Asia Bangladeshi queer utopia: How activists are reclaiming local narratives to empower the community November 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: UK celebrates ruling on Section 377 by British High Commission / Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The current…
Asia The dull edge of extinction: Dholes as an absent presence in Jehirul Hussain’s ‘Raang Kukuror Tupi’ June 27, 2019 0 ‘…it is not only species that are becoming extinct but also the words, phrases, and gestures of human solidarity.’ Félix Guattari in The Three Ecologies…
Bangladesh Personal Take: Fictionalizing History, History as Fiction October 15, 2018 0 Written by Nadeem Zaman As a Bangladeshi I grew up on a steady diet of stories of the Bangladesh Liberation War 1971. As a Bangladeshi…
China China’s presence in Cuba and its cultural production March 1, 2018 0 Written by Ignacio López-Calvo. In recent decades, the political influence of Chinese ethnic communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean has evolved under the shadow of…
LGBTQ Reclaiming LGBTQ History: Taiwanese Literature in the Period of Martial Law February 12, 2018 0 Written by Ta-Wei Chi LGBTQ history is beginning to be remembered in a variety of formats. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the decriminalisation of…
China Crowdsourcing, APIs, and a Digital Library of Chinese June 8, 2016 0 Written by Donald Sturgeon. Digital methods have revolutionized many aspects of the study of pre-modern Chinese literature, from the simple but transformative ability to perform…
China Imperial Chinese Studies and Trends in the Digital Humanities June 7, 2016 4 Written by Paul Vierthaler. The digital humanities (DH) encompass a variety of methodological innovations that have become increasingly popular among humanists. Although DH is proving…
Culture and Society On the Nobel Prize Winning Chinese Author Named “Don’t Speak” October 14, 2012 1 by Xiaoling Zhang. The winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature is a paradox: Mo Yan, his penname for writing, means “don’t speak”, and…
