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The Newsletter 59 Spring 2012
Postcolonial dialogues
Guest editor Michiel Baas offers a selection of examples of the confusing image painted by postcolonial dialogues, in which certain colonial pasts are celebrated, yet simultaneously recognised for the atrocities committed. The discussion brings us to the question of the post in postcolonial, and thus to the present day, because even though structures of inequality were put in place during colonial days, they often see their perpetuation and/or reinvention for many years after Independence.
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The Study |
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4 - 5 Battered Beauties: a study of French colonial markets in Cambodia |
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6 - 7 Perso-Indica: a critical survey of Persian works on Indian learned traditions |
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8 Stepping forth into the world: the Chinese educational mission and its antecedents |
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9 Evaluating Sino-African relations: new wine in old bottles? |
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10 - 11 The formation (and dissolution?) of a democratic politics in the Maldives |
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12 - 13 "Like tenderloin in a cow": Memoirs of former Communist Party of Burma insurgents in today's China |
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14 - 15 Civil war in Sri Lanka: Genesis, culmination and the UN report |
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16 Science in a changing world |
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22 Our strengths, our challenges |
The Focus: Postcolonial dialogues |
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23 - 25 Postcolonial dialogues |
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26 - 27 Disturbing Conventions. Wherefore postcolonial theory in contemporary Thai cultural studies? |
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28 - 29 From colonial site to cultural heritage. Rethinking postcolonialism and decolonization in Taiwan. |
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30 - 31 Travelling far on "rather short legs". Company-furniture on the move and the problem of shared heritage |
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32 - 33 "Never forget national humiliation". Postcolonial consciousness and China's rise |
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34 Commercial Burmanization: two adverts by Burmah Oil Company in postcolonial Burma |
The Review |
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19 Dharma |
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20 A Chinese scroll through time |
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37 Rumah Abu Han, a historic ancestral house in Surabaya |
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38 - 39 Deepening and decentralising the study of politics in Indonesia |
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40 Modes of comparison for structures of modernity |
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41 Trees for the wood |
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42 Making sense of the state from its margins |
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43 Inverted state-building and local resource politics in Eastern Indonesia |
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44 - 45 The Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong |
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46 Floating on water |
The Network |
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| 47 - 51... | News from Asia |
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The Portrait |
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56 China of bronze and gold: The Dong Bo Zhai collection |
