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Titel

Editorial Foreword 76.4 (November 2017)

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of Asian studies, 2017-11, Vol.76 (4), p.835-838

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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• Rounding out the main body of the issue, ahead of the book reviews, are five research articles, two of which look at the drawing and contesting of borders in Northeast Asia and South Asia, respectively; one of which is a foray into the history of science in China's Republican period (1912-49); one of which focuses on Vietnamese collaborators during World War II; and one of which presents the results of an economist's use of demographic data to illuminate patterns in the state violence that convulsed Indonesia in the mid-1960s. [...]though many of the contributors are either historians (including four out of the five authors of the stand-alone articles just mentioned) or anthropologists (the presidential address, "Reflections" essay, and two of the five essays in the JAS at AAS forum are the work of ethnographers), the disciplines of sociology, geography, political science, and, most unusually for this journal in the last two decades, economics are all represented as well. Between Ho's two pieces comes the following quartet of essays: "Surviving in a 'Society'-centric World" by Rian Thum of Loyola College of New Orleans, a Central Asianist and historian with interests in South Asia and China as well; "Globalization, Transnationalism, and 'Mobile Societies' from a Sociological Perspective" by University of Michigan sociologist Jaeeun Kim; "Hong Kong's Eurasian 'Web' Viewed through the Lens of Inter-Asian Studies," by M.I.T. historian Emma Teng; and "Revisiting Distant Divides and Intimate Connections in Asia," by University of Pittsburgh anthropologist Nicole Constable, who has worked on both China and Southeast Asia.