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• Preface. a fleeting encounter
• Introduction. Foreigners in China
• 1. The emergence of the 'Chocolate City': multiethnic spaces, catering networks, and articulated subeconomies
• 2. The materialities of transnational movement: food, hair, fashion, movies and other 'things'
• 3. Placemaking in Guangzhou: emplacement, transiency and the 'politics' of solidarity
• 4. Making it on the move: landscapes of aspiration in Guangzhou's African music scene
• 5. Transnational flows: gendered and racialised imaginaries of Africans in Guangzhou
• 6. Embedded transnationality: problematic transnational mobilities, the burden of methodological nationalism
• Postscript. African transnational mobility in post-COVID19 pandemic Guangzhou
• Index.
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Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and it transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies.
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• Introduction
• Part I: Trends in public support
• Studying American attitudes toward Israel
• Positive affect in American attitudes toward Israel
• Attitudes about the Arab-Israeli conflict and US involvement in the region
• Part 2: Assessing the divide in public support
• Demographic divisions
• Partisan divide
• Affective sources of attitudes
• The nature of the partisan divide over Palestinian independence
• Conclusion.

"This new book examines trends in American public opinion about Israel in over 75 years, from 1944 to 2019. Analyzing data from hundreds of surveys and in jargon-free writing, the authors show that public support for Israel has seen dramatic change toward increased division between partisan and select demographic groups, elaborating on the implications that this important change may have for the countries' special relationship. Scholars and students of American foreign policy, public opinion, Middle East politics, and international relations, as well as policy analysts, policy makers, journalists, and anyone interested in American policy towards Israel will want to read this book"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction
• Himanshu Prabha Ray
• 1a: Conceptualising the Seas: Introduction
• 2. Seven Seas and an Ocean of Wisdom: An Indian Episteme for the Indian Ocean
• Srinivas G. Reddy
• 3. Gendered Spatialisation of the Ocean in the Kathasaritsagara
• Tara Sheemar Malhan
• 4. Conceptualising the Far West: Early Chinese Notions of Da Qin and the Indian Ocean Trade
• Matthew A. Cobb
• 5. Al-Muqaddasi's tenth-century maritime landscapes of the Arabian Red Sea
• Dionisius A. Agius
• 5a: The Materiality of Knowledge Production: Introduction
• 6. Making Megaliths and Constituting Collectives: Politics, Places, and Historicity in Prehistoric South India
• Andrew M. Bauer and Peter G. Johansen
• 7. Bullion, Baubles and Bowls: Reconstructing networks of exchange in the Indian Ocean
• Uthara Suvrathan
• 8. Material cultures of writing in the Indian Ocean world: A palm-leaf letter at the Mamluk court
• Elizabeth Lambourn
• 8a: Anchoring the Coasts: Introduction
• 9. Practices of Faith: The Coastal Shrines of South Arabia
• Salila Kulshreshtha
• 10. Entangled Traditions: The Royal Barges of Angkor
• Veronica Walker Vadillo
• 11. Musical Nomenclature for the Sanskrit term kangsa in Southeast Asia
• Arsenio Nicolas
• 12. Connected Words: Coins and Maritime Worlds of the Indian Ocean
• Shailendra Bhandare.
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This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical documentation. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of the seas and maritime landscapes in Sanskrit, Arabic and Chinese narratives; materiality of knowledge production as indicated in the archaeological record of communities where writing on stone first appears; and anchoring the coasts, not only through an understanding of littoral shrines and ritual landscapes, but also by an analysis of religious imagery on coins, more so at the time of the introduction of new religions such as Islam in the Indian Ocean around the eighth century. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, Indian Ocean studies, maritime studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, religious studies and cultural studies. .
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• PART I: INTRODUCTION
• 1. Who is ASEAN? PART II: THEORISING (LANGUAGE) POWER, ASEAN, AND THE EU
• 2. Constructing ASEAN, the EU, and the ASEAN-EU relationship
• 3. Constructing constructivism
• 4. Representational Force: Constructivism's critical edge PART III: CONTESTATION IN THE ASEAN-EU RELATIONSHIP
• 5. Contestation emerging: 'Universalism' and 'Relativism'
• 6. Contestation within: 'Myanmar' and 'ASEAN's Pride'
• 7. Contestation infinitum: 'Protection' and 'Promotion' PART IV: CONCLUSION
• 8. Reflections on ASEAN, human rights, and the power to contest.
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This book analyses the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a powerful actor in International Relations by examining how the ASEAN community has evolved, looking specifically at its relationship with the EU with regards to human rights. The book adds to important contemporary debates within constructivist theory, shedding light on the need for 'critical' constructivism that emphasises language and contestation and what that may entail. On an empirical level, it challenges the idea of an 'EU-centrism, ' demonstrating how ASEAN is the major driving force behind its human rights and community aspirations, as well as within the ASEAN-EU relationship. Furthermore, this book engages with the introspection surrounding constructivism by addressing the trouble with 'norms, ' and instead unpacking the relationship between ASEAN and the EU to show language power in play. In particular, the book looks at how language, or rather coercive language, helps us 'see' contestation in action, something that researchers sympathetic towards the idea of ASEAN's 'resistance' have been unable to show through a focus on norms. Tracing the evolution of the ASEAN community and human rights aspirations in a new light, showing how exactly the EU remains an inspiration, but not a model, and more interestingly how ASEAN demonstrates power in the relationship, the book will be of interest to academics working on Asian Studies, European Studies, International Relations Theory and human rights.
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• Préface, par Yann Potin
• Introduction générale. Les Juifs, hors du récit national ?
• Prologue. Administrer les Juifs ou faire leur histoire ? (1780-1853)
• Au commencement était... le Concours de la Société royale de Metz (1785-1787)
• La mise en archives des lettres patentes relatives aux Juifs d'Alsace (1784) : construction d'un savoir administratif et monumentalisation de l'histoire régionale des Juifs
• Le Recueil de législation concernant les Israélites (1851) un "manuel d'administration israélite"
• Vers une contre-histoire ? Louis-Francia Beaufleury et l'histoire des Juifs de Bayonne et de Bordeaux
• Une mémoire en négatif : les juifs médiévaux dans les archives royales (années 1810 - années 1860)
• L'empire des collections de lois : les Juifs du royaume comme abstraction juridique à l'usage des historiens et des juristes
• Les lois relatives aux Juifs dans le Recueil des anciennes lois françaises d'Isambert (1821-1833)
• Le "produit des Juifs" : une abstraction juridique au service de la construction de l'absolutisme royal
• La layette "Juifs" du Trésor des chartes archéologie d'un ensemble documentaire situé au coeur des Archives royales
• La layette "Juifs" dans l'économie générale du Trésor des chartes
• La layette "Juifs" à travers les générations successives d'inventaires du Trésor des chartes
• La pièce manquante : à la recherche de J/427 n0 19
• Des usages juridiques et judiciaires aux usages historiographiques : les pièces de la layette "Juifs" comme sources pour l'histoire des Juifs
• J/427 n° 18 (1321) : les fortunes d'une "fable" dans le Trésor des chartes
• J/427 n° 13 : mémoire juive de Paris et histoire antiquaire
• À la recherche des "vénérables débris, témoins de nos anciens malheurs" : Samuel Cahen aux Archives du Royaume (1840)
• Construire une mémoire positive de la .présence juive médiévale : manuscrits hébraïques et fabrique des "sources judéo-françaises" (années 1860 ? années 1900)
• Des Archives de l'Empire à la Bibliothèque impériale : les vicissitudes des manuscrits hébraïques du Trésor des chartes
• Autour du manuscrit BnF Hébreu n° 302 : les aventures d'un glossaire hébreu-français du XXe siècle dans les collections de la Bibliothèque nationale
• Du BnF Hébreu 302 au "Glossaire de Paris" (A. Darmesteter) : la seconde vie d'un codex
• Du manuscrit à l'édition scientifique : le "Glossaire de Paris" dans tous ses états
• Extension du domaine des sources judéo-françaises les livres de comptes d'Héliot de Vesoul aux Archives départementales de Côte-d'Or
• Chronique d'une dissémination documentaire
• Chronique de la saisie érudite : à propos d'un "manuscrit que l'on dit être Talmud"
• Isidore Loeb et les "livres de commerce" d'Héliot de Vesoul (1884) de l'histoire régionale à la philologie romane
• La mémoire exhumée : les sources archéologiques de l'histoire des Juifs en France
• Un savoir antiquaire en construction
• Vers une géographie provinciale de la présence juive attestée par l'archéologie
• Le "hasard, dieu des chercheurs"
• La préméditation : les graffiti d'Issoudun (1833). Le relevé d'inscriptions hébraïques comme aventure héroïque
• Le temps de l'inventaire exhaustif du "trésor lapidaire" (Moïse Schwab) des inscriptions hébraïques de France
• Paléographie ou épigraphie hébraïque ?

• La faible contribution des vestiges archéologiques relatifs aux Juifs en France à la constitution des antiquités nationales
• Les inscriptions hébraïques comme "trésor lapidaire" : patrimonialisation et muséalisation des stèles hébraïques
• Une découverte épigraphique et archéologique majeure les stèles hébraïques de la rue Pierre-Sarrazin (Paris)
• Des pierres et des crânes... Enquête sur un refoulement de la mémoire
• Entre art et archéologie : les judaica de la collection Strauss et la définition d'un art religieux juif français
• La mémoire disséminée : classification des archives et écriture de l'histoire locale des Juifs en France (v. 1830 - v. 1880)
• Mise en ordre des archives et révélation de massifs documentaires relatifs aux Juifs dans les dépôts &archives publiques
• La rencontre des premiers "gisements documentaires" relatifs aux Juifs : le cas des Archives departementales du Bas-Rhin
• Des gisements documentaires à la monographie régionale le travail pionnier de Gustave Saige (1884)
• Des Juifs, seigneurs au Moyen Âge ? Chartes languedociennes médiévales et fianco-judaïsme
• Les Archives nationales au service de l'histoire des Juifs en France
• Siméon Luce et le "Catalogue des actes relatifs aux Juifs dans le Trésor des chartes sous Philippe le Bel" (1881)
• Isidore Loeb aux Archives nationales : chronique d'une fièvre archivistique
• De la mémoire à l'histoire critique : les archives au service d'une historiographie de la "coexistence pacifique"
• Isidore Loeb et l'historiographie documentaire points de convergence et points de divergence
• L'histoire des Juifs d'Avignon et du Comtat Venaissin : un cas "idéal"
• La méthode monographique d'Isidore Loeb à Orange et Carpentras
• Sources externes ou sources internes? Les statuts des Juifs d'Avignon et du Comtat Venaissin
• Apogée et déclin d'une source "interne" de l'histoire des Juifs du pape
• Vers une histoire commune des Juifs et des chrétiens au Moyen Âge ? Les archives notariales comme sources
• Salomon Kahn et les registres notariaux montpelliérains : le crédit juif en question
• Adolphe Crémieux : les registres notariaux et la question de la citoyenneté des Juifs de Marseille
• Paul Hikienfinger et les sources notariales d'Arles : jeux d'échelle, de l'individu à la communauté
• À la recherche des sources de l'histoire "intérieure" des Juifs de France
• Les archives communautaires de Metz : une approche généalogique
• Qu'est-ce qu'un Memorbuch ?
• À la recherche des Mémoriaux de Metz
• L'histoire du rabbinat de Metz : les archives communautaires au service de l'hagiographie
• Monuments ou épaves archivistiques ? Les pinkassim "français", des sources au risque de leur dislocation et de leur dissémination
• L'exception bordelaise
• Que sont devenus les autres pinkassim "français"
• Des registres communautaires aux registres d'état-civil des Nations juives à la nation française
• Les pinkassim de Carpentras : un' registre peut en cacher un autre
• Les registres de circoncisions d'Alsace et de Bordeaux : des sources franco juives ?
• Des marges au centre : les Juifs de Paris au XVIIIe siècle, l'état-civil d'une population sous surveillance.

"Les Juifs seraient absents de la mémoire historique de la France. À contre-courant de cette idée, ce livre propose de relire le processus de construction de l'histoire des Juifs de France en partant à la recherche de ses sources. Centré sur le XIXe siècle, il prend pour point de départ les ardents débats relatifs à la citoyenneté des Juifs sous la Révolution française. Tandis que la recherche historique se voit portée en France, à partir des années 1830, par la volonté politique de mise en ordre du passé archivé au sein des dépôts publics, de nombreux documents se voient identifiés, classés, inventoriés et publiés. Parmi eux, des documents relatifs à l'histoire des Juifs. Certains sont disséminés dans les fonds des archives locales, d'autres au contraire sont retrouvés au coeur même des collections les plus prestigieuses de la royauté française. Parallèlement, la fièvre archéologique qui gagne les élites provinciales cherchant à célébrer les racines chrétiennes de la France, fait émerger, presque par hasard, des inscriptions hébraïques. Celles-ci sont néanmoins intégrées difficilement et marginalement au domaine alors florissant des antiquités nationales. Il faudra attendre la fin du XIXe siècle pour qu'un cercle restreint de savants ancre une histoire française des Juifs depuis le Moyen Âge, non pas séparée, mais intégrée à l'histoire de France. Cette histoire "judéo-française", répondant à distance aux attaques antisémites de la presse nationaliste d'alors, permet de révéler la part juive insoupçonnée de l'histoire de France. Mais cette reconnaissance a un prix : la perte et la dislocation de nombreuses archives issues des anciennes communautés juives de France, fragilisant à terme la possibilité de reconstituer leur histoire "intérieure"."--Page 4 of cover.

• The Medium: the Mechanics of Writing History
• Words and Their Meaning
• Mythical Beginnings and Beginning of Myth
• From Kings to Heavenly Sovereigns
• The Beginnings of Writing a History
• The Tenmu-Jitō Historiographical Project.

"As the first book in English on the origins of Japanese historiography, using both archaeological and textual data, this book examines the connection between ancient Japan and the Korean kingdom of Paekche and how tutors from the kingdom of Kara helped to lay the foundation for a literate culture in Japan. Illustrating how tutors from the kingdoms of Kara and Paekche taught Chinese writing to the Japanese court through the prism of the highly civilized culture of Paekche, the book goes on to argue that Paekche tutors guided the early Japanese court through writing, recording family history, and ultimately an early history of the ruling family. As the Japanese began to create their own history, they relied on Paekche histories as a model. Triangulating textual data from Kojiki, Nihon shoki, and Sendai kuji hongi, the author here demonstrates that various aspects of early king genealogies and later events were manipulated. Offering new theories about the Japanese ruling family, it is posited that Emperor Jitō had her committee put Jingū in power, and Suiko on the throne in place of original male rulers to create images of strong, female rulers, as she envisioned herself. The Birth of Japanese Historiography will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Japanese history, historiography and linguistics"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Uri Dorchin and Gabriella. Djerrahian
• Part I: Background: Predicaments of Jewishness and Blackness
• 1. The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture: An Overview
• Abraham Melamed
• 2. Jewishness, Blackness and Genetic Data: Israeli Geneticists and Physicians Tracing the Ancestry of Two African Populations
• Nurit Kirsh
• Part II: Blackness in the Jewish Israeli Society
• 3. Kinked Race and Ethiopian Jewish Blackness in Israel: An Ethnography
• Gabriella Djerrahian
• 4. Black-Israeli Lives Matter: Online Activism among Young Ethiopian Israelis
• Omer Keynan
• 5. Blackness in Translation: The Israeli Black Panthers, 1971
• Oz Frankel
• 6. Blackness, Mizrahi Identity and Ethnic Shifting in Contemporary Israeli Popular Music
• Miranda L. Crowdus
• 7. A Different Hue of Blackness: The Haredi Case
• Nissim Leon
• Part III: Contested Blackness
• 8. "I Am Blacker than You": Mizrahiness and Ethiopianess in an Educational Boarding School in Israel
• Avihu Shoshana
• 9. Black City: Sounding Race, Territory and Belonging in Tel Aviv's "African Refugee Crisis"
• Sarah Hankins
• 10. Trajectories of Soul Citizenship: African Dance Clubs between Global Blackness and Local Awareness
• Uri Dorchin
• 11. Already Black...and Proud, and Righteous: The African Hebrew Israelite Community in the State of Israel
• Fran Markowitz
• Part IV: Blackness and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• 12. What is the Color of an Arab? A Critical View of Color Games.
• Honaida Ghanim
• 13. What Color are Israeli Jews? Intersectionality, Israel advocacy, and the Changing Discourse of Color and Indigeneity
• Michael R. Fischbach.
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This book explores contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America. The contributors engage with expressions and appropriations of modern forms of blackness for boundary-making, boundary-breaking, and boundary-re-making in contemporary Israel, underscoring the deep historical roots of contemporary understandings of race, blackness, and Jewishness. Allowing a new perspective on the sociology of Israel and the realm of black studies, this volume reveals a highly nuanced portrait of the phenomenon of blackness, one that is located at the nexus of global, regional, national and local dimensions. While race has been discussed as it pertains to Judaism at large, and Israeli society in particular, blackness as a conceptual tool divorced from phenotype, skin tone and even music has yet to be explored. Grounded in ethnographic research, the study demonstrates that many ethno-racial groups that constitute Israeli society intimately engage with blackness as it is repeatedly and explicitly addressed by a wide array of social actors. Enhancing our understanding of the politics of identity, rights, and victimhood embedded within the rhetoric of blackness in contemporary Israel, this book will be of interest to scholars of blackness, globalization, immigration, and diaspora.
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• Introduction: Human Security and the Emergence of Body Counts-- The Long Journey to the War on Terror-- The Rising Violence: Writing the War 2006-2007-- The Beginning of the End of Sectarian Violence? Writing the War 2008-2009-- Iraq 2010-2013-- Iraq 2014-2017: Obama and the Banality of Killing-- Epilogue: Iraq and Its Casualties Today.
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Lily Hamourtziadou's investigation into civilian victims during the conflicts that followed the US-led coalition's 2003 invasion of Iraq provides important new perspectives on the human cost of the War on Terror. From early fighting to the withdrawal and return of coalition troops, the Arab Spring and the rise of ISIS, the book explores the scale and causes of deaths and places them in the contexts of power struggles, US foreign policy and radicalisation. Casting fresh light on not just the conflict but international geopolitics and the history of Iraq, it constructs a unique and insightful human security approach to war.
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• Introduction: Human Security and the Emergence of Body Counts-- The Long Journey to the War on Terror-- The Rising Violence: Writing the War 2006-2007-- The Beginning of the End of Sectarian Violence? Writing the War 2008-2009-- Iraq 2010-2013-- Iraq 2014-2017: Obama and the Banality of Killing-- Epilogue: Iraq and Its Casualties Today.
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Lily Hamourtziadou's investigation into civilian victims during the conflicts that followed the US-led coalition's 2003 invasion of Iraq provides important new perspectives on the human cost of the War on Terror. From early fighting to the withdrawal and return of coalition troops, the Arab Spring and the rise of ISIS, the book explores the scale and causes of deaths and places them in the contexts of power struggles, US foreign policy and radicalisation. Casting fresh light on not just the conflict but international geopolitics and the history of Iraq, it constructs a unique and insightful human security approach to war.
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"The relation between China and Japan is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world but how did the Japanese view China in ancient times? How did views change throughout the course of history? How could China's image be improved in Japanese people's eyes? This book provides an analysis of the history of contact between China and Japan and surveys the present situation to understand general views of Japanese society toward China. Through scientific public opinion surveys as well as in-depth interviews, the book examines ordinary and elite Japanese people's views of Chinese culture, society, politics, the economy, media and Sino-Japanese relations. In addition, it analyzes the main causes of the formation of such views, and makes suggestions on promoting positive public opinions of China. The authors hope that this title can deepen Japanese society's understanding and comprehension of China, help promote Sino-Japanese non-governmental exchange, and lay the foundation for continuous development of Sino-Japanese relations. This title will appeal to students and scholars of cultural studies, international relations and Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of Figures. Preface.
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Culture, the Written Word and the Sea, 3rd century BCE to 4th century CE
• 3. Maritime Cultural Landscapes and expanding networks, 4th to 7th century
• 4. Travelling Relics
• 5. From the Tamil Coast to Vietnam: The King and the Temple
• 6. The Coastal Shrine and Maritime Networks, 7th to 13th Century CE
• 7. The Buddhist 'Cosmopolis' Re-examined
• 8. Shipwrecks Sites: Connecting the Dots
• 9. From Religious Shrines to Monuments: National Identity to Transnational Heritage. Bibliography. Index.
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This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It covers a period of expanding networks and cross-cultural encounters from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The book examines the distinctiveness of these shrines, and highlights their interconnections, and their role in social integration in South and Southeast Asia. By drawing on data from shipwreck sites, the author elaborates on the material and religious intersections and transmissions between cultures across the seas. Many of these coastal shrines survived into the colonial period when they came to be admired for their aesthetic value as 'monuments'. As nation states of the region became independent, these shrines were often inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List on account of their Outstanding Universal Values. The book argues that in the 21st century there is a need to promote the cultural connectivity of the past as transnational heritage on UNESCO's global platform to preserve and protect our shared heritage. The volume will be essential reading for academics and researchers of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, history of South and Southeast Asia, religious studies, cultural studies, and Asian studies.
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• 1 An Overview ZENG Yeying
• 2 Theories and Methods ZHANG Haipeng
• 3 The Political History of the Late Qing Dynasty ZENG Yeying and JIANG Tao
• 4 A History of the Republic of China WANG Chaoguang
• 5 Economic History YU Heping
• 6 Military History LIU Tong and MAO Haijian
• 7 Intellectual History GONG Shuduo, DONG Guicheng and QIU Tao
• 8 Studies on Cultural History LIU Zhiqin.
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• 1 History of Historiography HU Fengxiang and LIU Lina
• 2 History of Sino-Foreign Relations HOU Zhongjun and YANG Wanrong
• 3 Social History WANG Xianming
• 4 Urban History HE Yimin
• 5 History of Workers' Movements in China LIU Jingfang
• 6 Women's History ZHENG Yongfu and LV Meiyi
• 7 History of Youth Movements LI Yuqi.
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The study of modern Chinese history has developed rapidly in recent decades and has seen increased exploration of new topics and innovative approaches. Resulting from a special issue of Modern Chinese History Studies, this volume is devoted to showcasing the healthy development of Chinese modern history studies, and has already been revised twice in the original language. This volume exhibits major achievements on the study of modern Chinese history and shows how the role of history was in debate, transformation and re-evaluation throughout this tortuous yet prosperous period. Articles on eight different topics are collected from 11 prominent historians in order to represent their insights on the developmental paths of Chinese historical studies. Drawing on a large number of case studies of critical historical events, such as the founding of the Communist Party of China and the May 4th Movement, this volume reflects on economic history and military history, while moving on to explore more pioneering topics such as intellectual history and cultural history. This book will be a valuable reference for scholars and students of Chinese history.
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The study of modern Chinese history has developed rapidly in recent decades and has seen increased exploration of new topics and innovative approaches. Resulting from a special issue of Modern Chinese History Studies, this volume is devoted to showcasing the healthy development of Chinese modern history studies, and has already been revised twice in the original language. This volume exhibits major achievements on the study of modern Chinese history and shows how the role of history was in debate, transformation and re-evaluation throughout this tortuous yet prosperous period. Articles on seven different topics are collected from over ten prominent historians in order to represent their insights on the developmental paths of Chinese historical studies. Drawing on a large number of case studies of critical historical events, such as imperial China and the Chinese Workers' Movement, this volume sets out to explore topics such as the history of Sino-foreign relations as well as the history of workers' movements and youth movements. This book will be a valuable reference for scholars and students of Chinese history.
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• List of Maps
• Preface: Envisioning a Jewish State
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Jewish State as Utopia
• How to Use This Book for Discussion
• Part 1. Lands of Milk and Honey: Jewish Utopian Visions
• 1. The Eternal Quest for Utopia
• 2. Paradise Lost, Remembered, and Promised
• 3. Utopia, Apocalypse, Messiah
• Part 2. A Jewish State: Zionist Utopian Visions
• 4. A Torah Society
• 5. Holy Community
• 6. A National Home
• 7. Statehood and Power
• 8. Enlightenment and Normalization
• 9. Promised Borders
• 10. A Model of Social Justice
• Part 3. The Modern State of Israel: Reality Meets Utopia
• 11. Visions in Collision
• 12. A Utopian Travel Blog
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• .
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This first book to examine the Jewish state through the lens of Jewish utopian thought, from its biblical beginnings to modernity, offers a fresh perspective on the political, religious, and geopolitical life of Israel. As Marc J. Rosenstein argues, the Jewish people's collective memories, desires, hopes, and faith have converged to envision an ideal life in the Land of Israel-but, critically, the legacy is a kaleidoscope of conflicting (and sometimes overlapping) visions. And after three millennia of imagining utopia, it is almost impossible for Jews to respond to Israel's realities without being influenced-even unconsciously-by these images. Charting the place of utopian thought in Judaism, Rosenstein then illustrates, with original texts, diverse utopian visions of the Jewish state: Torah state (Yavetz), holy community (based on nostalgic memories of the medieval community), national-cultural home (Lewinsky), "normal" state (Herzl), socialist paradise (Syrkin), anarchy (Jabotinsky), and a polity defined by Israel's historic or divinely ordained borders. Analyzing how these disparate utopian visions collide in Israel's attempts to chart policy and practice regarding the Sabbath, social welfare, immigration, developing versus conserving the land, and the Israel-Diaspora relationship yields novel perspectives on contemporary flashpoints. His own utopian vision offers a further entryway for both Israelis and Diaspora Jews into more informed and nuanced conversations about the "Jewish state." .
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"Jewish temples stood in Jerusalem for nearly one thousand years and were a dominant feature in the life of the ancient Judeans throughout antiquity. This volume strives to obtain a diachronic and topical cross-section of central features of the varied aspects of the Jewish temples that stood in Jerusalem, one that draws on and incorporates different disciplinary and methodological viewpoints. Ten contributions are included in this volume by: Gary A. Anderson; Simeon Chavel; Avraham Faust; Paul M. Joyce; Yuval Levavi; Risa Levitt; Eyal Regev; Lawrence H. Schiffman; Jeffrey Stackert; Caroline Waerzeggers, edited by Tova Ganzel and Shalom E. Holtz"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction: Donald Brown's Brunei: Society, and Recent Transformations
• Victor T. King and Stephen C. Druce
• 2. Monarchy in Brunei: Past, Present and Future
• Ooi Keat Gin
• 3. 'So near and yet so far': Shaikh A. M. Azahari and 1962
• B. A. Hussainmiya
• 4. Hybrid Pathways to Orthodoxy: Bureaucratisation, Sharia-Compliant Exorcism and the Powers of Japanese Water-Crystal Photography in Brunei Darussalam
• Dominik M. Muller
• 5. Inside or Outside the Mainstream? An Ethnolinguistic Study of the Status of Minority Indigenous Groups in Negara Brunei Darussalam
• Noor Azam Haji-Othman and James McLellan
• 6. Menteri Darat and Incorporation: Integration of Dusun Society into the Organisational Structure of the Brunei Sultanate
• Pudarno Binchin
• 7. The Place of Kadayan in Traditional Brunei Society
• Allen R. Maxwell
• 8. Living on Water: Water Settlements in Borneo
• Hans-Dieter Evers
• 9. Development, Change and Modernisation in Kampong Ayer over the Last Fifty Years
• Haji Tassim bin Haji Abu Bakar
• 10. Prospects and Challenges of Heritage Tourism at Kampong Ayer (Water Village) in Brunei Darussalam
• Shafi Noor Islam
• 11. Epilogue: Brunei Studies: Fifty Years and More
• Donald E. Brown.
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This book analyses the processes of social and economic change in Brunei Darussalam. Drawing on recent studies undertaken by both locally based scholars and senior researchers from outside the state, the book explores the underlying strengths, characteristics, and uniqueness of Malay Islamic Monarchy in Brunei Darussalam in a historical context and examines these in an increasingly challenging regional and global environment. It considers events in Brunei's recent history and current socio-cultural transformations, which give expression to the traumatic years of decolonisation in Southeast Asia. A wide range of issues focus on foreign, non-Bruneian narratives of Brunei as against insider or domestic accounts of the sultanate, the status of minority ethnic groups in Brunei and the concept of 'Brunei society', as well as changes in the character and composition of the famous 'water village', Kampong Ayer, as the cultural heartland of Brunei Malay culture and the socio-cultural and economic effects of the resettlement of substantial segments of the population from a 'life on water' to a 'life on land'. A timely and very important study on Brunei Darussalam, the book will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, historians, geographers, and area studies specialists in Southeast Asian Studies and Asian Studies.
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