A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860-1940

Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They challenge accepted explanations of how Western knowledge spread through Asia and show how versatile Asian intellectuals were in introducing European concepts and in blending them with local traditions.

Hagen Schulz-Forberg is Associate Professor for Global and European History at Aarhus University. Among his recent publications are Before Integration: Human Rights and Post-war Europe (2011) and Cosmopolitanism or Ethnic Homogeneity? Roma Identity and the European Public Sphere (2010). His research interests cover the fields of European history, European integration, urban history, travel and tourism, historiography, cultural history, transnational and global history.

Introduction: Global Conceptual History: Promises and Pitfalls of a New Research Agenda - Hagen Schulz-Forberg 1 How Concepts Met History in Korea's Complex Modernization: New Concepts of Economy and Society and their Impact - Myoung-Kyu Park 2 Differing Translations, Contested Meanings: A Motor for the 1911 Revolution in China? - Hailong Tian 3 Notions of Society in Early Twentieth-Century China,1900-25 - Dominic Sachsenmaier 4 Sabha-Samaj Society: Some Linguistic Considerations - Klaus Kartunen 5 The Conceptualization of the Social in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Arabic Thought and Language - Ilham Khuri-Makdisi 6 From Kerajaan (Kingship) to Masyarakat (The People): Malayan Articulations of Nationhood through Concepts of the Social and Economic, 1920-40 - Paula Pannu 7 Building Nation and Society in the 1920s Dutch East Indies - Leena Avonius 8 Discordant Localizations of Modernity: Reflections on Concepts of the Economic and the Social in Siam during the Early Twentieth Century - Morakot Jewachinda Meyer