Division of Society and Culture
Caroline S. HAU (Associate Professor)
Cultural Studies
Research Interests
In my recently published book, Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature
and the Nation, 1946-1980 (Ateneo de Manila University Press, Philippines，
2000), and in the anthology of Chinese-Filipino writing I edited, Intsik
(Anvil Publishing, Philippines, 2000), I explored the intimate but fraught
relationship between history and literature in the Philippines. In a number
of articles published in Singapore, the Philippines, and the United States，
I wrote on the cultural production of overseas Chinese in the Philippines
and Southeast Asia, the theorizing of "Southeast Asia" and "Asia"
as regional discourse, and the role of the intellectual in the national
liberation struggle in the Third World.
I am now working concurrently on two book projects. One is a follow-up
volume to my first book; this book takes the study of Philippine nationalist
literature from the early 1980s to the present. The second book deals with
the everyday life of the Chinese in the Philippines since the Second World
War.
Current research topics:
(1) Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia
(2) Cultural production in the Philippines
(3) Comparative colonialism and nationalism in Southeast Asia
Research Activities in 2005 Fiscal Year
- Publication
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- On the Subject of the Nation: Filipino Writing from 1981 to 2004, Quezon
City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2005.
- “Rethinking History and ‘Nation-Building’ in the Philippines,” Nation Building:
Five Southeast Asian Histories, edited by Wang Gungwu. Singapore: Institute
of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005. 39-67.
- Conditions of Visibility: Resignifying the ‘Chinese’/’Filipino’ in Mano
Po and Crying Ladies,” Philippine Studies, vol. 53, no. 4 (March 2006):
1-32.
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- Joint Research Project
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- Research Topic:Regionalization and Regionalism in East Asia
- Term:2003-2005
- Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) ,Scientific Research (B)
- Leader:SHIRAISHI, Takashi
- Outline:Focus on the significance of the rise of the middle classes for regionalization
and regionalism of East Asia.
- Research Topic:Project 8 'The Changing "Family"'
- Term:2005 - 2008
- Sponsor:JSPS Core University Program: Social Science Region Making in East Asia
- Leader: HAYAMI, Yoko
- Outline:Focus on the resignification of the "Chinese" family in Southeast
Asia
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▲To top of research activities
- Seminar/Symposium
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- Title:Workshop on “Japan and the Philippines under U.S. Shadow"
- Date & Time:November 12 - 13, 2005
- Place:Faculty of Law, Tokyo University
- Topic: 'Traitors and Heroes: Interrogating the Myth of the “Overseas Filipino
Worker” in Rey Ventura’s Underground in Japan'
- Presenter:HAU, Calorine
- Title:CSEAS Summer Seminar
- Date & Time:September 7, 2005
- Place:Center for Southeast Asina Studies
- Topic: “Culture and the ‘Chinese Question’ in Southeast Asia”
- Presenter:HAU, Calorine
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- Outside Activity
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- Lecture:“The Filipino Novel in English”
- Place: Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines,
Diliman, Quezon City,
- Date:August 23, 2005
- Outline:Examination the social, ideological and linguistic conditions of possibility
of the Philippine novel in English, as well as its limits and possibilities.
- Lecture:“The Chinese Question: A Marxist Interpretation”, Marxism Lecture Series
- Place:Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon
City
- Date:August 18, 2005
- Outline:Analysis of the historical conflation of ethnicity and class in the construction
of the "Chinese" as alien, as alienating capital, and alien revolutionaries
in the Philippines.
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- Award
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- Name:Manila Critics Circle and National Commission for Culture and the Arts’
2004 National book Award for Literary Criticism
- background of Award:On the Subject of the Nation: Filipino Writings from the Margins 1981-2004
- Organization conferring Award:Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
- Date:2005
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