Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Class & French Colonialism, FCHS, New Orleans, 30 May-2 Jun 2012

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Class & French Colonialism, FCHS, New Orleans, 30 May-2
Jun 2012

> H-ASIA
> September 8, 2011
>
> Call for panelists Class and French Colonialism, French Colonial
> Historical Society, New Orleans, May 30-June 2, 2012
> DEADLINE OCTOBER 15 2011
> (x-post H-French-Colonial)
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> Ed. note: Paul Sager is not a member of H-ASIA, but there may be
> some members with interests that would match his suggestion for a FCHS
> conference panel, either also regarding Indochina or other French
> territories. Please contact him directly. Thanks. FFC
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Paul Sager <paul.sager@nyu.edu>
>
>
> Dear scholars,
>
> Class is a little-studied aspect of colonial history. The racial and
> gender aspects of empire have rightly attracted much interest, but with
> few exceptions class is more often mentioned in passing. It is usually
> tacked on as an incidental or tertiary phenomenon, giving the impression
> that it was a relatively unimportant aspect of colonial social relations.
> To begin to open up the subject, I would like to form a panel focusing on
> questions of social class in French colonial contexts for the next French
> Colonial History Society meeting, to be held in New Orleans in May-June,
> 2012. My own paper will argue that in addition to race and gender,
> class--understood both as primarily discursive imaginings of social class
> as well as more non-discursive stratified socio-economic
> relationships--significantly helped to shape the history of the colonial
> state in French Indochina.
>
> Are any other scholars working on class in French colonial contexts? If
> so, it would be great to get together on a panel.
>
>
> Please contact me off-list at paul.sager@nyu.edu.
>
> The deadline for submissions to this conference is October 15.
>
>
> Paul Sager
> Ph.D. candidate
> New York University
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Fw: H-ASIA: Member pub _Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity_ by Tina Johnson

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Subject: H-ASIA: Member pub _Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering
Modernity_ by Tina Johnson

> H-ASIA
> September 8, 2011
>
> Member's publication: _Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering
> Modernity_ by Tina Johnson
>
> ************************************************************************
> From: Tina Johnson <tpj444@gmail.com>
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I would like to announce the publication of my new book:
>
> Tina Johnson
> _Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity_
> (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield,
> 2011). 268 pp.
> ISBN 0-7391-6440-6 | 978-0-7391-6440-2 (hardcover)
> ISBN 0-7391-6442-2 | 978-0-7391-6442-6 (electronic)
>
> From the back cover:
>
> Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity is the study of
> a pivotal period (1911–1949) in which traditional midwifery, marked
> by private, unregulated old-style midwives, was transformed into
> modern midwifery through the adoption of a highly medicalized and
> state-sponsored birth model that is standard in urban China today. in
> the twentieth century, biomedical technologies altered the process of
> childbirth on virtually every level. What had been a matter of
> private interest, focusing on family and lineage, became a national
> priority, a symbol of the new citizen who would participate in the
> creation of a revitalized nation. This transformation of reproduction
> coalesces with the broader story of China's twentieth-century
> revolutions, marked by an emphasis on science and modernity. The
> roles of the state and Western medical personnel were paramount in
> affecting these changes, but equally important were the intense
> social and cultural shifts that occurred simultaneously. The dominant
> themes of reproduction in twentieth-century China are characterized
> by expanding state involvement, shifting gender roles, escalating
> consumption patterns accompanying the commercialization of private
> lives, and the increasing medicalization of the birth process.
>
> "This well-researched book is an important addition to the literature
> on state building and mod- ernization in modern China. Focusing on
> the introduction and development of the biomedical birth model in the
> Republican period, it provides a stimulating case study of the
> transformation of reproduction during a period of far-reaching
> social, intellectual, and cultural changes. The author's careful and
> insightful analysis of the issues of modernization, state building,
> gender roles, consumer culture, and the medicalization of birth in
> modern China is scholarly and commend- able. The book will be of
> considerable value to historians of China and medicine, sociologists,
> and anthropologists, as well as gender studies scholars." —Ka-Che
> Yip, author of Health and National Reconstruction in Nationalist
> China: The Development of Modern Health Services, 1928-1937,
> University of Maryland, Baltimore County
>
> "This richly-detailed analysis is an important contribution to our
> understanding of the ways in which gender, medicine, and
> state-building have historically intersected in modern China. Through
> a multi-faceted account of the individuals and institutions who
> sought to reform traditional midwifery practices, Childbirth in
> Republican China reveals how measures intended to improve women's
> status could also subject female reproductive bodies to intensified
> government control. it is sure to become a standard reference in the
> field." —Yi-Li Wu, author of Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor,
> and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
>
>
> Table of contents:
>
> List of Figures and Tables ix
> Acknowledgments xi
>
> Introduction xv
>
> 1 Missionaries and Modernity 1
>
> 2 Reproduction Theory: Modern Childbirth and Modern Motherhood 35
>
> 3 The Midwifery Profession 73
>
> 4 National Reproduction in Republican China 125
>
> Epilogue: Reproduction in Twentieth-Century China 167
>
> Appendix: Translation of ?Good Methods for Protecting
> Newborns and Infants 183
>
> Bibliography 185
>
> Glossary of Chinese Terms 205
>
> Index 211
>
> About the Author 223
>
> For further information: http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tina Phillips Johnson, PhD
> Assistant Professor of History
> Director of Chinese Studies
> Saint Vincent College
> Latrobe, Pennsylvania 15650
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Fw: H-ASIA: Talk "Colonial Policing In The Dutch East Indies" 9/9/2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: Talk "Colonial Policing In The Dutch East Indies" 9/9/2011

> H-ASIA
> September 8, 2011
>
> Talk "Colonial Policing In The Dutch East Indies" - Sept. 9, 2011
> ******************************************************************
> From: "Thrasher, Allen" <athr@loc.gov>
>
> Presentation Announcement:
> "Colonial Policing In The Dutch East Indies: The Case Of The Ambonese
> Gewapende Politie (1893-1946)"
> by Martin Thiry, 2011 Library of Congress Florence Tan Moeson Fellow
> Date: Friday, September 9, 2011
> Time: 1:00-2:00pm
> Location: Asian Reading Room Foyer, LJ-150, 1st Floor, Jefferson Building,
> Library of Congress
> [Metro stop: Capitol South on the Blue/Orange Line.]
>
> Summary:
> The role of ethnic minorities in colonial policing is integral to the rise
> of the nation-state and an expression of agency on the part of minority
> groups in the development of the nation-state. During the late colonial
> period an amalgamation of ethnic minorities, referred to collectively as
> the Ambonese, were employed as policing agents. In this capacity the
> Ambonese have been understood as subject forces and less as actors,
> obscuring a fuller history of the Ambonese as colonial police. The ways
> in which they served in the years 1873-1945 helped lay foundations for the
> Indonesian nation-state. The Dutch were trying to form and keep together
> the colonial state; with the help of the Ambonese they served to cohere
> Indonesia.
> The introduction of armed police units, fortified in ever greater numbers
> by the Ambonese (personnel from Ambon, greater Maluku, Manado, and Timor),
> allowed the start of the pacification of the archipelago, particularly in
> the Outer Islands where the Dutch had so far exercised no more than
> nominal control. Ambonese would serve prominently in the Marechausse and
> later in the much more robust gewapende politie, critically in their own
> home areas.
> About the presenter:
> Martin Thiry graduated from Harvard in 2000 and joined the New Orleans
> Police Department where he was a patrolman and a robbery detective. He
> will complete his PhD in History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and
> the East-West Center in Spring 2012.
>
> Contact:
> Anchi Hoh, Ph.D., Tel: 202-707-5673, E-mail:
> adia@loc.gov<mailto:adia@loc.gov>
> Request ADA accommodation five business days in advance.
> Contact 202-707-6862 or ADA@loc.gov<mailto:ADA@loc.gov>
>
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