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 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,…
Asia The long read: Host communities and refugees in Southeast Asia: A workshop report December 19, 2019 0 Image Credit: Hue 1972 by manhai/ Flickr ; Licence: 2.0 Generic (CC By 2.0) Written by Itty Abraham. In May 2019 a workshop was convened at…
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…
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…
Asia Yet another assault on Kashmir August 14, 2019 1 Image Credit: Ole Holbech/Kashmir/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. Written by Chitralekha Zutshi. The newly re-elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in India has finally taken…
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…
China From alliance to trade war: The role of China’s ‘American Hands’ in the formation of Sino-US relations July 1, 2019 0 Written by Hao Chen. Image Credit: Members of the Fourth Marine Regiment Drum and Trumpet Corps in China, circa 1930 by USMC Archives/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. On 13…
Asia Replaying history, or why the Philippines should participate in the Commonwealth Games February 20, 2019 0 Written by Lou Antolihao. In what appeared to be the most controversial event in the recent 2018 Commonwealth Games, video replays confirmed England sprinter Zharnel…
Taiwan Women as Workers, Women as Agents: Studying Labor and Gender in Industrial and Postindustrial Taiwan February 12, 2019 0 Written by Anru Lee One question central to my anthropological enquiry has been the role of social being – the person, subject, actor – in society and…
