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Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan (2012)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2012). Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan. In B.-Y. Chang, & H. Klöter (Eds.), Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics (149-169). Harrassowitz Verlag . Wiesbaden

The chapter examines the construction of a national landscape and the invention of a mythical origin for the islanders. As part of Taiwan’s nation-building project, a campaign was launched in 2001 to popularise Yushan (the highest mountain in East As... Read More about Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan.

Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics (2012)
Book
Chang, B.-Y., Klöter, H., Liao, H.-H. S., Morris, A., Birtwistle, A., Liu, J. C.-H., & Lee, A. (2012). B.-Y. Chang, & H. Klöter (Eds.). Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics. Harrassowitz

Since the 1990s the issue of identity has been one of the most prominent and hotly-debated topics in Taiwan Studies. A rich corpus of literature has been produced in various fields in the attempt to address this problematic issue, examining questions... Read More about Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics.

Taliban, Real and Imagined (2012)
Book Chapter
Caron, J. (2012). Taliban, Real and Imagined. In S. Bashir, & R. D. Crews (Eds.), Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands. Harvard University Press

Waswifu wa Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany (2012)
Book
Said, A. (2012). C. Githiora (Ed.). Waswifu wa Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany. JC Press

Biography of Swahili scholar and writer from Lamu, Kenya with introduction by Chege Githiora.

Offshore from the Cape to Mauritius, 1857-1860: The Letters of Lady Barbarina Grey (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Easton, K. (2011, August). Offshore from the Cape to Mauritius, 1857-1860: The Letters of Lady Barbarina Grey. Paper presented at Coastlines and Littoral Zones: The 8th Annual Literature and Ecology Colloquium, Kleinmond, Western Cape, South Africa

Wife of Admiral Sir Frederick Grey, Commander of the Cape of Good Hope and South Coast of Africa Station (a title changed, immediately on his arrival, to the West Coast of Africa Station), Lady Barbarina Grey left behind both a journal, the extracts... Read More about Offshore from the Cape to Mauritius, 1857-1860: The Letters of Lady Barbarina Grey.

Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11 (2011)
Book
Morey, P., & Yaqin, A. (2011). Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061149

Can Muslims ever fully be citizens of the West? Can the values of Islam ever be brought into accord with the individual freedoms central to the civic identity of Western nations? Not if you believe what you see on TV. Whether the bearded fanatic, the... Read More about Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11.

Travels with Mike: from HMS Goodwill to Yacht Jester (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Easton, K. (2011, March). Travels with Mike: from HMS Goodwill to Yacht Jester. Paper presented at Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text, Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text, University of Sussex

[Selected correspondence of Michael William Dugdale Mills Richey MBE, Hon FRIN, first winner of the Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize for Literature (1942), b. 6 July 1917, 9 Chiswick Place, Eastbourne; d. 22 December 2009, 16 Lewes Crescent, Brighton.]... Read More about Travels with Mike: from HMS Goodwill to Yacht Jester.