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Melissa J. Brown, Managing Editor
During the latter half of the twentieth century, the rivalry between the United States and the erstwhile Soviet Union, dubbed the Cold War, decisively shaped the global world order that emerged in the aftermath of WWII and the dismantling of the western European empires.
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In anticipation of the 2019 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (March 21 – March 24 2019, Denver, Colorado), the Manchu Studies Group (MSG) solicits panel proposals for possible MSG sponsorship. Panels should be focused on some aspect of Manchu studies, broadly conceived. Proposals should include a panel title and abstract, the names of all presenters and the titles and abstracts of the papers that they plan to deliver, and contact information for the panel organizer.
For details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56838
One-Year Visiting Assistant Professor or Instructor – Japan
Department of History
Position/Salary:
One-year Visiting Assistant Professor or Instructor of History beginning on September 16, 2018, through June 15, 2019. The position is open to historians of Japan.
Responsibilities:
The China Center of the Technische Universität Berlin (www.china.tu-berlin.de) carried out a workshop on “Trends, Concepts and Challenges of China’s Innovative Railway Transport” in November 2017. Following up from this workshop, we now invite its contributors and any other interested scholars to submit articles to be published in a 2019 special issue of The Journal of Transport History.
Dates: 4 – 18 January 2019
arrival: 3 January, departure: 19 January
Application deadline: 15 June 2018
Venue: Ban Rai Jai Sook (Jai-Sook Studio), Chiang Mai, Thailand
The Workshop
Dear All,
Here are some upcoming events over the next couple of weeks at the RAS, they are free and open to all (no need to register with us).
Thursday 7th June at 6.30pm - Lecture by Umberto Bongianino (Oxford University) entitled 'Like Sweet-Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West'
Thursday 14th June at 6.30pm - Lecture by Professor Ornit Shani (Department of Asian studies, University of Haifa) entitled 'How India Became Democratic'.
Danna Agmon. A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 236 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-0993-7.
Reviewed by Lakshmi Subramaniam (Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes) Published on H-Asia (June, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Peter Crooks, Timothy Parsons, eds. Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 496 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-61728-1.
Reviewed by Prachi Deshpande (CSSSC Kolkata) Published on H-Asia (May, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Diana Lary. China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945-1949. New Approaches to Asian History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 283 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-67826-2; $88.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-05467-7.
Reviewed by James Hudson (University of Tennessee) Published on H-Asia (April, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
For details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56857
Position: Researcher (open rank Research Fellow, Associate Research Fellow, or Assistant Research Fellow).
Field: Modern history.
Qualifications:
Ph.D. (Taiwan or foreign). Applicants who have passed their final oral defense of doctoral dissertation are encouraged to apply.
Good comprehension of Chinese is required.
Ed. note: Posted on behalf of Prof. Don Baker of UBC, who is the author.
Scholars and artists are invited to submit essays, artist statements, interviews, book reviews, and performance reviews for Ecumenica 12.1, an issue on performance, religion, and India. This issue will be Ecumenica’s first issue as a publication of Penn State University Press.
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I am happy to announce the publication of my book about Chinese political thought.
