Asia The formative Muslim-Chinese encounter April 3, 2020 0 Image credit: Chinese Mosque by Revolution_Ferg/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Niv Horesh. The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) soft-power parleys to the Arab…
Asia How not to study Indian literature: Against chauvinism February 20, 2020 1 Image Credit: Orissa by Dietmut Teijgeman-Hansen/ Flickr; licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Satya P. Mohanty. Let me be blunt: there is an urgent need…
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Asia Change and integration: China’s legacy after 40 years of economic transformation January 30, 2020 0 Image Credit: RedEnvelopes by Ksionic/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Qing Shan Ding. Saturday 25 January 2020 marked the start of the Chinese Lunar…
China China’s ambassador scolds the West to flatter Xi January 29, 2020 0 Image Credit: Xi Jinping by Global Panorama/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Joris Teer and Ardi Bouwers. In 2019 China ushered in a new…
Asia The origins and customs of the Chinese New Year January 27, 2020 0 Image Credit: Chinese New Year by Akuppa John Wigham/Flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Haiwang Yuan. With information available everywhere and easily searchable nowadays,…
China The end of funerals in China? October 30, 2019 0 Image Credit: Yu Rong Cun Cemetery by David Schroeter/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Andrew B. Kipnis. An official in charge of arranging funerals…
Article 370 Democracy, deliberation and the state of Tamil Nadu October 10, 2019 2 Image Credit: Darshan Simha/Marina Beach/ Flickr ; Licence: 2.0 Generic CC By 2.0 Written by Vignesh Karthik KR and Jeyannathann Karunanithi. The Government of India…
China Wounds that fester: Histories of Chinese Islamophobia August 2, 2019 0 By Hannah Theaker. Image Credit: China by M M/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Sometime in March 2019 the Baike Baidu page about the Great Northwestern Muslim Rebellion (陕甘回民起义),…
Activism Contested centenary: Remembering the May Fourth Movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities July 4, 2019 0 Written by Els van Dongen. Image Credit: 51358-Qingdao by xiquinhosilva /Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. History is no small matter in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Many readers are…
