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ASIAN FUTURES, ASIAN TRADITIONS ASIAN FUTURES, ASIAN TRADITIONS Edited by EDWINA PALMER University of Canterbury GLOBAL ORIENTAL ASIAN FUTURES, ASIAN TRADITIONS Edited by Edwina Palmer First published 2005 by GLOBAL ORIENTAL PO Box 219 Folkestone Kent CT20 2WP .globaloriental.co.u k www © 2005 by Global Oriental Ltd ISBN 1-901903-16-8 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the Publishers, except for the use of short extracts in criticism. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue entry for this book is available from the British Library Set in 9/10.5pt Stone Serif by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester Printed and bound in England by Cromwell Press, Trowbridge, Wilts Contents Foreword Vl.l.l. List of Contributors x . Introduction Vl.ll. Part 1: Tradition and History 1 1. The Invention and Reinvention of Tradition in Japan 3 EDWINA PALMER 2. The Kojiki as Japan's National Narrative 23 ROY STARRS 3. Structural Features of the Organization of Imperial Women in China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) 37 ELLEN SOULLIERE 4. The State and the Historians in the Construction of Nationalist Historical Discourse in Indonesia and the Philippines: A Preliminary Consideration 60 ROMMEL A. CURAMING 5. National History vs Japanese History: Yamaji Aizan's View of Japan and the World 81 YUSHI ITO 6. Religious Internationalism in Imperial Japan? The Case of Omoto 100 NANCY STALKER 7. Change and Continuity in China 1 16 JULIA KWONG 8. Deconstructing the Diaspora: The Construction of Chinese-Indonesian Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia 128 PAMELA ALLEN vi Contents Part 2: Politics, Economics and Gender Studies 141 9. Politics in Vietnam's Red River Delta in the 1970s and 1980s (and why it is relevant to the 2000s) 143 BENEDICT J. TRIA KERKVLIET 10. Regimenting the Public Mind: The Modernization of Propaganda in the PRC 157 ANNE-MARIE BRADY 11. Whose Model City? Poverty, Prosperity and 'Progress' in Quezon City, the Philippines 1 76 DONOVAN STOREY 12. Indonesian Law Reform in the Post-Soeharto Era 196 NADIRSYAH HOSEN 13. The Making of Jonker Walk: Night Market, Pedestrian Mall or Culture Street? 220 PUAY LIU ONG AND PUAY TEE ONG 14. How Informal Enterprises Coped with the Asian Economic Crisis: The Case of Pedagang Kakilima in Bandung, Indonesia 243 EDI SUHARTO 15. Financial Crisis and Micro-level Coping Strategies: A Case Study of Low-income Households in Malaysia 265 MADELINE BERMA 16. 'Comfort Women', National Apology and Feminist Politics 297 RUMI SAKAMOTO 17. The Impact of Reserved Seats on Women's Representation in the Bangladesh Parliament 310 NOMITA HALDER 18. Japanese Lone Mothers and Family-friendly Work Policies 325 J. SEAN CURTIN Part 3: Language, Performing and Visual Arts 349 19. Malay and Japanese Idioms Denoting Human Emotions and Attributes 351 YUKO FUJIMURA 20. Transforming and Inventing Koto Notations: Constructing Tradition and Identity from the Meiji Era 362 HENRY JOHNSON 21. The Struggle for Traditional Performance Survival in Southeast Asia 3 77 LEON RUBIN Contents vii 22. Lat's The Kampung Boy: Rural Malays in Tradition and Transition 389 ROHANI HASHIM 23. Nostalgia and Dissatisfaction: Reading Zhang Yimou's The Road Home and Not One Less as Postmodern Texts 401 ADAM LAM 24. Music for the Black-necked Cranes of Bhutan 419 ELAINE DOBSON Appendix [See Curaming, Ch. 4] 431 Index 433 Foreword his book was inspired by an earlier volume, Asian Nationalism in an T Age of Globalization, edited by Roy Starrs (2001), a collection of 1 papers selected from the NZASIA (New Zealand Asian Studies Society) Thirteenth International Conference hosted by the University of Otago in Dunedin in 1999. In many senses it is a companion volume rather than a sequel. In December 2001 I convened the society's Fourteenth International Conference hosted by the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, on the topic of this present work, Asian Futures, Asian Traditions. It proved to be a lively and remarkably good natured forum, with the presentation of 1 15 papers of a high academic standard, by academics with an interest in Asia - that elusively indefin able region - from all round the world. Approximately half the confer ence papers were submitted for publication, and about half again could be included in this volume. It was no easy task to select those for inclu sion here, but the essays contained herein are a distillation of those pre sented at the NZASIA 2001 Conference. As editor, I must apologize for the tardiness in their appearance as pub lished works. Administrative duties at my university detained me from the task of editing, and I express my gratitude to the contributors for their patience. However, 'it's an ill wind that blows no good,' and if any good came of my procrastination it is surely that the authors of many of these essays, that were presented as tentative works in progress at the Conference, have had the opportunity to refine their thoughts in the meantime. The published works here are more mature and considered pieces of scholarship as a result. Needless to say, at the time of the Conference, we were all reeling from the events of 'Nine Eleven', and it was clear that some prospective over seas participants were deterred from making the long plane trip to New Zealand. It was still too early at that point to take stock of the impact of those events upon the economies, cultures and histories of Asian coun tries, which is why they are consciously omitted from discussion in this book. As we go to press, the Asian tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 is still headline news. Doubtless that event will establish another important milestone for the futures of the peoples affected by it. This book could not have been brought to fruition without the help of many contributors other than the authors themselves. I am grateful to Foreword ix several of my Asianist and administrative colleagues at the University of Canterbury for their unflagging teamwork at hosting the Conference. Our task would have been harder without the generous sponsorship of the following bodies: The Japan Foundation, The Asia 2000 Foundation, the University of Canterbury, The Chateau on the Park, Academy Motor Lodge and Riccarton Mall Motel. A number of referees around the world, who must by convention remain anonymous, read and offered con structive comment on the papers submitted for publication. To all these and to publisher Paul Norbury I offer sincere thanks. Lastly, but not least, to my husband Geoffrey Rice and sons David and James for putting up with me during the preparation of this book. Perhaps the boys will have less reason to complain with some justification about the lack of clean clothes in their drawers now. Edwina Palmer Christchurch, New Zealand January 2005 NOTE 1 Starrs, Roy (ed). Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library (Curzon Press Ltd), 2001. List of Contributors ALLEN, Pamela, Senior Lecturer, School of Asian Languages and Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. BERMA, Madeline, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. BRADY, Anne-Marie, Senior Lecturer, School of Political Science and Mass Communication, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. CURAMING, Rommel A., PhD Candidate, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia. CURTIN, J. Sean, Research Fellow, Japanese Institute of Global Communications, Japan. DOBSON, Elaine, Senior Lecturer, School of Music, University of Canterbury, New Zealand FUJIMURA, Yuko, Lecturer, Seisen University, Dept of Studies on Global Citizenship, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan. HALDER, Nomita, Additional District Magistrate, Jamalpur, Bangladesh. HASHIM, Rohani, Lecturer, School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. HOSEN, Nadirsyah, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, TC. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia. ITO Yushi, Senior Lecturer and Director, Japanese Programme, School of Asian & European Languages & Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. JOHNSON, Henry, Associate Professor, Department of Music, University of Otago, New Zealand. KERKVLIET, Benedict J. Tria, Professor and Head of the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Australia. KWONG, Julia, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba, Canada. LAM, Adam, Lecturer, Chinese Programme, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Canterbury, New Zealand ONG Puay Liu, Associate Professor, School of Social, Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia.
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