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    Archives nationales & Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).

    A review of Archives nationales and Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Paris, France. I am currently writing a doctoral disse...
  • China

    The National Library of China Ancient Books Section

    A review of the National Library of China Ancient Books Section (中國國家圖書館古籍館) In China, the majority of central government archives of the Qing dynasty...
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    The China Film Archive 中国电影资料馆

    A review of the China Film Archive (中国电影资料馆) The China Film Archive (CFA) is sub-division of the China Film Group Corporation, and an important resour...
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    The Oriental Collection at Peshawar University

    A review of the Oriental Collection at Peshawar University Working at Peshawar University libraries has been one of the most refreshing research exper...
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    The Dr. Iqbal Mujaddidi Collection at Punjab University

    A review of the Dr. Iqbal Mujaddidi Collection at Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan For scholars of Islam in South Asia and Afghanistan, the Iqbal M...
  • Museum Studies

    The Politics of Russian Archaeology in Ottoman Lands

    A review of Byzantine Heritage, Archaeology, and Politics between Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (1...
  • Ottoman/Turkish

    Modernity and Modernization in Turkey

    A Review of Assessing the Turkish Model: The Modernization Trajectory of Turkey through the lens of the Multiple Modernities Paradigm, by Oğuzhan Göks...

Europe

July 22, 2019

Archives nationales & Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).

A review of Archives nationales and Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Paris, France. I am currently writing a doctoral dissertation on the development of new enamel colors in China…

May 17, 2016
Immigrants in Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, and Tang China
May 12, 2016
Locke, Burke, Wakefield and the British Empire
April 4, 2016
Non-Fiction Cinema in the USSR
January 26, 2016
The Czechoslovak-Vietnamese Labor Exchange Program, 1967-1989

Talking Shop

May 13, 2016

Publishing En Route to a Tenure-Track Job

Publishing En Route to a Tenure-Track Job: Great Expectations vs. the Real World Like many PhD students in the humanities and social sciences, I received…

May 10, 2016
Publish to Flourish? Grad School Publishing Perils
April 5, 2016
A Narrator-centered Approach to History
March 31, 2016
DHAsia 2017 Call for Proposals

Fresh from the Archives

July 22, 2019

Archives nationales & Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).

A review of Archives nationales and Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Paris, France. I am currently writing a doctoral dissertation on the development of new enamel colors in China…

January 8, 2019
The National Library of China Ancient Books Section
January 3, 2019
The China Film Archive 中国电影资料馆
January 9, 2017
The Oriental Collection at Peshawar University

Americas

June 23, 2016

Colombian Youth and Educational Bureaucracies in Ecuador

A review of The Refugee Label: Mapping the Trajectories of Colombian Youth and Families through Educational Bureaucracies in Ecuador by Diana Rodríguez Gómez Rodriguez’s dissertation…

June 14, 2016
Public Health and Citizenship in Colombia, 1930-1940
May 27, 2016
The Spanish Imperial Archives
May 24, 2016
Gay Poetics in Post-WWII U. S.
May 9, 2016
Social Difference and Culinary Education in Peru

Culture, Society & Politics

January 3, 2019

The China Film Archive 中国电影资料馆

A review of the China Film Archive (中国电影资料馆) The China Film Archive (CFA) is sub-division of the China Film Group Corporation, and an important resource…

January 5, 2017
The Politics of Russian Archaeology in Ottoman Lands
October 24, 2016
Women’s Migration and Home in Chinese and Sinophone Culture
October 24, 2016
Gender and Restaurant Work in Shanghai
May 30, 2016
Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor

East, South & Southeast Asia

July 22, 2019

Archives nationales & Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).

A review of Archives nationales and Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Paris, France. I am currently writing a doctoral dissertation on the development of new enamel colors in China…

January 8, 2019
The National Library of China Ancient Books Section
January 3, 2019
The China Film Archive 中国电影资料馆
January 9, 2017
The Oriental Collection at Peshawar University
January 9, 2017
The Dr. Iqbal Mujaddidi Collection at Punjab University

North, Central & West Asia

January 5, 2017

The Politics of Russian Archaeology in Ottoman Lands

A review of Byzantine Heritage, Archaeology, and Politics between Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (1894-1914), by Pinar Üre. Pinar Üre’s…

October 25, 2016
Modernity and Modernization in Turkey
May 24, 2016
A Tibetan Ritual Master’s Objects of Power
May 18, 2016
Islamic Scholarly Exchange in Central Asia, 1747-1917
May 10, 2016
Mobility and Senses of Belonging among the Fatani People

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