▼ 2009/10/22(木) Anthony Reid先生の講演会(10月22日）
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Anthony Reid先生の講演会を下記の要領で開催いたします。
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日時：１０月２２日（木） 16:00-18:00
場所：京都大学稲盛記念館 ３階 中会議室
（http: //www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/access_ja.html）
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タイトル：Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Asia
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くださいます。詳しくは下記の英文要旨をご参照ください。
小泉順子(京都大学東南アジア研究所）
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You are cordially invited to a lecture by Professor Anthony Reid on "Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Asia"
October 22, 2009 (Thursday) 16:00-18:00
Inamori Center
Chukaigishitu (Middle Room)
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Abstract
The mid-twentieth Century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history. The relatively brief Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia and much of China, and its sudden ending with the atomic bombs of August 1945, telescoped what might have been a long-term transition into a dramatic and violent revolution. In essence, imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, the sole legitimate model of twentieth century politics.
The growing literature on nationalism would suggest that the winners from the collapse of empires should have been ethnically homogeneous nation-states. Yet each major Asian state looks like an anomaly, failing to undergo the kind of culturally homogeneous national assertiveness that broke up empires in Europe under the new pressures of industrialisation and print capitalism. Imperial borders were sanctified by China, India, Indonesia, Burma and the Philippines, though each experienced modernity under radically different conditions.
How do we explain this curious alchemy generated by nationalism in Asia?
In a book just finished I have used Indonesia and Malaysia as models for two kinds of alchemy in Southeast Asia, revolutionary/unitarian and evolutionary/federal. This talk will discuss a typology which may help us understand Asian nationalism more generally.
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Prof.Anthony Reid is a Southeast Asian Historian, currently a Research Fellow at CSEAS. His permanent base is now again at the Australian National University, after periods as founding Director of CSEAS at UCLA
(1999-2002) and of the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore (2002-7). His most recent book, the subject of this talk, is _Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and political identity in Southeast Asia_ (Cambridge University Press, Dec. 2009).
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