Path that crosses cultures
Immigrants want their children to retain a sense of their community and to be modern, writes Wang Gungwu At a conference in Singapore on modern education in immigrant communities, we were recently...
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Watching the sun go down
The Oxford History of the British Empire; Volume Three - The Oxford History of the British Empire; Volume Four - The Oxford History of the British Empire; Volume Five
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Fertile images from a remote border
Burma - Shwedagon
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Where a single girl can meet a guerrilla
A survey of the internet's effect on societycovers lots of ground but leaves some holes, Richard Clayton writes. Manuel Castells is a sociology professor based in Berkeley, California, whose trilogy...
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Race row unsettles campus coffers
A bitter dispute over Asian immigration and government subsidies to aborigines has alarmed senior academics in Australia. They have warned that the tenor of a national debate about race could damage...
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Breadth and the powerful
A Swedish- American friend told me some 35 years ago how eager his parents had been to buy a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. This was to ensure that he and his two brothers would have broad...
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False note about music
IT IS misleading to state that the new department of world music at Thames Valley is the first of its kind in a British university (THES, June ). The centre of music studies, School of Oriental and...
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A question of give and take for ancient Greeks
Ancient Greeks West and East
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King's unites with Oz's Monash
King's College London and Monash University in Melbourne have signed an agreement that will give the largest university in Australia its first base in Britain. It will also give King's access to...
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How the war was fought
Peace Now!
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Old saloon opens to imbibers of learning
MELBOURNE Melbourne's Curzon Hotel lost its liquor licence in 1907 because of "unruly behaviour on the premises". While unruly behaviour can never be ruled out when ideas clash, it is unlikely ever...
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Eye witness
The possibility that Ireland may rejoin the Commonwealth after 50 years will increase when secretary-general, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, visits Dublin next week.Taoiseach Bertie Ahern last month signalled...
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Eye witness
The defeat of Pauline Hanson, who once described herself "the Mother of Australia" in elections last Saturday was greeted with relief by anti-racists. But Robert Manne, associate professor of...
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The position of missionaries
Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism
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Apartheid thrives in a tolerant state
Broken People