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Coming Home to a Foreign Country : Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843-1938 (2021)

Ong, Soon Keong [Verfasser] 1969-

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press

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ISBN: 9781501756207

Sprache: Englisch

Seiten: 1 online resource (240 pages) , Illustrationen

DDC: 305.9/06910951245

Schlagwort(e): Anthropology ; Asian Studies ; History ; HISTORY / Asia / China ; Return migrants ; Return migrants ; Return migration History

Kurzfassung: Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. Coming Home to a Foreign Country addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction. Ong shows how the mobility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal and community identities for pragmatic and political gains. This resulted in migrants who returned with new money, knowledge, and visions acquired abroad, which changed the landscape of their homeland and the lives of those who stayed. Placing late Qing and Republican China in a transnational context, Coming Home to a Foreign Country explores the multi-layered social and cultural interactions between China and Southeast Asia. Ong investigates the role of Xiamen in the creation of a China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit; the activities of aspiring and returned migrants in Xiamen; the accumulation and manipulation of multiple identities by Southeast Asian Chinese as political conditions changed; and the motivations behind the return of Southeast Asian Chinese and their continual involvement in mainland Chinese affairs. For Chinese migrants, Ong argues, the idea of "home" was something consciously constructed. Ong complicates familiar narratives of Chinese history to show how the emigration and return of overseas Chinese helped transform Xiamen from a marginal trading outpost at the edge of the Chinese empire to a modern, prosperous city and one of the most important migration hubs by the 1930s

DOI: 10.1515/9781501756207

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The Future Conditional : Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China (2021)

Henry, Eric S. [Verfasser]

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9781501754920

Sprache: Englisch

Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (222 p.) , 8 b&w halftones, 2 maps

Ausgabe: 2021

DDC: 428.0071/051

Schlagwort(e): English language Social aspects ; English language Study and teaching ; Chinese speakers ; English language Study and teaching ; Social aspects ; Group identity ; Anthropology ; Asian Studies ; Language Arts & Linguistics ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; Linguistic anthropology, ethnolinguistics, language learning in china, learning english in china

Kurzfassung: In The Future Conditional, a thorough examination of the widespread use of the English language in China, Eric S. Henry brings twelve-years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization of the English language and the widespread effects it has had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast Liaoning Province. Adopting an ethnographic and linguistic perspective, Henry considers the personal connotations that English, beyond its role in the education system, has for Chinese people. Through research on how English is spoken, taught, and studied in China, Henry considers what the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why has English, he asks, become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer, he suggests, is that English-speaking Chinese consider themselves distinctly separate from those who do not speak the language, the result of a cultural assumption that speaking English makes a person modern. Seeing language as a study that goes beyond the classroom, The Future Conditional assesses the emerging viewpoint that, for many citizens, speaking English in China has grown into a cultural need—and, more immediately, a realization of one's future.

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DOI: 10.1515/9781501754920

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Republicanism, Communism, Islam : Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia (2021)

Sidel, John Thayer [Verfasser] 1966-

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press

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ISBN: 9781501755637

Sprache: Englisch

Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (324 Seiten)

DDC: 303.6/4095909041

Schlagwort(e): Asian Studies ; Political Science & Political History ; Religious Studies ; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia ; Cosmopolitanism ; Revolutions

Kurzfassung: In Republicanism, Communism, Islam, John T. Sidel provides an alternate vantage point for understanding the variegated forms and trajectories of revolution across the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam, a perspective that is de-nationalized, internationalized, and transnationalized. Sidel positions this vantage point in relation to the long-term framing of twentieth-century revolutions in much of modern Southeast Asian history, as, on the one hand, a nationalist template and, on the other, distinctive local cultures and forms of consciousness. Sidel's comparative analysis of the Philippine, Indonesian, and Vietnamese revolutions shows how each-in very different, decisive, and often surprising ways-were informed, enabled, and impelled by diverse cosmopolitan connections and international conjunctures. From the role of Freemasonry in the making of the Philippine revolution and the importance of Communism and Islam in the making of Indonesia to the influence that anticolonial movements in Africa and Jesuit teaching had on Vietnamese revolutionaries, Sidel tracks how these forces, rather than nationalist claims, shaped the forms of each revolution, the ways in which they unfolded, and the legacies which they left in their wakes

DOI: 10.1515/9781501755637

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Think Global, Fear Local : Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan (2018)

Leheny, David [Verfasser]

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press

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ISBN: 9781501727580

Sprache: Englisch

Seiten: 1 online resource , 7 halftones, 1 chart/graph

DDC: 306.0952/090511

Schlagwort(e): Asian Studies ; Sociology & Social Science ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General ; Fear Social aspects ; Sex Social aspects ; Violence Social aspects ; Sexualität ; Furcht ; Soziale Situation ; Gewalt ; Jugend ; Gesellschaft ; Japan ; Japan ; Furcht ; Gesellschaft ; Japan ; Jugend ; Sexualität ; Japan ; Gewalt ; Soziale Situation

Kurzfassung: In 1999, responding to international concerns about the sexual exploitation of children, the Japanese Diet voted unanimously to ban child prostitution and child pornography. Two years later, in the wake of 9/11, Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet radically shifted government counterterrorism policy toward new military solutions, and away from an earlier emphasis on law enforcement. Although they seem unrelated, these two policies reveal the unintended consequences of attempts to enforce international norms at the national level.In Think Global, Fear Local, David Leheny posits that when states abide by international agreements to clamp down on transnational crime and security concerns, they respond not to an amorphous international problem but rather to more deeply held and proximate fears.Although opponents of child prostitution and pornography were primarily concerned about the victimization of children in poor nations by wealthy foreigners, the Japanese law has been largely used to crack down on "compensated dating," in which middle-class Japanese schoolgirls date and sometimes have sex with adults. Many Japanese policymakers viewed these girls as villains, and subsequent legal developments have aimed to constrain teenage sexual activities as well as to punish predatory adults. Likewise, following changes in the country's counterterrorism policy, some Japanese leaders have redefined a host of other threats-especially from North Korea-as "terrorist" menaces requiring a more robust and active Japanese military.Drawing from sources as diverse as parliamentary debate records and contemporary film and literature, Leheny uses these two very different cases to argue that international norms can serve as political tools, allowing states to enhance their coercive authority

Anmerkung: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019) , In English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501727580

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More Than Words : Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali (2018)

Fox, Richard [Verfasser]

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press

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ISBN: 9781501725364

Sprache: Englisch

Seiten: 1 online resource (264 pages) , 30 b&w halftones, 3 figures

DDC: 306.442992238

Schlagwort(e): Asian Studies ; Religious Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; Balinese language Alphabet ; Balinese language Social aspects ; Balinese language Writing ; Manuscripts, Balinese

Kurzfassung: Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, Richard Fox explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other inscribed objects. Balinese often attribute both life and independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions, presenting them with elaborate offerings. Commonly addressed with personal honorifics, these script-bearing objects may become partners with humans and other sentient beings in relations of exchange and mutual obligation. The question is how such practices of "the living letter" may be related to more recently emergent conceptions of writing-linked to academic philology, reform Hinduism, and local politics-which take Balinese letters to be a symbol of cultural heritage, and a neutral medium for the transmission of textual meaning. More than Words shows how Balinese practices of apotropaic writing-on palm-leaves, amulets, and bodies-challenge these notions, and yet coexist alongside them. Reflecting on this coexistence, Fox develops a theoretical approach to writing centered on the premise that such contradictory sensibilities hold wider significance than previously recognized for the history and practice of religion in Southeast Asia and beyond

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DOI: 10.1515/9781501725364

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Korean Workers : The Culture and Politics of Class Formation (2018)

Koo, Hagen [Verfasser]

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press

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ISBN: 9781501731778

Sprache: Englisch

Seiten: 1 online resource , 6 charts, 11 halftones, 1 map, 11 tables

DDC: 305.5/62/09519

Schlagwort(e): Asian Studies ; Labor History ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations ; Industrial organization ; Labor disputes ; Labor movement ; Working class ; Arbeitskampf ; Arbeiter ; Arbeiterbewegung ; Industrie ; Korea ; Südkorea ; Korea ; Arbeiter ; Industrie ; Südkorea ; Arbeiter ; Industrie ; Korea ; Arbeiterbewegung ; Korea ; Arbeitskampf

Kurzfassung: Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the factory and to search for justice in society. The working class in South Korea was born in a cultural and political environment extremely hostile to its development, Koo says. Korean workers forged their collective identity much more rapidly, however, than did their counterparts in other newly industrialized countries in East Asia. This book investigates how South Korea's once-docile and submissive workers reinvented themselves so quickly into a class with a distinct identity and consciousness. Based on sources ranging from workers' personal writings to union reports to in-depth interviews, this book is a penetrating analysis of the South Korean working-class experience. Koo reveals how culture and politics simultaneously suppressed and facilitated class formation in South Korea. With chapters exploring the roles of women, students, and church organizations in the struggle, the book reflects Koo's broader interest in the social and cultural dimensions of industrial transformation

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DOI: 10.7591/9781501731778

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Becoming American, Being Indian : An Immigrant Community in New York City (2002)

Khandelwal, Madhulika S. [Verfasser]

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press

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ISBN: 9781501722028

Sprache: Englisch

Seiten: 1 online resource , 2 maps, 12 halftones, 4 tables

Serie: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

DDC: 305.891/4110747

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Schlagwort(e): Asian Americans / New York (State) / New York / Ethnic identity ; Asian Americans / New York (State) / New York / Social conditions ; East Indian Americans / Cultural assimilation / New York (State) / New York ; East Indian Americans / New York (State) / New York / Ethnic identity ; East Indian Americans / New York (State) / New York / Social conditions ; Immigrants / New York (State) / New York / Social conditions ; Asian Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Kurzfassung: Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. During the same period, the make-up of this community has also changed-the highly educated professional elite who came to this country from the subcontinent in the 1960s has given way to a population encompassing many from the working and middle classes. In her fascinating account of Indian immigrants in New York City, Madhulika S. Khandelwal explores the ways in which their world has evolved over four decades.How did this highly diverse ethnic group form an identity and community? Drawing on her extensive interviews with immigrants, Khandelwal examines the transplanting of Indian culture onto the Manhattan and Queens landscapes. She considers festivals and media, food and dress, religious activities of followers of different faiths, work and class, gender and generational differences, and the emergence of a variety of associations.Khandelwal analyzes how this growing ethnic community has gradually become "more Indian," with a stronger religious focus, larger family networks, and increasingly traditional marriage patterns. She discusses as well the ways in which the American experience has altered the lives of her subjects

DOI: 10.7591/9781501722028

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722028

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