Mandy Sadan
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780197265550
- eISBN:
- 9780191760341
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265550.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter considers the 1843 revolt from the perspective of the trans-Patkai region and possible connections with the Opium Wars. It explores the political and cultural contexts of ...
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This chapter considers the 1843 revolt from the perspective of the trans-Patkai region and possible connections with the Opium Wars. It explores the political and cultural contexts of Singpho-Jinghpaw interaction with a wider world, and concludes that the spread of gumlao revolt was an outcome of the region-wide pressures that were placed upon this region in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Evidence of ideological change in Jinghpaw models of power is then suggested by a close examination of a ritual called the Tawn Na, which emerged as a discourse in relation to changes seen at the Burmese court during this time. The chapter proposes that in light of this regional transformation, it would be inappropriate to consider ‘Kachin’ ideological models insulated from the political developments that were taking place across this region, and these changes were important in the later development of modern Kachin ethno-nationalism.Less
This chapter considers the 1843 revolt from the perspective of the trans-Patkai region and possible connections with the Opium Wars. It explores the political and cultural contexts of Singpho-Jinghpaw interaction with a wider world, and concludes that the spread of gumlao revolt was an outcome of the region-wide pressures that were placed upon this region in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Evidence of ideological change in Jinghpaw models of power is then suggested by a close examination of a ritual called the Tawn Na, which emerged as a discourse in relation to changes seen at the Burmese court during this time. The chapter proposes that in light of this regional transformation, it would be inappropriate to consider ‘Kachin’ ideological models insulated from the political developments that were taking place across this region, and these changes were important in the later development of modern Kachin ethno-nationalism.
Wen-Chin Chang
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801453311
- eISBN:
- 9780801454516
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801453311.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a “back door” to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political ...
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The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a “back door” to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to Burma. This book is the first ethnography to focus on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants (composed of both Yunnanese Han and Muslims) who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma and resettled in Thailand, Taiwan, and China. Since the 1960s, Yunnanese migrants of Burma have dominated the transnational trade in opium, jade, and daily consumption goods. The book details the trade's organization from the 1960s of mule-driven caravans to the use of modern transportation, and reconstructs trading routes while examining embedded sociocultural meanings. These Yunnanese migrants' mobility attests to the prevalence of travel not only by the privileged but also by different kinds of people. Their narratives disclose individual life processes as well as networks of connections, modes of transportation, and differences between the experiences of men and women. Through traveling they have carried on the mobile livelihoods of their predecessors, expanding overland trade beyond its historical borderlands between Yunnan and upland Southeast Asia to journeys further afield by land, sea, and air.Less
The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a “back door” to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to Burma. This book is the first ethnography to focus on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants (composed of both Yunnanese Han and Muslims) who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma and resettled in Thailand, Taiwan, and China. Since the 1960s, Yunnanese migrants of Burma have dominated the transnational trade in opium, jade, and daily consumption goods. The book details the trade's organization from the 1960s of mule-driven caravans to the use of modern transportation, and reconstructs trading routes while examining embedded sociocultural meanings. These Yunnanese migrants' mobility attests to the prevalence of travel not only by the privileged but also by different kinds of people. Their narratives disclose individual life processes as well as networks of connections, modes of transportation, and differences between the experiences of men and women. Through traveling they have carried on the mobile livelihoods of their predecessors, expanding overland trade beyond its historical borderlands between Yunnan and upland Southeast Asia to journeys further afield by land, sea, and air.
Weimin Tang
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099456
- eISBN:
- 9789882206687
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099456.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter, by focusing on what have been largely denounced as the two assimilationist Bildungsromane, Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter, and Gish Jen's Typical American, brings to the fore ...
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This chapter, by focusing on what have been largely denounced as the two assimilationist Bildungsromane, Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter, and Gish Jen's Typical American, brings to the fore an insider and outsider's profound ambivalence that illuminates the full complexity of the cross-cultural Chinese American subject. It is precisely in the active presence of this Chineseness, both as a historical given and cultural reinvention, that the myth of the American Dream as a trope of assimilation in the narratives of Wong's and Jen's mimic (wo)men's striving for likeness to the original symbol is simultaneously negotiated and contested. Ultimately transcending the reductive dichotomous polarization, the dream narratives of Wong and Jen are reread here as enunciating a metonymic displacement and transformation of the national myth in the cross-cultural Chinese American subject's very translational repetition of the American Dream itself.Less
This chapter, by focusing on what have been largely denounced as the two assimilationist Bildungsromane, Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter, and Gish Jen's Typical American, brings to the fore an insider and outsider's profound ambivalence that illuminates the full complexity of the cross-cultural Chinese American subject. It is precisely in the active presence of this Chineseness, both as a historical given and cultural reinvention, that the myth of the American Dream as a trope of assimilation in the narratives of Wong's and Jen's mimic (wo)men's striving for likeness to the original symbol is simultaneously negotiated and contested. Ultimately transcending the reductive dichotomous polarization, the dream narratives of Wong and Jen are reread here as enunciating a metonymic displacement and transformation of the national myth in the cross-cultural Chinese American subject's very translational repetition of the American Dream itself.
Alison Sheridan and Pierre Pétrequin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780197265758
- eISBN:
- 9780191771965
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265758.003.0019
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
Case studies are presented to discuss various ways, good and bad, in which ‘hard science’ has been used to construct aspects of the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland. The use of radiocarbon dating and ...
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Case studies are presented to discuss various ways, good and bad, in which ‘hard science’ has been used to construct aspects of the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland. The use of radiocarbon dating and dietary evidence to characterise the Neolithisation process is reviewed; the disjunction between existing archaeological narratives and the results of a genetic and morphometric analysis of the Orkney vole as a Neolithic arrival in Orkney is considered; and the reasons for the success of Projet JADE, a major international research programme investigating axeheads and other artefacts made of jadeitite and other alpine rocks, are explored. Conclusions are reached about the way in which ‘hard science’ can be used to inform archaeological narratives (and vice versa).Less
Case studies are presented to discuss various ways, good and bad, in which ‘hard science’ has been used to construct aspects of the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland. The use of radiocarbon dating and dietary evidence to characterise the Neolithisation process is reviewed; the disjunction between existing archaeological narratives and the results of a genetic and morphometric analysis of the Orkney vole as a Neolithic arrival in Orkney is considered; and the reasons for the success of Projet JADE, a major international research programme investigating axeheads and other artefacts made of jadeitite and other alpine rocks, are explored. Conclusions are reached about the way in which ‘hard science’ can be used to inform archaeological narratives (and vice versa).
Federal Writers Project of the Works Project Administration
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520268807
- eISBN:
- 9780520948877
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520268807.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
“San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it,” according to this book, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love ...
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“San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it,” according to this book, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recognize the Transamerica Building's pyramid. This invaluable Depression-era guide to San Francisco relates the city's history from the vantage point of the 1930s, describing its culture and highlighting the important tourist attractions of the time. A lively introduction revisits the city's literary heritage—from Bret Harte to Kenneth Rexroth, Jade Snow Wong, and Allen Ginsberg—as well as its most famous landmarks and historic buildings. This volume, resonant with portraits of neighborhoods and districts, allows us a unique opportunity to travel back in time and savor the City by the Bay as it used to be.Less
“San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it,” according to this book, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recognize the Transamerica Building's pyramid. This invaluable Depression-era guide to San Francisco relates the city's history from the vantage point of the 1930s, describing its culture and highlighting the important tourist attractions of the time. A lively introduction revisits the city's literary heritage—from Bret Harte to Kenneth Rexroth, Jade Snow Wong, and Allen Ginsberg—as well as its most famous landmarks and historic buildings. This volume, resonant with portraits of neighborhoods and districts, allows us a unique opportunity to travel back in time and savor the City by the Bay as it used to be.
Marina Belozerskaya
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199739318
- eISBN:
- 9780199979356
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199739318.003.0005
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, History of Art: pre-history, BCE to 500CE, ancient and classical, Byzantine
The earliest surviving record of the Tazza was produced in Central Asia, either for the great and ruthless conqueror Timur in Samarqand, or for his more refined grandson Baysunghur at Herat. The bowl ...
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The earliest surviving record of the Tazza was produced in Central Asia, either for the great and ruthless conqueror Timur in Samarqand, or for his more refined grandson Baysunghur at Herat. The bowl may have come to the Timurid court as war booty, tribute, or a diplomatic gift. Once there, it was depicted by the court calligrapher Mohammed al-Khayyam. This chapter suggests how the Tazza would have been viewed differently by Timur and his descendants.Less
The earliest surviving record of the Tazza was produced in Central Asia, either for the great and ruthless conqueror Timur in Samarqand, or for his more refined grandson Baysunghur at Herat. The bowl may have come to the Timurid court as war booty, tribute, or a diplomatic gift. Once there, it was depicted by the court calligrapher Mohammed al-Khayyam. This chapter suggests how the Tazza would have been viewed differently by Timur and his descendants.
Francisco Estrada-Belli
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813038087
- eISBN:
- 9780813043128
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813038087.003.0008
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
Contrary to accepted views on the origin of Maya civilization, which place the earliest manifestations of Maya civilization towards the end of the Preclassic period (i.e. 100 B.C.), several lines of ...
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Contrary to accepted views on the origin of Maya civilization, which place the earliest manifestations of Maya civilization towards the end of the Preclassic period (i.e. 100 B.C.), several lines of evidence suggest that the most important turning point in the developmental trajectory of Lowland Maya civilization occurred around 800 B.C. At this time, a number of Lowland ceremonial centers were founded and public ceremonial architecture manifested itself. At Cival, large-scale construction projects took place by 800 B.C. in connection with the center's founding event. In light of the differences in labor investment and scale between initial and later public building projects at Cival and Holmul, two major phases of development are suggested, which may correlate with different but equally significant changes in Early Lowland Maya social organization, economy, and long-distance networks of interaction. After considering the newly documented developments in ideology, public ritual, and monumentality at Cival and at other Lowland centers, this chapter proposes a re-examination of commonly held notions about the Lowland Maya's path to civilization.Less
Contrary to accepted views on the origin of Maya civilization, which place the earliest manifestations of Maya civilization towards the end of the Preclassic period (i.e. 100 B.C.), several lines of evidence suggest that the most important turning point in the developmental trajectory of Lowland Maya civilization occurred around 800 B.C. At this time, a number of Lowland ceremonial centers were founded and public ceremonial architecture manifested itself. At Cival, large-scale construction projects took place by 800 B.C. in connection with the center's founding event. In light of the differences in labor investment and scale between initial and later public building projects at Cival and Holmul, two major phases of development are suggested, which may correlate with different but equally significant changes in Early Lowland Maya social organization, economy, and long-distance networks of interaction. After considering the newly documented developments in ideology, public ritual, and monumentality at Cival and at other Lowland centers, this chapter proposes a re-examination of commonly held notions about the Lowland Maya's path to civilization.
Yoon Lee
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199915835
- eISBN:
- 9780199315956
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199915835.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
For Chinese-Americans during and after World War II, everydayness offered a means of constructing an identity that was both modern and American. Fifth Chinese Daughter exhibits a particular type of ...
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For Chinese-Americans during and after World War II, everydayness offered a means of constructing an identity that was both modern and American. Fifth Chinese Daughter exhibits a particular type of everyday thinking that relies on the repeatability of actions as the basis of knowledge. Wong claims modernity by presenting herself as an anomaly, an unlikely daughter of Chinatown. Thus she illustrates her fitness as a post-war American citizen. After the social movements of the late 1960s and 70s, everyday recurrence fails to offer an adequate basis of identity. Rather, identity comes to be equated with self-determination and unique laws of self-development. Kingston’s The Woman Warrior struggles to base a sense of self on her mother’s exemplary stories, but the project proves untenable in the face of the modern world’s repetitions and reductions. In her second work, China Men, she turns toward modern history, offering a portrait of the everyday as the realm of faceless, endless, and abstract labor, performed by generic subjects.Less
For Chinese-Americans during and after World War II, everydayness offered a means of constructing an identity that was both modern and American. Fifth Chinese Daughter exhibits a particular type of everyday thinking that relies on the repeatability of actions as the basis of knowledge. Wong claims modernity by presenting herself as an anomaly, an unlikely daughter of Chinatown. Thus she illustrates her fitness as a post-war American citizen. After the social movements of the late 1960s and 70s, everyday recurrence fails to offer an adequate basis of identity. Rather, identity comes to be equated with self-determination and unique laws of self-development. Kingston’s The Woman Warrior struggles to base a sense of self on her mother’s exemplary stories, but the project proves untenable in the face of the modern world’s repetitions and reductions. In her second work, China Men, she turns toward modern history, offering a portrait of the everyday as the realm of faceless, endless, and abstract labor, performed by generic subjects.
Wen-Chin Chang
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801453311
- eISBN:
- 9780801454516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801453311.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the social construction of gender inequality in relation to power distribution in both public and domestic spheres in Burma by focusing on the economic activities of Yunnanese ...
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This chapter examines the social construction of gender inequality in relation to power distribution in both public and domestic spheres in Burma by focusing on the economic activities of Yunnanese women. It discusses the involvement of Yunnanese women in border trade, along with their entrepreneurship, familial obligations and sacrificial motherhood, and how their economic activities transgress borders. It also considers Yunnanese women's participation in jade trade, money-carrying and restaurant businesses, and in rotating markets. It shows that these women's practices reflect an ongoing process of shaping and reshaping “gendered geographies of power” while also simultaneously contesting and reproducing gender categories.Less
This chapter examines the social construction of gender inequality in relation to power distribution in both public and domestic spheres in Burma by focusing on the economic activities of Yunnanese women. It discusses the involvement of Yunnanese women in border trade, along with their entrepreneurship, familial obligations and sacrificial motherhood, and how their economic activities transgress borders. It also considers Yunnanese women's participation in jade trade, money-carrying and restaurant businesses, and in rotating markets. It shows that these women's practices reflect an ongoing process of shaping and reshaping “gendered geographies of power” while also simultaneously contesting and reproducing gender categories.
Wen-Chin Chang
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801453311
- eISBN:
- 9780801454516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801453311.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the transnational jade trade dominated by Yunnanese migrants since the 1960s due to their well-connected transnational networks. Focusing on the experiences of the Duan and Peng ...
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This chapter examines the transnational jade trade dominated by Yunnanese migrants since the 1960s due to their well-connected transnational networks. Focusing on the experiences of the Duan and Peng families, it considers the economic agency of the Yunnanese traders in Burma in combating subjugation by the state. It also discusses the jade traders' dynamism in the formation of their transnational networks and capital flows in response to the politico-economic policies adopted by different states. Finally, it explains how the jade traders' business extension to Guangzhou and Hong Kong since 2000 has resulted in the circulation of people, commodities, capital, information, techniques, and trade knowledge.Less
This chapter examines the transnational jade trade dominated by Yunnanese migrants since the 1960s due to their well-connected transnational networks. Focusing on the experiences of the Duan and Peng families, it considers the economic agency of the Yunnanese traders in Burma in combating subjugation by the state. It also discusses the jade traders' dynamism in the formation of their transnational networks and capital flows in response to the politico-economic policies adopted by different states. Finally, it explains how the jade traders' business extension to Guangzhou and Hong Kong since 2000 has resulted in the circulation of people, commodities, capital, information, techniques, and trade knowledge.
Timothy Cheek
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198290667
- eISBN:
- 9780191684821
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198290667.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
In honouring Deng Tuo, his colleagues refer to him as ‘broken jade’. Educated counsellors to the ruler, whom today would generally be considered as intellectuals, have long been referred to as jade ...
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In honouring Deng Tuo, his colleagues refer to him as ‘broken jade’. Educated counsellors to the ruler, whom today would generally be considered as intellectuals, have long been referred to as jade in China. Not only the man but his career as a scholar-cadre in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is ‘broken jade’. Deng Tuo's charismatic role in the public arena was struck down in the Cultural Revolution and with it the priestly vocation of the Maoist cadre. Finally, the ideological system Deng Tuo served, Maoism, has shattered. In truth, Maoism was as precious as jade to Deng Tuo, and to many who served with him. It is with the pieces of Deng Tuo's life, vocation, and beliefs that his successors must fashion their future and China's.Less
In honouring Deng Tuo, his colleagues refer to him as ‘broken jade’. Educated counsellors to the ruler, whom today would generally be considered as intellectuals, have long been referred to as jade in China. Not only the man but his career as a scholar-cadre in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is ‘broken jade’. Deng Tuo's charismatic role in the public arena was struck down in the Cultural Revolution and with it the priestly vocation of the Maoist cadre. Finally, the ideological system Deng Tuo served, Maoism, has shattered. In truth, Maoism was as precious as jade to Deng Tuo, and to many who served with him. It is with the pieces of Deng Tuo's life, vocation, and beliefs that his successors must fashion their future and China's.
Christopher I. Beckwith
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691176321
- eISBN:
- 9781400866328
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691176321.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter considers the relationship of Early Buddhism to Chinese thought during the Warring States period (ca. 450 BC–221 BC). Chinese thought was in a nearly constant state of flux, if not ...
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This chapter considers the relationship of Early Buddhism to Chinese thought during the Warring States period (ca. 450 BC–221 BC). Chinese thought was in a nearly constant state of flux, if not turmoil, during the Warring States period, which began shortly after the death of Confucius. Ideas related to the Early Buddhism attested in the fragments of Pyrrho and Megasthenes are clearly present in Warring States writings, especially Early Taoist texts, including the Laotzu, the Chuangtzu, as well as the anonymous Jade Yoga Inscription. Some of the Early Taoist material is approximately contemporaneous with Pyrrho and Megasthenes. It seems that this material's appearance in China is connected to the fact that Central Asia, including Bactria and Gandhāra, was part of the Achaemenid Persian Empire down to Alexander's invasion and conquest of the region in 330–325 BC.Less
This chapter considers the relationship of Early Buddhism to Chinese thought during the Warring States period (ca. 450 BC–221 BC). Chinese thought was in a nearly constant state of flux, if not turmoil, during the Warring States period, which began shortly after the death of Confucius. Ideas related to the Early Buddhism attested in the fragments of Pyrrho and Megasthenes are clearly present in Warring States writings, especially Early Taoist texts, including the Laotzu, the Chuangtzu, as well as the anonymous Jade Yoga Inscription. Some of the Early Taoist material is approximately contemporaneous with Pyrrho and Megasthenes. It seems that this material's appearance in China is connected to the fact that Central Asia, including Bactria and Gandhāra, was part of the Achaemenid Persian Empire down to Alexander's invasion and conquest of the region in 330–325 BC.
erin Khuê Ninh
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814758441
- eISBN:
- 9780814759196
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814758441.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter provides a reading of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter, which closely critiques the logic implicit in intergenerational conflict. The beginning of Wong's autobiography invokes an ...
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This chapter provides a reading of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter, which closely critiques the logic implicit in intergenerational conflict. The beginning of Wong's autobiography invokes an exoticizing and problematic rhetoric of Chinese cultural otherness, and introduces her childhood experiences immediately into a discourse of cultural conflict or conflicting cultural expectations. In the narrative, that which is Chinese in association is often felt to be constricting, anachronistic, or developmentally arrested, while qualities considered American become synonymous with a versatile modernity and individual empowerment. This bias makes the autobiography no less than a prototype for the kind of intergenerational conflict narrative, which scholarship has been understandably criticized for its self-directed essentialism, and its eager adoption of Orientalist binaries.Less
This chapter provides a reading of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter, which closely critiques the logic implicit in intergenerational conflict. The beginning of Wong's autobiography invokes an exoticizing and problematic rhetoric of Chinese cultural otherness, and introduces her childhood experiences immediately into a discourse of cultural conflict or conflicting cultural expectations. In the narrative, that which is Chinese in association is often felt to be constricting, anachronistic, or developmentally arrested, while qualities considered American become synonymous with a versatile modernity and individual empowerment. This bias makes the autobiography no less than a prototype for the kind of intergenerational conflict narrative, which scholarship has been understandably criticized for its self-directed essentialism, and its eager adoption of Orientalist binaries.
erin Khuê Ninh
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814758441
- eISBN:
- 9780814759196
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814758441.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter argues that between the era of Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and that of Evelyn Lau's Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and Catherine Liu's Oriental Girls Desire Romance, economic relations ...
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This chapter argues that between the era of Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and that of Evelyn Lau's Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and Catherine Liu's Oriental Girls Desire Romance, economic relations within the family have evolved in response to changing opportunities for the model minority. Second-generation children become viable capital investments, raised to enter profitable math- and science-based professional fields now open to them, in order to repay their parents' suffering with significant consumer goods. In this context, the unprofitable pursuit of literature can become an overdetermined act of self-preservation and disobedience, and an interesting precursor to other forms of masochistic rebellion: drug addictions, suicide, or running away from home. In revisiting model minority discourse, the chapter asserts that because of the immigrant family's commitment to capitalist ideals, a model child is required to be a model minority, dutiful and grateful to both family and nation.Less
This chapter argues that between the era of Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and that of Evelyn Lau's Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and Catherine Liu's Oriental Girls Desire Romance, economic relations within the family have evolved in response to changing opportunities for the model minority. Second-generation children become viable capital investments, raised to enter profitable math- and science-based professional fields now open to them, in order to repay their parents' suffering with significant consumer goods. In this context, the unprofitable pursuit of literature can become an overdetermined act of self-preservation and disobedience, and an interesting precursor to other forms of masochistic rebellion: drug addictions, suicide, or running away from home. In revisiting model minority discourse, the chapter asserts that because of the immigrant family's commitment to capitalist ideals, a model child is required to be a model minority, dutiful and grateful to both family and nation.
Cindy I-Fen Cheng
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814759356
- eISBN:
- 9780814770849
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814759356.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter examines the successes of Asian Americans in the United States to emphasize the importance of cultural assimilation in bringing about racial integration as well as the willingness and ...
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This chapter examines the successes of Asian Americans in the United States to emphasize the importance of cultural assimilation in bringing about racial integration as well as the willingness and ability of racialized minorities to prove their desirability to dominant society. Using the discourse on the first, it explains how Asian Americans assumed the role of model minorities during the early Cold War years and how the social status of Asians in general was employed as a measure of the credibility of U.S. democracy. The firsts were featured in mainstream periodicals to show how the nation was progressing toward a racially inclusive society. The chapter focuses on three individuals whose professional achievements made headlines during the early Cold War years: Sammy Lee, Jade Snow Wong, and Delbert Wong. Finally, it explores the concept of tokenism and how it undermined the first as an indicator of America's steady progress toward racial equality.Less
This chapter examines the successes of Asian Americans in the United States to emphasize the importance of cultural assimilation in bringing about racial integration as well as the willingness and ability of racialized minorities to prove their desirability to dominant society. Using the discourse on the first, it explains how Asian Americans assumed the role of model minorities during the early Cold War years and how the social status of Asians in general was employed as a measure of the credibility of U.S. democracy. The firsts were featured in mainstream periodicals to show how the nation was progressing toward a racially inclusive society. The chapter focuses on three individuals whose professional achievements made headlines during the early Cold War years: Sammy Lee, Jade Snow Wong, and Delbert Wong. Finally, it explores the concept of tokenism and how it undermined the first as an indicator of America's steady progress toward racial equality.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804778312
- eISBN:
- 9780804782623
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804778312.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter explores the drama The Garden of Turquoise and Jade (Feicui yuan), written in Suzhou in the early Qing, and its several kunju performance redactions. The themes considered in Garden are ...
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This chapter explores the drama The Garden of Turquoise and Jade (Feicui yuan), written in Suzhou in the early Qing, and its several kunju performance redactions. The themes considered in Garden are typical of the plays written by contemporaries among the so-called Suzhou writers' group of early Qing dramatists. Its popularity indicates that urban audiences connected with the plight of the downtrodden. The gender and class politics of Garden are a blend of old and new. The villains are all men who usurp authority. The commercial productions taken from the plot illustrate the gendered (and classed) face of social complaint. It is shown that traces of late Ming romantic imaginings about gender and class carried over in modified form into the social melodramas of the Qing.Less
This chapter explores the drama The Garden of Turquoise and Jade (Feicui yuan), written in Suzhou in the early Qing, and its several kunju performance redactions. The themes considered in Garden are typical of the plays written by contemporaries among the so-called Suzhou writers' group of early Qing dramatists. Its popularity indicates that urban audiences connected with the plight of the downtrodden. The gender and class politics of Garden are a blend of old and new. The villains are all men who usurp authority. The commercial productions taken from the plot illustrate the gendered (and classed) face of social complaint. It is shown that traces of late Ming romantic imaginings about gender and class carried over in modified form into the social melodramas of the Qing.
Brian Glavey
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190202651
- eISBN:
- 9780190202675
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190202651.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter examines early texts of Richard Bruce Nugent that share an experimental use of ellipses. Nugent developed the elliptical style in his description of his own drawing, “Sahdji.” The ...
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This chapter examines early texts of Richard Bruce Nugent that share an experimental use of ellipses. Nugent developed the elliptical style in his description of his own drawing, “Sahdji.” The ekphrastic origin of this formal experiment helps illuminate his most significant work, “Smoke, Lilies and Jade,” which functions as a powerful examination of the hermeneutics of sexuality. This is a story that is celebrated as the first published work in the African-American tradition to deal openly with male same-sex desire, as a work that seems to have no use for the epistemology of the closet. At the same time, however, the multiple ellipses that interrupt every line of text invite readers to imagine that something has been repressed. By placing same-sex desire on the surface of the text while also highlighting things left unsaid, Nugent complicates the critical tendency to read homosexuality through forms of preterition.Less
This chapter examines early texts of Richard Bruce Nugent that share an experimental use of ellipses. Nugent developed the elliptical style in his description of his own drawing, “Sahdji.” The ekphrastic origin of this formal experiment helps illuminate his most significant work, “Smoke, Lilies and Jade,” which functions as a powerful examination of the hermeneutics of sexuality. This is a story that is celebrated as the first published work in the African-American tradition to deal openly with male same-sex desire, as a work that seems to have no use for the epistemology of the closet. At the same time, however, the multiple ellipses that interrupt every line of text invite readers to imagine that something has been repressed. By placing same-sex desire on the surface of the text while also highlighting things left unsaid, Nugent complicates the critical tendency to read homosexuality through forms of preterition.
Barend J. ter Haar
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198803645
- eISBN:
- 9780191842030
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198803645.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Asian History, History of Religion
Deities were thought to help and protect people, heal them from illnesses, and sometimes also to punish them. And yet, a worshipper was not free to decide what to ask for, but had to work within a ...
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Deities were thought to help and protect people, heal them from illnesses, and sometimes also to punish them. And yet, a worshipper was not free to decide what to ask for, but had to work within a collectively created and transmitted paradigm of expectations of the deity. In Northern China, Lord Guan was often requested to provide rain, and everywhere he was asked to assist in the fight against demons and other types of outsiders (barbarians, rebels, or otherwise), or even appeared of his own accord to do so. From the early seventeenth century onwards, Guan Yu was seen as the incarnation of a dragon executed at the command of the Jade Emperor for bringing rain out of compassion to a local community sentenced to extinction by the supreme deity. Finally, his loyal image inspired his rise as a God of Wealth in the course of the eighteenth century.Less
Deities were thought to help and protect people, heal them from illnesses, and sometimes also to punish them. And yet, a worshipper was not free to decide what to ask for, but had to work within a collectively created and transmitted paradigm of expectations of the deity. In Northern China, Lord Guan was often requested to provide rain, and everywhere he was asked to assist in the fight against demons and other types of outsiders (barbarians, rebels, or otherwise), or even appeared of his own accord to do so. From the early seventeenth century onwards, Guan Yu was seen as the incarnation of a dragon executed at the command of the Jade Emperor for bringing rain out of compassion to a local community sentenced to extinction by the supreme deity. Finally, his loyal image inspired his rise as a God of Wealth in the course of the eighteenth century.
Barend J. ter Haar
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198803645
- eISBN:
- 9780191842030
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198803645.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Asian History, History of Religion
Religious activities traditionally served an important role by providing ethical rules and values with supernatural legitimation, but also by providing occasions on which these values were performed ...
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Religious activities traditionally served an important role by providing ethical rules and values with supernatural legitimation, but also by providing occasions on which these values were performed in the form of rituals, exorcist theatre, and the retelling of moralistic stories. Lord Guan as an enforcer of moral values had an important place in this discourse, because he could reward and punish with the utmost authority. As an overseer of moral behaviour, the deity also became the putative author of moralistic texts, produced through spirit writing. In the course of the nineteenth century, spirit writing groups in Sichuan and elsewhere started adding a new layer to the deity’s mythology, in which he became increasingly seen as a saviour of humanity and eventually even replaced the Jade Emperor himself.Less
Religious activities traditionally served an important role by providing ethical rules and values with supernatural legitimation, but also by providing occasions on which these values were performed in the form of rituals, exorcist theatre, and the retelling of moralistic stories. Lord Guan as an enforcer of moral values had an important place in this discourse, because he could reward and punish with the utmost authority. As an overseer of moral behaviour, the deity also became the putative author of moralistic texts, produced through spirit writing. In the course of the nineteenth century, spirit writing groups in Sichuan and elsewhere started adding a new layer to the deity’s mythology, in which he became increasingly seen as a saviour of humanity and eventually even replaced the Jade Emperor himself.
