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Asia in 2021: In the grip of global and local crises

Anno di pubblicazione: 2022

Yi Gwangsu’s Literary Contribution to Korea’s 1919 March First Movement

Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Michael Shin, Korean National Identity under Japanese Colonial Rule: Yi Gwangsu and the March First Movement of 1919, London: Routledge, 2011, 246 pp. In present-day Republic of Korea (ROK), March First is still celebrated as a day to commemorate the Korean people’s most important statement of protest against […]

The unhappy ending of the «India story»

Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 320 pp. 1. Introduction In their book, Debasish Roy Chowdhury (a journalist) and John Keane (a political scientist) question the widespread conviction that India is the «largest democracy in […]

Continuity and Change in India: Views from below

Available also in pdf – Download Pdf John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown, India: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020, pp. xv+384. ISBN-13: 978-5095-3970-3; ISBN-13; 5095-3971-0 (pb). This review of social change and persistence in India is a timely study of transitions and attempted transitions. It is by authors […]

An «alternative» reading of the relations between Europe and China during the Cold War

Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Janick M. Schaufelbuehl, Marco Weiss & Valeria Zanier (eds.), Europe and China in the Cold War. Exchanges Beyond the Bloc Logic and the Sino-Soviet Split, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019, 242 pp. (ISBN: 9789004388123). In the last few years, the relations between Europe and China during the Cold War captured […]