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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Asian history"”.
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"A nation can stay alive when it's culture and history stay alive" : Afghanistan's ongoing battle to protect its cultural heritage from looting, war, and terrorism.
… making it a key part in understanding Central Asian history, but the country's once rich supply of cultural artifacts and archaeological sites is being destroyed by looting, war, and deliberate acts of destruction. This thesis examines the past and current circumstances surrounding the loss of …
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Lifting the Veil on Hindi Film Song Sequences: An Approach to Analysis
… and music) are connected to the context of South Asian history and culture to demonstrate how scholarly approaches to music, film, and cultural studies can be united to create a more interdisciplinary approach to analysis. The approach also incorporates principles of semiotics: in the case of …
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The Colonizers and Their Colonized
… originally formulated by scholars of South Asian history in the context of European imperialistic treatments of the peoples whom they colonized for centuries, as applied to Mexican history. I have chosen some visual, cinematic, and literary representations of indigenous and other …
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Lalkar: Migrant Internationalism Among Punjabis in Twentieth Century Britain
… and labour movement. As a contribution to South Asian history, this dissertation pursues a deterritorialized study of South Asian and Punjabi history -- as a history of people rather than a place. By bridging the historiographical divide of partition and independence, this project explores the …
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Museum Collecting and Constructions of Identity in Indian Punjab,1947-1970
… an original approach to twentieth century south Asian history by linking long established research on partition and postcolonial nation building, with a new domain of enquiry and material: museum historiography and practice. If unpacking colonial museums and collecting practices revealed the …
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Negara dan Masjid: Mosque Architecture and Religious Change in Early Modern Period Java, Indonesia
… of large-scale religious change in Southeast Asian history. Scholars have argued that religious beliefs in the past were not confined to a discrete religious sphere but are also woven into a society’s social, political, and economic structures. Within the Javanese context, the question then …
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The development of social teachings in Asian churches : an analysis of the statements on social justice of the Christian Conference of Asia, 1949-1980
The teachings of the Asian churches in the last three decades evolved from stressing people's participation in nation-building to a call for a second liberation of people. Asian churches were optimistic that freedom, equality and justice would prevail. This optimism, however, was soon overshadowed …
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Communication, Disability, and Scientific Interventions in South Asia, c. 1860-1970
… traces a social, cultural, and intellectual history of how physicians, pedagogues, and pathologists studied, medicated, and politicised the voice and communication. It identifies several key institutions, such as the Calcutta Deaf and Dumb School (f. 1893), and the All-India Institute of …
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Hometown as fatherland : Nanyang Chinese under Japanese pan-Asianism and Pribumi nationalism in Malaya and Indonesia, 1937-1955
I argue that for Southeast Asian Chinese the shift from China-oriented identity to local-oriented identity was a particular historical dynamic that came about largely through internal responses to changing political and social conditions. This special historical event can be traced through the …
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Hometown as fatherland : Nanyang Chinese under Japanese pan-Asianism and Pribumi nationalism in Malaya and Indonesia, 1937-1955
I argue that for Southeast Asian Chinese the shift from China-oriented identity to local-oriented identity was a particular historical dynamic that came about largely through internal responses to changing political and social conditions. This special historical event can be traced through the …
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At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism
… international perspective to Indian colonial history. As a case study, this dissertation traces the relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru, then a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement and later India's first prime minister (1947-1964), and the League against Imperialism (LAI), a …
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Language and Identity: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Caf and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony
Many critics recognize Sky Lees "Disappearing Moon Cafe" and Wayson Choys "The Jade Peony" for breaking the silence over issues that Chinese Canadians faced in the 1990s such as racism and lack of representation. However, there has not been much discussion on Lee and Choy's exploration of language …
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Silent Messengers: Visualizing the Growth of Christianity in China by Chinese Christian Posters, 1927-1942
Christians in China experienced both the hopefulness and the hopelessness in 1930s China. The re-establishment of the Nanjing government in 1927 partially alleviated the fierce anti-Christian sentiments prevalent in China. Having recognized the daunting circumstance which Christianity in China was …
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Beyond the Land: Maritime Interactions, Border Control, and Regional Powers between China and Korea, 1500-1637
… and the northern Yellow Sea, with the Northeast Asian transition of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This region formed an arena in this time period that allowed various players to communicate, negotiate, and contest. It also established a linkage between Northeast Asian …
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From a “Contagious” to a “Poisonous Yellow Peril”?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s – 1950.
… century, increasing agricultural trade and mass Asian migration facilitated the transpacific exchanges of Japanese insect, plant, and human immigrants. This dissertation, "From a `Contagious' to a `Poisonous Yellow Peril'?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s - …
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