"Chinese Identities and Inter-Ethnic Coexistence and Cooperation in Southeast Asia"
Date： July 4(Fri) - 5(Sat)，2008
Venue： Room No. 207 on the 2nd floor of East building
Co-organizer：
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation,
with Dr. Nobuhiro Aizawa of the Institute of Developing Economies as chief liaison
【Summary】
This workshop aims to historicize the lived experience of "being Chinese" in Southeast Asia by looking at how economic, political, cultural, and ideational processes have contributed to defining, producing, and reworking "Chineseness" in various colonial and national arenas in Southeast Asia over time. "Chinese" everyday life, ascription, and self-identification in Southeast Asia have been shapedby transnational migration, by colonial and national states and their projects of modernity, by global capitalism, and by discourses of "Chineseness." The historically problematic status of the Chinese-- variously defined as economically dominant, political subversive, and culturally different--has been a source of ethnic tensions, principally expressed through economic nationalism, political disenfranchisement, assimilation-integration debates and campaigns, and (as in the case of Indonesia) riots and outright violence. Yet "Chinese" identities have been far more complex, multiple, and protean than is presupposed by either scholarship or public policy or popular imagination. With the rise of China and East Asian (both Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia) regional growth and integration, "Chineseness" has been reconfigured in line with changes in state policy, the popularity and impact of "overseas Chinese" studies, and the vicissitudes of globalization. Our aim is to highlight, through a focus on Indonesian Chinese in comparative regional perspective, the ongoing reworkings and negotiations of "Chineseness" and the challenges they pose for inter-ethnic coexistence and cooperation in Southeast Asia.
【Program】
DAY 1:July 4 (Friday)
13:00－13:15: Opening Remarks
Professor Kosuke Mizuno, Director, CSEAS
13:30-15:30
Session I: Networks and Localities
Peter Post, (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation) Peranakan
Elite Family Networks and Southeast Asia's Indigenous Royalty: Status,
Modernity, and Identity
Tatsuki Kataoka (ASAFAS), The Baba Culture in Thailand
15:45-17:45
Session II: Claiming Citizenship
Elizabeth Chandra (Keio), The New Indigenes: Chinese-Indonesians and the
2006 Citizenship Law
Caroline Hau (CSEAS), Blood, Land, and Conversion: The Politics of
Belonging in Jose Angliongto’s The Sultanate
DAY 2:July 5 (Saturday)
10:00-12:00
Session III: State and Chinese
Ay Mey Lie (Amsterdam), Ethnic Chinese in the Indonesian Armed Forces:
Identification and Participation in Historical Perspective
Nobuhiro Aizawa (IDE-JETRO), Delivering Citizenship: DEPDAGRI and the
Chinese in the 1980s
13:00-15:00
Session IV: Limits of Representation
Nobuto Yamamoto (Keio), Clandestine Words: Persbreidelordinnantie in the
1930s Indies
Junko Koizumi (CSEAS), Beyond the Assimilation-Sinicization Framework:
Studies of the Chinese Society in Thailand Reconsidered from Historical
and Local Perspectives
15:15- 17:15
Session V: Interrogating Identities
Yumi Kitamura (CSEAS), Reconstructing Indonesian-Chinese Cultural
Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Thung Ju Lan (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia, CSEAS Visiting
Research Fellow), The Search for Chinese Identity and Culture among
Chinese Indonesians during the Post –Suharto Era
Funding for the workshop was provided by CSEAS and the G-COE Program