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There is definitely much to be said about the timing of this project, both intended and, perhaps more interestingly, the unintended. The nearly four-year span between the date of the workshop (then titled ‘Sites of Modernity: Asian Cities and their Evolution through Trade, Colonialism, and Nationalism’) in July 2011 and the time in which the revised manuscript could actually enter publishing process in January 2015, could definitely change one’s outlook on the world and, in turn, the editor’s perception towards the collected manuscript in rather significant and surprising ways.
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Sites of Modernity: Asian Cities in the Transitory Moments of Trade, Colonialism, and Nationalism could not have materialized without the generous support of many individuals, organizations, and institutions. The international workshop ‘Sites of Modernity: Asian Cities and their Evolution through Trade, Colonialism and Nationalism,’ which was the pioneer of this collection was generously funded by Thailand Research Funds, Chula Global Network and the research section of the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. The selection of articles and revision of the manuscript for publication was generously supported by the Faculty of Humanities, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and Springer Press.
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) homepage (http://www.sectsco.org/EN123/index.asp)
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Wongsurawat, W. (2016). Introduction. In: Wongsurawat, W. (eds) Sites of Modernity. The Humanities in Asia, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45726-9_1
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