"This volume owes its origins to the workshop 'Colonial anthropology in East and South-East Asia: a comparative view' which met in 1995 on 18-20 May in the Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies in ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

A woman holds a placard protesting against the sedition case filed by police against a school after a play performed by students denouncing a new citizenship law, in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Feb. 4, ...

The recent uprising in the French territory, once an essential bastion of U.S. power projection, holds deeper meaning for strategists. “Territorial empire has mattered for the United States, even if ...

What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...

The conference takes place at the Far Eastern Federal University, where the impact of colonialism on interethnic relations and the economic situation, as well as the problem of neo-colonialism, is ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – There’s nowhere in Asia like it any more: a cityscape studded with hundreds of grand and humble buildings from the colonial era amid multiethnic communities that have remained ...

In this article, I will examine the engagement of two precept-upholding monks, Shaku Unshō and his disciple, Tanaka Seijun, with the notion of “Korean Buddhism.” Disaffected by the decadence ...

With this 2022 theme, we aim to draw attention to how Asian societies and diasporas have been shaped by empire. We understand empire to be a crucial factor in shaping the trajectories of past and ...

There's nowhere in Asia like it any more: a cityscape studded with hundreds of grand and humble buildings from the colonial era amid multiethnic communities that have remained intact, vibrant and ...