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Editorial Foreword 73.3 (August 2014)

The authors represented in the pages of the articles section that opens this volume, moreover--as well as, of course, in the Book Reviews section that closes it--are located in disparate parts of world (contributors of articles in this issue are currently working in India, France, Germany, Australia...

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Published in:The Journal of Asian studies 2014-08, Vol.73 (3), p.575-579
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Language:English
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Summary:The authors represented in the pages of the articles section that opens this volume, moreover--as well as, of course, in the Book Reviews section that closes it--are located in disparate parts of world (contributors of articles in this issue are currently working in India, France, Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and based in many different departments (Chinese, Anthropology, History, Economic History, etc.) in varied types of institutions (from research universities to liberal arts colleges to a social science academy). Kowallis charts a shift from Cold War era Western approaches to the author, in which Lu Xun's sympathies with the Communist Party late in life loom large, to new approaches, which he terms "post-socialist" due to their being less tightly focused on political allegiances and alignments. Breaking with the tendency by scholars to focus on the appeal that Islam and Christianity had for Dalit men, it explores various aspects of the "interrelationship between caste and gender" by making use of an eclectic source base, comprised of everything from works of "vernacular missionary literature" to the "writings of Hindu publicists and caste ideologues," and from cartoons to police reports. Homola, an anthropologist based at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, uses the ups and downs of Liu's career, as well as his efforts to show that an ancient Chinese text could complement modern scientific investigations, to shed light on a wide range of issues, including the "the role of analogy in cultural assimilation" and the unsettling effects that the introduction of "modern Western categories of science, religion, and superstition" could have in China in the early 1900s.
ISSN:0021-9118
1752-0401
DOI:10.1017/S0021911814000965