Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Academic Discourses and Concepts

pp 13-14

2 - Civilizational Encounters: Europe in Asia

pp 15-35

3 - Locating Southeast Asia: Postcolonial Paradigms and Predicaments

pp 36-56

4 - The Meaning of Alternative Discourses: Illustrations from Southeast Asia

pp 57-78

5 - Redrawing Centre-Periphery Relations: Theoretical Challenges in the Study of Southeast Asian Modernity

pp 79-101

6 - Rethinking Assumptions on Asia and Europe: The Study of Entrepreneurship

pp 102-130

Part II - Linkages: Science, Society and Culture

pp 131-132

7 - Royal Antiquarianism, European Orientalism and the Production of Archaeological Knowledge in Modern Siam

pp 133-161

8 - Foreign Knowledge: Cultures of Western Science-making in Meiji Japan

pp 162-183

9 - British Colonial Rhetoric on ‘Modern Medicine’ and ‘Health at Home’: Realities of Health Conditions in 19th Century Britain

pp 184-213

10 - Poverty, Gender and Nation in Modern Vietnamese Literature during the French Colonial Period (1930s–40s)

pp 214-241

11 - Family Linkages between India and Britain: Views from Gujarat and London

pp 242-266

12 - Framing ‘the Other’: A Critical Review of Vietnam War Movies and their Representation of Asians and Vietnamese

pp 267-298

13 - Métis, Métisse and Métissage: Representations and Self-Representations

pp 299-321

About the Contributors

pp 322-325