Wednesday 2 May 2012

Recent readings XXIV

Anthony Webster's "The Development of British Commercial and Political Networks in the Straits Settlements 1800 to 1868: The Rise of a Colonial and Regional Economic Identity?" Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 45, No. 4 (2011), pp. 899-929.

Terence Chong's "Manufacturing Authenticity: The Cultural Production of National Identities in Singapore,"  Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 45, No. 4 (2011), pp. 877-897.

Ray Yep, "'Cultural Revolution in Hong Kong': Emergency Powers, Administration of Justice and the Turbulent Year of 1967," Modern Asian Studies, 2011, 26 pps.

Kristin Burnett, "Race, Disease, and Public Violence: Smallpox and the (Un)Making of Calgary's Chinatown, 1892," Social History of Medicine Advance Access, September 30, 2011, 18pp. "Municipal authorities used racialised ideas about health and cleanliness to discursively create sites of meaning, delineating strict spatial boundaries between the Chinese and non-Chinese community." Soc Hist Med 2012 25: 362-379

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