During the early French colonization of Hanoi, the Vietnamese societies and cultures of this capital were extremely transformed and evidently assimilated to the European material and mental cultures, especially by means of French colonial education.... Many questions have been raised: what are the French colonial educational policies in Vietnam?

and 3) expressing the ideological views of the ruling elites on Thai nationhood. Informed by the post-colonial theories, the study examines this so-called “Marble Temple” through its politics of representation in creating Siam’s self-image..., but took place among states within the region as well. Siam in the 19th century was a regional colonial power, not a victim of Western aggressions as widely publicized by the conventional historiography. By utilizing khwampenthai as a mode

.” On the other hand, “Wilderness Tips” is about Canada, about what it is like to be or to become Canadian, whether as direct descendants of the original colonial settlers or as immigrants, about Canadian history from colonial settler days to decolonization

during the period of colonialism in South Africa, postcolonial tourism, whale conservation, and the challenge of global animal protection in relation to environmental justice. Throughout the study, the overlapping interests, as well as tension

This paper attempts to show Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace as a tale of impoverishment of the South Asian region, and its populace. The novel tries to establish colonialism, along with its imperialistic motives and the Christianising impulse..., as an ecocidal project. It is proposed that the pre-colonial symbiotic relations between man and nature were altered by the capitalist modernity introduced by the British colonists. The cultural plurality and biodiversity of these bioregions gave way

, Onyeocha, and Oyebola. Recognizing the weakness of their analysis as their emphasis on the need to return to some pre-colonial, communal African Weltanschauung, this research acknowledges the importance of the theme of cultural synthesis which cuts across... the former was set on the colonial and post-colonial era, the latter also began before the colonial era, but later solidified in the mid 1970s when as Faiola and Kukka noted that a paradigm identity shift occurred among Nigerians. Nigerians began to see

the palimpsestuous relation of the two series, contending that the Siri Paiboun series operates as a site where colonial mimicry deviates from and later disrupts the authority of colonial discourse epitomized by the convention of French police novels..., to delegitimize its colonial authority by questioning the status of Simenon’s series as a model of roman policier, and, second, to criticize the Lao dysfunctional judicial system while his Belgian predecessor seeks to endorse the institutional authority

Gender is a quintessential issue in Asian American literature, since Asian Americans are seen as weak with feminine qualities, according to the Western colonial concept. This paper examines Korean American women’s power through an analysis... of patriarchy in Korea and rescues herself and her family with her intelligence, determination, power, and bravery. As an Asian woman who successfully resettles in the United States, her achievement refutes the Western colonial concept which double-feminizes

Achebe’s (1958) classic novel, Things Fall Apart, is the first African novel to portray Igbo culture and give a detailed history of pre-colonial and colonial incursion into Africa. It is the position of this essay that as the novel provides insights... into the culture, politics, economy and history of pre-colonial and colonial periods, it would also offer a reading of the environmental perspectives of these periods.This essay employs both sociological and environmental justice approaches in its investigation

Bonded labor or bonded slavery and bonded prostitution in India is a legacy left by British colonialism. Under this system, a person has to fall into servitude to whomever he or she has loaned money from with no means of repaying that debt... moneylenders. Unable to repay the debt, they become bonded laborers and bonded prostitutes and are seriously exploited and abused. Imaginary Maps serves as a channel through which the tribal voice is heard, depicting the relationship between colonialism