Producing China in Southeast Asia : Knowledge, Identity, and Migrant Chineseness.
Shih, Chih-Yu editor.
2017
H1-970.9
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Title Producing China in Southeast Asia : Knowledge, Identity, and Migrant Chineseness.
ISBN 9789811034497 (electronic book)
9811034494 (electronic book)
9789811034473
9811034478
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3449-7
Imprint Springer Verlag, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-10-3449-7 doi
Call Number H1-970.9
Dewey Decimal Classification 300
Summary This book presents studies on Chinese intellectuals in Southeast Asia and how they understand China and Chineseness in the 21st century. It posits, through analyses of works and oral histories of a number of Chinese scholars in the region, that the dominant but distinctive approaches adopted by them are those that are rooted in humanism and pragmatism. In doing so, the book explores the significant population, local conditions and strategy of survival among the Southeast Asian Chinese as factors that influence their views and perspectives. Studies presented in the book simultaneously implicate subjectivity, where authors and their readers position themselves among ethnic, national, and civilizational identities. It highlights that while national-level identity necessarily involves dangerous self-interrogation and, at times, politics that is often suppressive and confrontational, intellectual writings on China that stick to the ethnic and civilizational levels provide more sensible exits. With that, the book then goes on to make the argument that in Southeast Asian Chinese studies, the humanities usually prevail over the social sciences at these two alternative levels. Lastly, the book also shows how the humanities can be instrumental to Southeast Asian Chinese scholars’ choice of identity strategy which makes pragmatism an important theme. The book will be of interest to students and researchers involved in Southeast Asian and Chinese studies.
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Part I: Perspectives
1: Introduction: China and Chinese Migrant Scholarship
2: Pursuing Chinese Studies Amidst the Identity Politics in Malaysia
3: A Local History of Vietnamese Sinology in Early 20th Century Annam
4: Understanding Chinese Economy Accurately—John Wong and His China Research
5: Two Intellectual Paths That Cross the Borders: Nguyen Huy Quy, Phan Van Coc, and Humanities in Vietnam’s Chinese Studies
Part II: Interviews
6: A Participating Ethnologist: Interview with Professor Tan Chee-Beng
7: A Witness to History: Interview with Professor Yen Ching Hwang
8: A Synthetic Observer: Interview with Professor John Wong
9: An Interrogator of Identity: Interview with Professor Leo Suryadinata
10: The Founder of a Discipline: A Project Note on the Intellectual Growth of Professor Nguyen Huy Quy
11: A Self-learner of Poetry: A Project Note on the Intellectual Growth of Professor Phan Van Coc.

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