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Asian Studies
Ali Maksum
Summary: Empirical studies diverge from mainstream media narratives on relationships between Indonesians and Malaysians, showing that personal relationships between Indonesian migrants and local Malaysians are often harmonious due to a similarity of identity.
SOUTH EAST ASIA RESEARCH
(2022)
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Area Studies
Jennifer Jihye Chun
Summary: This essay examines the crisis of solidarity among workers in South Korea's capitalist democracy who protest against labor precarity. The protests of these workers, which were once considered foundational to the struggle for national democratization, are often portrayed as being out of place and out of sync. However, this essay challenges prevailing explanations and argues that the dramatic and ritualistic nature of these protests represent a deliberate politics of refusal. The labor of refusal goes beyond resistance and emphasizes ways of being and becoming that are not rooted in the contractual fallacies of liberal capitalist democracy, but in the spaces of solidarity created by social movement networks and grassroots communities of care. While the labor of refusal may not always generate strong solidarity, it challenges the organized abandonment of workers under neoliberal capitalist rule.
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Asian Studies
Stanislaw Obirek
Summary: This article examines Manav Ratti's theorizations of postsecularism in his book The Postsecular Imagination, arguing that the concept serves as a hermeneutical key for critical analyses and insights in both secularism and religion. The article compares Ratti's work with European proposals on postsecularism, highlighting the differences in understanding shaped by historical and cultural experiences, particularly colonial heritage.
SIKH FORMATIONS-RELIGION CULTURE THEORY
(2022)
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Asian Studies
Newell Ann Van Auken
Summary: This study examines references to women in the Chunqiu, a non-narrative history covering 722 to 479 BCE. It focuses on records related to marriage, death, and funeral, and finds that women's status is more similar to men at the same hierarchical level.
NAN NU-MEN WOMEN AND GENDER IN CHINA
(2022)
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Asian Studies
Cheng-Chwee Kuik, Yew Meng Lai
Summary: When do smaller states defer to and when do they defy stronger powers? How and why? This article traces and explains the changing patterns of deference and defiance in Malaysia's China policy. There are three findings: deference and defiance are essential elements in all inter-state relations, states often pursue defiance and deference concurrently and selectively, and the specific patterns and proportions of the deference-defiance mix are attributable more to domestic than external determinants.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
(2023)
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Asian Studies
Ufaque Paiker
Summary: This paper discusses the construction of the ashraf identity through the portrayal of servants by Shad Azimabadi, a nineteenth-century Urdu poet, and traces the transition of the master-servant relationship from adab to caste amidst the economic decline within ashraf families.
SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
(2022)
Article
Asian Studies
Minakshi Menon
Summary: This paper discusses the method of the orientalist Sir William Jones in creating culturally specific plant descriptions. By using philology and observations, Jones identified the jaceimartni of Sanskrit and materia medico texts as the 'Spikenard of the Ancients'. He created a Linnaean plant-object and a mode of plant description that encoded the 'native' experience associated with the therapeutic commodity. This botanical identification forced the jatdmcirilsi to become a subject of colonial natural history.
SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
(2022)
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Area Studies
Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon
Summary: This article examines art works that problematise the contested memories of the Vietnam War in South Korea. It explores how these artworks represent the contested memories and conditional apologies related to the wartime atrocities, and discusses the limitations and possibilities of representing wartime sexual violence and (un)conditional apologies through visual art.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Asian Studies
Charles Hartman
Summary: The influential Naito-Hartwell hypothesis suggests that there was an economic and social transformation from aristocratic-led early Tang period to literati and gentry-led governance of Song period. However, scholars have paid less attention to the connection between economic and demographic trends and the changes in monarchy during this period. This article explores the institutional and political structures of late Tang and Five Dynasties that were inherited and adapted by the Song founders to develop a new model of imperial governance.
Article
Asian Studies
Ngoc Dung Tran
Summary: This article investigates the early diplomatic encounters between England and Vietnam in the seventeenth century, focusing on how the English East India Company adapted its diplomacy to the diverse political landscapes. While the Trinh Lords in Tonkin limited diplomatic and trade exchanges, the Nguyen Lords in Cochinchina welcomed relations with England.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Lisandro E. Claudio
Summary: This article proposes a research agenda for studying liberalism in Southeast Asia, addressing the obstacles that hinder investigations in the region. It outlines a vision for liberal scholarship and aims to encourage comprehensive research on the interpretation and re-interpretation of liberalism in addressing historical and contemporary political issues in Southeast Asia.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2023)
Article
History
Shoufu Yin
Summary: This article examines the imperial documents conferring titles and rewards on women who commanded troops in medieval China, and investigates how the court described and praised these female commanders. It argues that the recognition of women's achievements was influenced by cultural traditions and political/military goals. By studying official documents, it provides a more dynamic understanding of how the patriarchal regime actually functioned in premodern China.
JOURNAL OF CHINESE HISTORY
(2022)
Article
Asian Studies
Federico Picerni
Summary: This paper investigates poetry written in China on the theme of the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing its interaction with social reality. It explores the public role of poets in the national mobilization effort and the diverse understandings of their individual roles during the anti-COVID action. The paper demonstrates the final configuration of China's pandemic poetry and emphasizes the importance of poetry's social responsibility and the boundary-transgression between different poetry scenes and authors.
ASIAN STUDIES-AZIJSKE STUDIJE
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Ayesha Ansari, Thomas Chambers
Summary: This ethnographic article examines the interactions between poor Muslim women, intermediaries/brokers, and the Indian state. The article highlights the complexities and marginalization Muslim women experience when accessing resources and paperwork. Despite this, the article also emphasizes the agency of women in making claims and asserting citizenship rights. The study challenges assumptions about male brokers as intermediaries and explores the gendered distinctions in imagining the nation and experiencing the everyday state.
CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA
(2022)
Article
Asian Studies
Ionut Untea
PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Timothy S. Rich, Andi Dahmer
Summary: By analyzing cross-national evidence, this study finds that the recognition of Taiwan is influenced by economic factors in addition to the pressure from the People's Republic of China.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAIWAN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Archaeology
Ladislav Charouz
Summary: Naser al-Din Shah's visit to the World's Fair in Vienna aimed to encourage modernisation in Persia and assert Persian sovereignty on a global scale. While the visit achieved some success in terms of diplomatic relations and administrative reform, it also faced challenges and limitations, such as the persistence of orientalist narratives and the difficulty in breaking away from Euro-centric perceptions.
IRAN-JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Asian Studies
Juan Wu
Summary: This paper compares the Civaravastu of the Mulasarvastivada Vinaya with its counterparts in the other four SthaviraVinayas and points out significant differences. It argues that the Mulasarvastivadin authors of the Civaravastu displayed distinct characteristics, including shared narrative lore with the svetambara Jainas, a preference for past-life stories, the use of a specific character for comic effect, a broader concern for legal issues related to Buddhist monastic inheritance, and an acute awareness of monastic clothing and appearance in ancient India.
JOURNAL OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Azeem Ahmed
Summary: This article explores the role of caste organisations in facilitating the social mobility of a marginalized Muslim biradari, focusing on the Rayeen (vegetable sellers) caste. It examines the caste panchayat, association, and Foundation, highlighting their respective functions. The findings reveal that these organizations complement each other in the overall process, as the caste panchayat regulates internal affairs, the caste association fosters unity for political influence, and local level organizations appeal to universal principles for broader impact.
CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA
(2023)
Article
Asian Studies
Hyun Kyung Lee
Summary: This paper examines the dissonance between the commodification of Japanese colonial architecture in Gunsan and the established national narratives, and suggests that productive nostalgia can help overcome the limitations of the current form of heritagization in Gunsan.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
(2023)
