Search Results for ethnic Chinese

... particular brand of royalist nationalism. The general line of the argument based on the interpretation of Vajiravudh's infamous articles is the king singled out the ethnic Chinese—known to be the largest ethnic minority as well as the dominant force controlling the Siamese economy—as the national other...

...Jiemin Bao Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Same Bed, Different Dreams: Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality among Middle- and Upper-class Chinese Immigrants in Bangkok Jiemin Bao When Guoyi,’ a Chinese immigrant woman in Bangkok...

... by understanding North Koreans as potential criminals. The first part conceptualizes Korean Chinese villagers’ ethical obligation toward North Koreans, which I call ethnic ethos , and focuses on how the director preserves the Korean Chinese's conscience by stereotyping North Korean border crossers as “dangerous...

..., Situ Huimin司徒慧敏) and supported by Cantonese film leaders Ng Cho‐fan 吳楚帆 and Lo Duen 盧敦. The study interrogates the predicaments and vicissitudes of Union's cosmopolitan stances as it wrestled with the cultural politics of Chinese cinema during the Cold War. It elucidates the ethnically rooted...

...Yanshuo Zhang Abstract This article probes a long‐overlooked concept in modern China—ethnic indigeneity—to propose new ways of looking at the relationship between the Chinese nation and its multiethnic minority groups. The Western scholarly community has long held that because the Chinese state...

...- olution differently as a source of inspiration) and attracted the moral and financial support of a number of prominent Indies Chinese.26 Conscious of their ethnicity but claiming a stake in Indonesia, these Indies Chinese used Tionghoa to name...

... stars. The emergence of participatory cyberculture has further ethnicized or globalized transnational Chinese or Asian stars such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chow Yun-fat, and Ken Watanabe, who are known for their compelling, exotic images to the Westernized audience. Among others...

... of the Orient: A New Interpretation of the Problematic Relationship between the Thai State and its Ethnic Chinese Community” remind readers that without direct address of the political and intellectual or ideological frameworks that power makes...

... 1970s, the seemly impregnable ideology of the Cultural Revolution gradually disintegrated. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 animation animal fantasy realism ethnicity Cultural Revolution The Dis/appearance of Animals in Animated Film during the Chinese Cultural Revolution...

...Gary Sigley This essay examines how the human body has been variously imagined and acted upon in twentieth-century China. It does so by focusing on one particularly prominent feature of Chinese discourse concerned with the calculation, measurement, and shaping of the human body and human conduct...

... to transmit to one another news about transnational travel and money-making skills. As in the work of Hai Ren and Lingzhen Wang, Nonini’s study of ethnic Chinese in a Malaysian city focuses on the perfor- mance of heterogeneity within...

... Korean multiculturalism is selective and gendered, in that it targets mainly foreign brides and excludes other categories of immigrants and ethnic minorities, such as migrant workers (K. Park 2014 ), ethnic Chinese residents (An and Woo 2015 ), and Koreans with mixed ethnic or racial backgrounds (Jung...

... and small match- makers are often Vietnamese ethnic Chinese who can navigate relations in both Vietnamese and Chinese languages and cultural worlds. Recent accounts of transnational activities among Vietnamese-­Taiwanese couples Bélanger...

... of authoritative ethnic spaces that form local elite “Chinese society,” which may be coopted by the state. Both of these forms of public space are impli- cated in the process of Malaysian state-formation and its project of “cultural revol~tionSet...

... and the United States. The point can be made through what is called ethnic tourism, or cultural odysseys that find Chinese American youths crafting ties to the homeland and being crafted by it. The homeland tours that I examine here unfold under different...

.... This multilingual distinction of Manchu- kuo cultural production is a fact yet to be sufficiently addressed, for it chal- lenges the general concepts of national or ethnic literatures and major or minor literary movements. In his important work on Chinese women writ- ers in Manchukuo, Norman Smith challenges...

... The riots reportedly targeted ethnic Chinese. Grotesque photographs of rape victims appeared online on university BBSs and student-­maintained websites and were widely circulated among Chinese students in and out- side China. These imageries...

... (Kanagawa Newspaper) . 1946a . “Hamano yoru” (“Yokohama's Night”) . January 2 . ———. 1946b . “Hamano nankinmachi” (“Yokohama's Chinatown”) . January 14 . ———. 1953 . “Nankinchō no fukkō” (“Reconstruction of Chinatown”) . October 17 . Kim Kwang-tae . 2000 . “Ethnic Chinese...

... of Overseas Student Literature in Taiwan derives, in part, from a textual construct of that idealized “Chineseness,” which honors readers as ethnic Chinese as a means of assuaging their longing for home. In line...

... is symptomatic of reregionalizing forces and contributes to them. In Jakarta during a May 1998 terror campaign, government-orchestrated mobs theatrically gang- raped scores of ethnicized Chinese girl and women citizens of Indonesia...