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Relocating the future: biographical objects, aspiration, and repair in urban Taipei. [PDF]
J R Anthropol Inst, 2023 Abstract How might urban relocation unfold as a time of social reproduction? Taking the case of Zhongxin Village in Taipei, a military settlement that was relocated in 2016, I show in this article that while mainland Chinese veterans experienced the move with reluctance, their Taiwanese wives readily stepped up to bridge family histories.
Tamburo E.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 47, Issue 6, Page 1030-1051, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Urbanization has become a core strategy for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to reinforce its authoritarian rule over China. Its roll‐out is replete with tensions, however, because the extent to which urbanization can replicate spatial egalitarianism, the foundation of CPC sovereign rule following its victory in the Chinese civil war (1946 ...
Kean Fan Lim
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War in World Society: Towards a new order of global constitutionalism?
Global Policy, Volume 14, Issue 5, Page 746-754, November 2023., 2023 Abstract In world society, all wars are world wars and so is the present war in Ukraine even if the use of violence is broadly restricted to the Ukrainian area (a restriction imposed clearly imposed by global politics). World society emerged between 1750 and 1850 together with the first world wars and world revolutions that were fought on all ...
Hauke Brunkhorst
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Muslim geographies, positionality, and ways of knowing migration
Area, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 381-389, September 2023., 2023 Short Abstract Amid the proportion of work on ‘Muslim geographies’, the majority has focused on Muslims as a minority discussed within societies of the West, and rarely discusses the positionality of the researcher. This paper offers a theoretical intervention informed by my fieldwork experience as a Muslim male conducting ethnographic research on ...
Yannis‐Adam Allouache
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Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 66-86, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This study examines a prevalent discourse on Taiwanese politeness as part and parcel of identity and ideological work among Taiwanese residing in China. Using as data spontaneous discussions about politeness in interviews and online forum posts that evaluate politeness, this study explores how politeness is taken up as a sign to index Taiwan ...
Hsi‐Yao Su
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Forming an anti‐imperialist national identity in Republican China: The Finnish interpretation
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 364-379, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This article focuses on Finnish national identities because they expressed the shared experiences of newly established Finnish communities, and they were crucial in constructing a new nation. It also explores created images of the Finnish and Finland, as well as community construction in Republican China, especially after Finland gained ...
Tiina H. Airaksinen
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Negotiation Journal, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 35-70, Winter 2023., 2023 An analysis of twenty pairs of Taiwanese and mainland Chinese timelines of cross‐Strait relations demonstrates a highly dynamic way in which the two societies' conflict memories have evolved over two decades. These timelines were developed in the context of twenty weeklong Interactive Conflict Resolution (ICR) dialogues that the author facilitated.
Tatsushi Arai
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Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society, Volume 69, Issue 8, Page 1134-1146, August 2022., 2022 Biographic sketches and personal stories of several Chinese‐born chemists who contributed much to the study of reversible O2 binding of hemoglobin, characterization of clinical porphyrins, and discovery of the unusual structure of a green‐colored bacterial heme.
Chi Kwong Chang
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1253-1267, October 2021., 2021 Abstract Outside of the dominant frame depicting World War II as a showdown between the Allied and Axis powers, the war also represented a critical juncture in the global battle between empire and nation. In Asia, the war allowed a “semi‐colonial” China to successfully reclaim its sovereignty from both its allies and enemies and compelled the Dutch to ...
Vincent K L Chang
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Pacifist utopias: humanitarianism, tragedy and complicity in the Second World War
Social Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 35-51, February 2021., 2021 In war, the utopian and the dystopian converge. What could be more dystopian than a world of endless violence, and what more utopian than perpetual peace? Yet, at the same time, utopianism has itself been accused of brutality, and those who are opposed to war charged with perpetuating dystopian bloodshed.
Tobias Kelly
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