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Japan and China Rivalry in Building an Asian Community

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N-AziaSince the economic crisis hit East Asia in 1997, East Asian states have begun to make efforts to build an East Asian community. In 1997 the Northeast Asian states of Korea, Japan, and China joined the ASEAN meeting and created ASEAN+3 framework. These thirteen countries decided to establish an East Asian Vision Group(EAVG) in 1998 and an East Asian Study Group(EASG) in 2001. With the two reports of these groups, the region has Continue reading →

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Korean Heritage Language Policy in Hawaii’s High Schools

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HAWAII-HIGH-SCHOOLOther than the policy on Native American languages, there are very few policies in the U.S. that deal with the maintenance and development of languages other than English (Christian, 1999). The general attitude of the U.S. toward maintenance of heritage languages (HLs) is negative and supports rapid assimilation into English (Duesen-Scholl, Continue reading →

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The Study of Seimei Shrine

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Seimei ShrineResearch on religions in Japan has focused mainly on Shintoism, Buddhism and Christianity with other minor religions defined under the broad category of folk religion. As current research has not adequately addressed the issue of minor religions in Japan, my interests lie in examining how these minor religions construct their identity against mainstream ideas of religion in contemporary society. Continue reading →

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Ethnic Boundary Maintenance in Reform-Era China

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CinaModern state-building has often involved the incorporation of peripheral peoples who are ethnically distinct from the state’s dominant group. Some of these peripheral groups succumb by assimilating, while others contest the legitimacy of the state’s claim and violently resist integration. Others are able to reach some sort of modus vivendi by negotiating the extent of their autonomy and self-governance.

Why some groups follow one path and not another, however, seems not to have a very straightforward relationship with initial political, Continue reading →

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Continuity and Change within the Orang Laut of Indonesia

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E-learningAsiaBuilding on the ethnographic and historical studies of R.H. Barnes and Cynthia Chou, and operating within the larger context of the problematics of nationhood, national development, and the creation of a “national identity,” this paper focuses on the dynamics of continuity and change as experienced by two groups of Orang Laut (sea nomads) within the Indonesian State. While both groups are for the most part similar in tradition and culture, their encounters with global modernizing processes and the integrative forces of the nation-state are mostly divergent. Continue reading →

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Vietnam War Memories and the Vietnam-American reconciliation process

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vietnam-war1Memory refers to recollection of personal past experiences. However, memory works forward as well as backward; the past is shaped by the future as much as the future us shaped by the past. The politics of memory reflects that. The struggles in post-war Vietnamese society over the losses and trauma of the war can consider another war-and-reconstruct process. My paper seeks to explore the connotation of memory and Continue reading →

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Taiwan: Ilha Formosa

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Ilha FormosaAt the birth pangs of delivering a democratic society and at the crossroad of transforming “the island’s de facto independence into de jure statehood” (Jonathan Manthorpe, Forbidden Nation 258), Taiwan is now a “global political hot spot” whose national and ethnic identities have “unwelcome implications for the PRC’s national identity and ethnic politics” (Melissa J. Brown, Is Taiwan Chinese? 2). Continue reading →

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Livelihood Strategies of Forced Migrant Youth at the Thai-Burma Border

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Thai-BurmaThe presence of Burmese forced migrants in and around refugee camps at the Thai-Burma border is one of the longest protracted refugee situations worldwide. Yet, in contrast to refugee situations in other parts of the world, anthropological research focusing on the Burmese in Thailand is scarce. Continue reading →

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Indigeneity in Social movement in Okinawa

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okinawaDo Okinawans have the right for the self-determination? Who is the sovereign over the land, sky, and ocean in Okinawa? Okinawa has never given up their struggles to acquire the fundamental “human rights” that were disregarded and ignored from time to time under the name of “Japan-US peace treaty which caused colonial relationship of Okinawa with Japan under U.S. Continue reading →

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The Transnational Marriage Market in Taiwan

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taigeirlIn the past decade Taiwan has seen a booming business in brokering foreign brides from Southeast Asia, mainly Vietnam, and China to Taiwanese men. A relatively recent development which began in 2002, is the importation of brides from Eastern Europe, mainly from Ukraine and Russia.

This new direction challenged the stereotypical images of transnational Continue reading →

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