Thursday 18 March 2010

Recent readings XIII

Giorgio Riello, "Asian Knowledge and the Development of Calico Printing in Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Journal of Global History, Vol. 5, 2010, pp. 1-28. concepts involved: import substitution, useful and reliable knowledge, European epistemic base, knowledge transmission, knowledge reinterpretation, and global colours

Marina Carter and Crispin Bates, "Empire and Locality: A Global Dimension to the 1857 Indian Uprising," Journal of Global History, Vol. 5, 2010, pp. 51-73. The Indian Uprising [rather than Mutiny] in 1857 coincided with dramatic increase in global sugar price and aftermath the surge in numbers migrating to the sugar colonies.
Pierre-Yves Donzé, "Studies Abroad by Japanese Doctors: A Prosopographic Analysis of the Nameless Practitioners, 1862-1912," Social History of Medicine, Advance Access, 2010, 17 pps. 手塚晃:《幕末明治海外渡航者總覽》
Constance J. S. Chen, "Merchants of Asianness: Japanese Art Dealers in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century," Journal of American Studies, Advance Access, 28 pps. Bunkio Matsuki and Sadajiro Yamanaka. Their stories "illuminate the ways in which certain notions of Asianness and the reconceptualization of aesthetic categories were linked in complex ways...fabricated and sold definitions of race and art to peddle Oriental goods; their Japaneseness became cultural capital and a marketing strategy."
Ray Forrest, Adrienne La Grange and Yip Ngai-Ming, "Neighbourhood in a high rise, high density city: some observations on contemporary Hong Kong," The Sociological Review, Vol. 50, Iss. 2, May 2002, pp. 215-240. English literature on neighbourhood in low rise, low density environments in contrast to HK's high density, high rise living space. strong attachment to the neighbourhood but rare interaction with immediate neighbours (even on the same floor).
Leigh K. Jenco, "'Rule by Man' and 'Rule by Law' in Early Republican China: Contributions to a Theoretical Debate," Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, No. 1, February 2010, pp. 181-203. Liang Qichao, Zhang Shizhao, The Tiger 甲寅雜誌
David Rooney and James Nye, "'Greenwich Observatory Time for the Public Benefit': Standard Time and Victorian Networks of Regulation," British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 42, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 5-30. The widespread adoption of standard time in Britain took more than fifty years and simple public access to a representation of it took longer still. power, intelligence, state, and individual. Quotes "Victorian were obsessed with alcohol. Among the literate and the articulate, the proper place of drink in society was debated with an intensity and an exhaustiveness which is now difficult for us to comprehend." ( A. E. Dingle, The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England, London, 1980, p. 8)
Clare Midgley, "Can Women Be Missionaries? Envisioning Female Agency in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire," Journal of British Studies, Vol. 45, April 2006, pp. 335-358. female missionary memoirs in the Cape of Good Hope and India
Federica Ferlanti, "The New Life Movement in Jiangxi Province, 1934-1938," Modern Asian Studies, Advance Access, 40pps. state building, hygienic modernity, mass mobilisation

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