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.
Peter X. Zhou. Collecting Asia: East Asian Libraries in North America, 1868-2008. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2010. xxi + 342 pp. $125.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-924304-56-9.
Reviewed by Tao Yang (Rutgers University)
Published on H-Asia (March, 2011)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Breaking New Ground in East Asia Library History
Eugène Burnouf. Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism. Translated by Katia Buffetrille and Donald S. Lopez Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 608 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-08123-6.
Reviewed by Richard Davis (Bard College)
Published on H-Asia (March, 2011)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Sukanya Banerjee. Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. ix + 272 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4590-9; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4608-1.
Reviewed by Claude Markovits
Published on H-Asia (January, 2011)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Imperial Citizenship in Late Colonial India
Jacqueline M. Moore, Rebecca Woodward Wendelken, eds. Teaching the Silk Road: A Guide for College Teachers. Albany: SUNY Press, 2010. ix + 238 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-3103-1; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-3102-4.
Reviewed by Stewart Gordon (Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan)
Published on H-Asia (January, 2011)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Barbieri-Low, Anthony J.. The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. 360 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780295750224. 
Reviewed by
Glenda Chao (Ursinus College)
Published on
H-Asia (January, 2024)
Commissioned by
Jenny H. Day (Skidmore College)
Moazzin, Ghassan. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xviii + 334 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781316517031.$34.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781009037891.
Greene, J. Megan. Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II (Harvard East Asian Monographs). Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. xiv + 319 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780674278318.
Berry, Michael, ed.. The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan. Global Chinese Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231197465.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231197472.
This issue was originally published on the Global Taiwan Institute's website and the full articles are available at: https://globaltaiwan.org/issues/vol-9-issue-6/)
What US Air Force Re-Optimization Means for Taiwan
By: Eric Chan
At the 2024 “Two Sessions” in Beijing, China Talks Tough on Taiwan
By: Amrita Jash
Decoding Beijing’s Gray Zone Tactics: China Coast Guard Activities and the Redefinition of Conflict in the Taiwan Strait
By: Sze-fung Lee
The Nexus of Cybersecurity and National Security: Taiwan’s Imperatives Amidst Escalating Cyber Threats
By: Enescan Lorci
China’s New Civil Flight Routes
The American Institute for Lankan Studies Colombo is holding zoom seminars on two new books on Sri Lanka:
March 27th, 2024: Neena Mahadev, Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka. Chair and Discussant: Charles Hallisey.
April 3rd, 2024: Alexander McKinley, Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka. Chair and Discussant: Anne M. Blackburn.
All events are at 9:00--10:00 PM in Sri Lanka (11:30 AM--12:30 PM EDT).
REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND MORE DETAILS ARE AT https://www.aisls.org/virtual-events/
GTI is accepting applications for internships this Summer. Please find below the job description for our internship program.
The Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) is a private, non-profit policy incubator located in the nation’s capital, Washington, DC. Our vision is to raise awareness, deepen affinity, and create opportunities for strengthening the relationship between Taiwan and the international community, and especially Taiwan’s relationship with the United States. We do this through policy research and programs that promote better public understanding about Taiwan and its people.
GTI accepts
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Global China Local Cultures Lecture Series
The Rise and Fall of Economic-Centered Coalitions in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Date/Time: March 19, 2024 ,10:00 – 11:30 (HK time)
Language: English
Venue: Via ZOOM (Registration is required.)
Registration link: https://hku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvf-ugqDsvE9dYqrfjctB29XAk1pICz_zc#/registration
ABSTRACT
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ten years since it began, has become China’s guiding foreign engagement and economic governance principle in the Xi Jinping era. However, questions remain