InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism

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"This book traces the uncharted history of interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma across British and Japanese colonial rule. Combining multilingual archival research with family history and intergenerational storytelling, it illuminates a history of belonging across boundaries long overshadowed by Eurocentric narratives of colonial encounters"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Making Kin and Remaking Worlds 2. Mobility and Marital Assimilation 3. Religion, Race, and Personal Law 4. The Alienable Rights of Women 5. Burmese Buddhist Exceptionalism 6. The Conditions of Belonging 7. War, Occupation, and Collaboration 8. Ties That (Un)Bind Asians Epilogue