TOC Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol. 46, Issue 3
Here comes the latest edition of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, the only true OPEN ACCESS journal in the field of Modern China Studies!
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Call for Documentaries: 7th Visual Documentary Project (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University)
Dear H-ASIA community,
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University is calling for documentaries for the 7th Visual Documentary Project! We respectfully ask that if anyone has any filmmakers colleagues in Southeast Asia who'd like to participate in this project to forward the information below. Please help us reach out to young aspiring filmmakers in Southeast Asia! Project information is availble in 11 languages.
Korean Art in Motion: Toward Discourses on Transculturalism and Transmediality
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[Temple ICAS Lecture] Minka: Japanese traditional farmhouses — its legacy, lessons and future
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Lecture
Date: Monday, June 25, 2018
Amy Catalinac (NYT), UTokyo lecture "Tournaments, Prizes, and LDP Electoral Dominance, " June 21, 2018
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Lecture
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report 28 May - 4 June
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The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 28 May 2018 to 4 June 2018. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Announce.
H-Net reviews posted to the web 28 May 2018 - 04 Jun 2018
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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
28 May 2018 and 04 Jun 2018.
CFP Edited Volume on Religious Nationalism in South Asia
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The importance of religion in contemporary debates ranging from nationalism to its place in the public sphere is exceedingly being felt. Nations -- referred to as imagined communities (c.f.
Economic and Political Studies Vol. 6 No. 2, 2018
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Dear Colleagues,
Symposium "The Chinese way, the new normal?"
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Call for papers
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Lakshmi Subramaniam
Subramaniam on Agmon, 'A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India'
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)
Reviewer:
Prachi Deshpande
Deshpande on Crooks and Parsons, 'Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century'
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)
Reviewer:
James Hudson
Hudson on Lary, 'China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945-1949'
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)
Recent Threads
CFA - The 2018 Abe Fellowship Program
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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) announce the annual Abe Fellowship Program competition. Funding for the Abe Fellowship Program is provided by CGP.
Position, Senior and Postdoctoral Short-Term Fellowships, Max Weber Stiftung India Branch Office
For details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56886
The M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre for Advanced Studies “Metamorphoses of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century” (ICAS:MP), a project under the aegis of the Max Weber Stiftung India Branch Office, advertises multiple junior and senior fellowships for autumn 2018/2019.
Position, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
For details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56867
All positions are for outstanding, active researchers from around the world, to work on an important piece of Asia-related research in the social sciences or humanities.
'Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan' at TUFS
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Dear colleagues,
The CAAS Unit at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Institute of Japan Studies) is pleased to announce a book review workshop on Dr Martyn Smith's recently published Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan (2018, Bloomsbury).
Call for Panelists: 2019 AAS Annual Conference, Denver, CO; March 21-24
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We are seeking presenters for a panel tentatively titled "Nation Building in Twentieth Century India." Historians have long examined how political figures played a key role in the emergence of free India.