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Seen and Unseen: a century of stories from Asia and the Pacific

2015-12-08 History
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Release : 2015-12-08
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Seen and Unseen: a century of stories from Asia and the Pacific by : Russell Darnley OAM

Download or read book Seen and Unseen: a century of stories from Asia and the Pacific written by Russell Darnley OAM. This book was released on 2015-12-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaria, cockfights and magic are confronting realities in the Asia-Pacific region, yet beyond these more remains unseen and misunderstood. These cultures also exert an unacknowledged influence far beyond their borders. Inspired by one family’s experience over three generations these tales are cradled in real events. Frailty of memory, the natural passing of people and the need to protect others, has rendered some into fiction. Central to this work is the idea that interactions with people from outside our culture challenge our expectations. Meanings and understandings must often be negotiated in intangible, non-rational and unseen ways. Foucault’s notion of the third space has influenced this work, as has the Balinese belief that reality is an interaction of Sekala (the Seen) and Niskala (the Unseen). The unseen also has a political dimension here – “the elephant in the room”. Choosing not to see, comforted by one’s own culture alone, is to ignore that regional and global events are unfettered by such introspection.

Seen and Unseen

2016 Asia
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Release : 2016
Genre : Asia
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Book Synopsis Seen and Unseen by : Russell Darnley

Download or read book Seen and Unseen written by Russell Darnley. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transpacific Visions

2021-09-30 History
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Release : 2021-09-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Transpacific Visions by : Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi

Download or read book Transpacific Visions written by Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi. This book was released on 2021-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that transpacific history cannot be comprehended without including “vertical” connections; namely, those between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. It explores such connections by uncovering small histories of ordinary people’s attempts at événements which they undertake by means of uneven, unlevel, and multidirectional mobilities. In this way, this book goes beyond the usual notion of transpacific history as a matter of Northern Hemisphere-centric connections between the United States and Asian countries, and enables us to imagine a transpacific space as a more dynamic and multi-faceted world of human mobilities and connections. In this book, both eminent and burgeoning historians uncover the stories of little-known, myriad encounters in various parts of the Asia-Pacific region. By exploring cases whose actors include soldiers, missionaries, colonial administrators, journalists, essayists, and artists, the book highlights the significance of "vertical" perspectives in understanding complex histories of the region.

Just Off Message

2017-11-01 Poetry
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Release : 2017-11-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Just Off Message by : Dr David P Reiter

Download or read book Just Off Message written by Dr David P Reiter. This book was released on 2017-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices sought an independent publishing house with a global vision and an innovative approach. They found IP. Now, 20 years on, more than forty creators return to celebrate the survival of this maverick venture with the very best of work past, current and future. Their message to you is that independent publishing houses like IP are, and always will be, an essential part of the cultural landscape even in the face of globalisation and aspiring robots. Who are these daring writers whose work is Just off Message? You know how to find them.

To the Diamond Mountains

2010-11-15 History
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Release : 2010-11-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis To the Diamond Mountains by : Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Download or read book To the Diamond Mountains written by Tessa Morris-Suzuki. This book was released on 2010-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling and engaging book takes readers on a unique journey through China and North and South Korea. Tessa Morris-Suzuki travels from Harbin in the north to Busan in the south, and on to the mysterious Diamond Mountains, which lie at the heart of the Korean Peninsula's crisis. As she follows in the footsteps of a remarkable writer, artist, and feminist who traced the route a century ago—in the year when Korea became a Japanese colony—her saga reveals an unseen face of China and the two Koreas: a world of monks, missionaries, and smugglers; of royal tombs and socialist mausoleums; a world where today's ideological confrontations are infused with myth and memory. Northeast Asia is poised at a moment of profound change as the rise of China is transforming the global order and tensions run high on the Korean Peninsula, the last Cold War divide. Probing the deep past of this region, To the Diamond Mountains offers a new and unexpected perspective on its present and future.

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