earliest rock-cut tomb in the kingdom of Liang because it provided only one room for the burial and the offerings. The mural paintings divided this room in two halves, with the murals mainly functioning to delineate the coffin room. Very important is that Miller argues that the murals “enabled the living to act as if the spirit of the deceased were nearby and could view the mural” (p. 208). She also convincingly compares this with the north chamber of the vertical pit chamber of Mawangdui tomb 1, found in Changsha, Hunan province. In another short section in this chapter, she provides a discussion of the murals in royal tombs “after Shiyuan” (p. 210), concluding that the murals of Shiyuan “are a unique window for analyzing the types of decorative painting popular in the courts of the early Western Han” (p. 216). “Of the several industries for which Qi was known, textiles, especially purple textiles, were a major source of income” (p. 217). The special case study on purple textiles of the kingdom of Qi (today in Shandong province) is the last of the six inspiring and thoughtprovoking chapters of this book. By contrasting the three terms zhengse (“correct colors”), jianse 間色 (“(“intermediate colors”), and jianse 姦色 (“false colors”), Miller not only introduces historical clues in written sources, but also looks at the archaeological evidence of the color spectrum used during the Qin and Western Han Dynasty. The Qi kingdom’s workshops belonged to the so-called “Three garment bureau” or sanfuguan, which was most likely the name of the three buildings where silk was made and dyed. Excavations of clay figures from Han tombs and especially a well-preserved purple garment found in a large-scale stave wall tomb at Lingsheng lake in Shandong province, demonstrate the importance of the color purple in this area. The color may have been, as Wang Xu, a famous textile archaeologist has argued, “extracted from marine mollusks” (i.e., the “shellfish purple” dye) (p. 234). Additionally, Miller provides archaeological, historical, geographical, and textual evidence for the possible use of shellfish purple. However, scientific tests that confirm the use of this special type of purple are still missing. In excavation reports of Eastern Zhou tombs three textiles have been described as purple, and to date only four purple textiles have been excavated intact from Western Han tombs. These textiles demonstrate that “only the finest embroidered silks were dyed purple” (p. 236). With a great deal of pleasure, the reviewer welcomes the concluding chapter, a wellstructured summary of the profound research behind Miller’s book. Furthermore, “this study has demonstrated that the early Western Han kings were key patrons of art and played a critical role in the formation of the major genres of Chinese funerary art” (p. 248). In sum, Miller shifts the political and social power from the imperial towards the kingly courts and reads the royal courts as places of innovation by provid
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Himanshu Prabha Ray’s first book on cultural exchange across the Bay of Bengal, entitled The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia (Ray 1994) was a pioneer work. In a time when too many Indian scholars still viewed Southeast Asia as “Greater India,” she carried out a thorough investigation into the then burgeoning field of Southeast Asian archaeology, resulting in a renewed, balanced approach to the “Indianization” of Southeast Asia and the role of Buddhism in this process. The book was an inspiration to many historians of Southeast Asia, including this reviewer. The author then became one of the most prolix writers on matters of exchange between India and Southeast Asia and on the maritime history and archaeology of the Indian Ocean. A quick perusal of the web and my own notes brought up some fifty-five titles to this day that deal with such matters from a variety of angles and formats (articles, book chapters, and many authored and edited books), some fifteen of which were published in the past ten years. The work under review here is her latest single-author, book-form production and again deals with the relationship between India and Southeast Asia. The present book’s agenda, as clearly expressed by its title, is to explore the close relationship between those shrines that can be said to be “coastal” (even if built some distance inland) and the innumerable networks that link them to other such sites in South and Southeast Asia. Nine chapters
{"title":"Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks Across India and Southeast Asia by Himanshu Prabha Ray (review)","authors":"P. Manguin","doi":"10.1353/asi.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Himanshu Prabha Ray’s first book on cultural exchange across the Bay of Bengal, entitled The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia (Ray 1994) was a pioneer work. In a time when too many Indian scholars still viewed Southeast Asia as “Greater India,” she carried out a thorough investigation into the then burgeoning field of Southeast Asian archaeology, resulting in a renewed, balanced approach to the “Indianization” of Southeast Asia and the role of Buddhism in this process. The book was an inspiration to many historians of Southeast Asia, including this reviewer. The author then became one of the most prolix writers on matters of exchange between India and Southeast Asia and on the maritime history and archaeology of the Indian Ocean. A quick perusal of the web and my own notes brought up some fifty-five titles to this day that deal with such matters from a variety of angles and formats (articles, book chapters, and many authored and edited books), some fifteen of which were published in the past ten years. The work under review here is her latest single-author, book-form production and again deals with the relationship between India and Southeast Asia. The present book’s agenda, as clearly expressed by its title, is to explore the close relationship between those shrines that can be said to be “coastal” (even if built some distance inland) and the innumerable networks that link them to other such sites in South and Southeast Asia. Nine chapters","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"3 1","pages":"169 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82790555","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 : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16010006
Huei-ying Kuo
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Pub Date : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16010003
D. Kenley
Centennial commemorations of the May Fourth Movement in Singapore demonstrate how practices of remembrance reinforce but also transcend national and cultural boundaries. Throughout 2019, Singaporeans reflected on the iconoclastic, anti-imperialist, and pro-democracy elements of May Fourth while simultaneously challenging public memories as observed in China. As such, these commemorations shed important light on memory studies, postcoloniality, and Singapore Chinese identity.
{"title":"New Culture Turns One Hundred: A Centennial Reflection on the May Fourth and New Culture Movement in Singapore","authors":"D. Kenley","doi":"10.1163/24522015-16010003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-16010003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Centennial commemorations of the May Fourth Movement in Singapore demonstrate how practices of remembrance reinforce but also transcend national and cultural boundaries. Throughout 2019, Singaporeans reflected on the iconoclastic, anti-imperialist, and pro-democracy elements of May Fourth while simultaneously challenging public memories as observed in China. As such, these commemorations shed important light on memory studies, postcoloniality, and Singapore Chinese identity.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75916220","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 : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16010004
G. Dore
The article argues that Hong Kong is a polity where business elites have been and remain key to maintaining the status quo. The article builds on data and information about advisory committees, functional constituencies pre- and post-1997, and reviews business elites’ support for British advisory politics. Prior to the 1997 handover, advisory politics proved useful to secure the cooperation of the business elites, promote British interests, and induce political participation while simultaneously postponing universal suffrage. The article also discusses Beijing’s bias toward business elites and advisory politics during the 1980s and the Sino-British negotiations, and China’s efforts, between 1997 and 2019, to co-opt business elites to ensure prosperity, stability, and political control on the island. Throughout Hong Kong’s history, business elites have acted as a powerful barrier against democratic development and, consequently, emerged as one of the main reasons why Hong Kong’s political identity remains in jeopardy.
{"title":"Business as Usual? The Role of Business Elites in Hong Kong’s Evolving Political Identity","authors":"G. Dore","doi":"10.1163/24522015-16010004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-16010004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The article argues that Hong Kong is a polity where business elites have been and remain key to maintaining the status quo. The article builds on data and information about advisory committees, functional constituencies pre- and post-1997, and reviews business elites’ support for British advisory politics. Prior to the 1997 handover, advisory politics proved useful to secure the cooperation of the business elites, promote British interests, and induce political participation while simultaneously postponing universal suffrage. The article also discusses Beijing’s bias toward business elites and advisory politics during the 1980s and the Sino-British negotiations, and China’s efforts, between 1997 and 2019, to co-opt business elites to ensure prosperity, stability, and political control on the island. Throughout Hong Kong’s history, business elites have acted as a powerful barrier against democratic development and, consequently, emerged as one of the main reasons why Hong Kong’s political identity remains in jeopardy.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87369831","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 : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16010005
J. Flowers
This article traces Chinese-medicine doctors as an occupational group that played a key role in colonial Australian healthcare. The current narrative of recent history mostly credits prc migrants, beginning from the 1990s and the prc state in the 2000s, with the field’s achievement of professional registration. This established view is shortsighted and distorts the past. Rather, Chinese medicine traveled to Australia with Chinese migrants since the mid-nineteenth century; they brought with them sophisticated business acumen along with medical expertise, as seen in commercialized raw and patent medicines brought from a highly developed pharmaceutical industry in mainland China and Hong Kong. They were competitive with Western-trained doctors, as seen in court documents as well as in newspaper advertisements of the time, and established their status through lineage connections and acupuncture associations before any influence from the prc.
{"title":"Chinese-Medicine Doctors Healing Australians: On the Frontline of Healthcare from the Colonial Period to the Twenty-First Century","authors":"J. Flowers","doi":"10.1163/24522015-16010005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-16010005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article traces Chinese-medicine doctors as an occupational group that played a key role in colonial Australian healthcare. The current narrative of recent history mostly credits prc migrants, beginning from the 1990s and the prc state in the 2000s, with the field’s achievement of professional registration. This established view is shortsighted and distorts the past. Rather, Chinese medicine traveled to Australia with Chinese migrants since the mid-nineteenth century; they brought with them sophisticated business acumen along with medical expertise, as seen in commercialized raw and patent medicines brought from a highly developed pharmaceutical industry in mainland China and Hong Kong. They were competitive with Western-trained doctors, as seen in court documents as well as in newspaper advertisements of the time, and established their status through lineage connections and acupuncture associations before any influence from the prc.","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81778944","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 : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16010002
Jerry P. Dennerline
This article explores the shaping and reshaping of a Chinese community in Malacca, by focusing on issues of learning, faith, and power over several generations under British colonial and postcolonial Malaysian rule. Core social and religious institutions of the translocal kinship and commercial network of 1795 enabled the community to respond creatively to new global challenges. By 1840, a new generation had constructed a different translocal network with Singapore. As migration increased, so did the varieties of translocal experience in Malacca. As political challenges escalated, the community developed a pattern of response, mediation, participation, and integration, enabling community leaders to keep the peace. Subsequent generations of Hakka miners, Fujianese planters, and Hainanese merchants and workers participated with the deeply rooted Baba-Nyonya families in adapting this patterned local response to reform, war, and revolution. This “microhistorical” perspective enables us to explore how the legacies still matter in a rapidly changing new world.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16010001
Huei-ying Kuo, Sydney Van Morgan
{"title":"Introduction: The Question of Chineseness in Colonial and Postcolonial Diasporas","authors":"Huei-ying Kuo, Sydney Van Morgan","doi":"10.1163/24522015-16010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24522015-16010001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72949265","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":"Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, vol. 2C: The Metal Remains in Regional Context ed. by Joyce C. White and Elizabeth G. Hamilton (review)","authors":"S. Halcrow, N. Chang","doi":"10.1353/asi.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"70 1","pages":"462 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77475480","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}
Francis Allard, Bérénice Bellina-Pryce, Julie Field, Michèle H. S. Demandt
{"title":"Editors' Note","authors":"Francis Allard, Bérénice Bellina-Pryce, Julie Field, Michèle H. S. Demandt","doi":"10.1353/asi.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36318,"journal":{"name":"Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives","volume":"107 1","pages":"247 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76075343","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}
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