Su-kyoung
Hwang
South Korea, the United States and
Emergency Powers
During the Korean
Conflict
This
essay is a comparative legal study of the use by the United States and South
Korea of state of emergency powers before and during the Korean War. Beginning
with the violent suppression of the Cheju Uprising in 1948, a succession of
states of emergency were proclaimed in South Korea and the United States
throughout the Korean conflict (1948-1953). The essay examines the context in
which these emergency laws were conceived and their relationship to
state-sponsored mass violence against the civilian population.
Su-kyoung
Hwang is a Lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of
Sydney.
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Christopher S. Thompson
Are You Coming to the Matsuri?: Tsunami Recovery
and Folk Performance Culture on Iwate's Rikuchu Coast
The study of matsuri "folk festivals" has
long been a mainstay of Japanese ethnology and folklore studies. Post 3.11,
local matsuri in a coastal Iwate town have become important sites for building
mutual trust with coastal residents, delineating their most important
priorities, and learning about the powerful historical ties that bind these
communities together. This experience contrasts sharply with the historical
literature on matsuri, which has often focused on its inherent ritual and belief
systems, and considered folk festivities to be a fairly static repository of the
national and regional historical beliefs and customs.
My ethnographic experience in Iwate coastal
communities post 3.11 reveals the dynamic role of local folk festivities as
fluid, malleable, reactive, and adaptive constructions - the products of
historical precedents but also of contemporary social and cultural values that
reveal and reflect the many ongoing sociocultural processes. A closer
examination of local matsuri traditions provides important insights that could
be utilized to help in the design of a viable regional economic model for the
future in the Rikuchu region and beyond.
Christopher S. Thompson is Associate Professor of
Japanese Language and Culture and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Ohio
University. He is co-editor of Wearing
Cultural Styles In Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in
Practice and numerous articles on Tōhoku
culture and traditions.
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Feng
Jianyong
Introduced by Joseph W.
Esherick and C.X. George
Wei
The 1911 Revolution and the Frontier:
The "Political Game" and "State-Building" in Outer Mongolia during the 1911
Revolution
Feng Jianyong explores the impact of the 1911
Revolution on Mongolia using a three-cornered chess-match (boyi) metaphor to
analyze the competition for influence in the region among the Chinese central
government, Outer Mongolia, and the Russian empire. Feng's analysis rejects
prior research that has regarded the Mongols as little more than unwitting tools
of meddling Russian imperialists. Taking seriously the political goals of
Mongol princes and lamas, the author explores the links between state-building
processes in the early Republic of China and in Outer
Mongolia.
Feng Jianyong
(冯建勇), Associate Professor at the Research Institute for Chinese Borderland
History and Geography, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, holds a PhD in
history from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His
main research areas are Chinese frontier history and theory.
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