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Fw: H-ASIA: Positions Modern Chinese History/Chinese Overseas (esp SE Asia), Nanyang Technological Univ, Asst prof

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 1:54 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Positions Modern Chinese History/Chinese Overseas (esp SE
Asia), Nanyang Technological Univ, Asst prof

> H-ASIA
> August 7, 2012
>
> Positions: (2) Modern Chinese History/Overseas Chinese (particularly
> Southeast Asia), Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University,
> Division of Chinese, Singpore
> ********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Job Guide:
>
> JOB GUIDE NO.: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=44929
>
> Nanyang Technological University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
>
> Assistant Professor in Modern Chinese History / Chinese overseas
>
>
> Institution Type: College / University
> Location: Singapore
> Position: Assistant Professor
>
> School of Humanities and Social Sciences
>
> Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
>
> Faculty position in Division of Chinese
>
>
> The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) at Nanyang
> Technological University (NTU), Singapore, invites qualified academics who
> possess PhDs and proven records of accomplishment in teaching and research
> to apply for faculty positions as Assistant Professors in the following
> areas:
>
> Modern and Contemporary History of China
>
> The areas of specialization are open but we are particularly interested in
> candidates whose research areas cover cultural, political and/or
> international history of China, and who are able to place modern China in
> the context of regional and global transformations.
>
> Interdisciplinary Studies of Modern and Contemporary History and/or
> Society of Chinese overseas
>
> Preferred research focus on Southeast Asia but candidates whose research
> focuses on other geographical areas may also be considered.
>
> The successful applicants are expected to teach at both undergraduate and
> graduate levels, and to offer courses in both Mandarin and English. Most
> courses offered by the Division of Chinese are taught in Mandarin while
> the administrative language of the University is English.
>
> The Division of Chinese currently offers a Major and a Minor in Chinese,
> MA and PhD programmes by research, a Minor in Translation, and General
> Elective courses.
>
>
> The University offers competitive remuneration packages commensurate with
> qualification and experience, and also comprehensive benefits. For further
> information about the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, please
> visit: http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg
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> To apply, please refer to the Guidelines for Submitting an Application for
> Faculty Appointment
> (http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ohr/Career/SubmitApplications/Pages/Faculty.aspx)
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>
>
>
> Chair, Search Committee
>
> C/O Division of Chinese
>
> School of Humanities and Social Sciences
> Nanyang Technological University
> 14 Nanyang Drive, HSS-03-86
> Singapore 637332
> Email: HSS-HR-Search@ntu.edu.sg
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> Applications sent via email should include a reference to Assistant
> Professor in Modern Chinese History or Assistant Professor in Chinese
> overseas in the subject line. Enquiries about the position can be
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> will be contacted.
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> Contact: Chair, Search Committee
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> C/O Division of Chinese
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> 14 Nanyang Drive, HSS-03-86
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> Primary Category: Chinese History / Studies
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> Posting Date: 08/07/2012
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Fw: H-ASIA: NBR Brief on How Defense Austerity Will Test U.S. Strategy in Asia

Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Commoners and the changing commons, Fujiyoshida City, Japan, June 3-7, 2013

Fw: H-ASIA: Seeking introductory resources on social media and virtual world cultures in Asia (3 responses)

Fw: H-ASIA:Seeking introductory resources on social media and virtual world cultures in Asia (Comment)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Dwyer" <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 5:50 AM
Subject: H-ASIA:Seeking introductory resources on social media and virtual
world cultures in Asia (Comment)

> H-ASIA
> August 7, 2012
>
> Seeking introductory resources on social media and virtual world cultures
> in Asia (Comment)
> ************
> From: Ian Welch <ian.welch@anu.edu.au>
>
>
> This is an important note, even if it may not immediately seem so.
>
> I am currently working on the history of the American Protestant Episcopal
> Mission in Shanghai, China. In the process, not only am I learning a great
> deal about the everyday life of Chinese in and surrounding Shanghai, I am
> also finding fascinating insights through the mostly young but well
> educated American missionaries. These personal and contemporary
> experiences can be missing from traditional text approaches.
>
> One thing that has emerged along the way is the almost totally unknown
> story of the attempt of the Episcopal Church to evangelise Chinese
> immigrants in the early 1850s, not only in California, but initially in
> New York involving many American business men whose names are rarely
> linked to their religious values. I plan to have a working paper on this
> topic online in a month or two.
>
> Members may recall that I have recently been trying to track travels
> inland from Shanghai for a distance of around 100 miles at a time when the
> foreigners were supposedly locked into the treaty port of Shanghai. That
> small task, (readily undertaken by any undergraduate as well as others)
> has demonstrated, conclusively, that the supposed travel freedoms granted
> by the Chinese Government in the Treaty of Tientsin were already available
> as most magistrates made their own decisions about managing adventurous
> foreigners. I had already noted the same pattern in Fujian Province, when
> researching the English Anglicans.
>
> I have been engrossed, more recently, in the reports of American
> missionaries who were on board the American ships that visited Nagasaki in
> the wake of the Perry "opening" of Japan. Their descriptions of Japanese
> officials and the general life of people in Nagasaki provide further
> insights into the relationships of foreigners with the Japanese and
> particularly the dislike of Christianity that dated back more than two
> hundred years to the murders of Catholic Christians in that part of Japan.
>
> All this may seem a bit esoteric, but my point is that my information,
> running into literally thousands of pages, is coming entirely from digital
> sources in the United States with some other very valued assistance from
> librarians, archivists and historians in the US and Australia. I stress
> that much of this material does not seem to have been worked by historians
> as it was taken by and large, almost inaccessible.
>
> I appreciate that Mr. Zulkarnain's inquiry is probably focussed on digital
> material from within Asia, presumably written by Asians for Asians, but if
> we are talking more generally in the context of virtual world cultures,
> the amount of material coming online, daily, across Asia as well as
> elsewhere, is growing faster than many of us realise, especially academic
> teachers wedded to conventional texts in undergraduate teaching.
>
> I believe reading, at online, details of the meeting of East with East, as
> well as East with West, can transform undergraduate learning and make the
> whole experience exciting for students who are frustrated by traditional
> textbooks and much conventional teaching practice.
>
> The tendency to serve up well cooked stew in a traditional academic
> curricula in the humanities and social sciences is long past due date. It
> is time, as I think, to see, as Mr. Zulkermain's request envisages,
> getting u/g students into a solid meal as quickly as possible.
>
> The serious, dramatic, and troubling worldwide decline in student
> enrolments in the humanities and social sciences is surely linked to the
> boredom of many undergraduate course designs and classroom experiences.
>
> Ian Welch, Canberra.
>
> *******
> Ed. Note: Best wishes in your pursuit of this research, Ian. In the
> current context of instantaneous communication and ease of travel, we too
> often forget that transnational networks are not new despite rigors of
> travel and time lags in communication. Thanks for the generosity of
> sharing your important work with the list.
> Regarding research in contemporary virtual networks, much of it is
> sponsored by industry interests. Microsoft has posted a few lectures to
> the internet. TED recorded a short video of a lecture by Amber Case, a
> "cyborg anthropologist." I believe that in Great Britain this
> specialization is "digital anthropology." Case's video records the ways
> in which being "cyborg" affects how we experience being human--not quite
> what you may wish in your course:
> http://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now.html . LD
>
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Fw: H-ASI: Member Publication: Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka

Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Intl Young Scholars Conf., Boracay Philippines, 17-19 May 2013

Fw: H-ASIA: New member introduction

Fw: H-ASIA: Member publication on Sui-Tang China's relations with Eurasia

Fw: H-ASIA: CONF Global Commodities: Material Culture of Early Modern Connections, 1400-1800, Coventry, UK, Dec 12-14, 2012

Fw: H-ASIA: ANN Conf final program "Construction of Race and Racism in East Asia: East-West Perspectives," Munich, September 12-14, 2012

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Dwyer" <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 6:55 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: ANN Conf final program "Construction of Race and Racism in
East Asia: East-West Perspectives," Munich, September 12-14, 2012

> H-ASIA
> August 7, 2012
>
> ANN Conf final program "Construction of Race and Racism in East Asia:
> East-West Perspectives," Munich, September 12-14, 2012
> **********
> From: Rotem Kowner [kowner@research.haifa.ac.il]
>
> Dear H-Asia members,
>
> Hereby we would like to announce the final program of the conference
> "Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia: East-West Perspectives",
> which will be held at the University of the Armed Forces Munich from 12
> September to 14 September, 2012.
>
> Scholars who wish to attend the conference are requested to contact Dr.
> Anke Fischer-Kattner <anke.kattner@unibw.de>
>
> Best wishes,
> Walter Demel and Rotem Kowner
> --
>
> Program of the Conference
> Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia: East-West Perspectives
>
> September 12-14, 2012
> University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany
>
>
>
> DAY I (Wednesday, September 12)
>
> 13.30 h Welcome Addresses and Introduction Prof. Dr. Merith Niehuss,
> President of the University of the Armed Forces Munich
> Prof. Rotem Kowner (University of Haifa, Israel) and Prof.
> Walter Demel (University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany)
>
> SECTION I: Chair: Dr. Susanne Friedrich (Ludwigs-Maximilians University,
> Munich, Germany)
>
> 14.00 h Japanese as Both a "Race" and a "Non-race": The politics of
> jinshu and minzoku and the depoliticization of Japaneseness
> Prof. Kawai Yuko (Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan)
>
> 14.50 h The Japanese Race in Nazi German View
> Prof. Gerhard Krebs (formerly Berlin Free University,
> Germany)
>
> 15.30 h Coffee Break
>
> 16.00 h The Construction of the Chinese "Races" in Japan's Southward
> Expansion to Southeast Asia, 1895-1941
> Prof. Kuo Huei-Ying (John Hopkins University, USA)
>
> 16.50 h Racist Attitudes Towards Indigenous Peoples of Siberia
> Dr. David C. Lewis (Cambridge University, UK, and Yunnan
> University, Kunming, China)
>
> 17.40 h Commentary: Dr. Anke Fischer-Kattner (University of the Armed
> Forces Munich, Germany)
>
>
>
> DAY II (Thursday, September 13)
>
> SECTION II: Chair: Prof. Hans van Ess (Ludwigs-Maximilians University,
> Munich, Germany) [To be confirmed]
>
> 9.00 h Propagation of Racial Thought in 19th Century China
> Daniel Barth (Ludwigs-Maximilians University, Munich,
> Germany)
>
> 9.50 h The Great Immigration Crisis: Britain, the Dominions and the
> Threat of Japanese Immigration, 1905-09
> Dr. Antony Best (London School of Economics and Politics,
> UK)
>
> 10.40 h Coffee Break
>
> 11.10 h Racialization of Koreans in Hawaii during the Japanese
> Colonial Period:
> Mutual Perceptions by and of the Japanese and Caucasians
> in Hawaii, 1905-1945
> Prof. Wayne Patterson (St. Norbert College, De Pere., USA)
>
> 12.00 h Commentary: Prof. Peter Pörtner (Ludwig-Maximilians
> University, Munich, Germany) - [To be confirmed]
>
>
> SECTION III: Chair: Prof. Roderich Ptak (Ludwigs-Maximilians University,
> Munich, Germany)
>
> 14.00 h Whose idea is it? The Synthesis of Foreign and Domestic
> Constructions of Race in Imperial Japan (1854-1945)
> Prof. Rotem Kowner (University of Haifa, Israel)
>
> 14.50 h Racial Categories of Children: Whose Races Are They?
> Prof. Mariko Tamanoi (UCLA, USA)
>
> 15.30 h Coffee Break
>
> 16.00 h Red and Yellow : Mutual Images of China and the US during the
> Korean War
> Dr. Lu Xun (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing,
> China)
>
> 16.50 h Manufacturing Patriotism and Performing Chineseness in the
> Yellow:
> How capitalist pop music in Hong Kong and Taiwan
> collaborate with the Chinese state to create a racialized nationalism
> since the 1980s
> Prof. Cheng Yinghong (Delaware State University, USA)
>
> 17.40 h Commentary: Daniel Barth (Ludwigs-Maximilians University,
> Munich, Germany)
>
>
>
>
> DAY III (Friday, September 14)
>
> SECTION IV: Chair: Dr. Anna Stecher (Ludwigs-Maximilians University,
> Munich, Germany)
>
> 9.00 h 'Uplifting the Weak and Degenerated Races of East Asia':
> The 'Western Civilizing Mission', White Protestant
> Values, and the Idea of the Far Eastern Championship Games
> Stefan Hübner (Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany)
>
> 9.50 h Pan-Asianism reactions against the White superiority network
> and the origin of the Second World War: attempted racial solidarity and
> its failure
> Prof. Saho Matsumoto-Best (Nagoya City University, Japan)
>
> 10.40 h Coffee Break
>
> 11.10 h Race, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Chinese Martial Arts
> Cinema
> Prof. Chang Kai-man (Tulane University, USA)
>
> 12.00 h Commentary: Dr. Christine Hikel (University of the Armed
> Forces Munich, Germany)
>
>
> SECTION V: Chair: Prof. Eckart Hellmuth (Ludwigs-Maximilians University,
> Munich, Germany)
>
> 14.00 h Constructing Racial Theories as an International Western
> Enterprise (ca 1750-1850)
> Prof. Walter Demel (University of the Armed Forces Munich,
> Germany)
>
> 14.50 h Constructions of Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century
> European Encyclopaedias
> Dr. Georg Lehner (University of Vienna, Austria)
>
> 15.30 h Coffee Break
>
> 16.00 h 'The Guilty Feeling that you Exist': Indisch-Japanese and the
> Memory of the Japanese Occupation of the Netherland East Indies
> Dr. Ezawa Aya (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
>
> 16.50 h "Confucius' Outcasts": Amerasian Migration form Korea to
> America, 1970s-1980s
> Dr. Hwang Whitney Taejin (University of California,
> Berkeley, currently Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea)
>
> 17.40 h Commentary and final résumé: Prof. Rotem Kowner (University
> of Haifa, Israel)
>
> 18.10 h Farewell address: Prof. Walter Demel (University of the Armed
> Forces Munich, Germany)
>
>
> The organizers acknowledge the generous support of the German-Israeli
> Foundation (GIF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG)
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: CONF Cultural Transitions and East Asia: Art, Film and Literature, Bangor University, Wales, Sep 7-8, 2012

Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Berkeley-Stanford Grad Studeint Conf in Modern Chinese Humanities, Stanford Univ., 26-27 Apr 2013

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 2:01 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Berkeley-Stanford Grad Studeint Conf in Modern Chinese
Humanities, Stanford Univ., 26-27 Apr 2013

> H-ASIA
> August 7, 2012
>
> Call for paper: Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern
> Chinese Humanities, Stanford University, April 26-27, 2013
> ***************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> CFP: Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese
> Humanities, April 26-27, 2013
>
> Location: California, United States
> Conference Date: 2013-11-16
> Date Submitted: 2012-07-30
> Announcement ID: 196085
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 2013 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese
> Humanities
> April 26-27
> Stanford University
>
> Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student
> Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current graduate
> students from across the U.S. and around the world to present innovative
> research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in any
> humanistic discipline. This not only provides a window into what kind of
> new research is going on right now in Chinese Studies, but also gives
> budding scholars the opportunity to interact with peers from
> geographically disparate institutions whom they might not otherwise be
> exposed to, allowing a broad platform for the sharing of ideas and
> interests. Specifically, it is hoped this conference will encourage
> interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural
> studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology
> and sound studies, as well as the interpretative social sciences.
>
> Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student
> Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current graduate
> students from across the U.S. and around the world to present innovative
> research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in any
> humanistic discipline. This not only provides a window into what kind of
> new research is going on right now in Chinese Studies, but also gives
> budding scholars the opportunity to interact with peers from
> geographically disparate institutions whom they might not otherwise be
> exposed to, allowing a broad platform for the sharing of ideas and
> interests. Specifically, it is hoped this conference will encourage
> interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural
> studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology
> and sound studies, as well as the interpretative social sciences.
>
> Applications are due in the fall of each year for the conference taking
> pace the following spring. Currently-enrolled graduate students at any
> institution are encouraged to apply. Conference registration is free, and
> presenters will be provided with lodging by the conference organizers.
>
> Now accepting applications for the 2013 conference!
>
> To apply, submit a single-spaced 300-word paper proposal and short bio via
> our online submission system.
> http://ceas.stanford.edu/resources/chinese_humanities_Form.php
> Proposals/bios due: November 16, 2012
> Notification of acceptance by: December 31, 2012
> Full papers due: March 29, 2013
>
> For past conferences, please see:
> http://ceas.stanford.edu/resources/chinese_humanities.php
>
>
> Christine Ho
> Stanford University
> Email: ciho@stanford.edu
> Visit the website at
> http://ceas.stanford.edu/resources/chinese_humanities.php
>
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