Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. Part I. Academic Discourses and Concepts
6. 2 Civilizational Encounters: Europe in Asia 14
7. 3 Locating Southeast Asia: Postcolonial Paradigms and Predicaments 36
8. 4 The Meaning of Alternative Discourses: Illustrations from Southeast Asia 57
9. 5 Redrawing Centre-Periphery Relations: Theoretical Challenges in the Study of Southeast Asian Modernity 79
10. 6 Rethinking Assumptions on Asia and Europe: The Study of Entrepreneurship 102
11. Part II. Linkages: Science, Society and Culture
12. 7 Royal Antiquarianism, European Orientalism and the Production of Archaeological Knowledge in Modern Siam 133
13. 8 Foreign Knowledge: Cultures of Western Science-making in Meiji Japan 162
14. 9 British Colonial Rhetoric on ‘Modern Medicine’ and ‘Health at Home’: Realities of Health Conditions in 19^th Century Britain 184
15. 10 Poverty, Gender and Nation in Modern Vietnamese Literature During the French Colonial Period (1930s–40s) 214
16. 11 Family Linkages between India and Britain: Views from Gujarat and London 242
17. 12 Framing ‘the Other’: A Critical Review of Vietnam War Movies and their Representation of Asians and Vietnamese 267
18. 13 Métis, Métisse and Métissage: Representations and Self-Representations 299
19. About the Contributors 322