Bhangra is common understood as teh hybrid music produced in Britain by British Asian music producers through mixing Panjabi folk melodies with western pop and black dance rhytms. This is derived from a Panjabi harvest dance of the same name. The book looks at Bhangra’s global flows from one of its originary sites, the Indian …
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This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge from other great linguistic traditions apart from Arabic, especially in …
Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population studies …
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Armed separatist movements in Papua, East Timor and Aceh have been a serious problem for Indonesia’s central government. This book examines the policies of successive Indonesian governments to contain secessionist forces, focusing in particular on Jakarta’s response towards the armed separatist movement in Aceh. Unlike other studies of separatism in Indonesia, this book concentrates on …
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This chapter revisits the ‘The Nanzhao as a Tai Kingdom’ argument, and examines the Chinese scholars’ refutation in the 1980s in the light of Chinese narration of the Nanzhao history. It argues that the ‘Nanzhao as a Tai Kingdom’ argument should not be understood in terms of nationalist contestation, but in the role that history …
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Two divergent views confront each other from the perspective of the management of family affairs by left behind wives due to husbands’ out-migration. Some opine that left behind wives takes an active role in the management of family affairs whereas others believe that many are confronted for the first time with major responsibilities and are …
De Jiao (“Teaching of Virtue”) is a China-born religious movement, based on spirit-writing and rooted in the tradition of the “halls for good deeds,” which emerged in Chaozhou during the Sino-Japanese war. The book relates the fascinating process of its spread throughout Southeast Asia in the 1950s, and, more recently, from Thailand and Malaysia to …
Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan’s postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on …
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