Search Results for empire and imperial formation

...” that was institutionalized and propagated by the state, chiefly through a newly established compulsory, centralized school system. Frequently, this assertion is supported by citing the Imperial Rescript on Education (1890), which begins, “Our Imperial Ancestors have founded Our Empire on a basis broad and everlasting...

... and performs a capacious form of localization. Marginality from the normative nation-state and interimperial positionality compel them to enact decentered visions of historical Chineseness and imagine anti-imperial solidarities with the margins of different imperial formations across history. The article...

.... CH'ING-I AND CHINESE POLICY FORMATION 611 Confucian morality, have declared that the throne had forfeited its claim to the heavenly mandate. Or they might, in their role as administrators of the empire, have obstructed the implementation of imperial instructions. Alienation of the officials could deprive...

... end up lumping all historical empires together without asking too closely how particular imperial formations appeared in the places and times they did. It is not just that Asian empires may be theoretically distinct from European empires, but that empires everywhere before the modern period have risen...

...-state formation and empire building: the “nation-empire.” As Chatani argues that “for policymakers in Meiji Japan, building a nation and building an empire meant essentially the same thing” and points out that they “shared a drive to homogenize imperial subjects and aspired to form a nation across...

... of articles is highly conceptual. Editors Christopher Hanscom and Dennis Washburn, who also organized the workshops, envisioned a book that would address “the question of how representations of race and the particular affects they produce shed light on imperial formations in East Asia in the twentieth century...

... of gender, race, and empire, both in showing the range, extent, and everyday character of these alternately exoticized and invisible relationships, and in demonstrating their material centrality to early imperial formations. ...

... Press . McNeill William . 1964 . Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500–1800 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Palmer Alan . 1992 . The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire . London : J. Murray . Richards John F. 1981 . “The Formation of Imperial Authority under Akbar...

... process through a combination of diachronic and synchronic approaches. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 decolonizing history design empire and imperial formation fieldwork history from below narrative method non-Western histories provincializing Europe...

... of nation and empire to real state formations. Historians describe the Soviet Union, for instance, as a state with “both imperial and national characteristics,” exercising sovereign rule organized by hierarchized differences more in the form of an empire than a typical nation-state (Kivelson and Suny 2017...

... evocatively titled first book, Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia , begins with an intriguing paradox. How did opium shift from being a vaunted source of imperial state revenue to being a reviled source of imperial vice and immorality at the turn of the twentieth century...

... Haven : Yale University Press . Wechsler Howard . 1974 . Mirror to the Son of Heaven: Wei Cheng at the Court of T'ang T'ai-tsung. New Haven : Yale University Press . Weinstein Stanley . 1973 . “Imperial Patronage in the Formation of T'ang Buddhism.” In Wright Arthur F...

... experience from that of both “the West” and “the rest” have both come under heavy scholarly siege, and are by now, at a rhetorical level at least, in an advanced state of demolition. Groundbreaking reevaluations of Japanese imperialism and fascism such as Louise Young's Japan's Total Empire and Harry...

... reassertion is not new; what is striking is Lieberman's characterization of that “oscillation” as Sisyphean. That is to say, he evaluates polities in terms of their success or failure in moving towards what he sees as the positive goal of stable, large imperial formations with expansive administration...

... construction of imperial sovereignty, we start to tell a story for early modern and modern global ordering as a product of a world of empires. The characteristic shared by India and China in the story told here is that both are empires. Both the case studies developed by Ocko and Gilmartin involve...

... identity formation that includes recognition of Taiwan's indigenous populations: the Atayal, Bunun, Saisiyat, Tsou, Amis, Paiwan, Rukai, and Puyuma peoples. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's “Savage Border,” 1874–1945...

... through closing of the frontiers. In the case of China, we find Lieberman's comparative treatment of different regional formations and different processes of territorialization in his objections to William Skinner's arguments about understanding the size of the Chinese Imperial administration (Lieberman...

... associations ( seinendan ), grassroots institutions that the imperial government employed to promote Japanese nationalist ideologies among the villagers across the empire. By participating in the associations and receiving their trainings, rural young men not only gained job opportunities, education, and self...

... exist beyond, or without, individualism in the liberal western sense and provide the cultural basis for Japanese democracy. DAVID A. TITUS Wesleyan University Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. By LOUISE Y O U N G . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 487...

... Asia with ample documentation from Mughal primary texts would benefit from A Short History of the Mughal Empire . However, scholarship is consistently evolving in thinking of Mughal imperial formation with an emphasis on cultural or sacral power, borderland spaces, and subaltern perspectives...