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People at the Margins: Belonging and (Im)mobility in Superdiverse Asia
Everyday realities in contemporary Asia are characterized by the multiple layers of diversification that have transformed its societies. This panel utilizes the concept of superdiversity which offers a fresh and promising angle for understanding the complexities of migration, mobilities and immobilities in contemporary Asia, a region at the crossroads of weighing the challenges and opportunities …
Keeping in Touch: Tools and Strategies for Chinese Local Cadres to Avoid Disconnection From Citizens
With the Open and Reform policy, the CCP has gradually shifted from a revolutionary party claiming to represent workers and peasants to a ruling party claiming to represent the whole Chinese nation, with a noticeable elitist twist. The Chinese society has simultaneously grown more unequal, to a point which could become threatening for the legitimacy …
In and Out: China as a Country of Origin and a Country of Destination
China’s reform and opening up over the last forty years have brought out different waves of generations emigrating overseas, echoing the inclusion of the foreign population and cultures into the local context. Five papers of this panel have presented these developments and trends from different perspectives, e.g. economic, cultural and educational. Among them, three papers …
National Aspirations and Anxieties: Images of Ideal and Problematic Children and Youth in 20th-century Nation-building Projects in Asia
The emergent historiography of childhood and youth has provided many insights on how many 20th-century state governments centered children and youth in their national construction and reconstruction projects, and on how Cold War rival superpowers made children and youth pawns and symbols in their global competitions for hearts and minds. Compared to the historiography of …
Beyond Colonial Intermediary: A New History of the Princely State of Hyderabad’s Relations with Japan
The history of the interaction between India and Japan in the modern era has almost always been looked at through the lens of British colonialism. Historians have looked at Indian freedom fighters who considered Japan an ally in the struggle against British colonialism, and have studied Indian intellectuals who looked up to Japan as a …
Rurality Check: Tracing the Nascent Global Countryside in Asia
The built infrastructure of mega cities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong or Shanghai epitomize Asia’s rise to the world’s largest and fastest growing economy. With most scholarly attention focussing on urban growth and agglomerations as hotbed of societal transformation and cultural innovation, the countryside so far has come to be regarded as riddled with …
East Asia at Crossroads – China and Japan as Historical Mirrors, and Contemporary Images in International Relations
The relationship between China and Japan remains a pivotal aspect of Asia in the 21st century. As Japan adjusts to China’s growing power so does China try to determine what it means for itself to be a big power. The sentiment that today’s China is mirroring early 20th century Japan, as well as the emulation …
Mediating New Versions of Womanhood in Asia, 1880s–1950s
This panel explores the allure and consumption of new versions of womanhood that developed under the official and unofficial empires of Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, foreign women traveled to Asia as missionaries, diplomatic wives, and vocational instructors, and presented new ideas of womanhood through the promulgation …
Rethinking Collective: Mapping on the Development of Woodblock Printing Collectives in Inter-Asian Context
The development of contemporary woodblock printing collectives in Asia is different from artworks that serve the institutions, market or personal collections, to a certain extent it can be regarded as the “alternative narrative” of our time. As the Inter-Asia affiliations have taken place across East Asia and Southeast Asia, they formed a self-organized network among …
Narratives of Belonging in Borderlands Through Perspectives of Indigeneity and Visual Representations
The advancement in visual technologies and its subsequent use in anthropology has been able to construct an ethnographic observation with modalities that have denied the ethnographic present and ignored the historical context of its own processes of production. Consequently, series of representation(s) were generated which contradicted the historical reality under which those representations were produced. …