Recent readings XIV

Lancelot Forster, Professor of Education at HKU, observed that "Hong Kong is merely a pied-à-terre both for British and Chinese residents. The former looks forward to his next home leave and final retirement in England, the latter regards himself, like the former, as a temporary exile from his beloved Canton." from the private papers of Forster, "General Strike in Hong Kong," 1925?. File 3, Forster Papers, Mss. Ind. Ocn. S177. Rhodes House, Oxford University. Cited from Steven Evans' "The Evolution of the English-language Speech Community in Hong Kong,"English World-Wide, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2009), pp. 278-301, 286.

Edward R. Beauchamp, "'Scratches on Our Minds': William Elliot Griffis as Interpreter of Japan,"Asian Profile, Vol. 1, No. 3, December 1973.

Benjamin Wai-ming Ng, "Consuming and Localizing Japanese Combat Games in Hong Kong," in Larissa Hjorth and Dean Chan (eds.), Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 83-101.

Anna Winterbottom, "Producing and Using the Historical Relation of Ceylon: Robert Know, the East India Company and the Royal Society," British Journal of Historical Studies, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 515-538.

Jayanta Sengupta, "Nation on a Platter: the Culture and Politics of Food and Cuisine in Colonial Bengal," Modern Asian Studies, 18pps.

Nile Green, "The Uses of Books in a Late Mughal Takiyya: Persianate Knowledge between Person and Paper," Modern Asian Studies, 25pps.

Edward McDonald, "Getting over the Walls of Discourse: 'Character Fetishization' in Chinese Studies," The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Nov. 2009), pp. 1189-1213.

Simone Lässig and Karl Heinrich Pohl, "History Textbooks and Historical Scholarship in Germany," History Workshop Journal, Issue 67, 2009, pp. 125-139. "school textbooks...as instruments of socialization...the social and cultural knowledge found in textbooks not only reflects scholarly requirements and contemporary didactic codes: it is always of political relevance too." (p. 125)

Neeladri Bhattacharya, "Teaching History in Schools: the Politics of Textbooks in India," History Workshop Journal, Issue 67, 2009, pp. 99-110.

Romila Thapar, "The History Debate and School Textbooks in India: a Personal Memoir,"History Workshop Journal, Issue 67, 2009, pp. 88-98.

Mark Levene, "Historians for the Right to Work: We Demand a Continuing Supply of History,"History Workshop Journal, Issue 67, 2009, pp. 69-81.

Mieke de Vos, "The Return of the Canon: Transforming Dutch History Teaching," History Workshop Journal, Issue 67, 2009, pp. 111-124. The Dutch Canon and the Ten-Periods framework. nationalist and Eurocentric bias, absence of guiding principles, and the arbitrary and exchangeable character of the items