Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia / / ed. by Srilata Ravi, Mario Rutten, Beng-Lan Goh.

The book presents a unique combination of the study of contemporary and historical practices between Asia and Europe and brings forth some of the latest thinking on the subject. Recent debates have centered primarily on contemporary aspects of the Europe-Asia partnership in terms of international re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (333 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part I. Academic Discourses and Concepts
  • 2 Civilizational Encounters: Europe in Asia
  • 3 Locating Southeast Asia: Postcolonial Paradigms and Predicaments
  • 4 The Meaning of Alternative Discourses: Illustrations from Southeast Asia
  • 5 Redrawing Centre-Periphery Relations: Theoretical Challenges in the Study of Southeast Asian Modernity
  • 6 Rethinking Assumptions on Asia and Europe: The Study of Entrepreneurship
  • Part II. Linkages: Science, Society and Culture
  • 7 Royal Antiquarianism, European Orientalism and the Production of Archaeological Knowledge in Modern Siam
  • 8 Foreign Knowledge: Cultures of Western Science-making in Meiji Japan
  • 9 British Colonial Rhetoric on ‘Modern Medicine’ and ‘Health at Home’: Realities of Health Conditions in 19th Century Britain
  • 10 Poverty, Gender and Nation in Modern Vietnamese Literature During the French Colonial Period (1930s–40s)
  • 11 Family Linkages between India and Britain: Views from Gujarat and London
  • 12 Framing ‘the Other’: A Critical Review of Vietnam War Movies and their Representation of Asians and Vietnamese
  • 13 Métis, Métisse and Métissage: Representations and Self-Representations
  • About the Contributors