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1. Zhou, Taomo. Diaspora And Diplomacy: China, Indonesia And The Cold War, 1945-1967.

Degree: PhD, History, 2015, Cornell University

► Grounded in multilingual governmental and private sources, this dissertation redefines twentiethcentury China beyond the territorial boundary of the Chinese nation-state. Even though China and Indonesia… (more)

▼ Grounded in multilingual governmental and private sources, this dissertation redefines twentiethcentury China beyond the territorial boundary of the Chinese nation-state. Even though China and Indonesia are not neighboring countries with geographic borderlines, the existence of approximately 2.5 million ethnic Chinese in Indonesia gave rise to an invisible and porous social frontier that could be transgressed more easily and oftentimes accidentally, especially during a period when the Chinese Communist Party's regime legitimacy was challenged by its Nationalist rival. At the level of the Chinese state's relationship to the overseas Chinese, Chinese political elites used transnational migrant networks and the global circulation of media to rally popular support and affirm political legitimacy. At the level of the overseas Chinese's relationship to the Chinese state, the ethnic Chinese were active participants in civic campaigns launched by the proChinese Communist and pro-Chinese Nationalist factions in Indonesia. Both sides claimed that all ethnic Chinese owed their loyalty to China's sole legitimate center-Beijing according to the Communists or Taipei according to the Nationalists. At the level of state-to-state diplomacy, this continuous politicization of the ethnic Chinese shook the foundation of the Sino-Indonesian strategic partnership. The ethnic Chinese's daily social and political practices, as well as their ideological beliefs and emotional ties, limited high politics between the Chinese and Indonesian Governments. By connecting transformations in state-diaspora, diaspora-state and state-to-state relations, and by combining theoretical insights from the China-centered approach, overseas Chinese studies, transnationalism and diplomatic history, my dissertation builds a new conceptual framework for a transnational China that is vigorous and dynamic not only within its geographic boundaries but also beyond. Ultimately, I argue that the global emergence and embrace of the People's Republic was not one historical moment within China but a set of temporally and geographically expansive processes that involved the Chinese Communist Party's adaptation to a new relationship with the overseas Chinese, a new type of political struggle against its old rival the Nationalists, and a new international geopolitical environment. Advisors/Committee Members: Chen,Jian (chair), Tagliacozzo,Eric (committee member), Cochran,Sherman Gilbert (committee member), Mertha,Andrew (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Indonesia; China; Cold War

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APA (6^th Edition):

Zhou, T. (2015). Diaspora And Diplomacy: China, Indonesia And The Cold War, 1945-1967. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41035

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Zhou, Taomo. “Diaspora And Diplomacy: China, Indonesia And The Cold War, 1945-1967.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 23, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41035.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Zhou, Taomo. “Diaspora And Diplomacy: China, Indonesia And The Cold War, 1945-1967.” 2015. Web. 23 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Zhou T. Diaspora And Diplomacy: China, Indonesia And The Cold War, 1945-1967. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 23]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41035.

Council of Science Editors:

Zhou T. Diaspora And Diplomacy: China, Indonesia And The Cold War, 1945-1967. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41035

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2. Chen, Xiangjing. The Untamed Outside: Imagination and Practice of Agrarian Commune in People's Republic of China.

Degree: PhD, Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture, 2017, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56809

► This dissertation examines the historical practices and literary representations of “agrarian commune” from 1949 to the contemporary age in People’s Republic of China, focusing on… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines the historical practices and literary representations of “agrarian commune” from 1949 to the contemporary age in People’s Republic of China, focusing on its ambiguous role in the heterogeneous formation of Chinese modernity. Current Chinese literary studies have not explored the literary imagination of “agrarian commune” and its relation to modernity. Combining the Marxist political-economic analysis of China’s socio-economic reality with the textual analysis of literary works, this study seeks to explore how this “non-capitalist” formation of “commune” articulates with the “capitalist sector” in the uneven structure of China’s national economy in a complex way: on the one hand, it creates an “internal border” within China and serves for the internal primitive accumulation for the state; on the other hand, it produces the resisting elements that continually contest and disrupt the logic of capitalism, and opens the possibility for alternative practice of the “common life” that transcends the logic of capital and state. This study unpacks the complexity of “commune” in different periods through the reading of literary works. Chapter One focuses on the “collectivization movement” in socialist period and explores Zhao Shuli and Liu Qing’s divergent conceptions about the “agricultural cooperative” in relation to the state. Chapter Two focuses on the “underclass literature” that captures the living conditions of rural migrants under the “household contract responsibility system” in the era of market economy and global capitalism. Chapter Three examines the recent effort of reviving the “commune” and “common life” in the “New Co-operative Movement” promoted by New Left intellectuals after the year 2000, focusing on Wang Anyi and Liu Jiming’s novels. By looking into the different ways that the collective land ownership interacts with capital and the state throughout different stages of modern China, this study shows how the rural “outside” plays both a “productive” and a “subversive” role in the global uneven structure of capitalism, thereby enriching the discussion of “uneven development” in Marxist scholarship, and filling a blank spot in current Chinese literary studies regarding the rural modernity. Advisors/Committee Members: Sakai, Naoki (chair), de Bary, Brett (committee member), Chen, Jian (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Asian studies; Asian literature; Literature; commune; Marxism; uneven development; rural; china

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APA (6^th Edition):

Chen, X. (2017). The Untamed Outside: Imagination and Practice of Agrarian Commune in People's Republic of China. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56809

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Chen, Xiangjing. “The Untamed Outside: Imagination and Practice of Agrarian Commune in People's Republic of China.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 23, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56809.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Chen, Xiangjing. “The Untamed Outside: Imagination and Practice of Agrarian Commune in People's Republic of China.” 2017. Web. 23 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Chen X. The Untamed Outside: Imagination and Practice of Agrarian Commune in People's Republic of China. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 23]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56809.

Council of Science Editors:

Chen X. The Untamed Outside: Imagination and Practice of Agrarian Commune in People's Republic of China. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56809

Cornell University

3. Fibiger, Mattias. The International and Transnational Construction of Authoritarian Rule in Island Southeast Asia, 1969-1977.

Degree: PhD, History, 2018, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59310

► This dissertation examines the making of authoritarian rule in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore from 1969-1977. American President Richard Nixon and National Security Adviser… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: History; International relations; Authoritarianism; Nixon Doctrine; Indonesia; Singapore; Malaysia; Philippines

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APA (6^th Edition):

Fibiger, M. (2018). The International and Transnational Construction of Authoritarian Rule in Island Southeast Asia, 1969-1977. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59310

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Fibiger, Mattias. “The International and Transnational Construction of Authoritarian Rule in Island Southeast Asia, 1969-1977.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 23, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59310.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Fibiger, Mattias. “The International and Transnational Construction of Authoritarian Rule in Island Southeast Asia, 1969-1977.” 2018. Web. 23 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Fibiger M. The International and Transnational Construction of Authoritarian Rule in Island Southeast Asia, 1969-1977. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 23]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59310.

Council of Science Editors:

Fibiger M. The International and Transnational Construction of Authoritarian Rule in Island Southeast Asia, 1969-1977. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59310

Cornell University

4. Wang, Yuanchong. Recasting The Chinese Empire: Qing China And Choson Korea, 1610S–1910S.

Degree: PhD, History, 2014, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38960

► My dissertation examines the transformation of China from a pre-modern cosmopolitan empire into a modern multiethnic sovereign state between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. I… (more)

▼ My dissertation examines the transformation of China from a pre-modern cosmopolitan empire into a modern multiethnic sovereign state between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. I explore, in particular, Qing China's changing relations with Chosŏn Korea over that period, which both reflected and contributed to shifts in the nature of the Chinese polity. It aims to explore the unique trajectory of China's changes within the context of international relations in East Asia and the world from the early seventeenth century onward. It reconstructs the narrative of Qing China's Zongfan (tributary) relations with Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) by re-evaluating conventional scholarly appraisals of the following four questions: (1) when the Qing (1636/1644-1912) first identified itself with "China"-the Central Kingdom, or Zhongguo-in the Chinese world; (2) how Qing China built an imperial enterprise and governed its expansive Eurasian empire in a multiethnic and multicultural context; (3) whether the China-centric Zongfan system was thoroughly replaced by the treaty port system; and (4) whether China exercised imperialism in Central Asia in the eighteenth century and in Chosŏn Korea in the late nineteenth century. The dissertation offers new explanations of these issues by using rich Chinese, Manchu, Korean, Japanese, and English historical archives. First, I argue that the Manchu regime had gained a political identity as "China" by claiming centrality in the Chinese world already in the 1630s. I further argue that the Manchu regime strengthened this "China" identity through its intensive practice of the Zongfan arrangement with Chosŏn Korea from 1637 to 1643, a time before the Manchus crossed the Great Wall to conquer the Ming's territories and march westward. This pre-1644 redefinition of the Manchu regime in light of its Zongfan relations with Chosŏn, against the time-honored Chinese orthodox and politico-cultural background of the civilized-barbarian distinction, helped lay the foundation for it later to position itself as the exclusive civilized center of the Chinese world. Second, I demonstrate that as the Qing built a gigantic Eurasian empire and a China-centric cosmopolitan order in the eighteenth century, it used its Zongfan relationship with Chosŏn as a yardstick for managing its external relations with other political entities. I term the Qing-Chosŏn relationship the "Chosŏn Model" because of its prototypical status. Through this model, the Qing accomplished its prolonged process of institutionalizing its self-identification as the civilized Central Kingdom and "Heavenly Dynasty," on the one hand, and its identification of Chosŏn as well as other subordinate countries of the Qing as "countries of barbarians." This dual institutionalization demonstrates that the Qing and Chosŏn legitimated each other through the transformation of their relations, and on this basis acquired mutually constitutive political identities in the China-centric world framework. Viewed from this perspective, the Chinese empire under the Qing… Advisors/Committee Members: Chen, Jian (chair), Koschmann, Julien Victor (committee member), Cochran, Sherman Gilbert (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: the Chinese empire; Zongfan; outer fan; Shuguo

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Wang, Y. (2014). Recasting The Chinese Empire: Qing China And Choson Korea, 1610S–1910S. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38960

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wang, Yuanchong. “Recasting The Chinese Empire: Qing China And Choson Korea, 1610S–1910S.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 23, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38960.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wang, Yuanchong. “Recasting The Chinese Empire: Qing China And Choson Korea, 1610S–1910S.” 2014. Web. 23 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Wang Y. Recasting The Chinese Empire: Qing China And Choson Korea, 1610S–1910S. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 23]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38960.

Council of Science Editors:

Wang Y. Recasting The Chinese Empire: Qing China And Choson Korea, 1610S–1910S. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/38960

Cornell University

5. Choi, Deokhyo. Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952.

Degree: PhD, History, 2013, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34223

► This dissertation is a synthesis of social, political, and international histories of decolonization in Korea and Japan. My study demonstrates how the liberation of Korea… (more)

▼ This dissertation is a synthesis of social, political, and international histories of decolonization in Korea and Japan. My study demonstrates how the liberation of Korea became a foundational historical event not only for the colonized but also for metropolitan society. Despite the recent emphasis on the need to treat the metropole and colony as one analytical field, scholars have yet to approach decolonization as a mutually constitutive process that restructures both the metropole and the colony. The fields of Area Studies and International History often divide their focus on the regional aftermath of the Japanese empire into separate national units of analysis, resulting in histories split between the U.S. and Soviet occupations of Korea (19451948) and the U.S. (Allied) occupation of Japan (1945-1952). In a radical departure from the more nation-centered scholarship, my work treats post-empire Japan and Korea, U.S. occupation policy in Japan and Korea, and Japanese and South Korean anti-Communist regimes as one analytical field. In order to maintain a focused line of inquiry through the complexity of the decolonizing world, I position the Korean postcolonial population in Japan, or the so-called "Korean minority question," as a primary methodological site in my work. With such an analytical focus, I pose a key set of different questions that turn our attention to the transnational processes of dismantling the Japanese empire. First, how did the problem of repatriating both Korean colonial conscripted workers from Japan and Japanese colonial settlers from Korea molded popular nationalistic sentiments and mutual antagonisms in post-empire Japanese-Korean relations? Second, how did post-1945 everyday encounters between the Japanese and Koreans, the defeated and the liberated, frame the Japanese "embracing" of defeat and colonial independence along with U.S. occupation? And third, how did the politics of Korean diasporic nationalism emerge in Japan from the struggle over self-determination and autonomy from Japanese power and how did it develop into the critical locus of U.S.-Japan-South Korea cold war containment policy? By exploring these issues previously overlooked in the existing historiography, my work offers a new framework that overcomes a dichotomy and separation between histories of post-1945 Japan and Korea. Advisors/Committee Members: Koschmann, Julien Victor (chair), Hirano, Katsuya (committee member), Chen, Jian (committee member), Chang, Derek S. (committee member), Suh, Jae-Jung (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Decolonization; Cold War; Koreans in Japan

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Choi, D. (2013). Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34223

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Choi, Deokhyo. “Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 23, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34223.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Choi, Deokhyo. “Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952.” 2013. Web. 23 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Choi D. Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 23]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34223.

Council of Science Editors:

Choi D. Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34223

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6. Masuda, Hajimu. Whispering Gallery: War And Society During The Korean Conflict And The Social Constitution Of The Cold War, 1945-1953.

Degree: PhD, History, 2012, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29320

Subjects/Keywords: Cold War; Korean War; State and society; Postwar; Social order; Domestic politics; Culture war; Ordinary people; Purge

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APA (6^th Edition):

Masuda, H. (2012). Whispering Gallery: War And Society During The Korean Conflict And The Social Constitution Of The Cold War, 1945-1953. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29320

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Masuda, Hajimu. “Whispering Gallery: War And Society During The Korean Conflict And The Social Constitution Of The Cold War, 1945-1953.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 23, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29320.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Masuda, Hajimu. “Whispering Gallery: War And Society During The Korean Conflict And The Social Constitution Of The Cold War, 1945-1953.” 2012. Web. 23 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Masuda H. Whispering Gallery: War And Society During The Korean Conflict And The Social Constitution Of The Cold War, 1945-1953. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 23]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29320.

Council of Science Editors:

Masuda H. Whispering Gallery: War And Society During The Korean Conflict And The Social Constitution Of The Cold War, 1945-1953. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29320

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