The Fantasy Garden in East Asian Tradition: A Case Study of a Garden Record in Seo Yugu’s Treatises on Rural Living

This chapter addresses the cultural politics, history and revival of Vietnamese court orchestras, which were first established at the beginning of the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1945). Based on fieldwork in the city of Hue, it considers the decolonizing processes that have enabled Vietnamese court orchestras to take their place alongside other East Asian court orchestras as a display of national identity in the global community of nations. The metaphor of ‘orchestrating the nation’ is used to refer to the ways in which Vietnamese orchestras have been harnessed for sociopolitical ends in several historical periods. Court orchestras as heritage have recourse to a generic, precolonial past, yet they are not entirely uncoupled from local roots. Through a case-study of the revival of the Nam Giao Sacrifice, a ritual for ‘venerating heaven’, the chapter addresses the dynamics of interaction and exchange between staged performances of national heritage and local Buddhist and ancestor worship rituals. It argues that with growing concern about global climate change, the spiritual and ecological resonances of the Nam Giao Sacrifice have provided opportunities for the Party-state to reassert its position as the supreme guardian of the nation and its people.

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Chinese Lottery Business and Korea, 1898–1909: The Cantonese Company Tongshuntai, and East Asian Trade Networks (晩淸彩票業與朝鮮,1898–1909：廣幫華商同順泰號和東亞貿易網絡)

Translocal Chinese East Asian Perspectives ◽

10.1163/24522015-01101008 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 150-181 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jin-A Kang (姜抮亞)

Keyword(s):

East Asian ◽

Business Practices ◽

Trade Networks ◽

Modern Chinese ◽

Korean Nationalism

This paper investigates Chinese-managed lottery businesses and their circulation from China into Korea. It focuses on the case of the business practices and marketing of the Cantonese company Tongshuntai, a foremost representative of Chinese capital in Korea. Through the case study of the lottery, East Asian trade networks can be understood as a kind of network circulating culture and information across the region. In 1899, the first modern Chinese lottery was issued in Shanghai. Cantonese merchants imported the Chinese lottery and broadly advertised lotteries in the newspaper in Seoul. Korea and China showed the same pattern in lottery business from the time of its rise to its demise. In 1909, there were strong regulations against lottery business both in China and Korea simultaneously. The force leading to the termination of lotteries in China was the reformative power that aimed to modernize China. In Korea, however, impetus to stop lotteries came from Korean nationalism as well as Japanese imperialist authority. 本文以廣幫華商同順泰號的營業活動爲例，探討20世紀初中國彩票在韓國的流通和華商的作用，進而討論20世紀初東亞貿易網絡的文化性功能。在1899年廣濟剬司得到官方批准，在上海創辦了江南義賑彩票，此後中國近代性彩票業眞正開始。在韓華商在江南彩票開始的當年已進口了江南票。中國與韓國，同時彩票大大流行，兩地域社會經驗了同樣的社會變化，供給者接踵而起，過熱競爭，惹起了彩票市場進一步擴大，終於引起了反對彩票的社會剬論。中國創辦國産彩票，代替洋票，杜塞了資本的外流，反而韓國消費洋票之中國彩票，爲了新政期地方財政提供了資金。1909年韓中兩國同時開始了取締彩票，但在中國取締彩票之動力是中國入憲派與改革勢力，在韓國取締彩票的是韓國民族主義情緖以及日本帝國主義。 (This article is in English).

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Paleoenvironments and high-frequency cyclicity from Cenozoic South-East Asian shallow-water carbonates: a case study from the Oligo-Miocene buildups of Malampaya (Offshore Palawan, Philippines)

Marine and Petroleum Geology ◽

10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2003.11.012 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 1-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

F. Fournier ◽

L. Montaggioni ◽

J. Borgomano

Keyword(s):

Shallow Water ◽

High Frequency ◽

East Asian

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Incomplete Nucleic Acid Sequences Visualization: A Case Study in Virus Sequences

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.781.637 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 781 ◽

pp. 637-640

Author(s):

Thitiwat Piyatamrong ◽

Anan Kamolphanus ◽

Gasydech Lergchinnaboot ◽

Krittin Suphakarn ◽

Chivalai Temiyasathit

Keyword(s):

Nucleic Acid ◽

Dengue Virus ◽

East Asian ◽

Majority Voting ◽

Genome Sequences ◽

The World ◽

Database Technology ◽

Virus Sequence ◽

Reference Sequences

Dengue virus (DENV) is one of the most widespread infectious diseases in the world, especially in the South East Asian regions. Transmitting the virus through mosquitoes, Dengue is an infectious viral borne disease. The virus sequences are assembled as series of nucleic acid, making the task of diagnosing virus sequences burdensome. Graphical representations are then proposed to represent Dengue virus to sustain the studies in virus sequences diagnosis. However, graphically representing sequences remained a crucified task especially for the incomplete genome sequences due to the missing nucleic acids. Although a number of studies provide methodologies on virus sequence visualization, in Dengue virus researches, those methodologies provide the visualization solely for complete genome sequences while neglecting the incomplete genome sequences. With the unaccommodating availabilities of research inputs, our study proposes a methodology for graphically representing the incomplete Dengue virus sequences, as well as complete virus sequences, by imputing in the incomplete part of a sequence with created reference sequences. The proposed methodology employs the use of database technology and majority voting technique to create reference sequences for each serotype of Dengue. Experimental results show that incomplete sequences are visualized realistically according to its respective serotype, thus providing flexibilities in Dengue virus researches to compensate incomplete sequences as inputs.

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