CFP: Encyclopedia of World History: "Asian History and Culture" (no deadline noted)

ABC-CLIO, the leading publisher of academic reference works, is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume Encyclopedia of World History. We are looking for interested scholars to prepare 500-1500 word articles with a global
perspective in the area of Asian history and Culture.

Compensation: 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.

Contributors assigned 3,000 words or more will also receive a credit of $300 towards purchase of ABC-CLIO books.

In order to meet review standards, we do require that contributors hold a Ph.D, ABD or be currently enrolled in a doctoral program. If you are interested in writing 1 or more of the entries listed below, please send a c.v. to Fred Nadis and/or Jeannie Azizian

Thank you,

Fred Nadis
ABC-CLIO
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Santa Barbara, CA 93117-5505
phone: (805) 968-1911 x132
toll free: (800) 368-6868 x132

Asia Entries - Unassigned 2-5-08

Era 1: to 4,000 BCE (Words)
ERA 1 3. Lifeways in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Austronesia (1000)
ERA 1 5. Plant and animal domestication in East Asia 1000
ERA 1 b. Bashidang (China): early rice cultivators 200
ERA 1 10. The Jomon foragers of coastal Japan 1000
ERA 1 2. Homo sapiens enters East and Southeast Asia 1000
ERA 1 4. Into Europe and across central and northern Asia 1000

Era 2: 4000 BCE - 1000 BCE

Era 2 6. India 500
Era 2 8. China: An Ecology of Diversity 500
Era 2 6. Volcanic Eruption in Iceland ca. 1200 600
Era 2 7. Warming Treds in he Sahara 600
Era 2 3. Vedic Intoxicants 600
Era 2 3. Ancient Ethnicity in India: What Makes an Harrapan? What makes
an Aryan?
Era 2 2. New Types of Social Organization in Vedic Culture 1,000
Era 2 4. The Aryan Restructuring of India 1200
Era 2 5. New Lifeways in Southeast Asia 1200
Era 2 4. Gender in the Indus Valley 600
Era 2 5. Harappan Writing 500
Era 2 8. Monumental Architecture in India 500
Era 2 6. The Art of the Indus Valley 1,500
Era 2 8. Shang Art 1,500
Era 2 The Shang Cemetery at Xibeigang 1,000
Era 2 3. China: 3,000
Era 2 7. Jomon: Hunters, Gatherers, Rice Cultivators, and Potters 600
Era 2 3. Shang Bronzeworkers: Elites Outside of the Cities 600
Era 2 3. Harrapan Trade 1,000
Era 2 2. Aryan Invaders 1,000
Era 2 6. Shang Temples 800
Era 2 4. Ancient Festivals in Southeast Asia 1,000
Era 2 3. The Vedas 200
Era 2 2. Early Oral Traditions of Vedic Literature 750

Era 3: (1000 BCE - 300 CE)

Era 3 Changes in Central Asia 1000
Era 3 Spread of agricultural development south in China with the
emergence of Chu? 1000
Era 3 Development of iron technology in Yayoi Japan 800
Era 3 Introduction of rice into southeast Asia. 1000
Era 3 Steppe migrations of the Scythians, Sarmatians, Hsiung-Nu and the
Yuezhi 1500
Era 3 Family as it emerges in early Jainism and Buddhism. 600
Era 3 Changing society in Japan with endof Joman and beginning of Yayoi
1000
Era 3 Concept of female rulers in Yayoi Japan 1000
Era 3 Panini and the first Sanskrit Grammar 1000
Era 3 Late Jomon and Yayoi funerary sculpture 600
Era 3 Hsuang-Nu and Scythian kurgan burials 1000
Era 3 Small city states of India before the rise of Mauryas. 1500
Era 3 Kautilya's Arthashastra (Manual on admistration and politics) 1000
Era 3 Ashoka and the formation of an Indian Empire 1500
Era 3 Large scale cotton production in India 500
Era 3 Introduction of Buddhism to Central Asia and China 1500
Era 3 Religious development in early Three Kingdom Korea 1000

Era 4: (300 - 1000 )

Era 4 4. Families and Kinship in Early Medieval India 400
Era 4 2. Invaders become Rajputs 1000
Era 4 2. Urban Classes in East Asia 1000
Era 4 5. Education in Early Medieval South Asia 1000
Era 4 2. Harsha's Empire and Feudalism in North India, 600-1000 1000
Era 4 3. The Kingdoms in South India 300 - 1000 1000
Era 4 4. The Pala Dynasty of North India 1000
Era 4 2. China, the economic powerhouse of the Early Medieval World 1000
Era 4 4. Cities in early Medieval India 1000
Era 4 4. Southeast Asian wars: Khmers, Chams, Vietnamese, Nanzhou
and Pyu 1000
Era 4 5. Southeast Asian Wars: Srivijaya and Java 500
Era 4 11. Indian Philosophies, 300-600 1000
Era 4 12. Indian Philosophies, 600-1000 1000
Era 4 Early Medieval Indian Metallurgy 1000
Era 4 1. Overview 1000
Era 4 3. Early Medieval Chinese Astronomy and Astrology 750
Era 4 4. Early Medieval Indian Mathematics 750

Era 5: (1000 - 1500)

Era 5 Hindu and Muslim Cross-Fertilization in India 600
Era 5 The Khmer Empire 500
Era 5 The Indian Bazaar: Anything Can Be Bought Here 800
Era 5 Hormuz and Aden: Cities Built on and for Commerce 800
Era 5 On the Way to Egypt: Commerce on the Red Sea 600
Era 5 Chinese Heavy Industry: Coal, Iron, and Steel 600
Era 5 The Inland Waterway System of Transportation 600
Era 5 Markets beyond China 800
Era 5 The Merchant in Reality: Specialized, Organized, Rich,
and Powerful 600
Era 5 Tha Armies of China 500
Era 5 Courage Cultures: Turks, Mongols, Warriors of Oceania,
and American Indians 800

Era 6: (1450 - 1770)

Era 6 The Brink of Starvation: China's 15th Century Agricultural
Plateau 750
Era 6 The Columbian Exchange in East Asia 750
Era 6 Population Growth in Early Modern India 750
Era 6 Early European studies of the Indian Environment 750
Era 6 The Making of an Islamic Peasant Culture in Bengal 750
Era 6 The Double Structure of Japanese Life 750
Era 6 Big Men Towns: Everyday Life in Southeast Asia's Port Villages 750
Era 6 "White Town" and "black Town" in the Coromandel enclaves:
Madras, Pondicherry, and Tranquebar 750
Era 6 Sanjue: The 'Three Perfections' of Chinese Aesthetics 750
Era 6 Japan: Haiku and Kabuki 750
Era 6 Indian cultural influences in the West 750
Era 6 The Columbian Exchange with Southeast Asia 750
Era 6 A Great Wave: Chinese Migration Manchuria, Szechuan,
Taiwan, and the Southwest 750
Era 6 Sher Shah Sur's reform of rveenue collection in North India 750
Era 6 Mughal religious policies- from Jihad to tolerance 750
Era 6 Mughal religious policies- from tolerance to jihad 750
Era 6 Trading Guns for Religion: Anti-Christian Policies in Tokugawa
Japan 750
Era 6 Women and Power in Early Modern India 750
Era 6 Akbar's subjugation of Rajasthan 750
Era 6 High finance and paper credit- the flourishing economy of early
modern India 750
Era 6 A Single Whip: China's "Third Commercial Revolution" 750
Era 6 The Achean Pepper Trade:Taking the Trade from India 750
Era 6 The Spice Islands in Southeast Asian Trade 1200
Era 6 Mughal Art for Western Styles 750
Era 6 Sunni Shia Tensions: Continuity and Change 1500
Era 6 The Ain-I-Akbari- Akbar's empire-in-a-book 750
Era 6 Christian Missions: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to
Conversion 750
Era 6 The Art and Literature of European Interaction in West Asia 750
Era 6 South Asia Imagines Europe 750

Era 7: (1750 - 1914)

Era 7 Asian Population Patterns, 1750-1914 600
Era 7 Family Law in Meiji Japan: The Civil Code of 1898 630
Era 7 The Decline of the Indian Cotton Industry in India 600 600

Era 8: (1900 - 1945)

Era 8 Depopulation (following WWI; in USSR; in China, etc.) 600
Era 8 Asian Visual Arts 1000
Era 8 Socialist Movements in East Asia 600

Era 9 Hinduism 750
Hindu Fundamentalism 800
Era 9 Piracy, Smuggling 700
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Ed. note: Parties interested in any of the above topics should contact Fred Nadis or Jeannie Azizian