... been prominent in Siamese politics since the sixteenth century. The photograph’s subject is another royal consort, Princess (later High Queen) Dara Rasami, who had come to Siam’s royal harem from the neighboring kingdom of Lan Na (today’s northern Thailand), and whose long hair signals her ethnic...

...Fig. 12. Lü Houmin, Mao Zedong receiving gifts from representatives of ethnic minorities in 1956), http://www.fotocn.org/60/1956-2314 (accessed August 12, 2016). ...

... and framing of contradictory nationalist imaginaries by competing ethnic and state actors. In northern Sri Lanka, portraits of gun-bearing women fighters were wielded to signal revolutionary possibilities for the future of the Tamil nation-state as well as to inform the political socialization of its hopeful...

... that the reanimation and reproduction of family and identification photographs unsettle forgotten and suppressed histories of trauma unique to the experience of the Chinese ethnic minority in Indonesia. 49. Wulia, “Aleatoric Geopolitics,” 103 . 50. Azoulay, Civil Contract of Photography , 355 . 51...

... elsewhere that photographic frames could not contain. Strassler’s rich and subtle work further contributes to the studies of nation and nationalism by unfolding the ironies and ambivalence in which diasporic subjects, in this case the ethnic Chinese, not only have played the role as “cosmopolitan...

...Kip Fulbeck 2011 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. ha•pa (hä’pä) adj. 1. Slang of mixed ethnic heritage with partial roots in Asian and/or Pacific Islander ancestry. n. 2. Slang a person...

... including a Soo Chow Garden, pagoda, and pond. My early visits to the Mississauga Chinese Centre were in many ways my first experiences of visiting an Asian-centric, ethnic enclave. I have memories of my parents taking my sister and I to the Centre to attend Chinese calligraphy classes, Cantonese language...

... to the ethnic populations that make up the rest of Indonesia. The notion that the Indigenous inhabitants of Papua were “living in the stone age”—survivors of an earlier and more primitive stage of human evolution—took hold in the nineteenth century and continues to shape Indonesian attitudes toward Papuans. 12...

... laying down his camera and storing his photographs and negatives in a drawer for twenty years when he decided that no one else was interested in them. Little India is an ethnic enclave in George Town on the Malaysian island of Penang. Penang had been one of the British-ruled Straits Settlements...

... one. It changed my understanding of Bangkok, not of a Chinese diaspora. AL: That’s interesting. And so their being Chinese is more strongly an ethnic affiliation in the here and now; and do they keep to the language, too? WLT: My work in Southeast Asia focuses on areas that are relatively...

... is tinted with nostalgia and exoticism. 13 But conservatism is just one factor in terms of shaping Thai-ness. Even though it is a syncretic product, Thai-ness has been largely defined by the idea of a national community identified along common ethnic lineage, which is “at odds with the pre-modern notion...

... organization that oversees a multitude of Korean ethnic organizations in political, social, commercial, and educational sectors. Among its myriad functions is to operate its own schools, from kindergarten to university. In contrast to Mindan, the pro–South Korean organization, Chongryun has made public its...

... of India, and the significance of these images in documenting this tumultuous moment in South Asian history. Finally, in their critical conversation, Morris Lum and Brandon Leung consider the political potential of a Chinatown vernacular, as displayed Lum's works, which focus on ethnic enclaves...

..., widely and to remote mountainous regions populated by ethnic minorities. They were also instrumental in introducing modern technology to the country, including printing presses. In Burma, the American Baptist mission made an exceptional mark on the course of history: today Burma has one of the largest...

...Figure 12. A hand-colored portrait of an ethnic Korean woman in traditional costume, circa 1950s. Photographer unknown, private collection, Toronto. ...