Archives: Submissions
Experiencing ‘China’ at the World’s Fairs
Though much has been written about the relationship between China and modernity through its participation and presentation to the world in various international expositions, none have reconstituted the actual experience of being at those gatherings. Taking cues from recent works on sensory and memory studies, these papers aim to reexamine and resituate the personal experience …
Body as Strategies in Contemporary China: The Multiplicity of the Body in Literature, Media, and Social Practice
This panel seeks to explore the strategic uses of the body in Chinese literature, media, and social practice. Following what the anthropologist and philosopher Annemarie Mol calls the body multiple, we contend that bodies are always more than one and less than many. The body multiple demands to be enacted in specific situations, and in …
Hinduism at the Crossroads at Home and Abroad
The papers in this session explore emergent forms of Hinduism that exist at a variety of geographical, technological, political, economic, and theological crossroads both in India and elsewhere in the world. We understand the term “crossroads” as encompassing a variety of intersecting vectors, and we focus our attention on the religious forms that such intersections …
Politics of Landscape Photography in East Asia
This panel explores the ways in which landscape photography involves national identity as well as a discourse on photographic genres in East Asia during the postwar period. Professional photographers in countries, such as China, Korea, and Taiwan, engaged themselves in creating images of local views, while consciously aware of a mode of visualizing a new …
Identities, Cultural Practices and the Changing Political Landscape of Modern Southeast Asia
This panel consists of young and mid-career scholars engaging with cultural politics and political ideologies that emerged from rapidly changing politics in Southeast-Asia, late 19 and 20 centuries, in response to modernism and so-called ‘identity threats’. Hanwong discusses how Burmese elites reconciled Buddhism and Marxism ideologies and created their own religious and political prospects in …
Social, Political, and Cultural Dynamics of Collective Actions in Asia
Academic studies of social movements focus on social, political, and cultural centered approaches. The main social movements that have occurred since the 60`s have their own actors and all of them play an important role in shaping the discourses. over mobilizations. It is significant to analyze the actors involved in the movements and characteristics shaping …
Imam, Educator, Soldier, Modernist? Envisioning New Worlds in the Lives of Muslims From the Warlord Era in Northwest China and Xinjiang
In the early twentieth century, Muslims in Northwest China and Xinjiang sought to remake themselves and their communities in response to emerging nationalisms and currents of modernist Islamic thinking. This panel highlights the ways this turbulent period was understood and configured in the lives of Muslims between Northwest China and Xinjiang. It looks both to …
Women in Protest: Gender and Social Movements in East Asia
The past two decades have witnessed many major social movements in Asia. Women participated actively in these movements. In spite of this, their roles have not been fully acknowledged. The gender dimension of social movements is often overlooked by the existing scholarship of social activism in contemporary Asia. This panel explores the intersection of gender …
Sinophone Writers’ Spiritual Choice at the Crossroads
Today’s Asia is obviously at crossroads from various perspectives, but to be precise, Asia has been at various types of crossroads for decades since the so-called beginning of modernity. Every crossroad entails a historical past that one has come from and a future that one has to make choices for. Looking back at history is …
Place, Power, and Publics in Metropolitan China: Toward Burgeoning Social-Economic Orders
Metropolitan areas in China are growing rapidly in terms of territory, population, and complexity. How do these new conditions reshape the economic and social order? How do people experience and react to burgeoning metropolitan orders? Five papers in the panel, from a variety of disciplines, display the multiplicity of metropolitan China—from urban expansion and semi-public …