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Slanting I, Imagining We
Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Chapter 6
The Cameras of the World: Race, Subjectivity and the Multitude in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For
Larissa Lai
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For present characters who are both deeply abject...
The French Colonial Imagination
Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857-1858, from Second Empire to Third Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The Indian uprisings (1857–58) against British rule in India represent an iconic period within the history of anti-colonial resistance. Numerous works have considered these historical events from British and Indian perspectives, but none have yet questioned how they were viewed by Britain’s foremost...
Negotiating Languages
Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled "scientifically" through "historical...
Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This edited volume reconsiders the importance of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from a post-Cold War perspective.
It has been argued that during the Cold War era scholarship was limited by the anxiety that authors felt about the possibility of a global thermonuclear war, and the role...
Negotiating Cultural Identity
Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing physical landscapes as living cultural bodies. It redefines dynamic cultural landscapes as catalysts in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting.
Drawing on research by eminent archaeologists,...
Deng Xiaoping's Long War
The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities,...
Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia
Trial by Army
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book is an examination of American army legal proceedings that resulted from a series of moments when soldiers in a war zone crossed a line between performing their legitimate functions and committing crimes against civilians, or atrocities.
Using individual judicial proceedings held within...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2005
Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international team of scholars take the reader on a compelling exploration from Ming China to the present day, examining their conquests, management...
by Steven Collins
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
This book is intended for modern students, inside or outside the classroom, as a work of reference rather than a ‘teach yourself’ textbook. It presents an introductory sketch of Pali using both European and South Asian grammatical categories. In English language works, Pali is standardly presented...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted...
More than Real
A History of the Imagination in South India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our...
Arminius Vambéry and the British Empire
Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
This book frames the fascinating life and influential works of the Hungarian Orientalist, Arminius Vambéry (1832–1913), within the context of nineteenth century identity politics and contemporary criticisms of Orientalism. Based on extensive research, the book authoritatively presents a comprehensive...
Echoes of Mutiny
Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movement that British authorities claimed nearly toppled their rule in India during the First World War? Seema Sohi traces how Indian labor migrants, students,...
by Dr. Katsuhiro Sasuga
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
This book provides an analysis of the processes of micro-regionalization in East Asia within the broader context of globalization and regionalization. The author examines the specifics of corporation production and investment networks that link parts of Japan, Taiwan and China with a detailed case-study...