Presentation Type: Panel Presentation
Methodologies of Migration and Care Research at the Crossroads of Asia: What We Can Learn From Paired Interviews
While the labour of care and caregiving necessarily animates our world, it is still often a practice that is both unrecognised and undervalued. In Asia, care is a practice intimately linked to both migration and power: we outsource care to migrant women from other countries, rearrange conventional patterns of familial care when parents go abroad …
Counter-Narratives and Issues of Indigenous Engagement in Representation of Ainu History and Culture in Contemporary Japan
In recent years we can observe several developments towards the improvement of the situation of the Indigenous people of Japan, the Ainu. These include the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the naming of Hokkaido in 2018, adaptation of new legislation recognizing the Ainu as Indigenous Peoples of Japan in May 2019, opening of the …
Healthcare Systems and Medical Ethics in East Asia
Social science scholars have long challenged the assumptions that regard biomedicine as an objective system of medical science with well-defined epistemology, ethical principles, and evaluative mechanisms. Instead, biomedicine—a seemingly universal medical system—is deeply shaped by local realities as it is practiced across the globe. How biomedicine, referred as “western medicine” in East Asia, becomes embedded …
Revolution and Justice at the Grassroots Level in 1950s China
This panel documents and explores the violent application of revolutionary justice in the first decade of the People’s Republic of China. Using archives from three specific counties in Sichuan, Jiangxi, and Shandong, the papers develop themes pertaining to the legal history and the history of mass movements in the 1950s. The labelling of counterrevolutionaries, capital …
Challenging and Mediating: Art and Society in the People’s Republic of China
This panel proposes to present the changing ways that art engages and mediates the social transformations in the People’s Republic of China. While artistic creations and receptions are subjected to the drastic socio-political movements in Chinese communist society, both artists and art audiences have played an increasingly active role in formulating new art vocabulary, networks …
The Belt and Road of Banned Chinese Literature: The Global Receptions of Yan Lianke
After Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan became the Nobel laureates in 2000 and 2012, respectively, Yan Lianke has been considered by literary scholars to be the next award candidate. While banned at home in mainland China in recent years, Yan’s publications and recognitions have been found in the peripheral and foreign lands, from Hong Kong …
Thailand Update: One year After 2019 Election
In March 2019, Thailand held the first election since 2011. Many analysts hoped that this election would end the military’s junta five-year rule and return Thailand to more democratic government. Six months after the election, however, the evidence shows that Thailand is still far from democratization. The junta continues to maintain its power in the …
Representing a New Life: Visual Images and Cultural Reform in East Asia
This panel will examine the tension between the authority and the visual images of everyday life in the formation of a new culture in Japan and China. Visual images, including but not limited to paintings, magazines, comics, and folk art, provided a repertoire for the authority to absorb, sift, and transform to build a culture …
The Everyday Experiences and Practices of Asian Migrants
According to the latest ILO global estimates (2017), there are 258 million international migrants worldwide, and more than 41 percent of them were born in Asia. It is widely documented that people cross borders for a variety of reasons, and that they experience migration in a number of different ways. This panel seeks to examine …
Localizing Contentious Politics in Contemporary Southeast Asia and China
While the ongoing protest in Hong Kong has attracted the world’s attention, it is by no means the only place experiencing frequent forms of contention. In many ways, movements across the region and the globe have emerged which are driven by disaffection with the ability of governments to deal with growing social problems amid heightened …