History – December 2014 and January 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 23, 2015|History|0 comments

General & thematic Into new territory: American historians and the concept of US imperialism / James G. Morgan Travel narratives from the age of discovery: an anthology / edited by Peter C. Mancall   Thinking history globally / Diego Olstein Hinterlands and commodities: place, space, time and the political economic development of Asia over the long eighteenth century / edited by Tsukasa Mizushima, George Bryan Souza and Dennis O’Flynn Chinese and

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China and Inner Asia – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

The People’s Republic of China at 60 : an international assessment / edited by William C. Kirby. The gender of memory : rural women and China’s collective past / Gail Hershatter. China maritime customs and China’s trade statistics, 1859-1948 / Thomas P. Lyons. Dancing for the dead [videorecording] : funeral strippers in Taiwan / a Marc L. Moskowitz film. A Jesuit garden in Beijing and early modern Chinese culture /

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Google to celebrate India’s Independence Day- 66 years on

By Farzana Whitfield|August 14, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

 Image taken from the Muscial Life Blog Spot: http://rohit-themusicallife.blogspot.co.uk/ Image taken from Economic Times>India                                                    Times:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/google-to-celebrate-indias-independence-day/articleshow/21813843.cms Today is India’s Independence Day and to celebrate this occasion, Google are hosting ‘Google Impact Challenge in India’. Google has invited Indian not for profit organisations to demonstrate how they think technology can improve people’s lives. At the end of the competition, four non profit organisations will each receive a Global Impact award and over £300,000

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Korea – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea : new perspectives / edited by Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid. IT development in Korea : a broadband nirvana? / Kwang-Suk Lee. The quest for statehood : Korean immigrant nationalism and U.S. sovereignty, 1905-1945 / Richard S. Kim. Militants or partisans : labor unions and democratic politics in Korea and Taiwan / Yoonkyung Lee. Korean unification and the positions and roles of the

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