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Wind, Water, and Risk: Shaping a Transnational History of the Western North Pacific

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2015

Greg Bankoff
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Abstract

The peoples who inhabit the states that lie in the direct paths of typhoons in the Western North Pacific share a common history of repeated dislocation, destruction, and death that delimits a zone of comparative enquiry and historiographical interest. The track left by typhoons across ocean and land perfectly outline the dimensions of a more transnational historical region encompassing the Philippines, Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the island states of Micronesia. The peoples of these lands are bound together by a common experience of risk. Wind and water together offer a radical alternative historiography to state-centred master narratives that are revealed by pursuing issues and questions that transcend the spatial and temporal boundaries of any one state or region.

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Typhoonsdisasterstransnational historyPacific
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TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia , Volume 4 , Special Issue 1: Student Mobility within Southeast Asia , January 2016 , pp. 187 - 207
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Copyright © Institute of East Asian Studies, Sogang University 2015 

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