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Since the end of World War II, the Kuomintang (KMT) (Guomindang) government has erased all traces of Japanese rule from public space, deeming them "poisonous" to the people in Taiwan. This frenzy, often termed "de-Japanization" or qu Ribenhua in Chinese, included the destruction and alteration of Japanese structures. Yet, with democratization in the 1990s, the Japanese past has been revisited, and many Japanese structures have been reconstructed and preserved. This paper examines the social phenomenon of preserving Japanese heritage in present-day Taiwan. It mainly investigates religious/spiritual architecture, such as Shinto shrines and martial arts halls (Butokuden), war monuments and Japanese statues and busts. A close investigation of these monuments finds that many of them are not restored and preserved in their original form but in a deformed/ transformed one. This finding leads the paper to conclude that the phenomenon is a postcolonial endeavour, rather than being "pro-colonial", and that the preservation of Japanese heritage contributes to the construction and consolidation of a Taiwan-centric historiography in which Taiwan is imagined as multicultural and hybrid. (JCCA/GIGA)

This article revisits child‐marriage legislation in colonial India between 1891 and 1929 to re‐envision the 'child' as a subject constituted by laws governing sex, rather than as an a priori object requiring protection from patriarchal sexual norms. Focusing on the digital construction of the child in the twentieth century, this essay introduces a new angle from which to examine recent conclusions regarding child‐marriage reform in India. By drawing attention to an understudied figure, this article demonstrates the ways in which the problem of the child might transform understandings of the nation and its women; the universe of rights and the location of culture and the place of age as number in the formulation of legal subjectivities, colonial governmentality and humanitarian accounting in late colonial India.

Cover -- Series -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Watermarks: The Colonial Mexican Pluvial and Its Hydrographic Archive -- 2. Rising Waters, Perilous Grasslands, and Empty Granaries: Managing the Ecological Revolution in Early Colonial Tlaxcala -- 3. A Drunken Landscape: Pulque, Mule Trains, and the New Wastelands -- 4. Embedded Lives: Silt, Water, and Politics -- 5. Memories of a Devious Landscape: The Commissioner's Report of 1761 -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Reconstructing Colonial Mexico's Climate -- Appendix B: A Framework of Soil-Water Dynamics -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

The contemporary context of Australia cannot be understood in isolation from its colonial past. As a powerful force of modernity seeking to defy geographical boundaries and advocate for the progress of man from all empires and local landscapes, colonialism has had a profound impact on even the most organic and timeless modes of thought. The tradition and culture of Indigenous Australian's have been deeply challenged in regards to their relevance for the modern nation state, predicated on an alternate worldview privileging human populations as objects of examination and control, rather than as the producers of authentic cultural knowledge. Subsequently, this article will critique the construction and relevance of Indigenous tradition and knowledge within Australia's contemporary postcolonial context. In order to do so, the article will examine the political and cultural paradigms resulting in representations of the colonial subject as primitive and 'other,' ultimately enabling British colonial powers to assume hegemony over the local inhabitants and their ideological worldview founded in local tradition. The divide established between traditional knowledge and the modern notion of scientific thought will be addressed in order to expose the marginalisation and silencing of contemporary Indigenous populations due to their intrinsic, spiritual connection to the past. This modern attempt to deny Aborigines contemporaneity will be examined through the physical and contextual setting of Brenda Croft's Indigenous artwork titled Wuganmagulya, located in Farm Cove in Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden. The article will conclude contemporary discourses of urban modernity have resulted in the emergence of commodified forms of Aboriginal tradition that attempt to conceal the cultural waste produced during the context of colonisation.

"Centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yorùbá people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. ... Situating Prieto's story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands of Yorùbá speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land"--

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The ideas and political commitments of the revolutionary abolitionist and Spencean Robert Wedderburn (1762–1835) represent a compelling example of a form of universality, articulated in the midst of the Age of Revolution, which defied European colonialism and plantation slavery. An engagement with Wedderburn's writings on the Haitian Revolution, maroon warfare and his proposal of a Spencean communist programme will clarify ongoing debates about Enlightenment, empire, slavery and universality, and might inform a re-engagement with the idea of universal emancipation in the political present.

This article explores the common bases of knowledge on race among Malay intellectuals and British scholar-officials in British Malaya. It focuses on genealogies of knowledge that not only lead back to Europe, but to contexts in the Malay Archipelago, encompassing both coloniser and colonised as agents of production of colonial knowledge on race. Race was a strategy adopted by Malay intellectuals in a colonial milieu, in line with histories and conditions before and during the period of British control over Malaya. The notion of complicities is explored in studying the interaction between British and Malay intellectuals which produced colonial knowledge on race. (J Southeast Asian Stud/GIGA)