"This volume owes its origins to the workshop 'Colonial anthropology in East and South-East Asia: a comparative view' which met in 1995 on 18-20 May in the Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies in ...

The recent uprising in the French territory, once an essential bastion of U.S. power projection, holds deeper meaning for strategists. “Territorial empire has mattered for the United States, even if ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

A woman holds a placard protesting against the sedition case filed by police against a school after a play performed by students denouncing a new citizenship law, in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Feb. 4, ...

August 31, 2021 ㅡ There is no question that both a strong sense of repudiation and apathy exists when it comes to colonial-era structures and it also runs through the public psyche of the Korean ...

The 20th century saw Asia transform as colonial empires collapsed and new nations emerged. From India’s nonviolent resistance to Vietnam’s armed struggle, each path to independence was unique yet ...

A recent article from the American Political Science Association (APSA) examined how the words used to describe Central Asia sometimes reinforce the region’s image as being part of Russia or the ...

THERE have been changes, during the war, in the prestige of every country now at war. In each case, the military factors of the prestige have interacted with political factors. We are now in a new ...

In the mid-twentieth century, a set of South Asian countries collectively experienced a catharsis from colonizers' rule. The period that followed sparked an era of ideas and philosophies for a new ...