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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)The present article explores the life and struggles of Heo Seongtaek (1908–?), a typical peasant (and later worker) grassroots militant of 1920–1930s colonial Korea. He actively participated in both the post-1945 radical ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article examines the cultural history of the colour red in pre-imperial China by investigating the interrelationship between the materiality of the colour environment and the symbolism of colour language. Linguistically, ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)This chapter provides a close reading of Chinese science fiction writer Hao Jingfang’s debut novel Vagabonds (Liulang cangqiong, 2016) from a Daoist perspective. After an introduction to Hao Jingfang’s writing as the first ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Initially construed as the vital link between Saddam Husayn’s Iraq and al-Qaida in the runup to the Iraq war, the Ansar al-Islam (AI) group formed in Iraqi Kurdistan in December 2001 has been the subject of intense debate ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)In Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa, the Japanese government is constructing a new military base for the United States Marine Corps despite ongoing local opposition and protest. Sea grass beds, which are potential ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Some scholars have recently discussed the supposed failure of socialism in South Korea. By failure, they tend to refer to the low parliamentary representation of social-democratic parties in today’s South Korea, as well ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)In 1755 Lisbon was hit by an earthquake that almost completely leveled the city. The news of the catastrophe spread rapidly and the earthquake was soon discussed throughout Europe. Today the Lisbon earthquake is first and ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)There were few, if any, bookstores in Cairo that did not, in 2013, have a section designated to a category of books labelled adab sākhir. Their titles play on humor and familiar Egyptian references; they are often in the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Southeast Asian countries were articulated with the Australia–China value chain for educational services early in the COVID-19 outbreak, when travelers from China could enter Australia only via stopovers in third countries. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The multiple nature of time has by now been well established across a wide range of scholarly traditions in the humanities and social sciences. The article takes that insight as a starting point, in order to discuss the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article places the study of rural environmental activism in the wider context of the Chinese government's promotion of Ecological Civilization (shengtai wenming 生态文明). Ecological Civilization is, we argue, a top-down ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)In this chapter, we first provide an overview of the design and dynamics of China’s major national policies regarding air quality control and air pollution prevention, hereafter called ‘air policy’. We then briefly zoom ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)With the International Whaling Commission’s 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling in force, much of today’s cetacean hunting is done by traditional or indigenous communities for subsistence use. However, many communities ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article investigates the concept of cultural authenticity in museums through an analysis of how indigenous cultural objects in Taiwan are being authenticated by museums as ‘indigenous cultural heritage’. In Taiwan, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Scholars dealing with the rise of contemporary Islamism and the Muslim Brothers’ early history frequently turn to Ḥasan al-Bannā’s autobiography, Mudhakkirāt al-Daʿwah wa’l-Dāʿiyah (Memoirs of the Call and the Preacher) ...