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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Paradigmatic Conflict & Crisis: Grad Conf on Mideast, South Asia and Africa, Columbia Univ, New York [Feb 28-Mar 1 2013]

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Paradigmatic Conflict & Crisis: Grad Conf on Mideast,
South Asia and Africa, Columbia Univ, New York [Feb 28-Mar 1 2013]


> H-ASIA
> December 26, 2012
>
> Call for Papers: Paradigmatic Conflict and Crisis: A Graduate Conference
> on the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, New York,
> Columbia University, [February 28-March 1, 2013]
>
> *******************************************************************
> Ed. note: The original posters did not include the dates of this
> conference anywhee in the text of the announcement--consultation of
> the referenced site indicates the dates to be February 28 and March
> 1, 2013. FFC
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> CFP - Paradigmatic Conflict and Crisis: A Graduate Conference on the
> Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
>
> Location: New York, United States
> Call for Papers Date: 2013-01-15 (in 20 days)
> Date Submitted: 2012-12-26
> Announcement ID: 199809
>
> The annual Graduate Student Conference at Columbia University's Department
> of Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS) is soliciting
> papers exploring the debates and spaces in which paradigms undergo crisis
> and conflict, or challenge the dominant theoretical positions underpinning
> its very constitution. Papers can focus on any topic within the humanities
> and social sciences.
> The concept of paradigm opens broad possibilities for the analysis of
> social and intellectual phenomena across diverse traditions and time
> periods. Paradigm is commonly but not exclusively viewed as a system of
> knowledge with a particular power structure, within which a set of beliefs
> or values plays a dominant and defining role. Studying paradigms may
> consist of analyzing major social transformations to reveal the
> paradigmatic tensions and crises underlying them, or employing paradigms
> as tools to clarify socio-political events. Furthermore, the very notion
> of paradigm can be contested and transformed.
>
> Papers may relate to but need not be bound by the following themes:
>
> -Paradigm as a Comparative Tool: How do paradigmatic elements within
> intellectual traditions allow for historical and cross-cultural
> comparative work?
>
> -Conflict In and Across Paradigms: How is conflict dealt with in a
> paradigm?
>
> -Paradigm Shifts: When and how do paradigms become outdated?
>
> -Critical Theory as Anti-Paradigmatic: How can critical theory challenge
> established paradigms or paradigm shifts?
>
> -Paradigmatic Technology: How does the adoption of a given technology
> challenge, strengthen, or influence the implementation or development of
> different paradigms?
>
> Students interested in presenting a 20-minute paper should submit a
> 300-word abstract and one-page CV to our website by January 15th.
>
> Panel submissions are encouraged.
>
> Exceptional papers will be collected into a digital volume under the
> conference title.
>
> For all inquiries, contact: info@mesaasgradconference.org
>
>
> MESAAS Graduate Conference
> Columbia University in the City of New York
> 401 Knox Hall
> 606 West 122nd St.
> New York, NY 10027
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> Visit the website at http://www.mesaasgradconference.org
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Muslim Identity Formation in Religiously Diverse Societies, Charles Sturt Univ, Sydney, Nov. 26-28, 2013

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Muslim Identity Formation in Religiously Diverse
Societies, Charles Sturt Univ, Sydney, Nov. 26-28, 2013


> H-ASIA
> December 26, 2012
>
> Call for Abstracts: Inaugural Australasian Conference on Islam:
> Muslim Identity Formation in Religiously Diverse Societies
> Sydney, Charles Sturt University, November 26-28, 2013
> *******************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Inaugural Australasian Conference on Islam Muslim Identity Formation in
> Religiously Diverse Societies
>
> Location: Australia
> Conference Date: 2013-02-28
> Date Submitted: 2012-12-19
> Announcement ID: 199698
>
> CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
> Inaugural Australasian Conference on Islam:
> Muslim Identity Formation in Religiously Diverse Societies
>
> 24-26 November 2013
>
> Centre for Islamic Studies & Civilisation, Charles Sturt University
> ISRA Islamic Sciences & Research Academy of Australia Sydney, Australia
>
> Abstract submission date: 28 February 2013
>
> Although religious diversity is more pronounced in the Western and
> Asia-Pacific context, such diversity even exists in predominantly Muslim
> societies. Key drivers in identity formation include Islam, nature and
> level of Islamic education, generational transition, the nature and extent
> of religious diversity and rapidly changing social and political
> landscape. How all these factors impinge on the identity formation of
> Muslims and Muslim societies will be explored in this conference.
>
> Abstracts are welcome in two broad areas:
>
> 1.How Islam in its theology, practices and ethical teachings impacts on
> Muslim identity formation
> 2.How living in a religiously diverse society influences identity
> formation of contemporary Muslims
>
>
> Dr Derya Iner
> Centre for Islamic Sciences and Civilisation (CISAC) Charles Sturt
> University, Sydney Australia
>
> Phone (+61)02 9649 9040
> Email:diner@csu.edu.au
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFA Asian Early Modernities: Empires, Bureaucrats, Confessions, Borders, Merchants, Workshop Istanbul Oct 2-5, 2013

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:35 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFA Asian Early Modernities: Empires, Bureaucrats,
Confessions, Borders, Merchants, Workshop Istanbul Oct 2-5, 2013


> H-ASIA
> December 26, 2012
>
> Call for Applications: "Asian Early Modernities: Empires, Bureaucrats,
> Confessions, Borders, Merchants," workshop part of the "Conference on
> Inter-Asian Connections IV," organized by the SSRC in Istanbul on October
> 2-5, 2013.
> *****************************************************************
> From: I Kaya Sahin <iksahin@yahoo.com>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am organizing, together with Hendrik Spruyt (Northwestern/Political
> Science), a workshop called "Asian Early Modernities: Empires,
> Bureaucrats, Confessions, Borders, Merchants." The workshop will be
> part of the "Conference on Inter-Asian Connections IV," organized by the
> SSRC in Istanbul on October 2-5, 2013. Applications for presentations have
> to be submitted via the SSRC website, and the deadline is February 11,
> 2013.
>
> As workshop organizers, we are eager to receive applications
> from a large pool of scholars whose work deals with comparative imperial
> history in the early modern period. We hope you will consider joining us
> in Istanbul.
>
> Conference website:
>
> http://www.ssrc.org/programs/pages/interasia-program/conference-on-inter-asian-connections-iv-istanbul-october-2-5-2013/
>
> Link for our workshop:
>
> http://www.ssrc.org/programs/pages/interasia-program/inter-asian-
> connections-iv-workshop-asian-early-modernities-empires-bureaucrats-
> confessions-borders-merchants/
>
> The site will begin accepting online applications in early
> January 2013.
>
> Thank you for your help, and best
> regards,
>
> Kaya Sahin
> Indiana University
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Violence and Resistance, Syracuse Graduate History Conference

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From: "Ryan Dunch" <ryan.dunch@UALBERTA.CA>
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Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 1:06 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Violence and Resistance, Syracuse Graduate History
Conference


H-ASIA
December 22, 2012

CFP Violence and Resistance, Syracuse Graduate History Conference
Deadline Extended to January 15, 2013
************************************************************************
From: Alexandra Marie Elias <amelias@maxwell.syr.edu>

Dear colleagues,

Please find below and attached the call for papers for "Violence and
Resistance," the fifth annual graduate conference hosted by the Syracuse
University Department of History Future Professoriate Program. The
conference will take place March 29th, 2013 in Syracuse, New York.
Responses may be sent to amelias@maxwell.syr.edu.

Alexandra Elias
Doctoral Candidate
Syracuse University Department of History

The Future Professoriate Program for the Department of History
at Syracuse University invites graduate students at all levels to submit
paper proposals for its Fifth Annual Syracuse Graduate History Conference,
to be held on March 29th, 2013. Our organization's goal is to help graduate
students grow as professionals within the academic community. Graduate
students are welcome to propose either individual or panel presentations.
This year's theme is "Violence and Resistance." These have
become increasingly central to scholarship and have been a palpable
presence both on the news and in our classrooms. We define violence and
resistance broadly. Submitted papers may focus upon the subject and the
connotations thereof in various forms. Topics may include but are not
limited to:
· Memory
· Religion
· Gender
· Military
· Community Identity
· Popular Culture
· Family
· Imperialism/Colonial Experiences
· Landscape
· The Self
· Politics
Presentations will be 20 minutes long in three-person panels.
Priority will be given to panels representing multiple institutions. For
individual paper proposals, please submit abstracts no longer than 300
words and a C.V. For panel proposals, please also submit a 200-word panel
abstract. The proposal deadline is January 15th, 2012. Please submit all
materials to Alexandra Elias at amelias@maxwell.syr.edu

Participants will be responsible for their own travel and meal expenses,
but some refreshments will be provided. We are a welcoming graduate
community and will be happy to answer any questions.


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Fw: H-ASIA: REVIEW Brown on Peattie and Drea and van de Ven, _The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945_

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Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:12 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: REVIEW Brown on Peattie and Drea and van de Ven, _The
Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of
1937-1945_


> H-ASIA
> December 22, 2012
>
> Book Review (orig pub. H-War) by Roger H. Brown on Mark R. Peattie,
> Edward J. Drea and Hans J. van de Ven, eds. _The Battle for China: Essays
> on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945_
>
> (x-post H-Review)
> **********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Staff <revhelp@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
>
> Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea, Hans J. van de Ven, eds. The Battle
> for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of
> 1937-1945. Stanford Stanford University Press, 2010.
> Illustrations, maps. 664 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-6206-9.
>
> Reviewed by Roger H. Brown (Saitama University)
> Published on H-War (December, 2012)
> Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
>
> The Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 was immense both in its scale and
> consequences. Nevertheless, Western military histories of World War
> II have focused overwhelmingly on the campaigns of the European and
> Pacific theaters, and those specialized studies of the conflict that
> do exist deal primarily with such matters as diplomacy; politics;
> mass mobilization; and, in more recent years, Japanese atrocities and
> public memory. Indeed, as the editors of the volume under review
> attest, "a general history of the military operations during the war
> based on Japanese, Chinese, and Western sources does not exist in
> English" (p. xix). In 2004, Japanese, Chinese, and Western scholars
> gathered to remedy this situation and in the belief that such a close
> study of the operations and strategy of the Sino-Japanese War would
> "illustrate that, in this period, warfare drove much of what happened
> in the political, economic, social, and cultural spheres in China and
> Japan." They further recognized that because "much of the best
> scholarship on WWII in East Asia is naturally produced in China and
> Japan," there was a need to "bring the fruits of Chinese and Japanese
> work to the attention of a wider public" (p. xx). Granting that the
> resulting volume is not exhaustive, the editors seek to bridge the
> inevitable gaps with "a general overview of the military campaigns,
> an accompanying chronology, and introductions to the several sections
> into which the chapters are grouped" (p. xxi). With that caveat
> behind them, coeditors Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea, and Hans J.
> van de Ven declare that the contributors have provided "an
> authoritative introduction to the military course of one of the
> greatest conflicts of the twentieth century" (p. xx). Their
> confidence is not misplaced, for _The Battle of China_ beautifully
> fulfills the objectives they have laid out for it and will be
> gratefully utilized by readers interested in the history of the
> Sino-Japanese War, World War II, and modern warfare in general.
>
> The contributors' essays are grouped into six parts, the first of
> which includes the chronology mentioned above and overview of the
> war, as well as the book's fourteen maps. Drea and van de Ven open
> this section with solid general coverage of the major campaigns
> between 1937 and 1945. Peattie then discusses the origins of the war,
> placing particular emphasis on the role played by Japanese field
> officers and other "contending interest groups" in perpetuating a
> dysfunctional strategy in China, and on the "structural and political
> weaknesses within Japan that confused the development of a clear-cut
> policy" toward that country (p. 52). Moreover, while also dealing
> with the chaotic domestic conditions in China, he astutely points to
> Japan's failure to learn that its "formula for a dominant position in
> China--a united China submissive to Japanese dictates--was impossibly
> self-contradictory" (p. 60).
>
> The essays in part 2 examine the Chinese Nationalist Army and the
> Imperial Japanese Army on the eve of the war. Chang Jui-Te
> demonstrates that the Chinese army, while making "real progress in
> many areas," continued to be plagued seriously both by internal
> political and military divisions and by unevenness in leadership and
> training (p. 85). In contrast, Drea's survey of the Japanese army's
> tactical and doctrinal proficiency reveals an organization that was
> tough, confident, well trained, and well armed, albeit preparing to
> fight the Soviet Union, rather than China. As part of these
> preparations, the Japanese army updated its infantry tactics in 1937
> to incorporate greater use of firepower and maneuver in assaulting
> fixed positions. Consequently, as Drea points out, when war came with
> China instead, Japanese units, contrary to popular imagination, did
> not rely solely on frontal assaults and the spirit of the bayonet,
> but "brought to bear superior firepower and modern equipment in
> combined arms warfare, relying on regimental heavy weapons and
> artillery to soften enemy positions before infantry assaults" (p.
> 115). Nevertheless, while "the ability of Japanese forces to react
> quickly, maneuver rapidly, and fight skillfully, just as they had
> been trained, equipped, and indoctrinated to do, proved initially
> advantageous," Chinese resilience and the failure to develop a
> long-range strategy made it all "ultimately futile" (p. 134).
>
> Part 3 contains detailed coverage of specific battles and campaigns
> during the first year of the conflict. Yang Tianshi assesses the role
> of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the battles of Shanghai and
> Nanjing in the final months of 1937, stressing the generalissimo's
> initiative in using these campaigns to expand the war in order to
> relieve pressure on the North and demonstrate to the world Chinese
> resolve to resist Japanese aggression. Hattori Satoshi and Drea
> collaborate in covering these same operations from the perspective of
> Japanese army units, providing readers a stark infantryman's view of
> the bitter, bloody fighting that took place in the drive from
> Shanghai to Nanjing. While the infantry engaged in close combat,
> higher headquarters on both sides struggled to exercise command and
> control over insubordinate officers. Ultimately, the Chinese would
> have greater success in this vital area than the Japanese. Although
> losing many of their best divisions and control over the capital, the
> Chinese side "slowly, painfully, and often brutally ... fashioned a
> political-military strategy to stave off Japanese victory" (p. 140).
> Indeed, Japan's failure to achieve a rapid victory ensured that the
> war became, contrary to Japanese expectations and to Chinese
> advantage, a war of attrition. Paying particular attention to the
> defense of Wuhan in the summer of 1938, Stephen MacKinnon explains
> how determination to resist the Japanese assault facilitated
> improvement in cooperation among high-level Chinese commanders, the
> implementation of a strategy of attrition, and the growth of
> self-confidence within the Chinese rank and file. Such unity was
> missing on the Japanese side. Carrying the story forward from 1938 to
> 1941, Tobe Ryoichi examines the role of the Eleventh Army, Japan's
> primary fighting forced in central China, demonstrating how a unified
> military strategy continued to elude Japanese leaders in the field
> and in Tokyo as the prospect of rapid military victory evaporated.
>
> The essays of part 4 begin with Hagiwara Mitsuru declaring that the
> Sino-Japanese War was "the first major conflict in which air power
> played a significant role from the beginning of hostilities" and
> which "saw the initiation of long-range over-water strategic
> bombardment by one side against major urban centers of its enemy" (p.
> 237). Addressing the paucity of writing on this topic in
> Western-language accounts, Hagiwara details the Imperial Japanese
> Navy's leadership of a campaign that, despite penetrating deeply into
> the country and achieving local air superiority, failed to achieve
> its strategic objective of destroying Chinese air power.[1] Edna Tow
> follows Hagiwara with a look at what it was like to live and
> persevere in the provisional capital of Chongqing, the primary target
> of Japanese navy bombers and one of the first of the world's cities
> to suffer under the sustained terror bombing of civilians. Tow
> concludes that the aerial assault, which peaked between 1939 and
> 1941, "was insufficient by itself to effect the desired military
> outcome" and "serves as a valuable case study for illuminating the
> range of challenges, tensions, and dilemmas regarding total war and
> the limits of mass aerial bombardment to achieve total victory" (p.
> 282). It was not, however, an example that was then fully appreciated
> in the West.
>
> Zhang Baijia evaluates the military aid provided to China by Germany,
> the Soviet Union, and the United States from the mid-1930s until the
> end of the war, characterizing Nazi assistance as disinterested,
> pragmatic, and effective, and Soviet support as clearly driven by
> strategic self-interest but otherwise largely beyond reproach. He
> judges American aid efforts as riven with misunderstanding and
> largely ineffective and, moreover, asserts that "the United States
> provided little material aid to China" before 1945, when aid
> quadrupled (pp. 299, 303). Although the Sino-Japanese War saw Mao
> Zedong's forces pioneer the concept of "People's War," Yang Kuisong
> revises the picture of guerrilla warfare as the sole preserve of the
> Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by focusing on the less well-known
> unconventional operations of the Nationalist government (KMT). More
> in line with standard understanding of the KMT is Yang's conclusion
> that, despite concerted efforts in this area, Nationalist forces
> never adapted well to the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare, but
> instead alienated local populations by seizing large quantities of
> supplies and often "continued to fight in large units" and attempted
> "to defend large territorial positions" (pp. 308-309).
>
> In the final essay of part 4, Kawano Hitoshi puts a human face on
> Japanese infantrymen and reveals their many similarities with
> soldiers everywhere (including a rate of psychiatric casualties that,
> while on the low side, was roughly in line with that of other
> armies). However, while they shared, for instance, the close personal
> bonds, powerful sense of mutual responsibility, and fatalism common
> to combat units everywhere, Kawano argues that further motivation--or
> perhaps pressure--arose from a powerful concern with preserving
> familial and hometown honor. As for the supposedly supreme motivation
> of fighting and dying for the emperor, one veteran dismissed it as
> follows: "Hell, no. The emperor? I didn't give a damn" (p. 343).
> While perhaps extreme, such reflections are important in tempering
> likewise extreme and persistent stereotypes regarding the motivations
> of Japanese soldiers and sailors. Kawano also touches on, but might
> have pursued further, given its relevance to campaigning and
> pacification, the needless brutality exemplified in such criminal
> practices as "bloodying" new soldiers by having them bayonet Chinese
> prisoners of war.[2]
>
> Asano Toyomi opens part 5 with an examination of how Japanese forces
> shifted from the offensive to the defensive in Yunnan and northern
> Burma following the Fifteenth Army's disastrous Imphal operation
> (March to July 1944) by utilizing their knowledge of the terrain and
> well-constructed fortifications to blunt Chinese drives into the
> region and, later, to mount limited counterattacks in support of the
> Ichigo operation (April 1944 to February 1945). Zhang Yunhu
> looks--albeit briefly in five pages--at the campaign from the
> perspective of the American-trained and American-supplied Y-Force,
> which, despite initial setbacks and leadership shakeups, eventually
> succeeded in isolating Japan's Thirty-third Army and mostly reopening
> the Ledo Road. Hara Takeshi assesses the Ichigo operation as
> successful but strategically pointless because of developments in the
> Pacific; moreover, he concludes, the poor performance and losses of
> the Nationalists undermined American faith in the KMT, while the
> removal of both Nationalist and Japanese forces from north China left
> a vacuum to be filled by the CCP, whom he identifies as the ultimate
> winner. Looking at the battles of Henan and Hunan, Wang Qisheng finds
> evidence for Nationalist failings in this period from the pen of
> Chiang, who wrote that "1944 is the worst year for China in its
> protracted war against Japan.... I'm fifty-eight years old this year.
> Of all the humiliations I have suffered in my life, this is the
> greatest" (p. 403). Wang bolsters his case for KMT failures in
> "strategy and tactics, officers and soldiers, training, logistics,
> and mobilization of civilians" with further observations from Chiang,
> who lamented that the local population "attacked our own forces and
> seized their arms, just as happened with the czar's army in imperial
> Russia during World War I. Such an army cannot win! Our military
> trucks and horses smuggled goods, not ammunition.... During the
> retreat, some troops lost discipline, looting and raping women" (p.
> 417). "Our biggest humiliation in the battles of Henan and of Hunan,"
> Chiang concluded, "was that the Japanese used Chinese people as
> plain-clothes personnel, while we were not able to do so. With the
> exception of one general, no Nationalist army unit was able to
> mobilize our own people in our service" (p. 418).
>
> Part 6 concludes the volume with three perspectives on the larger
> historical significance of the war. Despite the collaborative spirit
> behind their project, the editors acknowledge that the continued
> sensitivity of the topic resulted in occasional flashes of irritation
> among the Chinese; Japanese; and--more surprisingly--American
> participants. Perhaps no issue is more contentious than that of
> assessing China's role in determining the outcome of World War II.
> For instance, many in the West have been influenced by Barbara
> Tuchman's biographical channeling of General Joseph Stilwell's
> dislike for Chiang and disparagement of the Nationalist war effort.
> Meanwhile, for millions of Chinese the war was one of tremendous
> bloodshed and destruction and, naturally enough, an unavoidably
> Sino-centric affair. The influence of political ideology has often
> been apparent in evaluating the war's significance, too, even from
> the first days of the conflict. Shortly after the Marco Polo Bridge
> incident of July 7, 1937, the Japanese left-wing journalist, China
> hand, and Comintern spy Ozaki Hotsumi wrote that the war in China
> "can hardly fail to develop on such a scale as to prove of utmost
> significance in world history" and, in the years leading up to his
> 1944 execution for espionage, insisted that China, rather than the
> Pacific or Europe, was the key theater of the war (p. xix).
> Subsequently, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has promoted the
> idea that, as the editors put it, "the China theater was not merely
> important, it was _the_ critical theater in World War II" (p. 422,
> emphasis in the original).[3]
>
> Tohmatsu Haruo tackles this issue head-on by examining the
> interrelationship between the Chinese and Pacific theaters of the
> war, demonstrating that while developments in the Pacific often
> affected the war in China, the opposite was seldom the case.
> Likewise, the continued stationing of large numbers of Japanese
> troops on the continent in the final stages of the war reflected not
> their requirement to combat Chinese armies but the reality that most
> of Japan's transport vessels lay on the bottom of the Pacific. The
> fact that they rested there primarily because of American submarine
> warfare further illustrates the military significance of the Pacific
> campaign. And it was Allied success in seizing island bases and
> taking control of the sea and air that brought physical destruction
> to the Japanese armed forces and, ultimately, to the homeland,
> thereby bringing about Japan's military defeat.
>
> Assessing China's contribution to victory, van de Ven takes issue
> with the Western consensus that the Nationalists "were a politically
> debilitated 'husk' who had wasted the United States' 'supreme' try in
> China" (p. 449). He counters--in accord with other essays in this
> volume--that the Nationalists were in fact quite determined to resist
> Japan and further argues that "the slighting of the Nationalists as
> militarist, backward, feudal, and incompetent derived in part from a
> Western-centric interpretation of the war and, more generally, from
> an understanding of warfare that judged societies by their ability to
> generate modern industrialized offensive warfare" (p. 464). In
> support of his argument, van de Ven contends that the Nationalists'
> "accommodation with local warlords, the exploitation of historically
> shaped methods of military mobilization, and the use of the frontier
> regions" did not constitute "evidence of feudal backwardness" but
> rather demonstrated "sensible ways of pursuing a difficult war
> against an overwhelmingly superior enemy in a largely rural society
> with limited industrial resources and a weak state" (p. 465). In
> short, the KMT's strategic objective was to outlast Japan's assault
> and this was pursued within the constraints and realities of Chinese
> society at the time.
>
> In the book's final essay, Ronald Spector surveys the contributors'
> efforts and judiciously concludes that despite the fact that the
> Sino-Japanese War's "sheer scale, length, and destructiveness" placed
> it "in a class by itself," China's contribution to Allied victory in
> World War II was "at best, secondary" (pp. 467, 478). Among the
> reasons for this were the herculean logistical challenges facing
> Allied support efforts; the Allied strategic priority of defeating
> Germany first; the naval character of the primary counterattack
> against Japan; and, thanks to the success of the Pacific
> island-hopping campaign and the development of the B-29 heavy bomber,
> the declining need to use China as an avenue for attacking the
> Japanese homeland. At the same time, Spector cogently points out that
> "if the strategic impact of the war in China on the Unites States'
> war against Japan was small, this outcome was not true of the
> political and psychological contribution that China made to the
> Allied cause simply by staying in the war. The Japanese claim to be
> fighting a war to liberate all Asians from the Western imperialists
> could never be given full credence as long as Asia's most populous
> and largest nation was ranged on the side of the Allies." Moreover,
> "millions of Chinese did not endure the hardships and losses of seven
> long years of war to ensure an Allied victory but to liberate their
> country from the Japanese" and the achievement of that goal was "the
> vindication of their sacrifices and the ultimate victory of their
> cause" (p. 479).
>
> Despite its length, this review has only scratched the surface of the
> wealth of information and interpretation provided by this collection
> of essays. While the contributors and editors get the credit for that
> content, Stanford University Press should be commended for producing
> an attractive volume of this length and one that, in addition to the
> aforementioned chronology, maps, and photographs, even includes an
> annotated bibliography. Perhaps the most unfortunate and noteworthy
> editorial flaw in this otherwise solid publication is the excessive
> number of mistakes in the transliteration of Japanese terms,
> particularly in the book's character list; one hopes these will be
> addressed should the opportunity present itself.
>
> In sum, _The Battle for China_ is a very welcome contribution to the
> military history of the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, as
> well as to the general historiography of modern China and Japan. I
> highly recommend it.
>
> Notes
>
> [1]. A notable exception, as Hagiwara points out, is Mark R. Peattie,
> _Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941_
> (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001).
>
> [2]. The editors address the matter of war crimes as follows:
> "Although Japan's record of war crimes is a topic of great current
> interest, Japanese atrocities are mentioned only if pertinent to a
> particular campaign or strategy. Thus, no paper specifically
> addresses war crimes, in part because the topic is a subject unto
> itself that has been dealt with in a range of books, monographs, and
> journals. The recently published National Archives and Records
> Administration report to Congress on the subject is a good place to
> start for those interested in Japanese war crimes" (p. xxi).
>
> [3]. While the editors do not mention it, the view of Ozaki and the
> PRC also gained considerable traction among left-wing Japanese
> scholars in the decades following the war. Historian Ienaga Saburo,
> for instance, wrote in 1968 that the "invasion of China and the
> subsequent military operations there were the core of the Pacific
> War, in my view. China remained the main war theater even after the
> hostilities with America and England began. The principal opponent in
> China was not the Nationalist government's armies but the Communist
> units. Because of the Communists' tenacious resistance, Japanese
> forces became bogged down in China." Ienaga further credited "the
> democratic power of the Red armies" with overcoming Japanese
> superiority in weapons and concluded dubiously that while "America's
> material superiority may have struck the decisive blow,... Japan had
> already been defeated by Chinese democracy." Ienaga Saburo, _The
> Pacific War, 1931-1945_ (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), 95-96. In
> an appended commentary to a recent reprint of Ienaga's book,
> historian Yoshida Yutaka identified this perspective as one of
> Ienaga's key contributions and one that delivered a shocking and
> "powerful message" to him as a young college student enamored of U.S.
> military strength. Yoshida Yutaka, commentary in _Taiheiyo senso_, by
> Iengaga Saburo(Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 2002), 459, 462-463.
>
> Citation: Roger H. Brown. Review of Peattie, Mark R.; Drea, Edward
> J.; van de Ven, Hans J., eds., _The Battle for China: Essays on the
> Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945_. H-War, H-Net
> Reviews. December, 2012.
> URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35560
>
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Fw: [Y-Indology] Shri Rosaiah Paid Rich Tributes 2 Scholar Extraordinaire

 
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  Call for Universal Brotherhood, Tolerance

Sanskrit scholar felicitated for
getting Chevalier Award
TN Governor honors NSR Swami @ Navalpakkam on Sunday 
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/call-for-universal-brotherhood-tolerance/article4183426.ece

K. Rosaiah, Tamil Nadu Governor, releasing a book authored by
Sanskrit scholar N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya Swami at a function in Su. Navalpakkam
village near Vandavasi on Sunday. NSR (3rd from left) and L.V. Subramanyam,
Executive Officer, TTD (4th from right) are in the picture.
Tamil Nadu Governor K.
Rosaiah has called upon people to join hands to promote universal brotherhood,
the spirit of oneness, tolerance and harmony.
All religions preach
righteousness, compassion, tolerance and unity. The purpose of religion is to
expand consciousness to rise above oneself.
"Humanity stands above all
religions. Let us all join hands to promote universal brotherhood, the spirit of
oneness, tolerance and harmony," he said, felicitating N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
Swami (NSR), Sanskrit scholar of Navalpakkam village in Vandavasi taluk in
Tiruvannamalai district on his being conferred the Chevalier de la Legion d'
Honneur (Chevalier Award) by the French government, at a function got up at the
village on Sunday.
(The title was
conferred on Mr. NSR, a professor and Associate Researcher at the French
Institute of Pondicherry, at a function held at the French Consulate in
Puducherry on July 12).

Mr. Rosaiah said education
makes integrity of spirit. That too being a Vedic scholar is something great. It
is the inward wisdom, intellectual capacity, in-depth knowledge of Vedic
scripts, the Vedas, dedication and devotion that have made Mr. NSR reach such
great heights.
"It is heartening to note
that Navalpakkam, this tiny village, is a home to many erudite Vedic scholars
for centuries together.
"It is his hard work,
sincerity and flair to learn more to gain in-depth knowledge that made Mr. NSR
what he is today," he said.
Mr. Rosaiah said teachers or
gurus had the responsibility of moulding the youth into men and women of
character. Merely spreading knowledge would not suffice to build a healthy
society. They should set an example of true greatness of spirit and an
embodiment of virtues. "A real teacher should possess more than book knowledge.
Those who are his students are really gifted to gain wisdom and knowledge from
such an erudite and spiritual person like Mr. NSR", he said.
Mr. Rosaiah released the
second volume of a book authored by Mr. NSR and a souvenir brought out on the
occasion.
L.V. Subramanyam, Executive
Officer, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam, received the first copy.
Mr. Subramanyam said
Sanskrit was the repository of ancient wisdom.
All the scientific
discoveries of today were already talked about in ancient texts. "Bhaskaracharya
spoke of the speed of light several thousands of years ago. Aircraft and X-rays
were discovered several thousands of years ago. It is unfortunate that our
generation has not been exposed to the truth," he said.
The TTD Executive Officer
said Sanathana Dharma never spoke of the supremacy of any caste. It only talked
of a person's outlook. "The caste system has been started by individuals. It is
our mistake that we have not understood the basics of Sanathana Dharma", he
said.
Mr. Subramanyam said
acceptability from 14 countries was required for conferring the Chevalier Award
on a person. This goes to speak of the greatness of the persons receiving the
award. "Such people do not seek honours, but honours go after them," he
said.
Mr. Ramanuja Tatacharya said
he owed his erudition to his gurus.
The late Paramacharya of the
Kanchi Sankara Mutt, Srimad Andavan Swami and Srimad Azhagiya Singar have all
motivated him to write books, he said.
Pointing out that Sanskrit
was the mother of most Indian languages, he said scholarly works of many great
savants had inspired many a common man to live a life of dharma.
T.E. Kasturi, cardiologist
of Tirupati, was among those who felicitated Mr. NSR.

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    Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs (JCSAA)

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    Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Yoga & Visual Culture: An Interdiscplinary Symposium,, Washington, DC, Nov. 22-23, 2013

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    > H-ASIA
    > December 21, 2012
    >
    > Call for Papers: Yoga and Visual Culture An Interdisciplinary Symposium,
    > Washington, DC, November 22-23, 2013
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    >
    > Call for Papers: Yoga and Visual Culture An Interdisciplinary Symposium
    >
    >
    > Location: District of Columbia, United States
    > Call for Papers Date: 2013-02-04
    > Date Submitted: 2012-12-19
    > Announcement ID: 199680
    >
    >
    > Call for Papers: Yoga and Visual Culture An Interdisciplinary Symposium
    >
    > This symposium invites papers that explore yogas histories, meanings,
    > transformations, or practices through the lens of visual culture.
    > Twenty years ago, yoga was largely understood as a monolithic and
    > unchanging tradition. While today we have a far richer understanding of
    > yogas historical transformations and trans-sectarian manifestations,
    > visual culture ranging from sectarian, court and popular imagery to
    > architecture and photography -- remains the least tapped of archival
    > resources.
    >
    > Preference will be given to papers that foreground the potential of visual
    > culture to historicize aspects of yoga over the last two millennia. We
    > welcome proposals that examine yogic constructs (e.g. embodiment, guru,
    > philosophical traditions); illuminate social roles and perceptions of
    > yogis (e.g. militant ascetics); interrogate text-driven or
    > anthropologically-based perspectives on yoga, or provide new insights into
    > regional, tran-sectarian, or chronological transformations.
    >
    > Scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit proposals for
    > 30-minute papers meant for both scholars and general audiences. The
    > symposium will be webcast. Travel, hotel and per diem funds will be
    > provided.
    >
    > Deadline for abstracts (maximum 250 words and 2 - 3 attached images)
    > February 4, 2013
    >
    > Symposium date: November 22-23, 2013, Freer and Sackler Galleries,
    > Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
    >
    > The symposium accompanies the exhibition, Yoga: The Art of Transformation
    > at the Sackler Gallery, October 19, 2013-January 26, 2014,
    > http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/future.asp
    >
    > Please send abstracts or direct questions to Nancy Micklewright, Head,
    > Scholarly Programs and Publications, Freer|Sackler Galleries,
    > micklewrightn@si.edu.
    >
    >
    >
    >
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    Fw: H-ASIA: Harvard Summer School in Kyoto, June 2-July 27, 2013

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    Subject: H-ASIA: Harvard Summer School in Kyoto, June 2-July 27, 2013


    H-ASIA
    December 21, 2012

    Harvard Summer School in Kyoto, June 2-July 27, 2013
    ************************************************************************
    From: Johnson, Hilary <hjohnson@fas.harvard.edu>

    Dear prospective participants,

    I am writing to invite you to take part in Harvard Summer School's 8-week
    program at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Students enroll in 2
    courses: Professor Mikael Adolphson's course, "Japan: Tradition and
    Transformation," which explores the nation's tumultuous move to modernity.
    Professor James Robson's course, "Introduction to the Study of East Asian
    Religions," covers the development and history of Buddhism, Daoism,
    Confucianism, Shinto, and various forms of popular religion in a
    cross-cultural setting. Students reside with local families where they
    have the best chance to experience the Japanese way of life. In addition,
    a myriad of field trips coincide seamlessly with coursework, linking the
    classroom with the surrounding city. Non-credit Japanese language
    instruction with Doshisha staff is provided for students with no previous
    exposure to the Japanese language.

    For detailed information on the program and application instructions please
    visit: http://www.summer.harvard.edu/programs/study-abroad/kyoto-japan

    Details --
    * Students must be at least 18 years old, have completed at least 1 year of
    college or be a first-year student, and be in good academic standing to
    apply
    * Application deadline: January 31, 2013
    * Program Dates: June 2 - July 27, 2013
    * Cost: $7,750, and includes the following:
    - Tuition
    - Room and some meals
    - All scheduled excursions and extracurricular activities
    In addition to the program fee, students are responsible for:
    - A health insurance fee (waived if students have US insurance that
    provides coverage outside the United States)
    - Transportation to and from Kyoto
    - The cost of passports and visas (if the latter is needed)
    - Any immunizations

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    Fw: Indian History and Architecture

     
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    Indian History and Architecture


    Bagali – A Town in Oblivion

    Posted: 21 Dec 2012 10:36 AM PST

    Bagali – It would be hard to explain and understand that how a village, which remained a center of attraction almost for about six centuries, lost its glory and went into oblivion. Bagali narrates its story in about forty-five odd inscriptions spanning across six centuries and four great dynasties, though at present it has been reduced to a small village. The earliest inscription found here is of the early ninth century CE pertaining to the times of the Rashtrakutas. Later inscriptions are of the Chalukyas of Kalyana, Hoysalas and Vijayanagara rulers. Bagali is referred as Balaguli in inscriptions. Though most...

    Fw: H-ASIA: CFP "Alone But Not Marginal: Figures of Unrelatedness in Southeast Asia", Lisbon ECSEAS, Jul 2-5, 2013

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    Southeast Asia", Lisbon ECSEAS, Jul 2-5, 2013


    > H-ASIA
    > December 21, 2012
    >
    > Call for papers: "Alone But Not Marginal: Figures of Unrelatedness in
    > Southeast Asia", panel 84 European Conference on Southeast Asian Studies,
    > Lisbon, July 2-5, 2013
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    >
    > ALONE BUT NOT MARGINAL: FIGURES OF UNRELATEDNESS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
    >
    >
    > Location: Portugal
    > Call for Papers Date: 2013-07-02
    > Date Submitted: 2012-12-18
    > Announcement ID: 199638
    >
    >
    > CALL FOR PAPERS, EUROSEAS CONFERENCE, LISBON JULY 2-5 2013
    > PANEL 84: ALONE BUT NOT MARGINAL: FIGURES OF UNRELATEDNESS IN SOUTHEAST
    > ASIA
    >
    > Convenors: Silvia Vignato; Matteo Alcano (University of Milano- Bicocca)
    >
    > This panel addresses solitude as a minor, though meaningful, feature
    > within contemporary Southeast Asian societies. Researches in both urban
    > and rural modern context (growing cities as well as transforming
    > agricultural environments) point to the existence of individuals who do
    > not refer to traditional webs of relations such as kinship or a common
    > residential origin in the first place. Some of these people are
    > structurally alone and sometimes feel emotionally lonely but are not
    > necessarily marginal or excluded from either productive or family life.
    > They can belong to categories like for example migrants, umarried women,
    > students, criminals or to places like survivors to catastrophes, street
    > children and others.
    >
    > We invite the participants to bear in mind Janet Carsten's fundamental
    > book, Cultures of relatedness but also Leo Coleman's challenging article
    > ("Being Alone Together: From Solidarity to Solitude in Urban
    > Anthropology", _Anthropological Quarterly_, Vol. 82, No. 3, , 2009, pp.
    > 755-778), in order to question what encrusts an individual into a specific
    > social bond and what, in the process, is culture-specific.
    >
    > Contributions should be deeply rooted in fieldwork or documentary
    > researches of modern Southeast Asia.
    >
    > Matteo Alcano
    > Universit degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca
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    Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs (JCSAA)

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    > CFP: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs (JCSAA)
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    > Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs (JCSAA)
    > OPEN ACCESS <http://www.currentsoutheastasianaffairs.org>
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    > should therefore not only be orientated towards specialists in
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    Fw: H-ASIA: CFA: MA/MSc in International and World History at Columbia University and the London School of Economics

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Linda Dwyer" <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
    To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
    Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 4:40 AM
    Subject: H-ASIA: CFA: MA/MSc in International and World History at Columbia
    University and the London School of Economics


    > H-ASIA
    > December 21, 2012
    >
    >
    > CFA: MA/MSc in International and World History at Columbia University and
    > the London School of Economics
    > **************
    > Please Post on behalf of:
    >
    > Nicole K. Ferraiolo
    > Program Coordinator
    > Columbia-LSE MA/MSc in International and World History
    > Columbia University
    > worldhistory@columbia.edu
    >
    > Call for Applications:
    > MA/MSc in International and World History at Columbia University and the
    > London School of Economics
    >
    > The MA/MSc program in international and world history seeks talented
    > applicants for its fall 2013 entry. This unique two-year program offers
    > students an opportunity to work with preeminent historians at Columbia
    > University and the London School of Economics to explore the transnational
    > forces that have shaped and continue to remake our world: migration,
    > trade, technological revolutions, epidemic disease, environmental change,
    > wars and diplomacy.
    >
    > Students spend the first year in New York and the second year in London
    > and receive degrees from both institutions. The dual degree provides
    > students with the opportunity to expand their perspectives by working in
    > distinct but complementary intellectual environments. Immersed in the
    > vibrant intellectual communities of two of the world's great cities, the
    > program enables graduates to develop life-long contacts on both sides of
    > the Atlantic, using Columbia and LSE as launching pads for a wide range of
    > careers in government, journalism, NGOs, international organizations,
    > teaching, and further academic pursuits.
    >
    > For more about the program, visit worldhistory.columbia.edu [8] or find us
    > on Facebook and Twitter.
    >
    > Please direct any further questions to worldhistory@columbia.edu [9].
    >
    > Application Deadline: March 1, 2013
    >
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