9783662457252

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The humanities in Asia, volume 1

1. Introduction / Wasana Wongsurawat

2. Teaching civilization : the role of a French education in the development of modernity in Shanghai / Alexander Major

3. Scientific institutions as sites for dissemination and contestation : emergence of colonial Calcutta as a science city / Deepak Kumar

4. Management of 'public spaces' : case-study of roads in Bangkok in the reign of King Rama V / Nontaporn Youmangmee

5. A city-state as migrant nation : Singapore from the colonial to the Asian modern / Hong Lysa

6. Whose home? : cultural pluralism and preservation of Japanese colonial heritage in Taipei City / Hiroko Matsuda

7. Home base of an exiled people : Hong Kong and overseas Chinese activism from Thailand / Wasana Wongsurawat

8. Bangkok : from an antique to a modern city / Udomporn Teeraviriyakul

9. Nationalism in Indian architecture : a modern trajectory in twentieth-century India / Madhavi Desai and Miki Desai

10. From the demolition of monasteries to the installation of neon lights : the politics of urban construction in the Mongolian People's Republic / Balazs Szalontai.

Urbanization > Asia > History.

Cities and towns > Asia > Growth > History.

Sociology, Urban > Asia.

Cities and towns > Growth.

Asia > Civilization > 19th century.

Asia > Civilization > 20th century.

Asia > Civilization > 21st century.