The Asian Studies Centre was founded in 1982 at St Antony’s College and is primarily a coordinating organization which exists to bring together specialists from a wide variety of different disciplines. The Asian Studies Centre works closely with scholars in the Oriental Institute, the Oxford China Centre, the Contemporary Indian Studies Programme and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies (in premises at St Antony’s).
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
| Module: 01 | |||
| Burma: Towards 2015 and Beyond | 01:55:00 | ||
| Ethnicity and Experiences of Conflict in Burma: An Informal Rountable Discussion | 01:30:00 | ||
| Thailand and the Rule of No Law | 00:57:00 | ||
| The Emerging Agro-Industrial Complex in Burma: the Politicis of Land Reform, Land Grabs and Resistances, and the Chinese Presence | 01:32:00 | ||
| Religion as a Motive for Exclusion in Contemporary Western Democracies | 00:55:00 | ||
| Closing Myanmar’s Pandora Box: resolving the Buddhist-Muslim Conflict | 00:51:00 | ||
| 102 Anti-Muslim Movements in Sri Lanka and Myanmar: Connections and Commonalities | 00:59:00 | ||
| Timor Leste Route to Democracy: a critical appraisal | 00:57:00 | ||
| Changing Buddhist Identities in Contemporary Myanmar (Burma) | 00:35:00 | ||
| Dr. Ansari and the Indian Medical Mission to the Ottoman Empire, 1912-13 | 01:33:00 | ||
| Module: 02 | |||
| Chinese Reform in Light of James Meade’s Liberal Socialism. | 00:56:00 | ||
| The Diffusion of Islamic Laws Across Indonesia | 00:52:00 | ||
| Rumors, riots, and taxis: The politics of Myanmar’s new media infrastructure | 00:44:00 | ||
| The Alchemist of Exile: Writing the Life of a Vietnamese Political Prisoner | 00:59:00 | ||
| A Vote for Authoritarianism? Reflections of Singapore’s 2015 General Election | 00:52:00 | ||
| Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China | 00:45:00 | ||
| The Geopolitics of Change in Burma | 00:50:00 | ||
| The Making of a Constitution: Pakistan and the Question of Sovereignty | 00:52:00 | ||
| China’s Economic Nationalists: from Bretton Woods to Bandung | 00:51:00 | ||
| The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: a first step towards a sino-centric regional order? | 00:55:00 | ||
| Mechanism of oppression, Dalits and legal developments in India | 00:46:00 | ||
| Module: 03 | |||
| Is the 21st Century Asia’s? | 00:53:00 | ||
| The Political Economy of the Indo-Myanmar Frontier: Exploring Historical Links and Current Challenges in Mizo-Chin Relations | 00:54:00 | ||
| The Oxford India Lecture: An Undocumented Wonder – the Making of the Great Indian Election | 00:45:00 | ||
| Trading with the Enemy: the Making of US Export Control Policy toward the People’s Republic of China | 00:55:00 | ||
| Timor-Leste, Challenges in Post-Independence: From Dream to Reality | 01:03:00 | ||
| The Development of Islamic Finance in Malaysia: Facts, Issues and Potential | 01:30:00 | ||
| The Gift of Education? Learning, migration and intergenerational relations among Karen refugees in Thailand and the United Kingdom | 00:37:00 | ||
| Living in a Time of Deception: a Historical Memoir of Singapore 1945-65 | 00:35:00 | ||
| The Traffic in Hierarchy: Precedence and Power in Burmese Social Life | 00:57:00 | ||
| Fighting Extremism Through Islamic Moderation | 00:54:00 | ||
| Module: 04 | |||
| Rediscovering the Primitive: Adivasi Histories in and after Subaltern Studies | 00:36:00 | ||
| Women and Conflict in India | 00:27:00 | ||
| The prospects for enhancing democracy and development in the Philippines: The 2016 elections and beyond | 00:58:00 | ||
| Tagore and the theology of the global | 00:54:00 | ||
| “On the Colonisation of India”: Public Meetings, Debates and Disputes (Calcutta 1829) | 01:02:00 | ||
| Histories of the ephemeral: writing on music in the late Mughal world | 00:23:00 | ||
| Intizar Husain: Literature and a Sense of Historical Difference | 00:23:00 | ||
| On the Concept of Heritage in Contemporary Pakistan | 00:20:00 | ||
| Identity Formation through National Calendar: The Politics of Commemoration in Pakistan | 00:22:00 | ||
| Is the Taj Mahal Pakistani? Teaching Pakistani History – Teaching Pakistanis History | 00:16:00 | ||
| Module: 05 | |||
| Maulana Bhashani, Marxists and Murids, c. 1957-60s | 00:24:00 | ||
| Transforming Memory: Community Recollections of Inter-Religious Peace and Conflict in Myanmar | 00:42:00 | ||
| Pakistan and the Late Colonial Crisis of Sovereignty | 00:22:00 | ||
| The Bureaucratisation of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Outlines of a Collaborative Research Project | 01:05:00 | ||
| Pakistan and Ireland Exploring Comparative Constitutional Perspectives on Decolonisation, Dominion Status, and Beyond | 00:37:00 | ||
| Feeling Untouched: Space, Emotions and Untouchability | 00:40:00 | ||
| A Journey from Cambodia to America and Back! | 01:01:00 | ||
| A Zionist Passage to India? | 00:51:00 | ||
| Of Nomadology and India(n-ness) | 00:46:00 | ||
| Fanon transformed? The new writings | 00:57:00 | ||
| Module: 06 | |||
| Defending British India Against Napoleon: The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807-13 | 01:06:00 | ||
| Distinction or Distraction? The politics of connoisseurship in eighteenth-century Rajput courts | 00:57:00 | ||
| Book Launch: The Karen and the Gift of Education | 00:30:00 | ||
| The Uniqueness of Downtown Yangon | 00:26:00 | ||
| The Sino-Thais’ Right Turn towards China | 00:39:00 | ||
| Between Hope and Despair: Living with Difference in Today’s Indonesia | 00:53:00 | ||
| What’s wrong with the status quo? | 00:13:00 | ||
| Thinking of the unthinkable | 00:17:00 | ||
| UNCLOS and the South China Sea Conflicts | 00:18:00 | ||
| Will naval power close the South China Sea chapter? | 00:22:00 | ||
| Module: 07 | |||
| Base points and equity applicable to the resolution of conflicts | 00:21:00 | ||
| Functional cooperative management in the South China Sea | 00:17:00 | ||
| ASEAN and Regional Cooperation in the South China Sea | 00:20:00 | ||
| South China Sea – Vietnam’s view after the July 2016 Award | 00:21:00 | ||
| Concrete proposals for the resolution of conflicts between the Philippines and China | 00:24:00 | ||
| Concrete proposals for conflict settlements of the South China Sea disputes: Review and assessment | 00:18:00 | ||
| Re-building Democracy: Parekh on Indian nationalism and the common good | 00:42:00 | ||
| Kashmir, India and the Future | 01:04:00 | ||
| Module: 08 | |||
| Challenges and Opportunities for strengthening State and Regional Parliaments in Myanmar | 01:04:00 | ||
| Directive Principles and the Expressive Accommodation of Ideological Dissenters in the Indian Constitution | 00:34:00 | ||
| Feminine Abandon and the abducted Woman in post-Partition Shorey Comedies | 00:45:00 | ||
| Contesting the Liberal Order? China Rising in a World Not of Its Own Making | 00:39:00 | ||
| Gandhi’s Inspiration | 00:52:00 | ||
| Britain’s Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation | 00:47:00 | ||
| The Colloquy between Muhammad and Saytan: The 18th-century Bangla Iblichnama of Garibulla | 00:49:00 | ||
| Positioning Myanmar as an attractive new investment destination in Southeast Asia | 00:57:00 | ||
| Hindu Militarism, P.D. Tandon and the Politics of Scale in 1940s Uttar Pradesh | 00:55:00 | ||
| Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar | 01:07:00 | ||
| Module: 09 | |||
| Subaltern Counter-Publics: Dalits and Missionary Christianity in Kerala | 00:28:00 | ||
| Hindu Militarism, P.D. Tandon and the Politics of Scale in 1940s Uttar Pradesh | 00:55:00 | ||
| Ambivalence, Ambiguity and Alienation: Making Sense of ‘Tension’ in North India | 00:39:00 | ||
| Querying the Cosmopolitan in Sri Lankan and Indian Ocean History | 00:50:00 | ||
| Is Myanmar’s ‘Buddhist nationalist’ movement (also) a religious reform movement? | 00:38:00 | ||
| Money, Enticements, Modernity: Indian Elite Women between Anxiety and Privilege | 00:40:00 | ||
| Civil Resistance: The Originality of Gandhi | 01:16:00 | ||
| Farmers Matter in New India but not the Same Way: Political Settlement, Discontinuous Agrarian Policy and Class-Formations | 00:55:00 | ||
| My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal | 00:42:00 | ||
| The British High Commission in Pakistan 1947-65: Role and History | 00:58:00 | ||
| Module: 10 | |||
| An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India | 00:32:00 | ||
| The Militarisation of the Chinese Citizen: the Impact of Japan | 00:49:00 | ||
| The Unmaking of an Imperial Army: The Indian Army in World War II | 00:51:00 | ||
| 00:00 | |||
| Nihilism in the 21st Century: A Conversation with Pankaj Mishra, Shruti Kapila and David Priestland | 00:41:00 | ||
| Scribes, Paper and the Formation of the Colonial State in North India, 1780-1840 | 00:48:00 | ||
| Populism as a Global Form: A Roundtable Conversation | 01:20:00 | ||
| Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th century India | 00:43:00 | ||
| India Conquered and Unconquered: The Chaos of Empire and the End of British power in India | 00:48:00 | ||
| The Untouchable Citizen | 00:52:00 | ||
| Module: 11 | |||
| The Age of Fasad: Jihad, Piety and Liturgical Islam in the Indian Ocean (1500-1750) | 00:46:00 | ||
| The Sweatshop Regime: Garments, Exploitation, and labouring Bodies made in India | 00:55:00 | ||
| Understanding Indonesia’s Post-Independence Elite: Data from the Constitutional Assembly | 00:42:00 | ||
| ‘God knows this is a chronic, protracted situation’: The Myanmar military’s war on IDPs in Kachin and northern Shan states | 00:58:00 | ||
| Thailand’s Post-2014 Foreign Policy: Riding on the International Trend | 00:52:00 | ||
| International Influences on Domestic Policy-Making in China: The 2018 Chun-tu Hsueh Distinguished Lecture | 01:07:00 | ||
| The Pakistan-China Corridor: Impacts on Regional Stability | 00:33:00 | ||
| Opposition Politics in India | 00:46:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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