{"title":"Animal Classification in Central China: From the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age by Ningning Dong (review)","authors":"Yue You","doi":"10.1353/asi.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"125 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80153865","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}
Ganbold Ankhsanaa, Enkhbayar Mijiddorj, B. Davaatseren, W. Taylor
Despite playing a key role in the history and prehistory of human societies in eastern Eurasia, the archaeological record of eastern Mongolia – particularly its rich tradition of rock art and petroglyphs – has been poorly integrated into western archaeological literature. We summarize a large body of recent scholarship from Mongolia’s three eastern provinces, Khentii, Sukhbaatar, and Dornod, to identify evidence of cultural activity in the region stretching from the Palaeolithic through the historic era. Rock art imagery from Eastern Mongolia reveals key insights into the region’s under-investigated archaeological record, including the co-occurrence of humans with megafauna such as the wooly rhinocerous and mammoth during the last Ice Age, occupation of the region by pre-pastoral cultures during the Holocene, and important pulses of activity associated with early pastoral cultures and empires during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Future analysis of these sites promises to help us understand the murkiest chapters in the region’s past.
{"title":"Rock Art and Early Cultural Dynamics in Eastern Mongolia","authors":"Ganbold Ankhsanaa, Enkhbayar Mijiddorj, B. Davaatseren, W. Taylor","doi":"10.1353/asi.2022.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2022.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Despite playing a key role in the history and prehistory of human societies in eastern Eurasia, the archaeological record of eastern Mongolia – particularly its rich tradition of rock art and petroglyphs – has been poorly integrated into western archaeological literature. We summarize a large body of recent scholarship from Mongolia’s three eastern provinces, Khentii, Sukhbaatar, and Dornod, to identify evidence of cultural activity in the region stretching from the Palaeolithic through the historic era. Rock art imagery from Eastern Mongolia reveals key insights into the region’s under-investigated archaeological record, including the co-occurrence of humans with megafauna such as the wooly rhinocerous and mammoth during the last Ice Age, occupation of the region by pre-pastoral cultures during the Holocene, and important pulses of activity associated with early pastoral cultures and empires during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Future analysis of these sites promises to help us understand the murkiest chapters in the region’s past.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"19 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87523251","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":"Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity by Pratik Chakrabarti (review)","authors":"J. Lukács","doi":"10.1353/asi.2022.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2022.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"1 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77013194","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 Origins of the Civilisation of Angkor, Volume Seven: The Excavation of Non Ban Jak ed. by C.F.W. Higham and A. Kijngam (review)","authors":"Carmen Sarjeant","doi":"10.1353/asi.2022.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2022.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"44 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80665189","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}
M. Horrocks, A. Brown, John L. Brown, B. Presswell
The study of Māori agriculture in New Zealand is hindered by lack of direct evidence in the form of plant remains and on Auckland Isthmus also by lack of excavation sites due to extensive urbanization. Recent demolition and earthworks for the construction of an apartment complex at Newmarket on the isthmus exposed a Māori shell midden. The midden was analysed for plant (pollen, phytoliths, and starch) and parasite microfossils to shed light on Māori activity on the isthmus. The plant microfossil and 14C results show large scale landscape disturbance by people and the discovery of pollen from the Māori-introduced cultigens Colocasia esculenta (taro), Cordyline cf. fruticosa (tī pore), and possibly Broussonetia papyrifera (paper mulberry) demonstrates agricultural activity. In addition, phytoliths of B. papyrifera and starch and xylem of cf. C. esculenta and cf. Ipomoea batatas (kūmara, sweet potato) were identified. The parasitological analysis identified egg packets of Dipylidium caninum, a dog parasite that would have adversely affected dogs and people on the isthmus. These microfossil types and their affinities are described in detail and discussed with reference to archaeological contexts elsewhere in New Zealand and the wider Pacific Island region, reviewing the locations and types of both macro- and microfossils of these cultigens and parasites previously reported in the Pacific Islands. Given the highly variable production and preservation of different organic tissues, the study also highlights the value of combining the three different types of analyses for the study of ancient human activity, in this case providing evidence of four of the six Māori-introduced cultigens and a dog parasite from a single midden.
{"title":"A Plant and Parasite Record of a Midden on Auckland Isthmus, New Zealand, Reveals Large Scale Landscape Disturbance, Māori-introduced Cultigens, and Helminthiasis","authors":"M. Horrocks, A. Brown, John L. Brown, B. Presswell","doi":"10.1353/asi.2022.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2022.0036","url":null,"abstract":"The study of Māori agriculture in New Zealand is hindered by lack of direct evidence in the form of plant remains and on Auckland Isthmus also by lack of excavation sites due to extensive urbanization. Recent demolition and earthworks for the construction of an apartment complex at Newmarket on the isthmus exposed a Māori shell midden. The midden was analysed for plant (pollen, phytoliths, and starch) and parasite microfossils to shed light on Māori activity on the isthmus. The plant microfossil and 14C results show large scale landscape disturbance by people and the discovery of pollen from the Māori-introduced cultigens Colocasia esculenta (taro), Cordyline cf. fruticosa (tī pore), and possibly Broussonetia papyrifera (paper mulberry) demonstrates agricultural activity. In addition, phytoliths of B. papyrifera and starch and xylem of cf. C. esculenta and cf. Ipomoea batatas (kūmara, sweet potato) were identified. The parasitological analysis identified egg packets of Dipylidium caninum, a dog parasite that would have adversely affected dogs and people on the isthmus. These microfossil types and their affinities are described in detail and discussed with reference to archaeological contexts elsewhere in New Zealand and the wider Pacific Island region, reviewing the locations and types of both macro- and microfossils of these cultigens and parasites previously reported in the Pacific Islands. Given the highly variable production and preservation of different organic tissues, the study also highlights the value of combining the three different types of analyses for the study of ancient human activity, in this case providing evidence of four of the six Māori-introduced cultigens and a dog parasite from a single midden.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"12 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85354764","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}
The media regularly report news concerning the restitution of cultural treasures by museums, with current topics including the transfer in the near future of the Benin bronzes that are held in the BritishMuseum to Nigeria and the return of art works of questionable provenance by the National Gallery of Australia to India. These relatively recent instances were preceded by high profile cases concerning thereturnbyvariouscountries, museums, and individuals of items looted by the Nazis; some of these restitutions occurred after the adoption of Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art at the Washington Conference of 1998. Theseprincipleswerenotable in recommending national processes for the implementation of restitutions, particularly in suggesting alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for resolving ownership issues. It is such complex issues surrounding restitution, object histories, and questions of ownership, mainly in the context of western institutions seeking to decolonize their collections, that are discussed and documented by the various authors in the 2021 publication Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution, which is edited by Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah. This is the first book entirely devoted to object restitution to Southeast Asia. The contributors provide complementary perspectives as they are museum professionals and scholars from both Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia, as well as Europe, North America, and Australia.
{"title":"Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution ed. by Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah (review)","authors":"P. Swart","doi":"10.1353/asi.2022.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2022.0030","url":null,"abstract":"The media regularly report news concerning the restitution of cultural treasures by museums, with current topics including the transfer in the near future of the Benin bronzes that are held in the BritishMuseum to Nigeria and the return of art works of questionable provenance by the National Gallery of Australia to India. These relatively recent instances were preceded by high profile cases concerning thereturnbyvariouscountries, museums, and individuals of items looted by the Nazis; some of these restitutions occurred after the adoption of Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art at the Washington Conference of 1998. Theseprincipleswerenotable in recommending national processes for the implementation of restitutions, particularly in suggesting alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for resolving ownership issues. It is such complex issues surrounding restitution, object histories, and questions of ownership, mainly in the context of western institutions seeking to decolonize their collections, that are discussed and documented by the various authors in the 2021 publication Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution, which is edited by Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah. This is the first book entirely devoted to object restitution to Southeast Asia. The contributors provide complementary perspectives as they are museum professionals and scholars from both Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia, as well as Europe, North America, and Australia.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"5 1","pages":"368 - 370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89602340","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}
Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16020001
Henry Ren Jie Chong
{"title":"Introduction: The Chinese in the Malay Peninsula","authors":"Henry Ren Jie Chong","doi":"10.1163/24522015-16020001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-16020001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84266649","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}
Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16020005
Sze-Chieh Ng
This article discusses the motivations that led Malayan women to join and fight for the Malayan Communist Party (mcp) via memoirs by the survivors as well as interviews conducted with them. While male mcp members tend to emphasize the glory and righteousness of the Party’s struggle by portraying themselves as willing but passive participants, memoirs of female Party members instead reveal their reasons for becoming fighters to be largely circumstantial. Their reminiscences also tend to be more introspective when recounting their past as a communist guerrilla but were largely unapologetic for their past actions. At the same time, like their male comrades, these women were staunch supporters of the Marxist cause, and some had even worked their way up to leadership positions. Nevertheless, they rarely identify themselves as Marxists, preferring to see themselves as nationalists fighting to establish a just and progressive Malayan nation.
{"title":"Women Guerrillas in the Malayan Communist Insurgency","authors":"Sze-Chieh Ng","doi":"10.1163/24522015-16020005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-16020005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article discusses the motivations that led Malayan women to join and fight for the Malayan Communist Party (mcp) via memoirs by the survivors as well as interviews conducted with them. While male mcp members tend to emphasize the glory and righteousness of the Party’s struggle by portraying themselves as willing but passive participants, memoirs of female Party members instead reveal their reasons for becoming fighters to be largely circumstantial. Their reminiscences also tend to be more introspective when recounting their past as a communist guerrilla but were largely unapologetic for their past actions. At the same time, like their male comrades, these women were staunch supporters of the Marxist cause, and some had even worked their way up to leadership positions. Nevertheless, they rarely identify themselves as Marxists, preferring to see themselves as nationalists fighting to establish a just and progressive Malayan nation.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77188789","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}
Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16020004
Jesrina Ann Xavier, Gan Khai Siong, Lee Kean Yew, Nan Jiang, P. N. Alagappar
Malaysian Chinese family businesses have been dynamic in adapting to economic and political changes, given the challenges where policies have favored larger local ethnic groups. This study aims to explore the importance of Malaysian guanxi in nurturing business growth, while investigating the intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic business networks that are tapped by Malaysian Chinese family businesses through generational change. As this study investigates the history of Malaysian Chinese business, it is only apt that the case study method is utilized to identify the role of guanxi in business growth. Data for this study was collected through in-depth interviews with the successors of eight family businesses. Secondary data were collected in two folds for data triangulation. Findings suggest that Malaysian guanxi is crucial especially when the owners intend to grow the business as generations change. Of the eight cases, six cases presented the importance of Malaysian guanxi in business growth through generational change. Although there were two cases suggesting that guanxi could be insignificant in the long run, it is not denied that the cultivation of guanxi by the predecessor remains important to this day. The value of this study is seen in the importance of passing down guanxi through succession while fostering a wider inter-ethnic business network to achieve business growth.
{"title":"Fostering Business Growth through Generational Change: Is Guanxi Still Important?","authors":"Jesrina Ann Xavier, Gan Khai Siong, Lee Kean Yew, Nan Jiang, P. N. Alagappar","doi":"10.1163/24522015-16020004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-16020004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Malaysian Chinese family businesses have been dynamic in adapting to economic and political changes, given the challenges where policies have favored larger local ethnic groups. This study aims to explore the importance of Malaysian guanxi in nurturing business growth, while investigating the intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic business networks that are tapped by Malaysian Chinese family businesses through generational change. As this study investigates the history of Malaysian Chinese business, it is only apt that the case study method is utilized to identify the role of guanxi in business growth. Data for this study was collected through in-depth interviews with the successors of eight family businesses. Secondary data were collected in two folds for data triangulation. Findings suggest that Malaysian guanxi is crucial especially when the owners intend to grow the business as generations change. Of the eight cases, six cases presented the importance of Malaysian guanxi in business growth through generational change. Although there were two cases suggesting that guanxi could be insignificant in the long run, it is not denied that the cultivation of guanxi by the predecessor remains important to this day. The value of this study is seen in the importance of passing down guanxi through succession while fostering a wider inter-ethnic business network to achieve business growth.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83349260","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}
Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16020002
Miau Ing Tan
Tanjong Piandang is a Chinese fishing village in Krian, Perak, Malaysia. It first appeared in Anderson’s work in 1824 as a favorite resort for pirates. The people in Tanjong Piandang had the reputation of being a lawless and turbulent lot, and the British colonial government tried to demolish the settlement twice by burning it down after riots. Each time, villagers gathered together and rebuilt their houses. This paper investigates how the colonial government tried to maintain law and order in this space, and the local resistance that attempted, though ultimately failed, to keep the colonial power out their village. Most of the studies on the grassroots resistance against British rule in Malaya are concentrated on the local Malay communities, not on the Chinese who are considered as a migrant community. Therefore, Tanjong Piandang is a good case study of Chinese resistance against the British.
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