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…
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…
Burma/Myanmar Myanmar’s long colonial hangover October 30, 2019 1 Image Credit: Not everyday you get to stand so close to one of your heroes... by Landersz; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. Written by Nicholas Farrelly.…
Pacific Islands Far from unusual: Pita Taufatofua and Pacific sport March 14, 2018 0 Written by C. Richard King. The thought of athletes from tropical nations participating in the Winter Olympics strikes many Westerners as incongruous, even laughable. Accordingly,…
Culture and Society Language in the study of Dutch Formosa November 20, 2017 1 Written by Ann Heylen. Ahead of my talk on the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on 22 November, I have decided to…
Politics Catalonia, Taiwan, and the Centralising State November 2, 2017 3 Written by Ben Goren. In his recent piece, “Catalonia: How Can Taiwan Draw Lessons?”, Ian Inkster makes a number of astute observations regarding growing movements for…
Burma/Myanmar The Historical Roots of the Rohingya Crisis October 4, 2017 1 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The ongoing persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar has led to a crisis that, despite being decades in the making, is…
China-Italy The Italian Concession in Tianjin: Little Italy or Imperial Dream? October 29, 2015 0 Written by Maurizio Marinelli. ‘China is a vast virgin land for economic exploitation that can be opened to human activity and the effort to overcome…
Japan-Taiwan Taiwan in Japan’s historical narrative February 27, 2015 0 Written by Alex Calvo. The coming 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War is not abating the debate over Japan's historical responsibility…
