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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253461
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This issue begins with Wasana Wongsurawat’s discussion of the conflict between the Chinese KMT government and the Siamese government over the development and control of Chinese education in Thailand during the first half of the 20th century. Her article describes how the KMT’s promotion of Chinese civilization via its policy on overseas Chinese education challenged the Thai government’s effort to promote civilization through a modern education system for all citizens including its Chinese minority, and was regarded as having infringed upon Thai sovereignty. The second article by Song Ping traces the formation of a transnational lineage in Malaysia comprising the Zheng members who originally migrated from
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallEditor’s Note2008-11-09text/htmlen-USEditor’s Note2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®52262026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09Contending for a Claim on Civilization: The Sino-Siamese Struggle to Control Overseas Chinese Education in Siam
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253462
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The spread of European imperialism into East and Southeast Asia during the 19th and early 20th centuries brought with it the peculiar notion that “civilization” originated in one particular geographical area and needed to be delivered to the rest of the world by trade, conquest, and the proselytizing efforts of Western imperialist powers. In “The Discourse of Civilization and Pan-Asianism,” Prasenjit Duara (2002) hints at an interesting parallel between the civilizing discourse imparted to Asia by the West, and the ideals of Pan-Asianism which contributed significantly to the conception of Japanese imperialism in the first half of the 20th century. Like the Western imperialists who undertook the burden of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallContending for a Claim on Civilization: The Sino-Siamese Struggle to Control Overseas Chinese Education in Siam2008-11-09text/htmlen-USContending for a Claim on Civilization: The Sino-Siamese Struggle to Control Overseas Chinese Education in Siam2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®919672026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09The Zheng Communities and the Formation of a Transnational Lineage
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253463
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Scholars who study Chinese transnationalism tend to focus on Chinese diaspora business networks or on entrepreneurship (EAAU 1995; Lever-Tracy, David Ip and Noel Tracy 1996). Others choose to look at similar activities carried out by international managers and professionals (Aihwa Ong 1999: 112–36). Transnational business networks and entrepreneurship are no doubt among the most important elements of the globalization phenomenon. This should not, however, be regarded as the only major theme of Chinese contemporary transnationalism. The transnationalization of traditional social and cultural institutions and the social practices carried out by agencies facilitated by the networks deserve our attention as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallThe Zheng Communities and the Formation of a Transnational Lineage2008-11-09text/htmlen-USThe Zheng Communities and the Formation of a Transnational Lineage2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®902062026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09The Evolution of Chinese Malaysian Entrepreneurship: From British Colonial Rule to Post-New Economic Policy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253464
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The aim of the article is four-fold: First, to trace the evolution of Malaysian Chinese businesses from the colonial era to the present one of global capitalism. Chinese businesses began with tin mining and rubber plantation and extended into commodity production, banking and finance, construction and property development, manufacturing industry, and advanced technology manufacturing (as contract manufacturers); second, to explain how they were transformed from intra-ethnic and Chinese family-based businesses to inter-ethnic and plural forms of enterprises as they adapted to government policies that were partial to the indigenous people; third, to describe how Chinese enterprises were modernized and how they
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallThe Evolution of Chinese Malaysian Entrepreneurship: From British Colonial Rule to Post-New Economic Policy2008-11-09text/htmlen-USThe Evolution of Chinese Malaysian Entrepreneurship: From British Colonial Rule to Post-New Economic Policy2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®1661332026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09Kuomintang Soldiers and Their Descendants in Northern Thailand: An Ethnographic Study
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253465
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With the defeat of the Nationalist government in mainland China in 1949, several Yunnanese army units retreated to Burma. They finally settled in northern Thailand where they established refugee villages in the 1960s. The younger villagers in my study are the third-generation descendants. Today these Yunnanese Chinese pledge their loyalty to Thailand, while still seeing themselves as Chinese. The Thai government initially defined these people as refugees and distinguished them from the early Chinese migrants, although it has now accepted them as Thai citizens. For historical reasons, the Yunnanese Chinese still keep good relations with Taiwan. Meanwhile, they have also re-established links with mainland China
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallKuomintang Soldiers and Their Descendants in Northern Thailand: An Ethnographic Study2008-11-09text/htmlen-USKuomintang Soldiers and Their Descendants in Northern Thailand: An Ethnographic Study2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®867222026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09Sophia Chen Zen and Westernized Chinese Feminism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253466
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Sophia Chen Zen was an influential Chinese intellectual of the interwar period and one of the few Chinese women at the time to have received an education overseas. Her writing shows a concern for the development of Chinese feminism brought about by her experience of American society. Recognizing that Chinese society faced a turning point in the treatment of women, she explored different approaches in her work. She demonstrated a bicultural self in her writing and saw her role as an intermediary between China and the West.
Zen was a member of the first generation of Chinese women intellectuals to be educated abroad, and one of its most outspoken representatives on feminism and the changing role of women in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallSophia Chen Zen and Westernized Chinese Feminism2008-11-09text/htmlen-USSophia Chen Zen and Westernized Chinese Feminism2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®701092026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09Rejecting Assimilation, Immersion and Chinoiserie: Reconstructing Identity for Children Adopted from China
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253467
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Beginning in England and Europe in the Eighteenth Century craftspersons and artisans were catering to an insatiable desire for all things Asian (Knox 1994). The well-to-do in Britain and Western Europe actively sought out Eastern — specifically Chinese — designs that represented a cultural capital at the time. To fill the demand, these European artists eagerly (but inaccurately) appropriated and reproduced Chinese-infused motifs on any number of artifacts, from architecture to pottery and clothing (Porter 1999). Like any translation, however, much of “authentic” Chinese culture got lost in these artists’ representations. Even if one might generously describe this movement as imitative flattery, its
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallRejecting Assimilation, Immersion and Chinoiserie: Reconstructing Identity for Children Adopted from China2008-11-09text/htmlen-USRejecting Assimilation, Immersion and Chinoiserie: Reconstructing Identity for Children Adopted from China2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®549562026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09L. Ling-chi Wang: The Quintessential Scholar/Activist (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253468
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In 2007, at the time of Professor Ling-chi Wang’s retirement from the University of California/Berkeley, the Amerasia Journal published a collection of articles written by him as a tribute to a life-long activist-scholar. Professor Wang, inspired by the African American militancy of the 1960s, became politicized when he was still a graduate student pursuing a degree in ancient Near Eastern languages and literature. For four decades since, he has dedicated his life to fighting for social justice and racial equality, in addition to being a faculty member in the Ethnic Studies Department at UC/Berkeley.
There have been very few academics engaged in public discourses on contemporary political issues
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallL. Ling-chi Wang: The Quintessential Scholar/Activist (review)2008-11-09text/htmlen-USL. Ling-chi Wang: The Quintessential Scholar/Activist (review)2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®126342026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09Chinese Australians in White Australia (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253469
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One of the most common arguments used by conservative governments to justify their discriminatory immigration policy of excluding a certain ethnic group from entering their countries is the incompatibility of the group’s culture, values, habits and behaviors. A notable example is the White Australia Policy legislated by the Australian parliament in 1901 to restrict non-White immigration as a response to the government’s growing anxieties over the visible presence of Chinese and Pacific Islanders in the colonies. Although the policy officially ended in 1973, an attempt has been made to defend the White Australia Policy in recent years, as Robert Mane, one of Australia’s foremost public intellectuals and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallChinese Australians in White Australia (review)2008-11-09text/htmlen-USChinese Australians in White Australia (review)2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®74692026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253470
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History and historiography have been central in the emerging field of Chinese American studies. This anthology, edited by Sucheng Chan and Madeline Hsu, uses a cultural history framework that weaves together personal narratives, family histories, case studies, and event analyses to show the lives of Chinese Americans “in more complex, intricate, and intriguing ways” (p. xvi). Sucheng Chan’s introductory chapter offers an excellent and comprehensive literature review to demonstrate the synergy in Chinese American history and historiography. Chan identifies five periods of Chinese American historiography: partisan writings between the 1850s and the early 1920s, social science studies in the mid-1920s to the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallChinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture (review)2008-11-09text/htmlen-USChinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture (review)2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®134272026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09Chinese Americans and the Second World War (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253471
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Americans First presents an insightful analysis of the experience of Chinese Americans during World War II. K. Scott Wong draws on extensive archival sources, memoirs, periodicals and interviews to examine the identity formation, networking and survival strategies of Chinese Americans during the war. According to Wong, the war transformed the American perceptions of the Chinese and Chinese Americans as China and the United States fought as allies against Japan. The second-generation Chinese Americans joined the army, fought against Germany and Japan, and participated in defense-related industries on the home front. This enabled them to assert their Chinese identity and claim American citizenship in the midst
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmallChinese Americans and the Second World War (review)2008-11-09text/htmlen-USChinese Americans and the Second World War (review)2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®66722026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09新秩序下的混乱： 从印尼暴动看华人的政治社会关系 Chaos under the New Order: The Socio-Political Dimension of the Chinese in Indonesia as seen from the Riots of 1994–1998 (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253472
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This book is a collection of essays on violence and the Chinese in Indonesia by Yang Congrong published between 2001 and 2005. The ethnic Chinese had been the target of mass violence during several important periods of regime change in Indonesia, most recently and most notably being the attack on Chinese property and persons in the May 1998 riots. In these essays, the author attempts to transcend paradigms of victimization and anti-Chinese violence based on monolithic economic explanations during the late New Order period. He argues instead for the need to contextualize the different incidents of Indonesian violence, ascertaining the extent to which they were targeted at the Chinese, establishing the link
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/331/image/coversmall新秩序下的混乱： 从印尼暴动看华人的政治社会关系 Chaos under the New Order: The Socio-Political Dimension of the Chinese in Indonesia as seen from the Riots of 1994–1998 (review)2008-11-09text/htmlen-US新秩序下的混乱： 从印尼暴动看华人的政治社会关系 Chaos under the New Order: The Socio-Political Dimension of the Chinese in Indonesia as seen from the Riots of 1994–1998 (review)2008-11-092008TWOProject MUSE®96192026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002008-11-09