dharti ka veer yodha prithviraj chauhan episode 159

Weaving together histories of colonial sexual economy, Chinese migration, and the globalization of border control, this study foregrounds the role of itinerant women during Asia’s mobility revolution. Based on facilitation rather than exclusion, colonial immigration policies selectively encouraged Chinese female settlement across the Peninsula. In colonial Malaya, however, Chinese women encountered a different set of racial, gender, and sexual politics at the border and beyond. Between the 1870s and 1930s, hundreds of thousands of women traveled to the Peninsula at a time when modern migration control first emerged as a system of racial exclusion, curtailing Asian mobility into white settler colonies and nation-states.

“Across the South Seas: Gender, Intimacy, and Chinese Migrants in British Malaya, 1870s-1930s”Īcross the South Seas explores the migration of Chinese women who embarked on border-crossing journeys, arriving in British Malaya as wives, domestic servants, and prostitutes. Here they are, with their dissertation titles (and abstracts, if we have them). They did all this while working, teaching, caring for their families, having at least a little fun, and, in some cases, writing for Not Even Past! Then they did a year or so of research in libraries and archives, before sitting down to write their dissertations. After that, they developed original research projects to answer questions no one had asked before. They read hundreds of books and wrote dozens of papers to prepare for their comprehensive examinations. So we decided to take this opportunity to celebrate the 2019-2020 class of new UT Austin History PhDs and tell you a little about them and their work.Įach of these students completed at least two years of course work. And in this unsettling time, with it many demands on our attention, it’s possible to overlook the extraordinary accomplishment involved in completing a PhD in History. For so many students this year, the cancellation of commencement meant the lack of an important milestone.

Dharti ka veer yodha prithviraj chauhan episode 159