{"title":"Consuming China in Early Modern England and Beyond: A Survey and Reexamination","authors":"R. Po","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000If we traveled back in time to the first half of the eighteenth century, we might notice that the cargo aboard an East Indiaman was rather diversified. But of these different products from different countries, a sizable number of them were manufactured in and originated from China. Why was China, alone among many other countries, able to secure its place as a world factory at the time? In this paper, I will suggest that we could not possibly understand how tea and porcelain became synonyms for China without tracing their histories back to the early modern world. We would not be able to deepen our understanding of Anglo-Chinese relations without taking into consideration the flow and circulations of goods between the two powers. My purpose here, therefore, is to outline these very connections throughout the early modern era, roughly from the late seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, based on the fascinating studies conducted by pioneering historians in the field over the past few decades. If we follow the life histories of some of the Chinese commodities, can we determine the ways in which those imported items interacted with the European market in general and the British in particular? Other than treating these commodities as marketable goods, are there any other intellectual perspectives available to help us better comprehend their associations with the early modern world?","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44648434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kazakhstani History Education Considered via Textbooks’ War Narratives, with a Focus on the “Great Patriotic War”","authors":"A. Satanov, Burkitbay G. Ayagan, G. Mussabalina","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340127","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The article is devoted to how history is taught in Kazakhstan. We take a concrete example: how the complex history of World War II, a topic that has been highly ideologized in Soviet historiography, is presented in the history textbooks of the post-Soviet period. The study defines how the history of the Great Patriotic War – that is, the Soviet Union’s struggle against the Nazis – has undergone conceptual transformations to varying extents in the textbooks of the countries of the former “socialist camp,” with our focus being Kazakhstan. Additionally, the model of Kazakhstan’s education is essential, as the country has yet to be left out of a definitive history of education narratives. For example, after analyzing history textbooks, it is possible to identify how students’ historical memory about one of the most catastrophic wars has been formed. Our interdisciplinary study used content analysis and “opening up the textbook” to identify types of qualitative models of history textbooks’ content about the war. In addition, the authors analyzed the coverage of the war in textbooks in various historical fields and branches belonging to different stages of Kazakhstan’s educational reforms. One result stood clear, namely that history education has been the subject of frequent debate in Kazakhstan, with the debates indicating how the state apparatus has managed a national approach that teaches a history productive of good patriots. On the other hand, teaching history also has its technocratic justification, as a means for students to acquire necessary skills.","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41793420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama, written by Eric Tagliacozzo","authors":"Stephen Morillo","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48205614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zinc for Coin and Brass: Bureaucrats, Merchants, Artisans, and Mining Laborers in Qing China, ca. 1680s–1830s, written by Hailian Chen","authors":"J. Hornibrook","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44119742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, written by Victor Seow","authors":"Xiangli Ding","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48908981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michael Naylor Pearson (1941–2023)","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64589778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945, written by Michael Laffan","authors":"S. Alavi","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41643968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World, written by Jagjeet Lally","authors":"Alisher Khaliyarov","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340131","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41845560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Political Economy of Human Development: Colonial Asia, 1900–2000","authors":"B. Tomlinson","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340126","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000How did Asian states and peoples try to achieve better lives across the twentieth century, and how far did they succeed? Modern discussions of development concentrate on the importance of enhancing personal capabilities and human development, rather than on simple economic growth. The comparative history of colonial Asian countries, both before and after political independence, shows the range of economic, political, social, and environmental conditions necessary for such improvements. Increases in life expectancy across the range of countries are a useful metric to compare public health and the supply of basic needs. Countering endemic disease – especially malaria – has played an important part here. One key to success in the fight against malaria has been the ability of states, local authorities, and communities to provide support-based security to those who require it. Some colonial Asian countries have been better at this than others and have prospered accordingly.","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47662038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/22879811-01101000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-01101000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135998032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}