New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 6 No. 2, December 2004

Articles

Introduction: Knowledge and European Empire-Building in Asia
Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago), pp. 5-11


The Prehistory of Orientalism: Colonialism and the Textual Basis for Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg's Account of Hinduism
Will Sweetman (University of Otago)


Contesting Colonial Masculinity / Constituting Imperial Authority: Ceylon in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Public Debate
James H. Warren (University of Illinois), pp.39-62.


Asia's Maritime Networks and the Colonial Public Sphere, 1840-1920
Mark Ravinder Frost (National University of Singapore), pp.63-94.


Theorizing the Chinese: The Mui Tsai Controversy and Constructions of Transnational Chineseness in Hong Kong & British Malaya
Karen Yuen (University of Illinois), pp.95-110.


Social Communication & Colonial Archaeology in Viet Nam
Haydon L. Cherry (Yale University), pp.111-126.


Orientalist Reflections: Asia and the Pacific in the Making of late Eighteenth-Century Ireland
William O'Reilly (National University of Ireland, Galway), pp.127-147.


Graduate Research Essay

Memory Wars': The Manipulation of History in the Context of Sino-Japanese Relations
Jasper Heizen (University of Canterbury), pp.148-164


Review Article

Overcoming the Borderland Complex: India & China, 600-1400
Romila Thapar, Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
Tansen Sen, Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade
S.A.M. Adshead, T’ang China: The Rise of the East in World History
Brian Moloughney (University of Otago), pp.165-176.


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