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Subject: H-ASIA: CONF Nonstate Actors in Monsoon Asia 1760-1840, Taipei, Nov
28-30, 2011
> H-ASIA
> November 7, 2011
>
> Conference: "Nonstate Actors in Monsoon Asia, 1760-1840, Taiwan,
> November 28-30, 2011
> *****************************************************************
> From: Atsushi Ota <ota@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
>
> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "NON-STATE ACTORS IN THE TRANSITION PERIOD IN
> MONSOON ASIA, 1760-1840"
>
> Date: November 28-30, 2011
> Location: Center for Asia Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), Academia Sinica,
> Taipei
>
> Organizers: CAPAS, National Tsing Hua University, Leiden University,
> Seinan Gakuin University, and also funded by the Taiwan National Science
> Council
>
> Center for Asia Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica, invites you to join
> this conference to discuss non-state actors and their relationship with
> states in Monsoon Asia in the period of 1760-1840.
>
> Non-state actors are taken here as groups of people, local or foreign, who
> exerted certain pressures or influence on society and state from outside
> the state organization, such as influential traders' groups, migrants,
> local elite, agents like Chinese tax-farmers, secret societies, and
> anti-establishment groups like so-called pirates and gangsters. During the
> period in question non-state actors played an important role as the
> central control of the indigenous states and European trade companies
> declined, and the emerging early colonial states were still developing new
> policies.
>
> Monsoon Asia also experienced fundamental "changes of regime" in this
> period. "Proto-nation states" were established in Burma, Thailand, and
> Vietnam and around the turn of the century. British, Dutch, and Spanish
> colonial states were taking shape in India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, the
> Indonesian Archipelago, and the Philippine Islands.
>
> Under the new states, the non-state actors held out remarkably well in
> many fields. Chinese and Bugis traders were still important players in
> Sino-Southeast Asian trade and intra-Southeast Asian trade until around
> 1840. Chinese tax-farmers continued to support the understaffed
> administrations of the new colonial states. Local elites and gangsters,
> often retaining their power base, maintained a strong influence on local
> commerce and even state policy in many states.
>
> This conference focuses on the non-state actors, first because we attempt
> to overcome the previous studies, which have tended either to write the
> histories of British, Dutch, or Spanish imperialism, or to construct a
> national history of each present-day independent state separately. An
> examination of the roles of non-state actors will show the cross-bordering
> dynamism of history. Second, the roles of non-state actors in this period
> deserve scholarly examination, as they were all responding in one way or
> another to the emergence of modernity and globalization. The economic
> expansion and the rise of the mass-consumption society in China, the
> United States, and northwest Europe affected the economy of Monsoon Asia,
> and incorporated it in the global trade link. European powers, among
> others British and Dutch, introduced free trade in Adam Smith style and
> territorial colony management in neo-mercantilist style. They now appeared
> in the arena with still insecure and experimenting "modern"
> administrations to put these ideas into practice. Non-state actors swiftly
> responded to this situation, and they played an important role in the
> early colonial states.
>
> Non-state actors gradually lost their niches as the colonial states later
> attempted to replace them with state officials or those under strong state
> control, in order to impersonalize their system and thereby to accomplish
> "modern" and effective administration. Nevertheless, in the transition
> period in question, they contributed to the bridging of changing state
> systems. An examination of the roles of non-state actors and their
> relationship with states in this transition period will provide new
> insights into our understanding of the Asian modernization and
> globalization.
>
> PROGRAM
>
> DAY 1 November 28, 2011 (Mon)
> 8:30-9:00 Registration
> 9:00-10:40 Opening Session
> -Welcome Speech (1), Cheng-Yi Lin (CAPAS)
> -Welcome Speech (2), Chiu Hsin-Hui (National Tsing Hua University)
> -Opening Speech, Chen Kuo-tung (Institute of History and Philology,
> Academia Sinica)
> -Keynote Speech:
> "Self-defeating Interventions: Dutch, French and English Master
> Plans for the Indonesian Archipelago during the Age of
> Revolution," Prof. Leonard Blusse (Leiden University)
>
> 10:55-12:25 Session I Changing Social Order
> - Class conflict in the eve of the early colonial encounter: A study
> into the continuities and discontinuities of the class relations in
> the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries in Sri Lanka, Nirmal
> Dewasiri (Colombo University)
> - Struggle for Social Order: Crime and Law Enforcement in Eighteenth-
> Century Ommelanden of Batavia, Bondang Kaminoyoso (University of
> Indonesia)
> - Emergence of Sugar-Producing Society in East Java: The Role of
> Local Agents, Sri Margana (Gajah Mada University)
>
> 13:30-15:00 Session II Trade and Its Impacts
> - "External Factor in Internal Change": European Trade and
> Socio-Economic Transformation in Seventeenth and Eighteenth
> Century Vietnam, Huan An-Tuan (Hanoi University)
> - Smuggling and the Formation of the Modern State in the Nineteenth
> Century: From the Japanese Case, Ryuto Shimada (Seinan Gakuin
> University)
> - Chinese Tea and the Dutch Social Life of the Modern Period, Liu
> Yong (Xiamen University)
>
> 15:15-16:45 Session III Maritime Actors and States
> - Piracy and State-Formation on the South-West Coast of India in the
> Eighteenth Century, Binu John Mailaparambil (Bielefeld
> University)
> - Maritime Radicalism: Piracy and Early Colonial State Formation in
> the Arabian Sea, Ghulam Nadri (Georgia State University)
> - Migration, Violence, and State: Raja Akil and Sea People in West
> Kalimantan, c. 1780-1850, Atsushi Ota (CAPAS)
>
> DAY 2 November 29, 2011 (Tue)
> 9:30-10:40 Session IV Changing Dutch East India Company (VOC) and
> Its Remnant
> - The erosion of the VOC. The VOC and its search for alternatives to
> decline (1740-1796), Chris Nierstrasz (University of Warwick)
> - Continuing networks and changing alliances: former VOC employees and
> Burghers in Sri Lanka during the contraction of the Dutch Empire in Asia,
> 1796 ?1815, Alicia Schrikker (Leiden University)
>
> 10:55-12:05 Session V Overseas Communities
> -Chinese social-cultural associations and financing capacities in
> Indonesia, 19th-20th century, Kwee Hui Kian (Toronto University)
> - The Chinese seamen of the English East India Company, 1780s-1833,
> Po-Ching Yu (National Tsing-Hua university)
>
> 13:00 Short Tour to Taipei City
>
> DAY 3 November 30, 2011 (Wed)
> 9:00-10:30 Session VI Knowledge and Belief
> - Indigenous Response to Western Science: Knowledge and Learning in
> Northern India (1750-1850), Anjana Singh (London School of
> Economics)
> - Non-state Agents in Siamese Diplomacy, ca.1760s - ca.1850s, Bhawan
> Ruangsilp (Chulalongkorn University)
> - Development of Mazu Worship in Tainan in the seventeenth to
> nineteenth centuries, Chu Hong-yuan (Institute of Modern History,
> Academia Sinica)
>
> 10:45-11:45 Session VII General Discussion
>
> 11:45 Closing Remark, Prof. Cheng-Yi Lin (CAPAS)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> For any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Atsushi Ota
> Conference coordinator
> ------------------
> Atsushi Ota, Ph.D.
> Assistant Research Fellow
>
> Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies
> RCHSS, Academia Sinica
> 128 Academia Road, Section 2
> Nangang, 115 Taipei, Taiwan
>
> Tel: +886-(0)2-2652-3359
> E-mail: ota@gate.sinica.edu.tw
> Website: http://www.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/organization/t_05.htm
> http://www.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/capas/doc/researcher/researcher02.htm
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