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Friday, May 31, 2013
The Profession | Warp, Weft, and Way
The Profession | Warp, Weft, and Way: "Warp, Weft, and Way is a group blog of Chinese and Comparative philosophy. Its primary purpose is to promote and stimulate discussion of Chinese philosophy and cross-tradition inquiry among scholars and students of philosophy, whatever their level of training."
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Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability | The Comics Journal
Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability | The Comics Journal: "They have brushes for the buffalo and shears for the goat. They won’t trim a Mahar’s [untouchable’s] hair—they’d rather cut his throat.
Early in Bhimayana, a boy named Bhim experiences the world through violence. Bhim is a Mahar, an untouchable. He knows it’s no fun being one. His gentle face and Bambi eyes in the comic’s version are nobody’s idea of a kickass superhero, but when he grows up Bhim will become exactly that."
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Early in Bhimayana, a boy named Bhim experiences the world through violence. Bhim is a Mahar, an untouchable. He knows it’s no fun being one. His gentle face and Bambi eyes in the comic’s version are nobody’s idea of a kickass superhero, but when he grows up Bhim will become exactly that."
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Language in India
Language in India: " INTRODUCTION
English has been with India since the early 1600's, when the East India Company started trading and English missionaries first began their efforts. A large number of Christian schools imparting an English education were set up by the early 1800's. The process of producing English-knowing bilinguals in India began with the Minute of 1835, which officially endorsed T.B. Macaulay's goal of forming "a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern - a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals and in intellect" (quoted in Kachru 1983, p. 22). English became the official and academic language of India by the early twentieth century. The rising of the nationalist movement in the 1920's brought some anti-English sentiment with it -- even though the movement itself used English as its medium."
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English has been with India since the early 1600's, when the East India Company started trading and English missionaries first began their efforts. A large number of Christian schools imparting an English education were set up by the early 1800's. The process of producing English-knowing bilinguals in India began with the Minute of 1835, which officially endorsed T.B. Macaulay's goal of forming "a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern - a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals and in intellect" (quoted in Kachru 1983, p. 22). English became the official and academic language of India by the early twentieth century. The rising of the nationalist movement in the 1920's brought some anti-English sentiment with it -- even though the movement itself used English as its medium."
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Tribes & campaigns - Survival International
Tribes & campaigns - Survival International: "The Awá
Uncontacted Indians face annihilation
One of the last nomadic Amazonian tribes is being crushed by illegal invaders.
The Awá are suffering from increasing invasions of their land by loggers, ranchers and settlers.
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Uncontacted Indians face annihilation
One of the last nomadic Amazonian tribes is being crushed by illegal invaders.
The Awá are suffering from increasing invasions of their land by loggers, ranchers and settlers.
"
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eScholarship: About eScholarship
eScholarship: About eScholarship: "eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing services and research tools that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.With eScholarship, you can publish the following original scholarly works on a dynamic research platform available to scholars worldwide:
Books
Journals
Working Papers
Previously Published Works
Conferences"
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Globalization and Indian English Writing – Dr. D. Maya
Globalization and Indian English Writing – Dr. D. Maya: "How does culture relate to globalization of markets and economics? Or how do the trends in the money market affect literature and language? These issues have surged to prominence in the current socio-economic and political scenario and should necessarily be addressed. Literature has always been subject to socio-political and economic pressures. The most recent phenomenon has been the emergence of the powerful post-colonial discourse writing back to the entire and asserting its own identity and cultural and national individuality. "
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Post-colonial translation
Post-colonial Translation
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/109104050/pdf_version/lecture15.pdf
- Introduction
- Translation in India
- Pre-colonial Translation
- Translation under the Mughals
- Colonialism and Translation
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Bhutan – Country of Gross National Happiness | Unit 7 Happiness
Bhutan – Country of Gross National Happiness | Unit 7 Happiness: "Bhutan – Country of Gross National Happiness"
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Bhutan’s Happiness Paradigm » Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Bhutan’s Happiness Paradigm » Is Sustainability Still Possible?: "The small nation-state of Bhutan is something of a poster child for a metric of growth and sustainability different from the outdated, but still ubiquitous, Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In contrast to GDP, which depends on money spent, regardless of what it is spent on, Gross National Happiness (GNH) quantifies development in terms of the economy, the environment, and the culture of Bhutan. As a conceptual ideal, GNH seems to satisfy the requirements of sustainability. As a practice, however, GNH is difficult to define, measure, and implement. Bhutan has served as the world’s leader in moving beyond platitudes and towards implementation of a metric of sustainable well-being."
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
Barefoot Gen, The Atomic Bomb and I: The Hiroshima Legacy :: JapanFocus
Barefoot Gen, The Atomic Bomb and I: The Hiroshima Legacy :: JapanFocus: "
In August 2007 I asked Nakazawa Keiji, manga artist and author of Barefoot Gen, for an interview. Nakazawa was a first grader when on August 6, 1945 he experienced the atomic bombing. In 1968 he published his first work on the atomic bombing—Struck by Black Rain [Kuroi ame ni utarete]—and since then, he has appealed to the public with many works on the atomic bombing. His masterpiece is Barefoot Gen, in which Gen is a stand-in for Nakazawa himself. His works from Barefoot Gen on convey much bitter anger and sharp criticism toward a postwar Japanese politics that has never sought to affix responsibility on those who carried out the dropping of the atomic bomb and the aggressive war (the U.S. that dropped the atomic bomb, and the emperor and Japan’s wartime leaders who prosecuted the reckless war that incurred the dropping of the atomic bomb)."
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In August 2007 I asked Nakazawa Keiji, manga artist and author of Barefoot Gen, for an interview. Nakazawa was a first grader when on August 6, 1945 he experienced the atomic bombing. In 1968 he published his first work on the atomic bombing—Struck by Black Rain [Kuroi ame ni utarete]—and since then, he has appealed to the public with many works on the atomic bombing. His masterpiece is Barefoot Gen, in which Gen is a stand-in for Nakazawa himself. His works from Barefoot Gen on convey much bitter anger and sharp criticism toward a postwar Japanese politics that has never sought to affix responsibility on those who carried out the dropping of the atomic bomb and the aggressive war (the U.S. that dropped the atomic bomb, and the emperor and Japan’s wartime leaders who prosecuted the reckless war that incurred the dropping of the atomic bomb)."
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Ling Ling Magazine Archive
Ling long women's magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China. Today, the magazine offers researchers a unique glimpse into women's lives in Republican-era (1911-49) Shanghai. This site features Columbia University's collection of Ling longmagazine, one of the most complete holdings outside China.
Laos Mine Artist's view
Peter Churcher catalogue
"Entering this village, about 20 kilometres out of Ban Houayxai, was quite an experience. I had never visited such an authentic and remote village as this before.
All the houses were hand constructed from bamboo thatch and the village animals (pigs, goats and chickens) wandered freely about. I felt quite conspicuously 'foreign' as I ventured into this village with my palette in hand. The villagers were just sitting and staring at me with open mouths. I was being followed by my assistants, Phomvihane and Lei, who were carrying the rest of my gear.
In this painting, I wanted to capture the sense of how the local community lived, not as underprivileged or lacking in any way, but as selfsufficient and adhering to a mode of life unchanged and perfectly adapted to their environment."
An excerpt taken from the catalogue comprising the collection:
"Our People, Community and Landscape."
"Our People, Community and Landscape."
http://www.panaust.com.au/sites/default/files/2013-01-churcher210x21028.pdf
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Virtual Library South Korea
South Korea
Edited by Dr. M.Y.HanThis site is being continually updated.
Great source of Research Links
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Learn Tetun | East Timor | Free Online Tetum Course | East Timor Coffee | East Timor Tais |
Learn Tetun | East Timor | Free Online Tetum Course | East Timor Coffee | East Timor Tais |: "Resources on East Timor Government, East Timor Politics, and East Timor History
Ramelau brings you the digital information resources for those involved in or seeking information about East Timor. The internet is the world's most powerful communication tool in the 21st century and we use this technology to provide reliable resources and trusted information available free to anyone who wants to access it.
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.” -- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and Inventor of the World Wide Web
Here on Ramelau we are gathering, selecting, evaluating, processing and disseminating online information resources on East Timor to people everywhere using the latest advanced technology to enhance their learning process and recreational reading. Types of resources available on this site range from articles, research reports, news articles, conference papers and presentations, dissertations and theses in various disciplines."
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Ramelau brings you the digital information resources for those involved in or seeking information about East Timor. The internet is the world's most powerful communication tool in the 21st century and we use this technology to provide reliable resources and trusted information available free to anyone who wants to access it.
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.” -- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and Inventor of the World Wide Web
Here on Ramelau we are gathering, selecting, evaluating, processing and disseminating online information resources on East Timor to people everywhere using the latest advanced technology to enhance their learning process and recreational reading. Types of resources available on this site range from articles, research reports, news articles, conference papers and presentations, dissertations and theses in various disciplines."
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
East Timore - Table of Contents
East Timore - Table of Contents: "INTRODUCTION:
This web course is intended as a general introduction to the people, culture, history and politics of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste. While specialists might find the bibliography and web-links[1] useful to some degree, the course is designed for a more general audience, particularly educators who wish to enhance their social science course content with Southeast Asian material. East Timor is after all the youngest, and perhaps least known, nation of Southeast Asia. "
This web course is intended as a general introduction to the people, culture, history and politics of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste. While specialists might find the bibliography and web-links[1] useful to some degree, the course is designed for a more general audience, particularly educators who wish to enhance their social science course content with Southeast Asian material. East Timor is after all the youngest, and perhaps least known, nation of Southeast Asia. "
Southeast Asia Visions Collection | Cornell University Library
Southeast Asia Visions Collection | Cornell University Library: "SOUTHEAST ASIA VISIONS is a collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection."
Timor Leste Studies Association
Timor Leste Studies Association: "Welcome and Diak ka lae!
The Timor-Leste Studies Association was established in June 2005 (following the "Cooperating with Timor-Leste" Conference at Victoria University) to connect researchers with information, other researchers and research on Timor-Leste.
If you have a thirst to know more about Timor-Leste this website can link you to people and websites which may be useful if you are planning your first or your 50th field trip to Timor."
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The Timor-Leste Studies Association was established in June 2005 (following the "Cooperating with Timor-Leste" Conference at Victoria University) to connect researchers with information, other researchers and research on Timor-Leste.
If you have a thirst to know more about Timor-Leste this website can link you to people and websites which may be useful if you are planning your first or your 50th field trip to Timor."
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Welcome | Ethnologue
Welcome | Ethnologue: "Explore The Languages Of The World
Ethnologue contains information on 7,105 known living languages.
Begin by clicking World Languages in the page header or using one of the Browse By indexes in the page footer."
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Connecting Women to the Silk Road Main Menu (Women in World History Curriculum)
Connecting Women to the Silk Road Main Menu (Women in World History Curriculum): "Yes, women were there! They were traders, workers in silk manufacture, entertainers, wives of diplomats or merchants who traveled with their husbands or, left at home, held the family and household economy together. There were some well known real life and legendary figures as well, who in diverse ways were vital partipants in east/west exchanges along the Silk Road.This section offers a variety of ways to incorporate these female experiences into the historical narrative we call the Silk Road, a topic which is widely taught but which largely ignores ways in which women participated alongside men. A primary aim of the section is to link a variety of web resources to the topics introduced."
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Learning from Asian Art: Japan
World History Connected | The e-Journal of Learning and Teaching | Home
World History Connected | The e-Journal of Learning and Teaching | Home: "WHC is free worldwide.
It is published by the University ofIllinois Press, and its institutional home is Hawaii Pacific University.
World History Connected is publishedthe first week inOctober, February and June."
It is published by the University ofIllinois Press, and its institutional home is Hawaii Pacific University.
World History Connected is publishedthe first week inOctober, February and June."
Tiananmen: The Gate of Heavenly Peace home
Tiananmen: The Gate of Heavenly Peace home: "n the spring of 1989, Chinese students and workers occupied Beijing's Tiananmen Square and began the largest nonviolent political protest in China's history. At the height of the movement, over one million people marched in the streets of Beijing. The movement ended with the government's crackdown and the Beijing massacre of June 4.Witnessed on television by millions around the world, the Tiananmen protests were one of the most watched, yet least understood, stories of our time. This website explores the origins and history of the protests, the intense international media coverage, and underlying themes such as democracy, human rights, reform and revolution, and nationalism. The site contains articles, essays, and book excerpts, a tour of Tiananmen Square, and a Media Library with posters, photographs, music, and videos."
WORLD HISTORY SOURCES: FINDING WORLD HISTORY
WORLD HISTORY SOURCES: FINDING WORLD HISTORY: "
Website reviews describe online primary–source archives, evaluate resources, and provide classroom suggestions. Browse by time period or try the advanced search.
The framing essay, written by Deborah Vess, introduces issues in using online sources, such as reliability, quality, and translation."
Friday, May 17, 2013
A list of resources for teaching Asian Art
ASIA IN THE CURRICULUM
Enjoy a quick browse through these museum and arts–related websites…
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/media/ccs/08-09/random/webdirectory/directoryone.pdf
A list of resources for treaching Asian Art
ASIA IN THE CURRICULUM
Enjoy a quick browse through these museum and arts–related websites…
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/media/ccs/08-09/random/webdirectory/directoryone.pdf
Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia
Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia: "BEAUTY AND DARKNESS: CAMBODIA IN MODERN HISTORY
The Beauty and Darkness project provides information on the recent history of Cambodia, particulary the Khmer Rouge period. This includes materials pertaining to Cambodia, as well as information about Cambodian refugees and immigrants abroad. Articles are categorized within the menus at the top of each page.
The Beauty and Darkness project provides information on the recent history of Cambodia, particulary the Khmer Rouge period. This includes materials pertaining to Cambodia, as well as information about Cambodian refugees and immigrants abroad. Articles are categorized within the menus at the top of each page.
The Tibetan and Himalayan Library
The Tibetan and Himalayan Library :
"The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) is a publisher of websites, information services, and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan regions. THL promotes the integration of knowledge and community across the divides of academic disciplines"
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"The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) is a publisher of websites, information services, and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan regions. THL promotes the integration of knowledge and community across the divides of academic disciplines"
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Chinese Posters
Chinese Posters:
Gallery of Chinese Propaganda Posters (1925-2006)
200 Highlights from the collections of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Stefan R. Landsberger (University of Amsterdam, Leiden University)."
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Teaching Resources from the World Affairs Council
Teacher Resources | World Affairs Council via kwout
Click on the from Mao to Now link for an example of how useful these resources are !
Click on the from Mao to Now link for an example of how useful these resources are !
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
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