... to their Otherness to their Western colonial origins. Given the book's central concern with the recognition and misrecognition of the Asian relationship with the Anglo-American West and the assumption that new modernities manifest themselves in old ways, the chapter addresses the relation of the West to East Asia...

... in this vocabulary were derived from figurative language and local slang, others were related to Western sexological terminology and historical stories. First, the chapter identifies the origins of these words and how these were related to the concepts under the Western sexological notion of homosexuality. Chinese...

.... Until recently, it has stood firmly in the sinocentric historical narrative, which implicitly links Taiwan to the dynastic history of mainland China. The other two museums, both established in the early 2000s, are in the “nativist” mode, forging an origins narrative that traces Taiwan’s historical roots...

... . We can better understand Hong Kong's deep contradictions if we recognize from the outset that they originate from the need and opportunity to achieve dual integration—that is, to reintegrate with the Mainland after it began to open up in 1979 and to support its integration into the global economy...

... discourse of nationalism Chinese profit orders Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in China SDUKC Taiping Rebellion Western knowledge yi controversy opium Opium War historiography British knowledge about China biography of a war idea origins of Opium War We say, and we say boldly...

..., and foreign governments. This chapter looks into the origins, the scope, and other aspects of this Western-run Chinese body, and how this was managed by a powerful yet controversial personality for about 50 years. Brewitt Taylor Charles Henry B T China Chinese Maritime Customs ICMC Alcock Rutherford Carr...

... national origins diversity pluralism democracy During its single-party rule, much like the CCP on the Mainland, the KMT sought to control how history was represented in Taiwan. It emphasized that Taiwan was the bastion of traditional Chinese culture and placed the island in the larger trajectory...