A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860-1940

223 Pages·2014·1.471 MB·English

by  Hagen Schulz-Forberg

Perspectives in Economic and Social History
A Global Conceptual
History of Asia,
1860–1940
Edited by
Hagen Schulz-Forberg
Number 33
A GLOBAL CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF ASIA,
1860–1940
Perspectives in Economic and Social History
Series Editors: Andrew August
Jari Eloranta
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A GLOBAL CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF ASIA,
1860–1940
Edited by
Hagen Schulz-Forberg
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A global conceptual history of Asia, 1860–1940. – (Perspectives in economic
and social history)
1. Social change – Asia – History – 19th century. 2. Social change – Asia
– History – 20th century. 3. Asia – Intellectual life – 19th century. 4. Asia –
Intellectual life – 20th century. 5. East and West. 6. Economic development
– Asia – History – 19th century. 7. Economic development – Asia – History
– 20th century. 8. Semantics, Historical.
I. Series II. Schulz-Forberg, Hagen editor.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
List of Contributors xi
Preface xv
Introduction: Global Conceptual History: Promises and Pitfalls of a
New Research Agenda – Hagen Schulz-Forberg 1
1 How Concepts Met History in Korea’s Complex Modernization:
New Concepts of Economy and Society and their Impact
– Myoung-Kyu Park 25
2 Diff ering Translations, Contested Meanings: A Motor for the 1911
Revolution in China? – Hailong Tian 43
3 Notions of Society in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1900–25
– Dominic Sachsenmaier 61
4 Sabhā-Samāj Society: Some Linguistic Considerations
– Klaus Karttunen 75
5 Th e Conceptualization of the Social in Late Nineteenth- and Early
Twentieth-Century Arabic Th ought and Language
– Ilham Khuri-Makdisi 91
6 From Kerajaan (Kingship) to Masyarakat (Th e People): Malay
Articulations of Nationhood through Concepts of the ‘Social’ and
the ‘Economic’, 1920–40 – Paula Pannu 111
7 Building Nation and Society in the 1920s Dutch East Indies
– Leena Avonius 129
8 Discordant Localizations of Modernity: Refl ections on Concepts
of the Economic and the Social in Siam during the Early Twentieth
Century – Morakot Jewachinda Meyer 149
Notes 169
Index 199

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Th is book is the fi nal outcome of a long collegial endeavour. We began our
intellectual journey back in 2008, when Bo Stråth gathered a global crowd of
historians in Helsinki to discuss the question of conceptual histories of the
‘social’ in Asian languages. I entered the project shortly before our fi rst con-
ference, bringing with me an interest in the ‘economic’ to add to the research
agenda. Over the next two years, we coordinated the very intense unfolding of
an intellectual agenda. We were privileged to be part of an experience in which
everyone involved learned an incredible amount, as well as coming face-to-face
with wholly new questions. Following Helsinki, we met again in Bangkok and
Berlin in 2009, and in Damascus in March 2010. With the conclusion of the
conferences, which aft er a year took the form of author workshops and theo-
retical discussion venues, we worked on fi nalizing a book manuscript. We had
a consolidated draft by the spring of 2011. For various reasons, the publish-
ing took much longer than expected. Finally, in the fall of 2012, Pickering &
Chatto embraced the book enthusiastically. I would like to thank Jari Eloranta
for approaching me about possible manuscripts to be published in the ‘Perspec-
tives in Economic and Social History’ series, the four anonymous peer reviewers
for their enthusiasm and critique, as well as Philip Good and Mark Pollard at
Pickering & Chatto for their patience, as well as their impatience!
Along the way, numerous colleagues joined in our debates. I would like to
thank Dipesh Chakrabarty, Axel Fleisch, Kelly Grotke, Dyala Hamzah, Chris-
toph Harbsmeier, Lucian Hölscher, Jan Ifversen, Mikako Iwatake, Hannu Juusola,
Pauli Kettunen, Oleg Kharkhordin, Kauko Laitinen, Lars Magnusson, Rochona
Majumdar, Carl Marklund, Asli Odman, Margrit Pernau, Jiang Peng, Chen
Qineng and Mohinder Singh for their intellectual input, their open and construc-
tive criticism, and their enthusiasm for the project. Some of the papers presented
and discussed at the workshops did not come to full maturity and did not make it
into this volume. Th eir contribution to the whole project was invaluable, however.
Th e project was kindly supported by the Kone Foundation, the Asia-Europe
Foundation, the Velux Foundation, the University of Helsinki Centre for Nor-
dic Studies, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, the
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