...Lydia H. Liu Are the humanities in trouble in China and Taiwan, such as we witness elsewhere in the world? In her brief commentary, Lydia H. Liu reflects on the contributions by Wang Hui and Fan-sen Wang, who offer illuminating analyses of the state of the humanities in contemporary China...

...Fan-sen Wang This article discusses various aspects of the current status of the humanities in Taiwan. First, the “indicator frenzy” that has prevailed in East Asia over the past twenty years has caused a major problem in humanities in Taiwan's academia. Second, in the past twenty years...

... on opposite sides of several conflicts: the bitter struggle between Nationalists (KMT) and Communists (CCP), the formation of opposing states on the mainland and Taiwan, and the broader US-Soviet rivalry. The first section of this article shows how Muslims from China catalyzed multiple inter-Asian linkages...

... to provide preliminary reports on the condition of the humanities in Africa, the Arab World, South Asia, and China and Taiwan. The picture is, by and large, grim. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 humanities Global South References Brinkley Alan . “The Landscape of Humanities...

... In 1955, the ROC reopened its seasonal Jeddah consulate, which had been effectively closed since 1950 because of the Nationalist regime's retreat to Taiwan. 28 After Egypt shifted recognition to the PRC in May 1956, the ROC requested that the Saudi authorities elevate the Jeddah consulate into a full...

... Republic for admission to the United Nations, The interest of the Chinese in Africa as an ally against and Tanzania argued its case. The People’s Republic took the imperialist West had to await the triumph of the Chinese the seat formerly held by Taiwan. In retaliation, Taiwan, Communists...

..., , L’Harmattan, 2001 L’Harmattan, more recentIn Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the and inTaiwan:Buddhism Religion The View from Mars Hill...

... the Chinese Civil War (1927–49) that divided them and subsequently throughout the Cold War. John Chen follows how the attendant divided community articulated—through a largely Azharite generation of graduates—an essentialized, ethnicized, racialized, and minoritized Chinese Muslim identity across the Taiwan...

... 618 lineage organizations in southeast China and 1680s when Taiwan was falling to the Qing on Chinese organizations in Southeast Asia and army; (2) Mac Cuu (d. 1735), who arrived in indicate how they might be integrated. Cambodia with some...

... and projects The compete-or-bust approach consistently holds up the that can begin to form the basis of a coherent economic examples of the “Asian Tigers” or Newly Industrialized transitional program. Countries (NICs) like South Korea, Taiwan and Singa- 1. Compete...

..." Number 3: Taiwan, Sri Lanka and India The plantation economy in Sri Lanka Resistance and repression in Taiwan Migrant construction labor...

..., Bhutan, the specifics of the Nepal case, drawn from aggre- Burma and most recently Taiwan, with the inten- gate and census data, as well as from his own field tion of returning to Melemchi. They pay...

... of California Press). Cheng , C. , 1961 . Land Reform in Taiwan (Taipei: China Publishing Co.). Crossette , B. , 1991a . “Nepal King Names a Caretaker Leader,” New York Times , May 15. Crossette , B. , 1991b . “Nepalese Party Edges Out Leftists in Election,” New York Times , May 19...

... and Social Sciences at Academia Sinica The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern in Taiwan. World Making (Harvard University Press, 2004), and The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Trans­ Jessica Winegar is an associate professor of anthro- national Theory (Columbia University Press...

... Japanese fascism, Nagasaki, Oe Kenzaburo story Marshall Islands: America's radioactive "Trust" Number 3: Taiwan, Sri Lanka and India...

...Vasant Kaiwar Copyright Regents of the University of California 1981 BIBLIOGRAPHY Alavi , Hamza 1980 “India: Transition from Feudalism to Colonial Capitalism,” Journal of Contemporary Asia , Vol. 10 , No. 4 . Amsden , Alice 1979 “Taiwan's Economic History: A Case...

... zone around the Damodar Valley agricultural progress. Some even in West Bengal, where traditional methods compared Punjab with Taiwan, both having of irrigation are still widely used. This the same size of population, and declared...

... certificate. No Pakistan, Mexico, Taiwan, the Philippines, etc. Thus it is nothing other than what she wanted to invent and tell. She questionable exactly what America is offering to these new was a girl rushing wildly into the future.” Again, this appeals immigrants. The United States is the greatest...

... migrant workers from the Philippines privileges examples from different locations (such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Israel, and Palestine), but it obviously translates very well to the cities of the Gulf. Upon reading Remaindered Life , I was struck by its many reverberations with Temporary People , a recent...