220600
Call for Articles/Essays on "Jewish-Muslim Relations in South Asia" for a special issue of the online journal CAFE DISSENSUS
Publication Date: 2015-11-30
Date Submitted: 2015-02-21
Announcement ID: 220600
Café Dissensus
Sunila S. Kale. Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 264 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8796-3.
Reviewed by Sudha Mahalingam (Member, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board, India Retd.)
Published on H-Asia (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Electricity Policy in India
Ananya Vajpeyi. Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 368 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04895-9.
Reviewed by Dilip Menon (University of Witwatersrand)
Published on H-Asia (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume. The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan. Translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki. Translations from the Asian Classics Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Illustrations, maps. 322 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16718-5; $39.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-53745-2.
From H-Net Job Guide https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=50623
University of Southern California, USC Libraries
Japanese Studies Librarian
Institution Type: College / University
Location: California, United States
Position: Librarian
For full details, see H-Announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220506
The Politics of Satire: Representation and Reaction in France, Japan and the United States
Location: Japan
Symposium Date: 2015-03-04 (in 7 days)
Date Submitted: 2015-02-18
Announcement ID: 220506
* Please note that this event starts at 7:00 PM, 30 mins earlier than regular ICAS events.
For full details, see H-Announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220667
The Indian Vernacular: Languages, Literatures and Histories
Location: India
Conference Date: 2015-03-25 (in 28 days)
Date Submitted: 2015-02-23
Announcement ID: 220667
Department of English, University of Delhi, India
The Indian Vernacular: Languages, Literatures and Histories (25-26 March 2015)
Call for Papers
For full details, see H-Net Announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220507
2015 The 3rd Asia -Pacific Conference on Business & Social Science (APCBSS 2015)
Location: Thailand
Conference Date: 2015-11-18
Date Submitted: 2015-02-18
Announcement ID: 220507
For full details, see H-Announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220628
Asian Conference on Teacher Education
Location: Kazakhstan
Conference Date: 2015-05-28
Date Submitted: 2015-02-22
Announcement ID: 220628
We would like to invite you to the “Asian Conference on Teacher Education” which will take place on 28-30 May 2015 in Kazakhstan, Almaty.
