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The latest issue of Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Vol. 95 is now available online at: http://www.mh.sinica.edu.tw/bulletins.aspx
Contents
Special Issue on Urban Guidebooks and Representations of Space
[Articles]
Paul R. Katz........
Spatial Features of Temple Destruction Campaigns in Modern Chinese Cities
Poon Shuk-wah........
Dear List Members,
The following is an announcement of an international conference hosted by the Section for East Asian Art History at the University of Zurich.
Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology
To be held at the University of Zurich, August 24-27, 2017
Hello Everyone --
We are looking for 1 or 2 additional papers for a panel at AAS 2018 in Washington DC on contemporary issues in urban planning and design.
"Speculative Futures of the Southeast Asian City: Urban Consequences of Economic Change"
Call for Book Chapters on Authoritarian Regimes and the Environmental History of Asia
We seek reviewers for the following titles that appear to have potential for enhancing teacher and professor knowledge about Asia or possibly be assigned to students. Potentially interested reviewers should directly contact EAA Editor Lucien Ellington via his email address at l-ellington@comcast.net. Typically, EAA essay reviews are 1,200-1,500 words. EAA also publishes 500-800 word book reviews. Please include a short rationale as to why you are interested in this particular book.
The Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany invites applications for two PhD scholarships for dissertation projects related to Buddhism.
The 11th Conference “Chinese Civilization: Tradition and Modernity ” will be held on 26 September 2017 in Kyiv National Economic University.
Lakshmi Subramaniam. The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (India), 2016. 296 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-946704-4.
Reviewed by Johan Mathew (Rutgers University)
Published on H-Asia (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Piracy and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean
Pamela D. McElwee. Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 312 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-99548-9.
Reviewed by Nga Dao (York University)
Published on H-Asia (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Environmental Governance in Vietnam
Anjali Nerlekar. Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture. FlashPoints Series. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. xix + 292 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8101-3274-0; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8101-3273-3.
Reviewed by Madhuri Deshmukh (Oakton Community College)
Published on H-Asia (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
News has surfaced in the past day that Cambridge University Press has accepted demands from Chinese state agencies to remove published content from its databases available within the People's Republic of China.
‘Meiji Japan in Global History’
Date: 8 September 2017Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue: SOAS University of London, Main College Buildings, Russell Square Room: 116
Type of Event: Publication Workshop
Co-Convenors:
Catherine L Phipps, University of Memphis
Christopher Gerteis, SOAS University of London
The Pacific Historical Review recently published the following articles that may interest H-ASIA list subscribers:
- “‘Into the Dark Cold I Go, the Rain Gently Falling’: Hawai’i Island Incarceration,” by Kelly Y. Nakamura
- “From Memory Making to Money Making? Japanese Travel Writers’ Impressions of Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Southwestern Pacific Islands Battle Sites, 1962-2007,” by Ryota Nishino
It’s a pleasure to announce the publication of my new book.
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017
Featured in Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
504pp. ISBN-10: 0262036363. ISBN-13: 978-0262036368.
