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{"title":"The Logic of Tong (Togetherness) or Why Guanxi Works in Chinese Societies?","authors":"Hoi-yan Yau, H. Wong","doi":"10.1163/24522015-17020005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-17020005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article provides an analysis of the cultural meaning of guanxi (關係) in Chinese societies, specifically in the context of a workplace situation in Taiwan. Guanxi is a concept based on Confucian ethics, which was originally a positive concept connoting human closeness, has transformed into a manipulative and instrumentally used variant called “guanxi-practice”(關係學). The article argues that an effective way to understand the cultural meaning of guanxi is to examine the Chinese kinship system, which shares similarities with interpersonal relationships in Chinese culture. The guiding principle of Chinese familial ethics, tong (同), refers to members sharing the same breath who are expected to offer emotional and financial support in times of need. The study analyses the exchange of guanxi-work among men in Taiwanese society to clarify the logic of guanxi operation. The study aims to contribute to the broader discussion on the cultural meaning of guanxi in Chinese societies, explaining why guanxi can empower and entitle participants to seek favors and benefit from one another.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"119 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140445239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does China Matter to the Chinese Overseas? A Case Study of Malaysian Chinese Businesses","authors":"Miau Ing Tan, Kam Hing Lee, Kean Yew Lee","doi":"10.1163/24522015-17020004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-17020004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Do businesses owned or operated by the Chinese diaspora engage more with China than businesses owned by non-ethnic Chinese? To answer this question, ethnic Chinese owned companies listed on the Malaysian stock exchange were compared with non-Chinese owned/controlled on the extent of their business in China. Of some 800 listed companies as of December 2017, 547 or 68% are Malaysian Chinese companies. Of the latter, some 18.4%, conduct business in China compared to just 8.5% among the non-ethnic Chinese listed companies. This finding needs to be qualified first, by the fact that the companies’ presence in China may not represent a major portion of their business. As some firms do not separate their China- from other Asian businesses, the extent of China engagement is likely to be underestimated. Second, while economic motives were responsible for their presence in China, “cultural citizenship” and family business patriarchs being first or second generations could help explain their affinity to China.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"8 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140445571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chinese Space, Identity, and Presence in Malaysia: Exploring the Yingxiong Haohan Ideal of Wu Masculinity in the Wangkang Festival of Melaka","authors":"David Neo, Sheau-Shi Ngo","doi":"10.1163/24522015-17020003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-17020003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Wangkang Festival has been celebrated for nearly two centuries in Melaka, Malaysia. In 2005, it was recognized as part of the national heritage of Malaysia; and in 2020 garnered global recognition with unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage designation. The festival centers on apprehending evil spirits believed to cause epidemics and chaos, while invoking peace and prosperity. The tradition revolves around the worship of Ong Yah, also known as the “Five Sworn Brothers,” making it a vibrant cultural site to study Melaka’s local Chinese identity through Taoist folk religious practices. This article documents the 2020 festival in the midst of the covid pandemic, observes the notable absence and marginalization of women, explores gender constructions through the notion of wu (武) in Chinese masculinity, particularly through the ideal of yingxiong haohan (英雄好漢), and argues that the Chinese community carves out a Chinese public space, identity and presence in Malaysia within the Wangkang Festival context.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140442086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cold War Elements: a Discussion on the Influence of the Cold War on the Communist Party of Malaya from 1948 to 1989","authors":"K. C. Ho, Shanshan Qian, Siau Chi Joe Liaw, Kean Yew Lee","doi":"10.1163/24522015-17020002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-17020002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Communist Party of Malaya (cpm) evolved under the impact of the Cold War. Considering that the cpm was a left-wing political party that had a significant impact on many areas of Malaysia, this study tries to identify and investigate the causes of the cpm’s inability to win the political fight from 1948 to 1989. Both domestic and internal party issues, along with the Cold War scenario, were a significant component that could not be neglected by the researchers.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140444378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Evolving “Chineseness”: from Politics and Economy to Cultural Heritage","authors":"Sheau-Shi Ngo","doi":"10.1163/24522015-17020001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-17020001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"229 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140443728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hepu Han Tombs by Zhaoming Xiong and Xia Fu (review)","authors":"Francis Allard","doi":"10.1353/asi.2024.a923668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2024.a923668","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Hepu Han Tombs by Zhaoming Xiong and Xia Fu Francis Allard Hepu Han Tombs. Zhaoming Xiong and Xia Fu, translated by Michèle H. S. Demandt. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. xiv + 243 pp., 27 b&w, 200 color illustrations. Hardcover US $110, ISBN 9789811946592; Softcover US $110, ISBN 9789811946622; eBook US $85, ISBN 9789811946608. Located some 12 km from the present-day coast of the Beibu Gulf—Vietnam's \"Gulf of Tonkin\"—in southern China's Guangxi Province, the site of Hepu has received continual attention from archaeologists over the past half century. This book focuses on Hepu's Han Dynasty (206 b.c.e.–c.e. 220) burials, which are presently estimated at numbering over 10,000. Of these, about 1200 have been excavated so far and have yielded tens of thousands of artifacts. Even though the burials are unevenly distributed over a large area of 68 km2, the authors identify Hepu as a single burial ground, \"the biggest and one of the best-preserved Han-period cemeteries ever discovered in China\" (p. vi). Although burials dating to the following Three Kingdoms period (c.e. 200–280) and Jin-Southern Dynasties (c.e. 280–589) have also been found, the authors concentrate on Hepu's rich and plentiful Han Period remains. Beyond the notable scale and wealth of its Han Period funerary landscape, Hepu stands out in another significant way, namely as an active participant in the early Maritime Silk Road. The authors note that Hepu not only became \"the 'flagship' of the Han Dynasty's foreign policy, but also the main port of departure of the Early Maritime Silk Road\" (p. v), an assessment supported by a revealing historical passage (see below), as well as by large numbers of burial goods found at Hepu that either originated or were styled to mimic objects from Southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka, and in some cases regions even further west. Together with its recognized role in early maritime trade networks, Hepu's archaeological remains help explain the attention which it has received nationally, culminating in its 1996 designation as a \"Fourth Batch Key National Heritage Site\" by China's State Council (p. 238). It is worth noting that the present volume is a concise translation of an earlier and fuller account in Chinese on the same topic (Xiong 2018). While historians and archaeologists of China interested in the archaeology of Hepu are likely to consult the more detailed Chinese publication, which includes several lists of objects of nonlocal origin, this English translation offers other scholars interested in maritime trading contacts in Southeast and South Asia an opportunity to learn about China's participation in what were truly extensive exchange networks. Still, one cannot ignore two additional driving forces behind the current promotion of Hepu's archaeological heritage to a broader audience beyond China. The first of these is China's current application for recognition of Hepu's Han tombs, along with the nearby port city of Beihai, as a U","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"63 1","pages":"135-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147921795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digging Deep: A Journey into Southeast Asia’s Past. Charles Higham. Bangkok: River Books, 2021. 256 pp., 226 photographs. Paperback ฿850, ISBN 97886164510586.","authors":"D. O’Reilly","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"61 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79136357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Iron Production Industry in Western Chongqing during the Late Ming Dynasty: A Perspective from Smelting Related Materials","authors":"Yuniu Li, Zhigang Sun, Tian Qiu, Jiujiang Bai, Wann-Sheng Huang","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Four iron smelting related sites were discovered in Zouma Town, western Chongqing, China. Among these sites, two (Luduizi and Tieshazitu) were dated to the end of the Ming Dynasty in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries A.D. and the other two (Gaoluchang and Nianmigou) were dated to the Late Qing Dynasty in the nineteenth century. Large amounts of smelting-related materials were excavated from these sites. Ten metallographic samples collected from excavated slags, a furnace wall, and iron ore were prepared and analyzed. This article reports the first scientific analysis of smelting-related materials in the area. The results provide a preliminary understanding of iron production technology in Chongqing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"1 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79217470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Origin of Cattle in China from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Chong Yu. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. 108 pp., 20 figures, 13 tables. Paperback £31, ISBN: 9781407316871.","authors":"N. Amano","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"22 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75533285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IN MEMORIAM: Terry T. Marsh (25 July 1938 – 30 July 2021)","authors":"Cyler Conrad","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"462 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76332838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}