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InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 10 Sep 2024 02:35:54
InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism

Chie Ikeya, "InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism"
English | ISBN: 1501777130 | 2024 | 282 pages | PDF | 11 MB

In InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism, Chie Ikeya asks how interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma under British colonial rule became the subject of political agitation, legislative activism, and collective violence. Over the course of the twentieth century relations between Burmese Muslims, Sino-Burmese, Indo-Burmese, and other mixed families and communities became flashpoints for far-reaching legal reforms and Buddhist revivalist, feminist, and nationalist campaigns aimed at consigning minority Asians to subordinate status and regulating women's conjugal and reproductive choices. Out of these efforts emerged understandings of religion, race, and nation that continue to vex Burma and its neighbors today.
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