Recent readings XV

Esteban A. Nicolini and Fernando Ramos, "A new method for estimating the money demand in pre-industrial economies: probate inventories and Spain in the eighteenth century," European Review of Economic History, Vol. 14, pp. 145-177.

Timothy P. Barnard, "Film Melayu: Nationalism, modernity and film in a pre-World War Two Malay magazine," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, Feb. 2010, pp. 47-70. using five extant issues of the magazine published between May and September 1941 held in the British Library.

Mark Emmanuel, "Viewspapers: The Malay press of the 1930s," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, Feb. 2010, pp. 1-20.

Jan van der Putten, "Negotiating the Great Depression: The rise of popular culture and consumerism in early-1930s Malaya," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, Feb. 2010, pp. 21-45.

Henk Maier, "The writing of Abdul Rahim Kajai: Malay nostalgia in a crystal," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, Feb. 2010, pp. 71-100.

Goh Geok Yian, "The question of 'China' in Burmese chronicles," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, Feb. 2010, pp. 125-152.

Mulaika Hijjas, "Not just fryers of bananas and sweet potatoes: Literate and literary women in the nineteenth-century Malay world," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, Feb. 2010, pp. 153-172.

Sandra Khor Manickam, "Common ground: Race and the colonial universe in British Malaya," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 40, No. 3, Oct. 2009, pp. 593-612.

Andrew Goss, "Decent colonialism? Pure science and colonial ideology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1910-1929," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 187-214.

Anna Jackson, "Imaging Japan: The Victorian Perception and Acquisition of Japanese Culture," Journal of Design History, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 245-256.

Alison R. Marshall, "Chinese Immigration to Western Manitoba since 1884: Wah Hep, Geroge Chong, the KMT, and the United Church," Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Fall 2008), pp. 28-54. "We only want to fit in and be normal" from a respondent. "a nominal Christian identity enable men to be accepted by and from connections not only to the southern Chinese community but also to the non-Chinese Canadian community" Indeed, "[b]eing a nominal Christian in public and continuing to practise traditional customs in private is the way in which Chinese people have adapted to life in frontier regions of Canada." Religious ambivalence, R. Stephen Warner argues, occurs in situations where people are in dependent relationships and typifies the immigrant experience of religion, and people can self-identify as Christian in public and in private can pray at home. (p. 31)

Michael Toolan, "Nation languages, local literatures, and international readers: a new indigenization in native English writers?" MAVEN 2: Second International Conference on Major Varieties of English, University of Lincoln, Lincoln UK, September 1999. He coins "Global" as the international Enlgish used by globetrotting professionals.