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 Dispelling the monolith: The geopolitics of language in Taiwan and Hong Kong February 12, 2020 0 Image credit: Speak Mandarin! by J B/ flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Justin Kwan. In recent years, the respective Sunflower and Umbrella Movements…
Asia Claims of legality: The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 December 23, 2019 2 Image Credit: Rita Willaert/Assam /Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0. Written by Prasenjit Biswas. The full-scale, all-out ‘war of positions’ between Hindu right-wing politicians, left-wing…
Ethnic Minorities The "Other" ethnic minorities in China April 24, 2018 0 Written by Colin Mackerras Among China’s 55 state-recognised ethnic minorities, the Tibetans and Uyghurs get most media attention. Mostly negative, its focus is repression and human…
Culture and Society Language, National Identity and Nationalism in China June 17, 2015 0 Written by Yingjie Guo. The close relationship between language, national identity and nationalism is rarely disputed. Though few would insist on a strong interconnection between…
China Multilingualism, Discourse and Identity in China June 12, 2015 3 Written by Linda Tsung. China is one of the most multilingual countries in the world. The government of the People’s Republic of China promotes the…
Culture and Society Chinese Language and Beijing’s Public Diplomacy June 9, 2015 0 Written by Sheng Ding. The political effects of language acquisition, culture exchange, and education contact are important in respect to soft power appeal, and have received…
China-Africa Rolling stones? The language of migration and mobility in the case of the Chinese in Africa March 5, 2015 1 Written by Yoon Jung Park. Papa was a rolling stone, wherever he laid his hat was his home. So sang The Temptations in 1972. It is…
Nationalism and national identity Language policy and ethnic conflict in China February 13, 2015 2 Written by Wenfang Tang. Ethnic conflict has been on the rise in recent years in China, despite Chinese media portrayals of ethnic harmony. One commonly…
Nationalism and national identity China in Vietnamese Nationalism February 11, 2015 1 Written by Claire Sutherland. China looms large in Vietnamese nationalism to this day, most obviously in ongoing disputes over control of the South China Sea…
