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Review published on Monday, April 9, 2018
Author: 
Brian Glyn Williams
Reviewer: 
Daniel Marston

Marston on Williams, 'Counter Jihad: America’s Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria'


Brian Glyn Williams. Counter Jihad: America’s Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 400 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4867-8.

Reviewed by Daniel Marston (Australian National University)
Published on H-Asia (April, 2018)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)

Discussion published by Joe Thomas Karackattu on Monday, April 9, 2018

Position, Senior Teaching Fellow in Chinese Language Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

For details, see: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56661

The Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies is one of the constituent departments of the Faculty of Humanities at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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Review published on Monday, April 16, 2018
Author: 
Chris Ogden
Reviewer: 
David Buck

Buck on Ogden, 'China and India: Asia's Emergent Great Powers'


Chris Ogden. China and India: Asia's Emergent Great Powers. Cambridge: Polity, 2017. ix + 213 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7456-8987-6.

Reviewed by David Buck (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Published on H-Asia (April, 2018)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)

Review published on Monday, April 16, 2018
Author: 
Sumit Ganguly, William R. Thompson
Reviewer: 
Roger Jeffery

Jeffery on Ganguly and Thompson, 'Ascending India and Its State Capacity: Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy'


Sumit Ganguly, William R. Thompson. Ascending India and Its State Capacity: Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 352 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21592-2.

Reviewed by Roger Jeffery (University of Edinburgh)
Published on H-Asia (April, 2018)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)

Review published on Friday, April 13, 2018
Author: 
Walter N. Hakala
Reviewer: 
Carlo Coppola

Coppola on Hakala, 'Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia'


Walter N. Hakala. Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 320 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17830-3.

Reviewed by Carlo Coppola
Published on H-Asia (April, 2018)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)

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Discussion published by Tammy LM Ho on Thursday, April 19, 2018

HONG KONG STUDIES—Issue 3 (Spring 2019) Call for Papers—Special Section on Orientalism Forty Years on; and General Research Papers

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Type: 
Call for Papers
Date: 
September 15, 2018
Discussion published by Eiichi Ito on Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Library of Congress digitizes unique Japanese Censorship Collection

The Library of Congress (LC) recently launched the Japanese Censorship Collection, an online archive comprising more than one thousand marked-up copies of government-censored monographs and galley proofs from prewar Japan. The Library of Congress has been collaborating with The National Diet Library (NDL) to digitize and make the collection accessible onsite and online.

Discussion published by Outi Luova on Wednesday, April 18, 2018

CFP: China and the “Wider” Eastern Europe. International conference and doctoral workshop, October 10-12, 2018

Call of Papers: International Conference  China and  the “Wider” Eastern Europe

Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland

 

Conference dates: October 11-12, 2018

Pre-conference doctoral workshop October 10, 2018

 

The online submission form for paper proposals is open to May 20th.

 

Discussion published by Ashok R Chandran on Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Announcement: Webtalk on Using the KN Raj Library for Kerala Studies

Kerala Scholars eGroup invites you to its inaugural Webtalk on Using the KN Raj Library for Kerala Studies.

Date: April 21, 2018, Saturday

Time: 1700 – 1730 hrs (Delhi). Starts 0630 (Chicago), 1230 (London), 2130 (Melbourne).

Location: https://zoom.us/j/214818442

Open to all. Free. No pre-registration.

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