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How to tell the story of the Chinese Communist Party? It’s the biggest, oldest, and most powerful Communist Party in the world today and it turns 100 this year. It runs China, and that alone should get your interest. You’ll be hearing a good deal about it, as well. The Chinese Communist Party and its […]
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Since mid-2017, reports of massive “re-education camps” in Xinjiang province have set off global outcries over the mistreatment of Muslim Uighurs in western China. Promoted as schools for deradicalization by local authorities, their sheer scale – with an estimated total of detainees ranging from several hundred thousand to over one million – covers a significant […]
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As a global pandemic rages through the world suspending everyday life, it is worth looking back in time to analyse how perceptions of disease, hygiene, self-improvement, and city planning manifested historically across cultures. A Hygienic City Nation explores everyday urban life in colonial Calcutta in the shadow of epidemics like the cholera and plague. The […]
Read MoreIn ancient China, the past was ubiquitous. In the thousands of texts that have survived, between the commemorative inscriptions of the Bronze Age elite, the gnomic sayings of Confucius, and the pronouncements of the emperors, invocations of the past abound. Some merely gesture towards it, ever so lightly, while others would delve deeply into it. […]
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No state can do without taxation. States need to pay for bureaucrats, soldiers, policemen, infrastructure, and the more ambitious ones also pay for schools, hospitals and social security programs. Fiscal capacity forms the backbone of the state, and both sovereign and colonial regimes confront the revenue imperative. But how, in the case of colonial rule, […]
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Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China Martin T. Fromm is author of Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China (Cambridge University Press, 2019) Determining the truth about the past is rarely a simple task. Party officials overseeing the post-Mao transition in 1980s China were evidently aware of this, as […]
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The current global environmental crisis increasingly affects us all. Efforts to mitigate and adapt ourselves to its effects must vitally engage all nations and all people. Yet, the pressing and immediate features of our time have deep roots in the long history of human interactions with the world around us, both animate and inanimate. Further, […]
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Ritu Gairola Khanduri, author of Caricaturing Culture in India (2014), explores the power of cartoons, and the legacy of R. K. Laxman.
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