CFP: Japan, Asia, History Encyclopedia Entries Wanted

Note: Encyclopedia entries are short and--assuming you've already developed a certain level of expertise on your particular area of interest/focus--not very difficult to do. A great way for a young scholar to get a line on her or his CV!

ABC-CLIO is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume
Encyclopedia of World History. We are seeking writing contributions
from interested scholars. We are looking for writers to prepare 500-1500
word articles with a global perspective in the area of Asia and Japan.


Compensation:

* Level 1: Up to 5,000 Words: All Level 1 contributors will have
their names associated with the entries they contribute, and will
receive access to the e-book version of the entire encyclopedia (list
price $1,800) for personal use.

* Level 2: 5,001 to 10,000 words: In addition to Level 1
compensation, Level 2 contributors will receive a credit of $500 toward
purchase of any ABC-CLIO e-book.

If you are interested in writing 1 or more of the entries listed below,
please send a c.v. and, if possible, a short writing sample to Fred
Nadis and/or Monique Vallance:

FNadis@abc-clio.com

MVallance@abc-clio.com

Thank you,

Fred Nadis, Ph.D.
Writer-Editor
World History Encyclopedia
ABC-CLIO
P.O. Box 1911
Santa Barbara, CA 93116-5505
(805) 968-1911, ext 132
(800) 368-6868, ext 132



Open topics [all articles are from 500 to 1500 words in length]:


Era 6 (1450 - 1770)


Theme 1: Environment and Population

Shaping the Land in Teahouse Japan (sidebar on Shoin Style and Sukiya
Gardens)

Cycles of Exploitation and Recovery in the Southeast Asian Environment
(sidebar on reforestation after Zhu Di)

The 'Columbian Exchange' in West Asia (sidebar: Maize Comes to India:
The 17th century Staple)

The 'Columbian Exchange' in East Asia (sidebar on maize, peanuts, and
manioc)

Safavid Shi'ism as Isolationist force in Central Asia

Imagining the Garden in Tokugawa Japan (sidebar: Hokusai and the
Development of Yukyo-e, Woodblock Prints)

Nature in the Ming Imagination (sidebar: Thien Kung Kai Wu, The
Exploitation of the Works of Nature)

The Double Structure of Japanese Life

Big Men Towns: Everyday Life in Southeast Asia's Port Villages



Theme 2: Society and Culture

Urbanization in Medieval India (sidebar on Balasore and its hinterlands)

The City as Containment Policy in East Asia (sidebar on Canton, or
Guangzhou, as city, factory, enclave)

Mandarin China: The Examination System under the Ming and Qing

Subjugating Japan's Peasants in Tokugawa Japan (sidebar on Naoe
Kanmetsugu (1619))

Private Sphere, Public Sphere in China (sidebar Wang Tao-k'un, Lives of
Eminent Merchants, 1500s)

Sanjue: The "Three Perfections" of Chinese Aesthetics (sidebar on Wu Li,
Pine Winds from Myriad Valleys, 18th century)

Japan: Haiku and Kabuki (sidebar: Basho, The Narrow Road of Oku)

Fusion Folk: Kroncong music in Indonesia (sidebar: Web Component?)

Mughal Aesthetics in India (sidebar on Shah Jahan (1628-1657) and the
Taj Mahal)

The Highest Form of Flattery: The Influence of European Art on Mughal
India

Persian-Hindu Encounters: The Influence of Islamic Art on Mughal India

The 'Columbian Exchange' with West Asia (sidebar on changes in West
Asian cuisine)

The 'Columbian Exchange' with East Asia (sidebar on changes in East,
South, and Central Asian cuisine)

The 'Columbian Exchange' with Southeast Asia (sidebar on changes in
Southeast Asian cuisine)

Indo-Southeast Asian Cultural Relations (sidebar on the Indo-Thai
experience)



Theme 3: Migration and Travel

Safavid Shi'ism as Isolationist Force in Central Asia

The Plano da India

A Great Wave: Chinese Migration Manchuria, Szechuan, Taiwan, and
Southwest



Theme 4: Politics and Statecraft

The Warring States Era in Japan (1467-1600) (sidebar on Evolution of
Bushido Ideology)

China's Turn Inward: Why Did the Middle Kingdom Isolate Itself? (sidebar
on Zhu Di and the Great Fire and the Forbidden City, 9 May 1421)

Muslim sultanates replace Hindu states in Sumatra and Java (1500s)

From Temple Builders to Port States: Centralized Control in Southeast
Asia

Mughal expansionism in Central Asia

Early British empire building in Central Asia (sidebar on The British in
Orissa, from the Mughals through the Battle of Buxor, 1764)



Theme 5: Economics and Trade

India's Textiles: Peasant Weaving and the Rise of Capitalism

A Single Whip: China's "Third Commercial Revolution" (sidebar on The
Single Whip Reform)

"The Cream of the Trade": The Indian Economy before the Mughals

Lynchpins in the East Asian Economy: Ryukyu and Malacca

"Life's So Affluent": Asia's Great Age of Commerce

The Achean Pepper Trade: Taking the Trade from India

Centralizing the Siberian Fur Trade

Western economic expansion in Central Asia (sidebar on Contacts between
Oriya merchants and Western traders (sidebar on Chi'en Lung's Letter
(1793))

Mughal Art for Western Styles

"To Please the Eyes of the Europeans": The Chinese Porcelain Trade
(sidebar on Ming polychrome porcelain, San Francisco Asian Art Museum)

"Pepper Country": Sixteenth-century Malabar India in the Global
Marketplace

Ruling the Tea Lanes: Shipping Tea to America


Theme 6: War and Diplomacy

Sunni-Shi'ite Conflict as Divisive Force in West Asia

China: The Mandate of Heaven (sidebar on Chi'en Lung's Letter (1793))

Handmaiden of Power: Religious Authority in East Asian Rule (sidebar on
Hamzah Fansuri, Poems)

Kejawen: Religious Resistance on Java

Laihua Diplomacy under Ming-Qing Rule (sidebar: "You are free to come
and be transformed")

The Puzzle House of the East (sidebar on Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit
Mission to China)

Siamese Diplomacy under Phra Narai

Russian Expansion into Siberia and Central Asia (sidebar on Yermak the
Conqueror)

Russian Expansion into the Pacific (sidebar on Vitus Bering and Russia's
Pacific Exploration (1725-1730, 1733-1742)

The Art and Literature of European Conquest in West Asia (sidebar on The
Meeting of the King of Kandy and Joris van Spilbergen (1605))


Theme 7: Religion and Thought

Sunni Islamization of through 16th century Mongolia and China (sidebar
on Consolidating Sunni Thought)

Japan and the Five Indias (sidebar on Gotenjiku zu)

The World Depicted in the Jambudvipa (sidebar on A Hindu-Jain-Buddhist
Worldview)

South Asia Imagines Europe (sidebar on "White in Colour and . . . Pants
of Irons")

The Rajavaliya, Ceylon (1506)

China Imagines the Outer Barbarians (sidebar on Gatian Theory)

In the Indian Manner: Europe Imagines Asia (sidebar on Englebert
Kaempfer, The History of Japan (1727))

East Asia Imagines Europe (sidebar on Fan-quei and Nambanjin)

Neo-Confucianism Emerges in Ming/Ching Thought (sidebar on Confucian
Thought Responds to Changing Conditions)

Japan: Tokagawa Confucianism (sidebar on Saikaku, The Life of an
Amorous Woman)

Cycles of Decline and Renewal in Buddhism (sidebar on Hakuin, The
Embossed Tea Kettle, Japan)

Cross and Crescent: Christianity and Islam in East Asia (sidebar on The
Babad Lombak)

Yi Hoe's World (Korean) (sidebar on Yi Hoe, Kangnido (1402; 1460 copy))

White Deer: Confucianism in Japan (sidebar on Yamazaki Ansai, Chu Hs's
Regulations for the White Deer School)

Sunni and Shi'ite Religious conflict in West Asia (sidebar on Sunni and
Shi'ite areas)

The Spread of the Hindu Maratha state

Neo-Confucianism as Ming/Ching ideology


Theme 8: Science and Technology

Koazheng: The Search for Evidence in China (sidebar on Copernicus in
China: Jesuit Teachings)

On European Time in Asia: Jesuit Reform of the Chinese Calendar (1640s)

Propagatio fidei per scientia: Matteo Ricci and Chinese Astronomy
(sidebar on Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Yuanjing shuo (On the
Telescope) (1626))

A Sound Like Thunder: The Revolution in Southeast Asian Military
Technology


Era 7 (1750 - 1914)


Theme 1: Environment and Population

Changing Patterns in Land Use in Colonial Asia

Urbanization in India under Colonial Rule

City Growth in East Asia: Hong Kong, Osaka, Tokyo, Shanghai

Asian Population Patterns, 1750-1914


Theme 2: Society and Culture

Hindu Critics of Traditional Indian Marriage: Rammohan Roy and
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar

Family Law in Meiji Japan: The Civil Code of 1898 630

Chinese Merchants 1750-1914 1000

Chinese Peasants 1750-1914

Japanese Society in the Late Tokugawa Era

Government-Mandated Dietary Rules in Meiji Japan

Social Change in Meiji Japan

Women in Meiji Japan

The Ending of Sati in India

Education in Colonial Southeast Asia

Baseball in Meiji Japan and Latin America

The Japanese Cult of the West in the Meiji Period

French School of the Far East


Theme 3: Migration and Travel

Religious Pilgrimage and the Railroad in India

Explorations in Central and Southwest Asia


Theme 4: Politics and Statecraft

Japanese Politics in the Eighteenth Century

The Founding of the Indian National Congress

Reform and Innovation in Thailand


Theme 5: Economics and Trade

Indian Agriculture under British Rule

Chinese Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century

The Decline of the Indian Cotton Industry in India

Farming in Meiji Japan

Industrialization in Meiji Japan

Indian Slavery in the Colonial Era

China's Currency Problems in the Nineteenth Century

Consumerism in Late Qing China

Consumerism in Late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan


Theme 6: War and Diplomacy

The Japanese Military before the Meiji Restoration

Anglo-French wars in India 1756-1790s


Theme 7: Religion and Thought

Wahhabism in India

Aligarh Movement in India

Traditionalists and Modernists in Late Nineteenth-Century India

The New Text Movement in China

The End of Official Confucianism in China

Religions and Rebellion: the White Lotus and Taiping Rebellions

Late Tokugawa Japanese Confucianism


Theme 8: Science and Technology

Canal Building in Asia

Scientific and Technological Education in Meiji Japan


Era 8 (1900 - 1945)


Theme 2: Society and Culture

Indian Nationalism



Theme 3: Migration and Travel

Trends toward Urbanization: Asia and Oceania



Theme 4: Politics and Statecraft

Socialist movements in South Asia

Direct Rule (Burma as example)

Socialist Movements in South Asia

Official and nationalistic art in Asia and Oceania (e.g., anti-Japanese
arts in Korea; etc.)



Theme 5: Economics and Trade

Great Depression - South Asia



Theme 6: War and Diplomacy

Quit India Movement


Theme 7: Thought and Religion

Traditionalism vs. modernism in Asia and Oceania

Spread of Asiatic Religions


Era 9 (1945 - Present)

Theme 2: Society and Culture

Class Structure in post-Soviet Russia, E. Europe, C. Asia

Changing Class Structure in Post-Maoist China

Class and Caste in India

Family Planning in India, China

Nationalized Healthcare in Europe, Japan

Theme 3: Travel and Migration

Guest Worker Programs and Migration (W. Eur, U.S., Mid East, Asia)


Theme 4: Politics and Statecraft

Nomadic Groups: Africa, Asia



Theme 6: War and Diplomacy:

Cold War in South Asia

Pacifist governments: Japan and Costa Rica

Japanese peace movement

Ethnic Cleansing in Indonesia