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Ethnic composition of imperial and colonial cities query (response)
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From: John Hennessey <john.hennessey@lnu.se>

Dear Professor Sand,

I wonder if a new book in the Manchester University Press Studies in
Imperialism series, *European Empires and the People* (2011, ed. John M.
Mackenzie), might be of some use to you. The book contains essays about
British, French, Dutch, Belgian, German, and Italian popular imperialism
and is interesting because of its comparative perspective.

While colonial populations in European capitals are not a primary focus of
the book, several chapters include some information about this topic for
countries other than Britain and France. For example, Bernhard Gissibl's
chapter on German popular imperialism mentions that "...with a presence of
several thousands of colonial migrants mainly from Cameroon, Berlin became
a centre for the organisation of anti-colonial resistance..." (p. 167) and
lists several sources about Africans in pre-World War II Germany. The book
also reveals certain differences between different European countries'
policies towards people from the colonies coming to work or study in the *
métropole*. For example, Congolese were forbidden to travel to Belgium, in
contrast with many other colonial powers' travel policies for their
colonial subjects (Matthew G. Standard's chapter, p. 129, 142).

I am also starting a comparative study of Japanese and Western imperialism
(albeit from a slightly different perspective) and think that your project
sounds most interesting. I hope you will post more information about it on
H-Asia when it is completed!

Cordially,

John Hennessey
Doctoral Student, Colonial History
Linnaeus University
john.hennessey@lnu.se

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> The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its
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Fw: H-ASIA: AJISS-Commentary No.142 on Math and Science Education by Kazuo Nishimura

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> H-ASIA
> February 10, 2012
>
> AJISS-Commentary No.142 on Math and Science Education by Kazuo Nishimura
> **********************************************************************
> From: Japan Institute of International Affairs <e-commentary@jiia.or.jp>
>
> Editor: Akio Watanabe
> Editorial Board: Hideki Asari, Masashi Nishihara, and Taizo Yakushiji
> Online Publisher: Yoshiji Nogami
>
> AJISS-Commentary No.142
> "Revamp Math and Science Education" by Kazuo Nishimura
>
> [Kazuo Nishimura (nishimura@kier.kyoto-u.ac.jp) is Professor of
> Mathematical Economics at the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto
> University. The views expressed in this piece are the author's own and
> should not be attributed to The Association of Japanese Institutes of
> Strategic Studies.]
>
> http://www.jiia.or.jp/en_commentary/201202/10-1.html
>
> Panasonic Shock
>
> In 1986, Panasonic Corporation made headlines by hiring four non-Japanese
> engineers. The number of foreign employees at this major Japanese
> electronics maker has steadily grown since then to reach 750 out of 1250
> newly employed in 2010. Panasonic again sent shock waves throughout
> Japanese industry and the job market by announcing that it would hire 1250
> foreigners overseas among 1390 new recruits in fiscal 2011. It added that
> the remaining 290 would be hired at home regardless of their
> nationalities, with foreign graduates also eligible.
>
> If Japanese engineers continue to decline both in number and quality, so
> will the country's global competitive edge. Japan was ranked the most
> competitive economy from 1989 through 1993, according to the Swiss-based
> International Institute for Management Development (IMD)'s World
> Competitiveness reports. However, its rank dropped to 17th in 2009, 27th
> in 2010, and 26th in 2011. In contrast, South Korea boosted its ranking
> from 29th to 23rd to 22nd, Taiwan from 23rd to eighth to sixth, and China
> from 20th to 18th to 19th during the same period. Japan has already been
> outpaced by other Asian countries in global competitiveness.
>
> Japan's economic stagnation is an undeniable fact. Yet on top of that, if
> the country is unable to provide proper math and science education and
> train skilled engineers, how can it ever restore its global
> competitiveness?
>
> There are more statistics showing how Japan is lagging behind other Asian
> countries. In 2009, four Asian cities/ countries - Shanghai, Singapore,
> Hong Kong and Taiwan - ranked among the top five in mathematics literacy
> measured by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a
> triennial survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds conducted by
> the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Japan
> was ranked eighth. In terms of math and science achievements at the eighth
> grade, the top four were Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore,
> followed by Japan in fifth in 1999, 2003, and 2007, according to the
> quadrennial Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
> conducted by the International Education Center.
>
> What to Do about the Problems?
>
> The biggest factor behind the declining academic ability of young people
> is the government's successive attempts at educational reform. In response
> to criticism of rote-learning, the government eased public school
> curricula in stages, following educational guidelines issued in fiscal
> 1980, 1992 and 2002, to allow students more leeway to pursue their own
> interests. The new school curricula, called "yutori kyoiku" (relaxed
> education), were accompanied by the introduction of preliminary university
> entrance examinations administered by the government. The standardized
> exams, first introduced in 1979 and revised in 1990, in effect led to the
> reduction of the number of subjects students had to study in senior high
> school. Mathematics and science probably suffered most from the reform
> drive, with both teaching hours and content diminished.
>
> What should we do then? Problems abound but, to begin with, let's consider
> what we can do to improve science education in elementary, junior and
> senior high schools (which are attended to for six, three, and three years
> respectively).
>
> First of all, we should consider moving up the start of science classes
> from the current third grade to the first grade in elementary school. This
> will save the need for high school students to take a series of basic
> science classes such as "Basic Science," "Integrated Science," and
> "Science and Human Life," which used to be taught in junior high school.
>
> We should also consider pushing back the start of elective courses until
> the third year of high school just like it used to be. Currently, high
> school students begin taking elective subjects in their second year. This
> practice has driven students away from math and science early on to focus
> on the other seemingly easier subjects required for college entrance
> exams, contributing to the academic decline of university students.
> Delaying the start of elective courses may allow students to study
> advanced physics, chemistry and biology, which may provide them incentives
> to pursue physics - a subject from which students are currently shying
> away.
>
> There is a widely-held view in Japan that studying science and mathematics
> is unrewarding. However, our research on university graduates who entered
> university subsequent to the introduction of the first standardized test
> in 1979 found that those who included mathematics among their entrance
> exam subjects earned one million yen in annual salary more than those who
> did not (on average, math test takers earn 7.48 million yen compared to
> non-math test takers' 6.41 million yen). We also conducted a survey on
> those who majored in science and engineering, and found that those earning
> the highest incomes were those whose favorite science was physics,
> followed by chemistry, geoscience, and biology. These findings suggest
> that, for students with majors in the humanities, studying mathematics
> broadens their career options and stabilizes their income while, for
> students with science majors, studying physics - and ideally all the three
> basic science subjects - affects their lifetime incomes.
>
> Finally, we need to introduce an objective evaluation system. Currently,
> objective test scores only count as one-fourth of students' final grades.
> The remainder is determined by subjective scores calculated by teachers
> based on their observations of student interest, willingness, attitude and
> so on. If we leave the evaluation system as it is, students will have to
> keep worrying about how they are viewed by teachers. If Japan wants to
> improve the academic ability of university graduates on par with that of
> other Asian countries, we need to abolish our subjective evaluation system
> and replace it with a more objective one. That will motivate students to
> perform better on paper tests, including international tests administered
> by PISA.
>
>
> ****************
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> Association of Japanese Institutes of Strategic Studies (AJISS) consisting
> of three leading Japanese think tanks: Institute for International Policy
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Subject: H-ASIA: AIIS Book Prize

> H-ASIA
> February 10, 2012
>
> American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Book Prize
> ***********************************************************************
> From: Susan S Wadley <sswadley@syr.edu>
>
> AIIS BOOK PRIZE
>
>
> In order to promote scholarship in South Asian Studies, the American
> Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) announces the award of two prizes each
> year for the best unpublished book manuscript on an Indian subject, one in
> the humanities, "The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian
> Humanities" and one in the social sciences, "The Joseph W. Elder Prize in
> the Indian Social Sciences". Only junior scholars who have received
> the PhD within the last eight years (2005 and after) and been awarded
> an AIIS Fellowship or participated in an AIIS program (fellowship or
> language) are eligible. This must be the first book by the author.
>
> A prize committee will determine the yearly winners, though the committee
> may choose not to award prizes for any year in which worthy submissions
> are
> lacking. The prize will include a subvention of $2500 for the press
> publishing the manuscript. There is no designated press for publication.
> Authors are advised to submit their manuscript for publication at the most
> appropriate press; concurrent submission to multiple presses is
> recommended.
> Manuscripts under contract at the time of application are not eligible.
>
> Unrevised dissertations are not accepted. Applicants must demonstrate
> they have revised the original dissertation.
>
> Manuscripts are due October 1st, with an announcement of the awardees
> in the winter of 2013 . Send TWO copies of your manuscript, postmarked
> no later than October 1, 2012, to the Publications Committee Chair,
> Susan S. Wadley, Anthropology, 209 Maxwell, Syracuse University,
> Syracuse, NY 13244. Queries can be addressed to sswadley@syr.edu.
>
>
> Publications committee:
> Brian Hatcher, Tufts University
> Steve Wilkinson, Yale University
> Susan S. Wadley, Syracuse University
> Joyce Flueckiger,Emory University
> Pikh Ghosh, University of North Carolina
> Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington
>
>
> Susan S. Wadley
> Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies, Maxwell School
> Professor of Anthropology
>
> Office: 327 Eggers, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244
>
> Mailing address:
> Anthropology, 209 Maxwell
> Syracuse University
> Syracuse NY 13244
>
> Phone: 315-443-4198 (email is way better than phone to reach me)
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Grad Conference Politics of Unrest: A Transdisciplinary Conference, Claremont Graduate University, April 13-14, 2012

Thanking You

Varun Gupta

Divine Books
40/5, Shakti Nagar,
Delhi 110007
India

Ph. No. 011 42351 493
divinebooksindia@gmail.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:35 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Grad Conference Politics of Unrest: A Transdisciplinary
Conference, Claremont Graduate University, April 13-14, 2012

> H-ASIA
> February 10, 2012
>
> Call for papers: "The Politics of Unrest: A Transdisciplinary Conference",
> Claremont Graduate University, April 13-14, 2012
>
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> CFP - The Politics of Unrest: A Transdisciplinary Conference
>
> Location: California, United States
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-02-15 (in 5 days)
> Date Submitted: 2012-02-07
> Announcement ID: 192169
>
> The Graduate Student History Association of Claremont Graduate University
> is pleased to announce its fourth annual spring conference: The Politics
> of Unrest: A Transdisciplinary Conference.
>
> This conference will explore both political protests and nonviolent
> resistance in countries and cultures around the world. States have used
> political violence to intimidate and maintain authority, while protestors
> have resorted to rebellions, terrorism or sit-ins to demand changes in
> policy, regime, or political structure. Coverage of recent political
> uprisings, such as Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring movements, is
> prominent in the news media and signals the ongoing importance of this
> topic. While this conference assumes a historical vantage point for
> understanding the ongoing role of unrest in society, we welcome papers
> from multiple disciplinary perspectives on a wide-range of topics
> including but are not limited to: the interrelationship(s) between
> political change, violence, non-violence, the state, theory, terrorism,
> civil rights movements, genocide, the media, and memory.
>
> The conference will be held on the campus of Claremont Graduate University
> in Claremont, California, between April 13-14, 2012. Proposals for papers
> should be made in the form of abstracts of no more than 250 words and
> submitted to gsha@cgu.edu by Wednesday, February 15, 2012.
>
> Graduate Student History Association
> Claremont Graduate University
> Claremont, CA
> Email: gsha@cgu.edu
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