Fw: H-ASIA: TOC South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol.34/1

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> H-ASIA
> Mar 29 2011
>
> TOC South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol.34/1
> *****************************************
> From: Vivien Seyler <vivien.seyler@monash.edu>
>
> TOC for South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 34/1 April 2011
>
> From Vivien Seyler Vivien.Seyler@monash.edu
>
> South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies is pleased to advise that the
> April 2011 issue is now available via the Taylor& Francis/Informaworld
> websites
>
> http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713445348~db=all
>
> http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713445348
>
> South Asia is rated an A* journal in the ERA journal ratings
>
> Contents
>
> The Propagation of a Hindu Sect in India and Nepal: The Krishna-Pranami
> Sampraday
> Gerard Toffin
>
> Reconversion to Hinduism: A Hindu Nationalist Reaction Against
> Conversion to Christianity and Islam
> Iris Vandervelde
>
> From Delhi to Bandung: Nehru, Indian-ness and Pan-Asian-ness
> Sinderpal Singh
>
> NGOs and HIV/AIDS Advocacy in India: Identifying the Challenges
> Pareena G. Lawrence and Maria C. Brun
>
> Architecture and Architechne: Building and Revealing in High-Caste
> Nepalese Houses
> John Gray
>
> Essay
> Australian Uranium and India: Ideology versus Pragmatism
> Edmond Roy
>
> Regards
> Vivien Seyler
> Administrative Assistant
> South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
>
>
> --
> Vivien Seyler
> Administrative Officer
> South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
> Monash Asia Institute
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Fw: H-ASIA: AAS panel on History Education in East and Southeast Asia

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Subject: H-ASIA: AAS panel on History Education in East and Southeast Asia

> H-ASIA
> Mar 29 2011
>
> AAS panel on History Education in East and Southeast Asia
> **************************************
> From: Yeow Tong Chia <yeowtong.chia@utoronto.ca>
>
> Dear Members,
>
> I would like to invite members who are attending AAS 2011 in Honolulu,
> and who are interested in history education and history textbook
> controversies, to attend the following session (#346) on Friday April
> 1st, 2011 at 2.45 pm in Room 305A.
>
> Session 346: The Past Contested: National, Cultural and Global
> Dimensions of History Education in Japan, Malaysia and Singapore
>
> Organizer: Yeow Tong Chia, University of Toronto, Canada
>
> Chair: Ethan Segal, Michigan State University, USA
>
> Discussants: Ethan Segal, Michigan State University, USA; David L.
> Grossman, Chaminade University, USA
>
> This panel examines the contested nature of history education and the
> ways in which governments have obliterated competing versions of the
> past by using schools as a primary vehicle to legitimize state-
> sanctioned historical memory. The first paper discusses the
> international response to Japan's war past by highlighting the role of
> House Resolution 121 as a lobbying point against Japan's continued
> reluctance to acknowledge its war crimes. The second paper examines
> the contested nature of history education in Malaysia's ethnically
> stratified context. It illustrates an instance of how dominant ethnic
> Malays have used history education to advance their communal goals,
> often at the expense of greater representation for ethnic minorities.
> The final paper discusses the use and abuse of history education in
> Singapore's nation-building project. Mapping historical changes in
> history and social studies curriculum, the paper shows that curricular
> evolution is closely tied to changes in Singapore's political and
> state developmentalist goals. Taken together, these papers demonstrate
> the contested nature of the teaching of the past, and show how states
> in the Asian context have deployed history education as a tool for
> legitimation, identity formation, and nation building.
>
> H.R.121 and the International Response to the Japanese Textbook
> Controversy
> - Elizabeth Anne Dutridge-Corp, Michigan State University, USA
>
> The Politics of History Education and Nation-building in Malaysia
> (1960~2010)
> - Lee Lan Wong, Tsinghua University, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
>
> History Education for National Building and State Formation: The case
> of Singapore
> - Yeow Tong Chia, University of Toronto, Canada
>
> --
> Yeow-Tong CHIA, Ph.D designate (Toronto)
> History of Education
> Comparative, International and Development Education
> http://utoronto.academia.edu/YeowTongChia
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Member publication: Asian cities: globalization, urbanization and nation-building

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Subject: H-ASIA: Member publication: Asian cities: globalization,
urbanization and nation-building

H-ASIA
Mar 29 2011

Member publication: Asian cities: globalization, urbanization and
nation-building
**********************************
From: malcolm mckinnon <mckinnonmalcolm@gmail.com>

I wish to record the recent publication of:

Asian cities: globalization, urbanization and nation-building

Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2011, www.niaspress.dk

ISBN: 978-87-7694-078-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-87-7694-079-9 (pbk)

234 pp plus index and bibliography

*Asian Cities *challenges Western paradigms of urban growth with a fresh
look at cities in developing Asia. It questions the status accorded
globalization in explaining contemporary Asian cities, arguing instead
that
they are being transformed by at least three autonomous, albeit linked,
forces – urbanization and nation-building as well as globalization.
The book
reaches beyond the usual focus on metropolitan centers to examine
urban life
in selected middle-sized cities in China, India and Indonesia,
representative of hundreds of such centers throughout Asia.

The work of a single author, *Asian cities* provides both a readable
introduction to Asian urbanism for students in the humanities and social
sciences, and an interpretation that will interest scholars in those
same
fields. The hardback edition is now available in Europe, North America,
Australia and New Zealand, to be followed shortly by the paperback,
worldwide. An advance copy can be seen at the AAS conference in
Honolulu.

This is also an opportunity for the author to thank H-Asia, and
particularly
its editors, for sustaining over so many years a forum which has greatly
facilitated the task of researching and writing a book like this.

Malcolm McKinnon
Wellington, New Zealand

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Fw: H-ASIA: Request for film syllabi

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Subject: H-ASIA: Request for film syllabi

> H-ASIA
> Mar 29 2011
>
> Request for film syllabi
> ******************************
> From: Deana Heath <heathdeana@gmail.com>
>
> I'll be joining one of our H-ASIA colleagues at the University of
> Alberta next year and will be offering a new course on Indian history
> through film which will focus on the ways in which the nation was
> imagined in Indian cinema from the 1930s/40s through to the present,
> and the role of Indian cinema in fashioning the nation. I'm
> contacting the list in the hope that listmembers will be willing to
> share syllabi that they've taught on Indian cinema (I'll be happy to
> do the same once I've designed my course), and I'd also appreciate any
> suggestions for readings - there's so much exciting work being done on
> Indian cinema that it can be a challenge to keep up with it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dr. Deana Heath
> ICCR Research Fellow
> Delhi University
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Member's publication: Sex in the Yellow Emperor's Basic Question

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Subject: H-ASIA: Member's publication: Sex in the Yellow Emperor's Basic
Question

H-ASIA
Mar 29 2011

Member's publication: Sex in the Yellow Emperor's Basic Question
*******************************************
From: Jessieca Leo <jessieca.leo@gmail.com>

Sex in the Yellow Emperor's Basic Questions: Sex, Longevity, and
Medicine
in Early China by Jessieca Leo Published by Three Pines Press: ISBN
978-1-931483-18-6 Available also at AAS/ICAS (Honolulu) at the
University of
Hawai'i Press, Booth 301 at 20% Discount + Free Shipping

This work is based on the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic: Basic
Questions (*Huangdi neijing suwen*). The *Suwen* is the oldest medical
text in China, compiled around the beginning of the Common Era and it
is still highly relevant today. It studies sexuality as an aspect of
medical knowledge with particular reference to the social and literary
context of the Han period. The book begins with an overview of the
study and research of sexual culture of ancient and early China and
examines how *Suwen* theories were developed and transmitted. Then it
outlines traditional views of the reproductive process, including
concepts of sexual maturity, conception, fertility, and declining
powers. It provides detailed analyses of traditional anatomy and
ancient understanding of procreation. The book also deals with
healthcare, examining how bedchamber arts can help to prevent and cure
diseases, including but not limited to sexual maladies and the
consequences of over-indulgence. Finally, it looks at sex and health
within *Suwen* medical theories as part of an emerging new
understanding of medical theory and knowledge.

*For reviews: www.threepinespress.com*

*Contents*

1. Studying Sex in Chinese Culture

2. The Yellow Emperor's Text

3. The Longevity Connection

4. Pathological Diagnostics

5. Speaking of Sex

6. Expressions of Sexual Interaction

7. Sexual Energetics

8. Sexual Anatomy

9. Reproductive Physiology

10. Overindulgence and Intoxication

11. Sex and Health

12. Sex in the *Suwen *

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Fw: H-ASIA: AAS Panel: Mr. Science at the Writing Desk (Panel #120)

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Subject: H-ASIA: AAS Panel: Mr. Science at the Writing Desk (Panel #120)

H-ASIA
Mar 30 2011

AAS Panel: Mr. Science at the Writing Desk (Panel #120)
**************************************
From: Nathaniel Isaacson <nathaniel.isaacson@gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite any interested parties to attend our panel on
science and adventure fiction in twentieth century China. Please see
the
abstract and panel information below.

Note: Presentations will be limited to ten minutes; interested parties
should contact Nathaniel Isaacson (nki@ucla.edu) in order to read the
full-length papers prior to the conference.

Mr. Science at the Writing Desk: Science Fiction, Adventure, and
Utopia in
Modern Chinese Literature

Panel Co-chairs: Jonathan Christopher Hamm; Nathaniel Isaacson

Discussant: Wu Yan (Beijing Normal University)

Panelists: Paola Iovena; Li Guangyi; Ma Shaoling; Nathaniel Isaacson;
Jontathan Christopher Hamm

Panel Abstract:
At the turn of the twentieth century, seminal authors like Lu
Xun,
Liang Qichao and Wu Jianren saw popular genres as a mechanism for the
promotion of empiricism, national consciousness and social critique;
their
vision is reflected in contemporary authors like Tong Enzheng and Alai.
Previously denied serious academic consideration, non-realist genres
including science fiction, adventure, martial arts, utopian narratives
and
popular science writing have begun to gain attention as scholars of
modern
Chinese literature have started to address their relation to
colonial/imperial discourses and political critique.
The papers in this panel employ varied but interrelated texts to
address several key questions concerning the promotion, circulation, and
reception of fictional sub-genres in twentieth-century China. How did
‗science' come to replace the Neo-Confucian 'investigation of
things and
extension of knowledge?' When western forms cross-pollinated with
anecdotes, martial arts fiction and stories of the strange, what hybrids
were born? Can a co-optation of the adventure tale turn the discursive
knives of empire upon their wielder, and if so what issues arise? Is
there
'Utopia with Chinese characteristics?' How are mental and manual labor
distinguished, and what becomes of humanity when labor – both
productive and
reproductive – is performed by machines? Such questions offer
avenues of
comparison that pose meaningful challenges to canonical literary
history and
help develop a more nuanced understanding of the place of Mr. Science in
China.

Thank you,
Nathaniel Isaacson

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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP AAA Panel: Oppositional Histories

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP AAA Panel: Oppositional Histories

> H-ASIA
> March 29, 2011
>
> CFP AAA Panel: Oppositional Histories
> ******************************************************************
> From Ian Wilson <iawilson@syr.edu>
>
> I would like to submit the following call for this up-coming year's AAA.
>
> Oppositional Histories: Contentious Uses of and Engagements with the Past
>
> Seeking Paper Proposals for American Anthropological Association (AAA)
> Meeting.
>
> Conference to be held from November 16-20, 2011 in Montreal, Canada.
>
> E-Mail Initial Proposal Abstract by April 8th to iawilson@maxwell.syr.edu
> Panel to be submitted by April 15th.
>
> Oppositional Histories: Contentious Uses of and Engagements with the Past
>
> The past is an important resource in the continual transformation and
> re-creation of all types of communities. Social actors variously use and
> engage this resource through diverse types of practices, including writing
> formal historiography, holding public commemorations, performing and
> creating works of art, and engaging in more informal modes of storytelling
> and discussion. Often within a single social field or overlapping social
> fields, a number of actors, either individuals or organizations, are
> engaged in multiple projects, sometimes concerted and sometimes
> contradictory, of creating and re-creating social groups, demarcating
> boundaries between groups, and rethinking broader structures of relations
> between social groups that involve drawing upon and/or reworking
> conceptions of the past.
>
> In this call for papers for a panel for this year's meeting of the
> American Anthropological Association (AAA), I am hoping to hear from
> scholars who have conducted ethnographically grounded considerations of
> how one or more sets of actors engage with and/or use knowledge and
> conceptions of the past in order to establish or unsettle, affirm or
> question, or otherwise rethink particular community formations and their
> place within the present. Orientation within this broad problematic may
> shift and develop as a result of submitted abstracts.
>
> Thank you,
> Ian Wilson iawilson@maxwell.syr.edu
> PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
> Syracuse University
> Syracuse, New York
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Intl Gold Market from late 19th C, Lausanne, Mar 9-10, 2012

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Intl Gold Market from late 19th C, Lausanne, Mar 9-10,
2012

> H-ASIA
> March 29, 2011
>
> Call for papers: The international gold market from the late 19th century
> until today: actors, networks and issues (political, monetary, financial,
> banking, industrial and cultural) Conference, Lausanne, March 9-10, 2012
>
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> The international gold market from the late 19th century until today:
> actors, networks and issues (political, monetary, financial, banking,
> industrial and cultural)
>
> Location: Switzerland
> Call for Papers Date: 2011-07-31
> Date Submitted: 2011-03-25
> Announcement ID: 184122
>
> International Conference
> Dates: 9-10 March 2012
> Place: University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
> Organizer: Dr. Sandra Bott
> Language: English/French
>
> This conference aims at studying the many facets of the
> international gold market from the late 19th century till today by
> looking at its organization from the extraction of this precious metal to
> its consumption. The goal is to trace the legal and illegal networks of
> gold from the main producing regions to the major consumer countries. Gold
> is not a commodity like any other mainly because of its unique role in the
> international monetary system in the 20th century, but also because of the
> strong global private demand led by the jewellery and industrial sectors
> and by investors who consider gold as a stable value especially in times
> of economic crisis or war. Some examples of themes that would be
> particularly interesting to deal with during this conference:
>
> • The central role played by gold in the different international monetary
> systems from the establishment of the gold standard in 1870 to the
> demonetization of gold in the early 1970s. Even after the official
> relationship between gold and the dollar was abandoned in 1971, the yellow
> metal remains the most popular medium of exchange among policy makers and
> bankers, and constitutes a large portion of most countries reserves.
> Monetary and political issues related to this unique position of gold
> place this precious metal at the heart of international relations and
> financial flows. It thus constitutes an interesting topic for further
> investigation.
>
> • National differences regarding the regulation and taxation of the
> precious metal involve the establishment of informal economies, in which
> smuggling and tax evasion coexist with legal markets. The analysis of the
> emergence and organization of these gold markets – free and black – with
> an emphasis on the major international and regional gold markets of
> Zurich, London, Paris, Dubai and Hong Kong represent a second major axis
> of reflection.
>
> • A third aspect could deal with the main actors and their influence on
> the international gold market. It might include an analysis of the role of
> the large mining groups, the main producer and consumer states, the large
> refining companies, the trading houses, the banks, the gold jewellery
> industry, or the insurance companies that guarantee gold's transport. The
> objective is to study the complex networks that are formed around gold
> trade, which should allow to more accurately track the sinuous path taken
> by gold ingots or nuggets from the major producer countries, such as South
> Africa, through the European financial centres of London and Zurich and
> back to the Arab and Asian markets.
>
> • The cultural and social issues related to the consumption of gold
> represent a fourth possible approach, which would allow to better
> understand the fascination with this precious and unalterable metal. What
> are, for example, the explanatory factors that make Asia the largest
> consumer of gold today with India owning approximately 10% of world gold
> reserves. The aim is to reflect on consumption practices, notably those of
> luxury goods.
>
> This conference aims at gathering contributions from economic, political,
> social and cultural history, which should allow to analyze varied aspects
> of the gold market and the role of this raw material in international
> relations and financial flows from the late 19th century until today.
>
> Proposals should be sent by July 31st, 2011 to the following address:
> Sandra.Bott@unil.ch
>
> Please send a summary (maximum 1 A4 page) of the proposed contribution, as
> well as a brief CV. The participants selected will be informed by
> September 1st, 2011. A selection of the contributions presented will be
> published (to appear in 2012).
>
>
> Dr. Sandra Bott
> University of Lausanne
> Faculté des Lettres, section d'histoire
> Anthropole, 1015 Lausanne
> Phone: +41(0)21 692 29 31
> Fax: +41(0)21 692 29 35
> Email: sandra.bott@unil.ch
>
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Working Group on East Asian STM events at AAS/CEAL, Honolulu

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Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:41 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Working Group on East Asian STM events at AAS/CEAL,
Honolulu

> H-ASIA
> March 29, 2011
>
> Announcement of Working Gro9up on East Asian STM evemts at AAS/CEAL
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Working Group on East Asian STM sponsored events at AAS/CEAL
> Location: Hawaii, United States
> Symposium Date: 2011-04-01 (in 3 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-03-22
> Announcement ID: 184061
>
> Dear Members,
> Please join us for two events during CEAL/AAS that sponsored by the
> Working Group on East Asian STM !
>
> The Working Group on East Asian STM will hold its annual meeting at the
> 2011 AAS/ICAS meeting on Thursday night, March 31, from 9:15 to 10:30pm.
> The location is Room 321B in the Hawaii Convention Center. (Please note
> that the CEAL meetings on March 29 and 30 are held in another location,
> the Hilton Hawaiian Village.) We look forward to hearing your ideas at the
> meeting. Continuing from previous years' discussions, topics can include:
> types of questions from faculty and students; what your library can
> provide in print or electronic form; what databases are useful, and can
> researchers access them easily; what new cross-disciplinary emphases at
> your institution on STM and Asia. New members will be welcome!
>
> Also, the Working Group's workshop panel at AAS/ICAS this year will focus
> on China. Session 241 takes place on Friday, April 1 at 8:00am. Location
> is Room 323C at the Hawaii Convention Center. Learn about historical
> resources available to you and get tips on finding current STM information
> from China. Please join us!
>
> Laura Wong & Tomoko Steen, Co-Chairs
> Working Group on East Asian STM
>
>
> Tomoko Y. Steen, Ph.D.
> Science, Technology and Business Division
> 101 Independence Ave. SE
> Washington DC 20540-4751
> Phone 202-707-1207; Fax: 202-707-1925
> Email: tste@loc.gov
>
> Email: tomoko.y.steen@gmail.com
> Visit the website at http://groups.google.com/group/east-asian-stm-?hl=en
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Fw: H-ASIA; Gandhi racist and bisexual? How book reviews can distort the book (query and comment)

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Subject: H-ASIA; Gandhi racist and bisexual? How book reviews can distort
the book (query and comment)

> H-ASIA
> March 29, 2011
>
> H-ASIA; Gandhi racist and bisexual? How book reviews can distort the book
> (query and comment)
>
> *****************************************************************
> From: chandar sundaram <chandsund@gmail.com>
>
> Dear Frank and fellow H-Asianists,
>
> My first reaction to the TOI link provided by Prof Aklujar was "the
> Daily Mail reviews books?" When I lived in the UK, it was on par with
> the Sun in terms of news "quality".
>
> Gandhi and Kallenbach were indeed close. Perhaps they were "good
> mates" in the British or especially the Australian sense of the word.
> Having said that, I have not read the book, and so cannot comment
> fully. I would be grateful if a list member would provide me with the
> full citation of the Lelyveld book
>
> best,
>
> Chandar
>
> Chandar S. Sundaram, Ph.D.,
> War and Society Historian
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ed. note: I apologize for not including the full bibliographic details
> in my earlier post. The bibliographic citation is:
>
> Joseph Lelyveld
> _Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India_
> (New York: Knopf, 2011)
> Hardcover: 448 pages
> ISBN-10: 0307269582
> ISBN-13: 978-0307269584
>
> Further to the original story, the book--which I am not sure has even
> reached India has set off the predictable posturings of outrage at this
> "insult" to the Father of the Nation. The Congress Party in Maharashtra
> state is demanding the book be banned and some politicians have offered
> threats to the author if he comes to India. Narendra Modi, the BJP
> chief minister of Gujarat is also rattling the rhetorical sabre. I take
> these details from the website of the Chennai newspaper _the Hindu_
> (http://www.hindu.com/2011/03/30/stories/2011033060130100.htm)
>
> The offending "review" by one Daniel Bates in the Daily Mail is at
> (<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370554/
> Gandhi-left-wife-live-male-lover-new-book-claims.html>).
>
> This bruhaha may well eclipse earlier controversies such as James Laine's
> book on Shivaji as the internet infects and reinfects with misinformation.
> FFC
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