Presentation Type: Panel Presentation
Retracing the Past: War, Memory and Childhood
The past is generally considered to be inviolable and immutable; as such, people can never retrospectively experience past events. However, when we view old photographs or read historical documents, the past flits through their minds as though the memories and experiences depicted were their own. To put it succinctly, the past is revived through our …
Hong Kong’s Anti-extradition Bill Protests in 2019: Bridging Colonial, Philosophical and Sociological Analysis
The protests in Hong Kong fueled by the 2019 extradition bill mark a paradigm shift of both local and global social movements. For one thing, the protests represent the rising localism of Hongkongers and their diminishing faith in “One country, two systems”; for another, the protests exhibit new strategies of resistance, many of which were …
Constructing Images of Hong Kong
Hong Kong is known as an international and financial hub, it is a city where East and West meet, a city in transition. There are different ways through which Hong Kong is depicted, through writing, through translation, through film, through art and multi-media. In the past, the city has often been represented in cultural products …
The Transmission and Translation of Japanese Arts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Recent scholarships on the arts often emphasize on their transforming nature, tracing their adaptations across national borders, receptions and recreations between social classes, or interaction and transmutation over ideas. This calls for the attention and expertise of a wide range of disciplines, not least in humanities and social sciences. With Japan as a starting point, …
The Minority Among the Minorities: Multifaceted Vulnerabilities at the Intersection of Migration and Citizenship
Using the intersectionality approach, this panel focuses on how some migrants became“the minority among the minorities” due to their intersecting racial/ethnic, legal, marital, and socioeconomic identities. Compared with other migrants, those who have multiple disadvantaged identities experience multi-layered and interlocking social exclusion, marginalization, stigmatization, and uncertainty in citizenship acquisition when they move across borders. Drawing …
Whither Rural Collectives: Village Communities and Economies Under Rapid Urbanization in China
Urbanization has brought transformational change to rural communities around China. While most extant studies focus on the impact on rural places and populations, this panel presents an alternative perspective that spotlights how urbanization has transformed and remade rural collectives. Merging administrative, economic and social functions, the village collective is an institutional legacy of agricultural collectivization …
Comparing Cultures of Education in Asia: Anthropological and Ethnographic Perspectives
Across Asia growing social inequality is leading to rising educational competition. As social mobility becomes increasingly difficult, anxious parents pursue diverse strategies to groom their children for success. This rising fever pitch of educational competition and meritocratic credentialism raises burning questions about access to education, the meaning of merit, and the politics of cultural belonging. …
Creolizing Sinophone Connections in Southeast Asia: Literatures and Histories (Sino-creole Translations in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore)
This panel brings together historians and literary scholars who work on Chinese relations and contributions in what became Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore across the long twentieth century. Our aim is to get history and literature scholars to talk more precisely about keywords used in their study of minority diasporic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, …
Culinary Culture in East Asia: Aquatic Environment, Colonial Legacies and Regional Interaction
The panel is cross-regional research of culinary culture in East Asia from early modern to modern times. Several issues will be included, including regional culinary tradition, colonial legacies, the formation of taste, and regional interaction. The fist paper discusses raw-fish (魚生) cuisine in Ming-Qing Guangdong with a focus on the relationship among aquatic environment, culinary …
Breaking Invisible Structures: Youth Politics of Resistance in the Rise of China
In the dramatic shift toward modernity and politics, people from Asia today have been seeking to deconstruct existing power structures and reconstruct their identities embedded in the global order. As a rising entity, China gives young people both opportunities and constraints under its economic development and political suppression. This panel seeks to explore the plural …