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The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures (http://www.alc.ucla.edu/) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), invites applications for a position in Southeast Asian studies, at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor. This position will begin on July 1, 2019.
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The Department of History at Colby College invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian History, beginning September 1, 2019.
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Yale University, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, seeks a Lector in Korean language, start date July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2022. This is a 3-year full-time appointment with renewal contingent on excellent performance and sufficient enrollments.
Japan's high-speed economic growth era (1955-1976) seems to be an historical period attracting research attention lately, so I'm glad to be contributing to discussions with the publication today of the book below.
Caroline Norma, Comfort women and post-occupation corporate Japan, London, Routledge, 2018, pp. 182. Hardback: 9780815394693
Call For Papers: Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, June 2019
Papers and panel proposals are invited for the 13th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference: The Environments of Asian Cinemas. With the support of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Media & Creative Industries at LASALLE College of the Arts, in conjunction with the Asian Cinema Studies Society, the conference is planned for 24–26 June 2019, at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.
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Assistant Professor of South Asian History
Phuong Tran Nguyen. Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 236 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08288-7.
Reviewed by Sam Vong (University of Texas at Austin, Department of History) Published on H-Asia (September, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Kesavan Veluthat. Notes of Dissent: Essays on Indian History. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2018. 214 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-93-8655270-9.
Reviewed by Donald Davis (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Asia (August, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52450
Jairam Ramesh. Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature. New Delhi: Simon & Schuster, 2017. 464 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-81-933552-4-4.
Reviewed by Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex) Published on H-Asia (August, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50474
My second book in 2018, Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China 1917 as a Significant Year of Journalism (Routledge, 2018, ISBN 9781138344693, pp. 302), has been published.
Description:
Dear Colleagues,
Call for Papers
Sinophone Studies:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Critical Reflections
April 12-13, 2019
University of California, Los Angeles
Organized by Professor Shu-mei Shih (UCLA)
Deadline: December 1, 2018
Travelling Classroom
on
17th to 21st January 2019
