Gastbeitrag von Dr. Kris Ramlan “Seven of you, and I alone.” With this playful challenge, Angkaran Dewa, companion to the hero of a Malay romance, invites the princess’s attendants to a contest in verse. The princess smiles and urges them to answer. Dang Areka Warna draws her bow across the rebab, a bowed string instrument, […]
Gastbeitrag von Prof. Sarah Panzer The staggering quantity of literature on the First World War can give rise to the mistaken impression that scholars have already said all that there is to say on the topic, especially in the wake of the many fine publications which emerged out of the centenary commemorations of the conflict. […]
Gastbeitrag von Forrest Cale McSweeney In the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), military medicine, and particularly military drugs, were an aspect of the income of soldiers. In a complex system of local procurement, the Qing government steered both simple ingredients and physicians themselves to the privileged Manchu warrior elite in the Eight Banners often stationed in the […]
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Sanjiao Tang Driven by the international tensions in the Cold War context, war preparation elements heavily and continuously featured Chinese people’s lives throughout the Maoist era (1949–1976). Despite the great famine around the late 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) decided to include China’s entire population in the armed forces (quanmin jiebing 全民皆兵). […]
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