Written by Adam Horálek BOSE, Arpita (2013): Kolkata’s Early Chinese Community and their Economic Contributions. South Asia Research, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp.163–176. China and India constitute the two biggest nations in the world. They share their borders in an extensive way and most of the academia focus reflects the political and historical...
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Written by Adam Horálek ZHOU, Min – LEE, Rennie (2013): Transnationalism and Community Building: Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States. The Annals of the American Academy, No. 647, pp. 22–49. The paper by professors Zhou Min and Rennie Lee is a unique insight into the Chinese overseas community organizational structure which...
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Written by Dušan Lužný Šíndelář Pavel, Etnografie Číny. Brno: Masaryk University, 2014. (open access download) This work represents a study text, the aim of which is to provide a further understanding of China and its people, or rather an understanding of the diversity of the groups that make up the ethnic and cultural mosaic of the...
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Written by Petra Tlčimuková Ling, Huping. Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community since 1870. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2012. The historical process of establishing Chinese communities abroad has been paid a lot of attention by scholars. In the case of Chicago, the publication Chinese Chicago: Race,...
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Written by Martin Šturdík Okubo, Yuko. “From “Contested” Multiculturalism to “Localized” Multiculturalism: Chinese and Vietnamese Youth in Osaka, Japan.” Anthropological Quarterly 68.4 (2013): 995-1030. Print. In her article published in 2013 in the Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 4, p. 995–1030, Yuko Okubo draws...
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Written by Jakub Havlíček A New History of Shinto (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion Series). By John Breen and Mark Teeuwen. Malden, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. x + 264 pages. ISBN 978-1-4051-5516-8. Recent scholarly writings on the religions in Japan often re-examine and critically re-evaluate the older and still well-established...
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The CHINET team for Cultural Anthropology deals with topics regarding the global migration and the place of the Chinese within as well as we focus on the maintaining/transforming of cultural-religious traditions that are an inherent part of the process of globalization. Drawing on the theories of transnationalism our research addresses different...
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06 Apr 2019
We are cordially inviting you to the annual conference of Czech and Slovak...
06 Apr 2019
The history of the Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS),...
06 Mar 2019
Organizers Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech...
25 May 2015 / Ming-Yeh Rawnsley
I just want to echo Gary's comments and to alert to readers who may be interested in Routl...
Thanks for the inclusion, Jon. Readers may also be interested in the newly published Routl...
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23 May 2016 / Norbert Francis
Yes, this was an interesting study by Chang and Lu of bilingualism and perceptions of the ...