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SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the
global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one
small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the
mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong
Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer
speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health
Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantine in the
absence of any scientific knowledge of the disease. Now three years
on from the initital outbreak, SARS poses no major threat and has
vanished from the global media. Written by a team of contributors
from a wide variety of disciplines, this book investigates the rise
and subsequent decline of SARS in Hong Kong, mainland China and
Taiwan. Multidisciplinary in its approach, SARS explores the
epidemic from the perspectives of cultural geography, media studies
and popular culture, and raises a number of important issues such
as the political fate of the new democracy, spatial governance and
spatial security, public health policy making, public culture
formation, the role the media play in social crisis, and above all
the special relations between the three countries in the context of
globalization and crisis. It provides new and profound insights
into what is still a highly topical issue in today's world.
SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the
global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one
small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the
mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong
Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer
speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health
Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantine in the
absence of any scientific knowledge of the disease. Now three years
on from the initital outbreak, SARS poses no major threat and has
vanished from the global media. Written by a team of contributors
from a wide variety of disciplines, this book investigates the rise
and subsequent decline of SARS in Hong Kong, mainland China and
Taiwan. Multidisciplinary in its approach, SARS explores the
epidemic from the perspectives of cultural geography, media studies
and popular culture, and raises a number of important issues such
as the political fate of the new democracy, spatial governance and
spatial security, public health policy making, public culture
formation, the role the media play in social crisis, and above all
the special relations between the three countries in the context of
globalization and crisis. It provides new and profound insights
into what is still a highly topical issue in today's world.
Bringing local history to bear on major questions in Chinese social
history and anthropology, this volume comprises a series of
historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl River Delta from
late imperial times through the 1940's. The delta is a rich and
socially complex area of south China, and the contributors -
scholars from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, the United
Kingdom, and the United States - have long-standing ties to the
region.
The contributors argue that local society in the Delta was
integrated into the Chinese state through a series of changes that
involved constant redefinition of lineages, territories, and ethnic
identities. The emergence of lineages in the Ming and Qing
dynasties, the deployment of deities in local alliances, and the
shrewd use of ethnic labels provided terms for a discourse that
reified the criteria for membership in Chinese local society. The
ideology produced by these developments continued to serve as the
norm for the legitimization of power in local society through the
Republican period.
In reconstructing the 'civilizing process' in the Delta, whereby
local inhabitants, both elites and commoners, used symbolic and
instrumental means to become part of Chinese culture and polity,
the book confronts a central question in history and anthropology:
How do we conceptualize the historical development of a state
agrarian society with hierarchies of power and authority,
attachment to which is both unifying and diversifying?
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Asia Inside Out, 1 (Hardcover)
Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue; Contributions by Peter C. Perdue, Helen F. Siu, …
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R1,056
Discovery Miles 10 560
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial,
and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out:
Changing Times "brings into focus the diverse networks and dynamic
developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the
past five centuries.
Each author examines an unnoticed moment a single year or decade
that redefined Asia in some important way. Heidi Walcher explores
the founding of the Safavid dynasty in the crucial battle of 1501,
while Peter C. Perdue investigates New World silver s role in
Sino-Portuguese and Sino-Mongolian relations after 1557. Victor
Lieberman synthesizes imperial changes in Russia, Burma, Japan, and
North India in the seventeenth century, Charles Wheeler focuses on
Zen Buddhism in Vietnam to 1683, and Kerry Ward looks at trade in
Pondicherry, India, in 1745. Nancy Um traces coffee exports from
Yemen in 1636 and 1726, and Robert Hellyer follows tea exports from
Japan to global markets in 1874. Anand Yang analyzes the diary of
an Indian soldier who fought in China in 1900, and Eric Tagliacozzo
portrays the fragility of Dutch colonialism in 1910. Andrew
Willford delineates the erosion of cosmopolitan Bangalore in the
mid-twentieth century, and Naomi Hosoda relates the problems faced
by Filipino workers in Dubai in the twenty-first.
Moving beyond traditional demarcations such as West, East,
South, and Southeast Asia, this interdisciplinary study underscores
the fluidity and contingency of trans-Asian social, cultural,
economic, and political interactions. It also provides an
analytically nuanced and empirically rich understanding of the
legacies of Asian globalization."
Bringing local history to bear on major questions in Chinese social
history and anthropology, this volume comprises a series of
historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl River Delta from
late imperial times through the 1940's. The delta is a rich and
socially complex area of south China, and the contributors -
scholars from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, the United
Kingdom, and the United States - have long-standing ties to the
region.
The contributors argue that local society in the Delta was
integrated into the Chinese state through a series of changes that
involved constant redefinition of lineages, territories, and ethnic
identities. The emergence of lineages in the Ming and Qing
dynasties, the deployment of deities in local alliances, and the
shrewd use of ethnic labels provided terms for a discourse that
reified the criteria for membership in Chinese local society. The
ideology produced by these developments continued to serve as the
norm for the legitimization of power in local society through the
Republican period.
In reconstructing the 'civilizing process' in the Delta, whereby
local inhabitants, both elites and commoners, used symbolic and
instrumental means to become part of Chinese culture and polity,
the book confronts a central question in history and anthropology:
How do we conceptualize the historical development of a state
agrarian society with hierarchies of power and authority,
attachment to which is both unifying and diversifying?
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Asia Inside Out, 3 (Hardcover)
Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue; Contributions by Erik Harms, Biao Xiang, …
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R1,080
Discovery Miles 10 800
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A pioneering study of historical developments that have shaped Asia
concludes with this volume tracing the impact of ideas and cultures
of people on the move across the continent, whether willingly or
not. In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar
interdisciplinary team of scholars considers the migration of
people-and the ideas, practices, and things they brought with
them-to show the ways in which itinerant groups have transformed
their culture and surroundings. Going beyond time and place, which
animated the first two books, this third one looks at human beings
on the move. Human movement from place to place across time
reinforces older connections while forging new ones. Erik Harms
turns to Vietnam to show that the notion of a homeland as a marked
geographic space can remain important even if that space is not
fixed in people's lived experience. Angela Leung traces how much of
East Asia was brought into a single medical sphere by traveling
practitioners. Seema Alavi shows that the British preoccupation
with the 1857 Indian Revolt allowed traders to turn the Omani
capital into a thriving arms emporium. James Pickett exposes the
darker side of mobility in a netherworld of refugees, political
prisoners, and hostages circulating from the southern Russian
Empire to the Indian subcontinent. Other authors trace the impact
of movement on religious art, ethnic foods, and sports spectacles.
By stepping outside familiar categories and standard narratives,
this remarkable series challenges us to rethink our conception of
Asia in complex and nuanced ways.
Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically
linked regions of the world's largest continent, stretching from
Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the
Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this
pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows
of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political
boundaries-sea routes, delta ecologies, and mountain passes, ports
and oasis towns, imperial capitals and postmodern cities. It
challenges the conventional idea that defines geopolitical regions
as land-based, state-centered, and possessing linear histories.
Exploring themes of maritime connections, mobile landscapes, and
spatial movements, the authors examine significant sites of linkage
and disjuncture from the early modern period to the present.
Readers discover how eighteenth-century pirates shaped the
interregional networks of Vietnam's Tonkin Gulf, how Kashmiri
merchants provided intelligence of remote Himalayan territories to
competing empires, and how for centuries a vibrant trade in horses
and elephants fueled the Indian Ocean economy. Other topics
investigated include cultural formations in the Pearl River delta,
global trade in Chittagong's transformation, gendered homemaking
among mobile Samurai families, border zones in Qing China and
contemporary Burma, colonial spaces linking India and Mesopotamia,
transnational marriages in Oman's immigrant populations, new
cultural spaces in Korean pop, and the unexpected adoption of the
Latin script by ethnically Chinese Muslims in Central Asia.
Connected Places shows the constant fluctuations over many
centuries in the making of Asian territories and illustrates the
confluence of factors in the historical construction of place and
space.
Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing
(1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the
formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The
contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of
environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts
in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They
find that local communities were critical participants in the
shaping of their own identities and consciousness as well as the
character and behavior of the state. At certain times the state was
institutionally definitive, but it could also be symbolic and
contingent. They demonstrate how the imperial discourse is
many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural
assimilation.
This volume is one of the first collections to reach the West of
the stories, essays, and poems published by writers of the "Mao
Generation"--the first generation of Chinese to grow up under
socialism. Drawn from both official Chinese literary journals and
underground magazines, these previously untranslated stories
provide a fascinating portrait of China in the seventies.
When peasants live in complex agrarian societies with distinct
hierarchies of power, how much are they able to shape their world?
In this socio-economic, political, and anthropological history,
Helen F. Siu explores this question by examining a rural community
in Guangdong Province from the late nineteenth century to the
present.
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