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From: "Andrew Field" <adfield@BU.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:50 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Conference on Human Development in Asia, COHDA 2013,
Hiroshima, Aug 6-8, 2013
H-ASIA
Jan 26 2013
CFP Conference on Human Development in Asia, COHDA 2013, Hiroshima, Aug
6-8, 2013
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From: Guangyi Li <frankfirepku@gmail.com>
Urgent call for paper
Dear All,
I'm Guangyi Li, PhD candidate of Chinese literature and culture at the
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures of UCLA. I and some scholars
have organized a panel for this year's AAS conference. This panel is
already accepted. Unfortunately, two panelists quit for personal reasons,
and we have to recruit new members to keep our panel on the list. Would you
please take a look at the panel abstract below, consider if you would like
to join, and kindly spread this call for paper to anyone you think may take
part in our panel? Your help is greatly appreciated.
Best,
Guangyi
(Contact: Zhiguang Yin lightwade@gmail.com Guangyi Li
frankfirepku@gmail.com)
*From Empire to Republic: The Making of Modern Chinese Political
Recognition and National Identity*
This panel focuses on the changing discourses on political identity in the
Qing Empire. Bearing an interdisciplinary initiative, we investigate the
formation and the fall of Qing as a multi-ethnic Empire, trying to provide
new perspectives in understanding the historical and intellectual
foundation of modern Chinese discourses on ethnicity and citizenship.
Panelists find it problematic to simplify Qing's rule either as a process
of Sinification or Manchurian colonization. Instead, we propose to
understand Qing's approach of governance as a reflexive process. Qing's
discourses of state-building, governance and its imagination of world-order
were adaptive through its interaction with both different ethnic groups
within China and foreign empires and nations, particularly the Western
colonial powers. By presenting such an interactive process, we also intend
to shed a light on the historical origin of the ethnic issues as well as
the imagination of a national identity in contemporary China. Ang Yang's
work looks at the Qing Emperor's 1912 Abdication Edict and calls attention
to "Mukden Consensus," which he argues is the foundation of the
multi-ethnic empire known as Qing. Qi An's anthropological work
investigates in the similar issue by looking at the triangular relations
between Miao, Manchu and Han migrants in the early Qing. Sam Zhiguang Yin's
paper takes the discussion to another angle and looks at the Qing's attempt
to cooperate with the Western colonialists by translating modern
international law. Guangyi Li's work follows this path and explores how
late Qing Chinese utopians address ethnicity, race, and nation in their
imaginations of an ideal world.
*Yellow Peril or Yellow Revival: Ethnicity, Race and Nation in Late Qing
Chinese Utopianism (1902-1911)*
Guangyi Li
Ph.D. Candidate of Chinese Literature and Culture, Department of Asian
Languages and Cultures, UCLA
This paper explores how late Qing Chinese utopians address ethnicity, race,
and nation in their imaginations of an ideal world. Political utopianism,
through Liang Qichao and other intellectuals' effort, flourished in late
Qing Chinese thought and gave an impetus to the Xinhai Revolution.
Preoccupied with China's predicament in the west-centered world, late Qing
Chinese utopians were often committed to designs of an ideal world order
characterized by China's revival. Such utopian thinking, as this paper
reveals, was heavily conditioned by their diverse ideas about ethnicity
(Han, Manchu, Mongolian, etc.), race (yellow, white, black, brown, and so
forth), and nation (ethno-nation and nation-state). This paper begins with
a brief review of the ethnic and racial issues that plagued the Qing Empire
since its foundation, particularly after the Opium Wars. In the major part,
key texts, such as *Book of Great Unity *(1902) and *New Era* (1908), are
placed under critical scrutiny. Special attention is paid to the resistance
to and/or reconstruction of western racism and nationalism, as well as
Japan's intermediary role.
*Legislating the Self: The Concept of Modern Individual and its Spread via
the Translaiton of Modern International Law in the 19th Century China*
Dr. Zhiguang Yin
Assistant Professor, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
This paper will elaborate that the idea of the modern individual, which
suggests an indivisible subject of legal and economic rights and social
responsibilities, first appears in the Chinese context in the translation
of modern international law in 1864. It exists as an analytical category in
various legal and political writings and translations. Through the
political and intellectual interaction between China and the West,
especially Europe, the idea of the individual generally acquires a richer
semantic connotation and forms an equivalent with the Chinese word "*geren*"
roughly in 1901. My theoretical intention is also to demonstrate that it is
not possible to truly understand the dynamic of the construction of the
modern individual without contextualizing it in the intellectual
introduction and translation of modern West political concepts for the
purpose of nation-building and modern social construction. Although modern
Western political concepts especially ideas such as state sovereignty,
international law and other related notions had already been introduced in
China through either Western missionaries or merchants and diplomats in the
mid-19th century, the systematic efforts of learning and conceptualizing
these ideas among intellectuals began roughly around 1898. In order to
understand the reception of individualism in China one must discuss the
attempt to construct modern individual by revolutionary intellectuals and
reformists.
--
Li Guangyi
PhD Student
Asian Languages and Cultures
UCLA
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
e-mail: frankfire@ucla.edu
http://www.chinesescifi.org
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