Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-06-15DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2225440
Anh Sy Huy Le
{"title":"From subjects to subversives: Chinese migrants and the evolution of the French colonial surveillance regime in Sài Gòn-Chợ Lớn, 1874-1930","authors":"Anh Sy Huy Le","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2225440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2225440","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1874, the French colonial state introduced an extensive regime of ethnic surveillance in the port cities of Sài Gòn-Chợ Lớn. This pioneering system in Vietnam relied on an innovative anthropometric science to target Chinese migrants, whose mobile networks posed ongoing concerns for the imperial authority. This article explores the strategies employed by Chinese migrants to navigate the enforced ethnic classifications and regulations imposed by the colonial administration, exploiting the uncertain boundaries between subjects, foreigners, and citizens. It argues that Chinese subversions emerged through a dynamic interplay with the evolving French bureaucratic practices, shaped by the coexistence of two overlapping imperial systems: a decentralized Chinese empire and a French colonial state aiming to consolidate its rule in Cochinchina. The article reveals that French colonial surveillance was not a one-sided, rigid process of panoptic imperial dominance, but rather a complex landscape characterized by negotiated coexistence, mutual collaborations, and acts of resistance.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":"24 1","pages":"544 - 570"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42121976","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}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2220280
Milad Bagi
{"title":"Same culture but different governments: attitudes toward abortion among Kurdish people in Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan","authors":"Milad Bagi","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2220280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2220280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45363911","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}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-06-03DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2220276
John Gaingamlung Gangmei
{"title":"Deathscapes in Borderland city negotiation between the believed primordiality of death rituals and social change among the Rongmei Naga tribe of Northeast India","authors":"John Gaingamlung Gangmei","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2220276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2220276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59809358","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}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2216881
Clay Eaton
{"title":"Strategic races: understanding racial categories in Japanese-occupied Singapore","authors":"Clay Eaton","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2216881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2216881","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines Japanese policies toward different races (minzoku) in Singapore during the Second World War. These policies, which victimized the Chinese community and appeared to favor others such as the Malay and Indian communities, fostered inter-racial resentments that would persist long after the war. Drawing on internal occupation guidelines produced by the Japanese state and the accounts of the administrators who implemented them, this paper shows that the treatment of the Chinese community was in fact a direct result of the perceived significance of these groups to the success or failure of Japan’s wartime imperial project in Southeast Asia. Groups whose importance the Japanese initially dismissed, however, had greater freedom to chart their own destinies and demand Japan live up to its promise of an “Asia for Asians” as the war progressed.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":"24 1","pages":"505 - 522"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42556816","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}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2190875
Aurore Dumont
{"title":"Sacred land cairns and shamanic burial sites on the Sino-Russo-Mongolian borderlands","authors":"Aurore Dumont","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2190875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2190875","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49240920","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}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2192906
Yifan Cai
{"title":"Popularizing racial discourse: the visual and verbal representation of Africans in Chinese social media","authors":"Yifan Cai","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2192906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2192906","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The rise of social media has enabled Chinese migrants in the global south to participate in the production of racial knowledge from grassroots perspectives, adding complexity and dynamism to the racial discourse that was dominated by political and intellectual elites historically. This study investigates anti-black racial discourse on the popular short-video and live-streaming app in China, Kuaishou, where many Africa-based vloggers share their daily life experiences. This study examines the visual and verbal representation of Africans, focusing on 50 short videos posted by Africa-based Chinese and the comments made on them. The analysis shows that the racialization of Africans on Kuaishou is a multilayered process shaped by the intersection of race with other dimensions of identity, including class, gender, and nationality. This paper further illuminates the cultural embeddedness of these thoughts in a South-South setting, and discusses the impacts of different historical-ideological resources on racial thinking in the Chinese context.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":"24 1","pages":"369 - 389"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46736226","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}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-03-05DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2187344
Ruochen Bo
{"title":"A tale of vengeance and love, signifying much more:","authors":"Ruochen Bo","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2187344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2187344","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":"24 1","pages":"639 - 641"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46818266","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}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-02-26DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2182275
Derhasat Narzary, L. Lal
{"title":"The Eastern gate: war and peace in Nagaland, Manipur and India’s far East","authors":"Derhasat Narzary, L. Lal","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2182275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2182275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41896956","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}