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Tag Archives: imperialism
Book Announcement: Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire
Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire Karli Shimizu (Author) Through extensive use of primary resources and fieldwork, this detailed study examines overseas Shinto shrines and their complex role in the colonization and modernization of newly Japanese lands … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, empire, history, imperialism, Japan, Japanese culture, religion, religious studies, secularity, Shinto, shrines
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CFP: Entangled Modernities: New Directions in Settler Colonial and Critical Indigenous Studies (Canterbury, 25-26 May 2020)
Reposting from H-Empire: Symposium on Entangled Modernities: New Directions in Settler Colonial and Critical Indigenous Studies Location: University of Kent, UK. Dates: 25th-26th May 2020. Abstract Submission Deadline: Feb 28, 2020. ‘There was never a single beginning point to for … Continue reading
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Tagged conferences, imperialism, indigenous studies, settler colonialism, university of kent
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Book Announcement: Monster of the Twentieth Century, Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement
This extended monograph examines the work of the radical journalist Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s anti-imperialist movement of the early twentieth century. It includes the first English translation of Imperialism (Teikokushugi), Kotoku’s classic 1901 work. Kotoku Shusui was a Japanese socialist, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, history, imperialism, Japan, Japanese history, Kotoku Shusui, modern history
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Book Announcement: Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan
SOAS STUDIES IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY JAPAN Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan. Emily Anderson October 2014 Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan explores how Japanese Protestants engaged with the unsettling changes that resulted from Japan’s emergence as a world … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Christianity, colonial empire, imperialism, Japan, modern, modern Japan, nation state
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Fun Link Friday: Viscount Hayashi in The Lady’s Realm Magazine
This week’s fun link is a combination of my enjoyment of first-person accounts, historical ladies magazines, and the late Meiji period. This article from The Lady’s Realm (1903-4), a British women’s magazine, details the lifestyle of Viscount Hayashi and his wife Misao. I … Continue reading
Book announcement: Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922: “A Great Disobedience Against the People”
Now available from Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, as the second title in their New Studies of Modern Japan series. http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739146009 Hard cover ISBN: 978-0-7391-4600-2, $75. Soft cover ISBN: 978-0-7391-4601-9, $29.95. The first complete narrative of the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, history, imperialism, international relations, Japan, Japanese history, modern Japan, Siberia
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Call for Papers: Inter-Asian Connections III Workshop: Asian Crossings, 1789-1914
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/pages/interasia-program/inter-asian-connections-iii-workshop-asian-crossings-1789-1914/ WORKSHOP DIRECTORS: Ross Forman National University of Singapore ellrgf@nus.edu.sg Julia Kuehn The University of Hong Kong jkuehn@hku.hk Call for Workshop Papers DEADLINE: June 24, 2011 The long nineteenth century was a period of major social, economic, and cultural shifts … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, colonialism, geography, imperialism, Inter-Asian Connections, international exchange
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Call for Applications: Translating Asia: Studying China in Imperial Japan, 1895-1936
The Department of History at the Free University of Berlin (Prof. Sebastian Conrad) is inviting applications for a graduate student with the aim of pursuing a Ph.D. in the project Translating Asia: Studying China in Imperial Japan, 1895-1936. Positions will … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, Berlin, call for applications, China, Free University of Berlin, Germany, history, imperial Japan, imperialism, Japan, modern history, PhD, translation
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 