scholarly journals Cultural exchanges, intergration and developmet of the chinese community in central coastal provinces

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Hop Vinh Dao ◽  
Tuyet Thi Anh Vo
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
International Integration ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Geographic Position ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Land Region ◽  
At Home

In the circumstance of the Chinesse emigrants going abroad to seek shelter and find new lands, especially southeast Asia, Dang Trong of Dai Viet kingdom has gradually become a point of arrival which attracts them strongly. Depending on geographic position of contigous sea and advantage of Dang Trong context at home and abroad, Chinese merchants and emigrants have come to the central coastal parts (especially in Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, and Phu Yen). Having settled in southeast Asia region as well as in the central part of Vietnam, Chinese emigrants have preseved their traditional culture to gain achievements in this land region. Besides, they have actively integrated into native communities, exchanging culture for prosperity and development. This paper indicates cultural exchanges, integration and development of the Hoa in the central coastal provinces in history and present, which asserts their contributions in the fields of culture, economy and society to build Vietnam nation, notably in the age of present international integration.

Private Ordering and the Chinese in Nineteenth Century Straits Settlements

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-53
Author(s):  
Cheng Han TAN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Secret Societies ◽  
Private Ordering ◽  
British Policy ◽  
English Law ◽  
Colonial Government

AbstractThe Straits Settlements comprised a group of British territories located in the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It initially comprised Penang, Singapore, and Malacca, and was formed in 1826. Unlike Malacca which was a thriving city with a substantial Chinese community, Penang and Singapore were relatively uninhabited when the British arrived, but Chinese immigration to both territories swiftly took place and on a large scale. For much of the nineteenth century, British policy towards the Chinese community in the Straits was one of minimal governance. They were largely left to order their affairs privately and this suited the Chinese, who tended to be aloof from the machinery of government and were also unfamiliar with English law. While there were many positive aspects of such private ordering, some negative features included the manner in which secret societies evolved and the treatment of coolies. It was only when the colonial government introduced strong measures that these negative aspects were ameliorated.

Historicising “Modernity” in Southeast Asia

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Watson Andaya
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Western Influence ◽  
Economic Control

AbstractThe term “modernity” implies Western influence and the weakening of beliefs and practices associated with traditional culture. Although it is increasingly used in reference to contemporary Southeast Asia because of the region's current economic growth, there seems little room for historical perspectives. This paper takes up the idea that if we broaden our understanding of modernity in Southeast Asia so that it is not restricted to recent history, we may see evidence of a modern spirit in earlier times. Although being modern became increasingly linked to Europe, Southeast Asians never rejected their own past. However the eclectic nature of “modernity” in Southeast Asia was undermined as “modern” ideas and practices came increasingly from Europe, to be inevitably associated with Europe's political and economic control.

Anti-Japanese activities in North Borneo before World War Two, 1937–1941

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Wong Tze-Ken
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The State ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
World War Two ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
World War ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
North Borneo

Anti-Japanese activities in North Borneo before the Pacific War were part of a larger anti-Japanese campaign waged by the Chinese in Southeast Asia. In North Borneo one of the most important outcomes was politicisation of the Chinese community. During this period the North Borneo Company, which had previously welcomed Japanese capital and labour, also began to take steps to curb Japanese activities in the state.

scholarly journals Manuscript of Е. D. Prokofieva “Fishing of the Taz-Turukhansk Selkups” from the Archive of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a Source on the History and Ethnography of Siberia: 1920s–60s

2021 ◽  
pp. 168-180
Author(s):  
Olga B. Stepanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
East And Southeast Asia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Traditional Fishing

In the archive of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in the collection of famous ethnographers and researchers of Siberia, employees of the MAE RAS G.N. Prokofiev and E.D. Prokofieva there is an incomplete manuscript of an article by Ekaterina Dmitrievna Prokofieva “Fishing in the Taz-Turukhansk Selkups” (AMAE, fond 6, series 1, no. 104). In the first part of the manuscript, the author provides purely ethnographic data on traditional fishing methods among the population of the Taz River, characterizing the state of fishing in the region on the eve of Soviet modernization. The second part contains information about socialist changes that had taken place in the Taza region from the 1920s to the early 1960s: the transformation of the traditional culture of the local peoples, the change in the anthropogenic landscape, and the formation of the industrial fishing. The material, on which the work is based, was collected by E.D. Prokofieva during the expedition of 1962 to the Krasnoselkup district of the Tyumen region. The expedition was her last trip to the Northern Selkups. Alongside E.D. Prokofieva in the expedition there worked a young graduate student A.M. Reshetov, in future, well-known sinologist, historian of Russian ethnography, head of the department of East and Southeast Asia, and party organizer of the MAE RAS. The materials included in the text of the manuscript were obtained from direct participants and witnesses of the events or were taken from the economic documentation available at that time in the organizations of the district. The generation of informants has since changed, and the complex of documentation with which the researcher worked has become fragmented, scattered in the archives, and partially lost. This makes the manuscript a valuable source containing rare materials on unexplored issues of ethnography and history of the Taz lands of the era of intensive Soviet transformations. The purpose of this and several previous publications by the author, written on the basis of E.D. Prokofieva’s manuscript , is to introduce into the scientific use new data on the history, ethnography, and historiography of Siberia.

Coda

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-182
Author(s):  
Wen-Qing Ngoei
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Domino Effect ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
At Home

This coda concludes the book by examining how the United States and its Southeast Asian allies responded to the fall of Saigon to communist forces in 1975. It shows that the regimes of the arc of containment did not proceed to topple like dominoes to communist factions at home, or bow to Chinese or Soviet power, but instead elected to reinforce their ties with Washington. Equally, U.S. policymakers discerned this “reverse domino effect” across Asia (or so they termed it) and unreservedly renewed American economic, political and military commitments to their allies in the region. Given that the arc of containment underpinned imperial transition and the rise of U.S. empire in Southeast Asia, the coda contends that reversals of the domino theory, not its fulfilment, were the true prevailing motif of American interference in the region’s fraught decolonization after the Pacific War.

Congregations and Associations: the Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Phnom-Penh, Cambodia

1969 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. Willmott
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Phnom Penh

The study of overseas Chinese has continued for some time as a series of somewhat unrelated monographs with little comparative analysis. One of the few important attempts at sociological generalization about Chinese communities in Southeast Asia was made by Maurice Freedman in an article entitled ‘Immigrants and Associations’, which appeared in this journal in 1960. In this article, Freedman suggested that ‘the associations which in a small-scale and relatively underdeveloped settlement express social, economic and political links in an undifferentiated form, tend, as the scale and complexity of the society increase, to separate into a network of associations which are comparatively specialized in their functions and the kinds of solidarity they express’ (Freedman, 1960: 47 f.). He proposed a continuum of types of overseas Chinese urban communities. At one end stands Kuching, Sarawak, ‘as the model of a simple and relatively small-scale overseas settlement’, while ‘Later Singapore is … the model of the most developed form of immigrant Chinese settlement in Southeast Asia’ (ibid.: 45). Singapore exhibits a great number of associations, based on criteria of recruitment that allow memberships to overlap to a great extent; the urban Chinese community in Sarawak includes fewer associations and consequently less overlap among memberships. Other studies in Southeast Asia suggest that this continuum might be a useful way of looking at the development of Chinese communities.

scholarly journals Cultural exchange in nambo and its role in the development of Vietnam culture

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Them Ngoc Tran
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Cultural Transition ◽  
Physical Strength ◽  
Educational Culture ◽  
Chain Link ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Economic Culture ◽  
Material Power

The paper begins with the addition of some fundamental concepts used as a theoretical basis for the study of cultural exchanges such as the level of exchanges (strong / weak), the conditions for the openness level of a culture, the power structure of a culture (material power, mental power), etc. Together with the characteristics of the subject, the time and space of the Nambo culture, factual basis is the strength and characteristics of cultural exchanges of the three regions (of Vietnam). In the context of the period of cultural transition from Vietnam’s rural culture to urban culture, from agricultural culture to industrial culture, the Nambo culture has quite a few advantages. Cultural exchange in Nambo helps develop physical strength, especially in the field of economic culture and traffic culture; cultural exchange in Nambo also helps develop mental strength in the field of organizational culture, educational culture, communicative culture, behaving culture, etc. For some aspects, the Nambo culture can be considered the intermediary chain link between Vietnamese traditional culture and Western culture. In this sense, the Nambo culture and cultural exchange in Nambo have played the role of a key factor in promoting and enhancing the efficiency of the development and modernization of Vietnam's traditional culture.

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