... mrinalini sinha A Global Perspective on Gender What’s South Asia Got to Do with It? THE QUESTION THAT ANIMATES my essay is this: what might it mean to bring a global perspective to gender? The familiar un- derstanding of gender, as having to...

... (,ntral Asia Book S,ri,s By the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the road to the growth of outside knowledge about Central Asia abruptly branched out in several directions. And...

... . . . Zoning Technologies . . . . in East Asia...

... Orientalism 223 A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia william jones [William Jones...

... 4 A Military Culture on the Move Tirailleurs Sénégalais in France, Africa, and Asia as we saw in chapter 1, after enlisting in Côte d’Ivoire, Kérétigi...

... desire for lost souls. . . . Their joy is unbounding. . . . Address Max Wood Moorhead, Publisher, Colombo, Ceylon. ASIA: CHINA MISSIONARY TESTIMONIES INTRODUCTION After spreading...

..., angels came and ministered unto me. I was passive in His hands, and by the eye of faith I saw angel hands working on my vocal cords, and I realized they were loosing me. I began to praise Him in an unknown language. . . . ASIA: INDIA MISSIONARY TESTIMONIES...

... Exhibiting Asia in Britain Commerce, Consumption, and Globalization Durba Ghosh the summer of 2002 was a busy time for Britons and tour- ists in London. The British Library at St. Pancras hosted an ex- hibit...

... 12 Travel in Early-Twentieth-Century Asia: On Wu Zhuoliu’s “Nanking Journals” and His Notion of Taiwan’s Alternative Modernity Ping-hui Liao While the novel Yaxiya de gu’er [Asia’s orphan] (1945) by Wu Zhuoliu (1900– 1975) is often hailed as a masterpiece about Taiwan’s difficult...

...Introduction Hygienic Modernity in Chinese East Asia Charlotte Furth The chapters in this volume are about the intersections of power, culture, and science that have gone into the struggle to overcome disease and im- prove people’s health in some Chinese regions of East Asia over...

...Afterword Biomedicine in Chinese East Asia: From Semicolonial to Postcolonial? Warwick Anderson In 1968, Owsei Temkin, the retiring director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, warned that “the tradition of the Western approach to the history...

... seven 3 Ta i wa n i n M o d e r n i t y / C o lo n i a l i t y Orphan of Asia and the Colonial Difference Leo Ching n a recent class discussion about the popularity of Japanese anime and...

... and Southeast Asia The contemporary student of photographic history in Asia, as elsewhere, is confronted with the enormously difficult task of apprehending the shock and sense of utter improbability that accompanied the new technology as it moved along the pathways of colonialism...

... WORDS THAT EXPAND q mona abaza ‘Ada/Custom in the Middle East and Southeast Asia The Arabic term ‘‘ ‘ada’’ has traveled—not only across the Middle East but across...

... introduction  Purnima mankekar and Louisa schein Mediations and transMediations erotics, sociality, and “asia” On January 18, 2007, the Indian government banned the satellite television channel axn, a unit of the Sony Entertainment Network, claiming that its telecast of the...

...PART III performing on the world stage in asia 6 So long as there are nation-states [ guojia], we must uphold nationalism [minzu zhuyi We are concerned not just for our own Han race, but for other victimized nations, whose lands have been conquered, rights usurped...

...five. Renovating Greater East Asia Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss. —Susan Stewart, On Longing During the war years of the 1930s and early 1940s, mingei activism became increasingly interventionist not only in the home islands of Japan, but also further afield, in the...

...‘‘You Asians On the Historical Role of the West and Asia Binary Naoki Sakai artly because of the consequences of accelerating globalization and the P emergence of what, for the last decade or two, a number of people have referred to as the postmodern conditions discernible...