HKIHSS Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar (13 April): George Mak - Spreading the Word of God in Wartime China: The China Bible House in the Second Sino-Japanese War
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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.
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Applications for a 3-day intensive virtual academic workshop are invited from early career scholars who have received their PhD after 2015. Eight scholars in a range of disciplines will be selected from a pool of international applicants. Scholars will engage with leading East Asian studies faculty to workshopping article-length manuscripts in preparation for peer review journal publication.
Virtual Conference
Queer/Feminist/Praxis: Intersections of Performance, Visual Arts, and Activism in Korea and the Korean Diaspora
Call for Papers: Special issue of the British Journal of Chinese Studies on Games and Gaming in China and the Sinophone world
It is with great pleasure that I invite you to explore the online Sajjad Zaheer Digital Archive!
For details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61129.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Chinese Culture
Research Assistant Professor in History of Science / Environment / Medicine in China
THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
9th March Dr Simon Kaner 'The Rehabilitation of Myth in the Archaeology of Ancient Japan and Korea'
16th March Dr Hannah Theaker 'China’s Little Mecca: Changing Islamic Landscapes of China’s Northwest in the Late Qing, 1860-1911'
23rd March Book Launch Ronan Lee 'Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide. Identity, History and Hate Speech'
25th March RAS Collections Evening
All events at 6.30pm GMT. Please see our website www.royalasiaticsociety.org for attendance details.
Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature presents cutting edge research on modern literary and cultural productions in, as well as outside of, China. It also publishes works that study the shaping influence of the traditional literature and culture on modern and contemporary China. Prism actively promotes scholarly investigations from interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and comparative perspectives.
Call for Papers
Conference: Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, 1–2 July 2021
Deadline: 16 April 2021
This conference focuses on the relationship between temporality and material culture in twentieth-century socialist regimes. We are primarily interested in looking at case studies from the USSR and Europe, but also from other geographical contexts such as Asia, Latin America, and Africa, especially from a comparative perspective.
Luke Whitmore. Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 278 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29802-6.
Reviewed by Amanda Lucia (University of California) Published on H-Asia (February, 2021) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Ian S. Markham, Christy Lohr Sapp, eds. A World Religions Reader. Newark: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2020. 408 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-119-35709-4.
Reviewed by Claire Maes (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Asia (January, 2021) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55420
Michael J. Walsh. Stating the Sacred: Religion, China, and the Formation of the Nation-State. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-19357-3.
Reviewed by Peter Zarrow (University of Connecticut) Published on H-Asia (December, 2020) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Applications for a 3-day intensive virtual academic workshop are invited from early career scholars who have received their PhD after 2015. Eight scholars in a range of disciplines will be selected from a pool of international applicants. Scholars will engage with leading East Asian studies faculty to workshopping article-length manuscripts in preparation for peer review journal publication.
Virtual Conference
Queer/Feminist/Praxis: Intersections of Performance, Visual Arts, and Activism in Korea and the Korean Diaspora
Call for Papers: Special issue of the British Journal of Chinese Studies on Games and Gaming in China and the Sinophone world
It is with great pleasure that I invite you to explore the online Sajjad Zaheer Digital Archive!