Presentation Type: Panel Presentation
Postwar Contestations of History in Northeast Asia
Since the 1990s, the societies of Northeast Asia have witnessed an intensification of disputes over historical writing and memory that are invariably connected to the complex legacies of Japanese empire. Issues including forced sexual labor, atrocity denialism, and Yasukuni Shrine have all captured popular and scholarly attention. A period formative to these and other debates …
Educating New Generations for Republican China: Scholars, Western Ideologies and Political Conflicts
There have been continuous and diverse debates on the reform of the Chinese educational system among the elites from the late 19th century. To foster new generations for the modern nation-building, some scholars and social activists introduced western ideologies and educational philosophies in their practices during their services in universities in the first two decades …
Bringing Puzzles Together: Revisiting the Records on the Relations of Tibet and the Neighbors in the 17-18th Century
It is said that historians believe in the Evil Nature Principle when they survey the historical records of the past. Historical records are usually written neatly in books which look old and trustful but the writings were strongly influenced by the authors’ origin, religion and other personal traits. Therefore, historians read between the lines carefully …
From Bamboo Slips to Screens: The Reading of Confucian Classics in East Asia, from the Warring States to the Twenty-First Century
Our panel provides a broad and yet focused discussion of the reading, interpreting, and reproducing of Confucian classics in different times and spaces in East Asia. We aim to understand how the meaning of the classics was understood, interpreted, and transmitted within different socio-political and historical contexts, and how these processes were influenced, if not …
Japan’s Strategic Indo-Pacific Pivot: Views from India, China, and Southeast Asia
China’s rise has led to Japan’s own pivot to counter the country’s growing regional strategic and economic expansion. While Japan’s foreign policy has slowly begun to come out of its self-imposed non-confrontational style, the country still maintains its goals of being a state that wishes for a rule-based order and peaceful region. This has led …
A New Perspective to Understand Modern Japan from External Relationship
The panel’s members are interested in understanding Japan in certain periods through different perspectives. This idea is to pursue some synchronic ideas based on diachronic snapshots of modern Japan’s historical images and its external relationship. Chen’s thesis aims to reexamine Nikka-gakkai’s role in the Sino-Japan relationship. While, Chi focuses on the status of Taiwan as …
Streaming Publicness: Emerging Conjunctions Across Digital Media Platforms in Contemporary China (2014-2019)
This panel develops “streaming publicness” as a framework to study the social conjunctions emerging from the production, circulation and regulation of digital media objects within more general juridical, economic, and political contexts. China’s rapid development in internet communication technology and the widespread proliferation of mobile devices means that different social groups are growingly interconnected within …
Negotiating “Japan”: Transnational Assemblages in Text and Media
This panel critically examines ongoing negotiations of Japanese national identity across borders. In particular, it explores how texts, spaces, and images come to be imbued with geopolitical significance and sentiment — while simultaneously providing the means of disrupting such hegemonic structures through their movements across national boundaries. In exploring these materials’ movements, form, and reception, …
Rethinking Modernity in Modern East Asia Art
As far as modernity and its relation with art in East Asia is concerned, Western influence has been playing a key role. With increasingly fruitful research put forth, particularly with more attention paid to the art exchange between North-Eastern countries and to an Oriental modernity, the diversity of modern East Asia Art has been brought …
Mapping a Local/Global Socialist Lifestyle: Practice and Perception of Life in Maoist China
This panel examines the diversity and complexity of China’s Maoism as both a practice and perception, especially in its role of shaping a socialist life in both local and global contexts. The individual papers demonstrate that the nature and characteristics of a socialist life in practice and in perception are multiple. Shi examines how urban …