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…
China Chinese nationalism and Western anxiety in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century February 11, 2020 0 Image credit: Imperial Gate [1901] by ralph repo/ flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Sascha Auerbach. In discussing Chinese nationalism, it is important to…
History Sport and colonialism in the Philippines January 13, 2020 0 Image Credit: village basketball by yumievriwan/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Gerald R. Gems. On 15 February 1898, the USS Maine, an American battleship mysteriously exploded…
History Reconciliation or redress? Cultural diplomacy and the return of cultural property November 7, 2019 0 Image Credit: taman t (13)" by Biepmiep /Flickr; Licence:CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Written by Cynthia Scott. Following the end of the Second World War, a wave of decolonisation…
Colonialism British-Malayan late colonial relations November 6, 2019 0 Image Credit: woc3528 Malaya & British Borneo coin cufflinks by wowcoin/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Written by Alex Sutton. The history of British-Malayan relations offers an insight…
Asia The Long Read: Gandhi’s racism October 2, 2019 1 Image Credit: ..gandhi. by Luke Cox/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0 Written by Faisal Devji. If the memory of Mahatma Gandhi lives on today, then it…
Article 370 The Long Read: The moment of reckoning for Kashmir September 25, 2019 0 Image Credit: Andrea Schieber/Dal (lake) and the Shikaras - Srinagar, Kashmir, India/ Flickr ; Licence: CC BY- NC- ND-2.0. Written by Mohamad Junaid. In a unilateral…
Culture and Society Han Kuo-yu and the enigma of Taiwan’s indigenous politics September 9, 2019 0 Written by Scott E. Simon Image credit: 總統代表政府向原住民族道歉 by the Office of the President, Republic of China/Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 Taiwan is having a raucous…
China Hidden women of history: Hsieh Hsüeh-hung, communist champion of Taiwanese self-determination August 28, 2019 1 Written by Antonia Finnane. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Image credit: 台湾民主自治同盟代表谢雪红在全国政协第一届全体会议上发言 by User Shizhao on zh.wikipedia…
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…
