P006: Mediating State-Society Relationships Across China, Korea, and the Philippines

Organizer(s)

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  Ethan Segal

  Michigan State University, United States
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  Tiantian Zheng

  State University of New York, Cortland, United States

Chair(s)

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  Tiantian Zheng

  State University of New York, Cortland, United States

Paper Presenter(s)

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  Minji Kim

  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
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  Chi Feng

  University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
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  Travis Shutz

  Binghamton University, United States
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  Angela Yoonjeong McClean

  University of California, San Diego, United States
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  Julz Riddle

  Waseda University, Japan

Session Abstract: This special panel brings together award-winning graduate students from the AAS-affiliated regional conferences to share their research. Selected from among the prize-winning students of nine regional academic organizations, these students’ papers are among the best of up-and-coming scholarship on topics that address the state’s efforts to control and define specific societal ideals—and, in some cases, resistance by local groups and communities. McClean begins with an insightful analysis into the role of bureaucratic institutions and the judiciary in limited international refugees ability to win asylum in South Korea. Kim moves to a socio-economically disadvantaged South Korean neighborhood and its struggles to keep its identity in the face of tourism and government-led urban renewal projects. Riddle turns to the wartime efforts of Japanese propagandists to define “femininity” for Filipino women (and their efforts to redefine it) in the early 1940s. Shutz stays in the Philippines but goes back to the sixteenth century, using microhistory to breakdown diplomacy between Ming China and the Spanish Empire in the face of pirate raids on Manila. Feng helps us rethink the relationship among music, ritual, and politics in early China, highlighting patterns that continued for centuries. These papers are sure to be of interest for those who study modern and pre-modern government, international relations, music and the arts, gender and women’s status, and neighborhood politics.

Presentations:

• Rethinking Displacement: The Challenge of Gentrification and ‘Un-homing’ in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood in South Korea
  

  Paper Presenter: Minji Kim – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Looking at Chu Music through the Lens of Manuscripts: On the Word Yan 延 in Geling 葛陵 Chu Manuscripts
  

  Paper Presenter: Chi Feng – University of Colorado, Boulder
• Chaozhou Pirates, Zhangzhou Traders, and Quanzhou Sailors: Mediators Between the Ming and Spanish Empires in the Late Sixteenth Century
  

  Paper Presenter: Travis Shutz – Binghamton University
• Liberal Norms and Restrictive Institutions: Explaining the Discrepancy between South Korea’s Compliance with Refugee Protection and Low Number of Asylum Grants
  

  Paper Presenter: Angela Yoonjeong McClean – University of California, San Diego
• Bringing the Filipino Woman Back Home: Idealized Femininity as Idealized Orientality Under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 1942-44
  

  Paper Presenter: Julz E. Riddle – Waseda University