Michael W. Charney

Although the core of Michael Charney's research and teaching has been on societies in South East Asia, his training, teaching, and research interests are much broader and this is reflected in part in the focus in his work on issues of movement, contact, and friction in culture, technology, and religion in both the premodern and modern periods between cultures and in frontier zones as varied as Brahmanic and Buddhist interaction on the Chindwin River in Upper Burma, Islamic and Buddhist communalism in Arakan and Southeastern Bengal, Portuguese Catholic contact with Buddhist monks in lands around the Bay of Martaban, the meeting of Iberian and Malay cultures of war at Melaka in 1511, and most recently, American engineers and indigenous elites in colonial Ghana and the Shan States. His postgraduate education includes M.A. degrees in Asian Studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Asian History at Ohio University (Athens), which included a minor in African history, and a PhD in History from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), which included, in addition to his core premodern South East Asian history field, teaching fields in premodern Chinese, Japanese, and Russian history and modern Southeast Asian history. After finishing his PhD at Michigan, he joined the Centre for Advanced Studies at the National University of Singapore (1999-2001), where he was a postdoctoral research fellow for two years working on migration and religion, and in the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2001-present). His three monographs include Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900 (2004), Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752-1885 (2006), and A History of Modern Burma (2009). This most recent volume, A History of Modern Burma, was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by Choice Magazine, published by the Association for College and Research Libraries. He also co-edited three volumes related to migration, education in Asia, and Overseas Chinese communities, edited a special issue of South East Asia Research on indigenous warfare in South East Asia (2004), and was chief editor from 2003 until 2010 of the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research. He currently (2010) is working on the history of railways in Africa and Asia, focusing in particular on the case studies of Ghana, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Japan. His staff page at the School of Oriental and African Studies, which has further information, can be accessed at http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30749.php Additionally, his author's page at Amazon.com can be found here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-W.-Charney/e/B001JOAS7Q/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1

Books by Michael W. Charney (50 max)

Asian Migrants and Education: The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and Among Migrant Groups (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects)

2003

Michael W. Charney, Brenda Yeoh, Tong Chee Kiong

Approaching Transnationalisms: Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts, and Imaginings of Home: studies on transnational societies, multicultural contacts, and imaginings of home

2003

Brenda Yeoh, Michael W. Charney, Tong Chee Kiong

Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia Burma 1941-1942

2019

Michael W. Charney

Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora: cultural, educational, and social dimensions of the Chinese diaspora

2003

Michael W. Charney, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Tong Chee Kiong

Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752-1885: Buddhist Literati And the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752-1885

2006

Michael W. Charney

Where Jambudipa and Islamdom Converged:: Religious Change and the Emergence of Buddhist Communalism in Early Modern Arakan (Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

1999

Michael W. Charney

Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900 (Handbook of Oriental Sudies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik)

2004

Michael W. Charney

Powerful Learning is the first intellectual history of one of the great Buddhist empires of Southeast Asia, Konbaung Burma, before the British conquest. The book challenges the notion of the court and the monastic order as static institutions by examining how competition within and between them prompted major rethinking about the intellectual foundations of indigenous society and culture. The catalyst for this reformation of indigenous thought was the rise of a small clique of Buddhist monks and lay people from the frontier to commanding positions in the state and monastic order over the course of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This clique had a major influence on the creation of state myths, the ways in which the throne ruled and presented itself, and, ultimately, the relationship between the throne and the state. The new state and monastic orthodoxy, however, was challenged by other Burmese literati, who, over the course of the nineteenth century, sought in Western science, technology, and political theory other ways in which to shape Burmese perspectives on state and society. In the process, the Burmese underwent a difficult transition from premodern to modern intellectual thought, one that helped usher in British rule.

2006

Michael W. Charney

History of Modern Burma

2015

Michael W. Charney

The encyclopedia of empire

2016

John M. MacKenzie, Nigel Dalziel, Nicholas Doumanis, Michael W. Charney