https://www.scmp.com/rss/327030/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Calcutta Nights, by Hemendra Kumar Roy (trans. by Rajat Chaudhuri), Niyogi Books The first two decades of the 20th century saw the emergence of urbanism in sociology and philosophy: Georg Simmel wrote about the metropolis and mental life, and Walter Benjamin penned portraits of Western cities including Paris and discussed the work of Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe in the context of the flâneur, the dandy who roamed the streets to observe the city and the people. While any number of... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3074195/sex-and-city-1920s-tour-through-seedy-nightlife-calcutta?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3074195/sex-and-city-1920s-tour-through-seedy-nightlife-calcutta?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:00:15 +0000 Jesus in Asia by R.S. Sugirtharajah Harvard University Press 3.5 stars East is East, and West is West, but two meet and influence each other unpredictably. For instance, Asia encountered Christianity during its first interactions with the West, and the religion continues to be practised in different parts of the continent, with Jesus as the protagonist of many stories of transformation of thought and practice. The story of a martyr in Mao’s China: executed and her family billed for the bullet In... https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2143729/how-asia-embraced-jesus-and-helped-create-rich-new-chapter-global?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2143729/how-asia-embraced-jesus-and-helped-create-rich-new-chapter-global?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 06 May 2018 03:23:26 +0000