{"id":12632,"date":"2019-10-03T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T01:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/?p=12632"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T02:52:40","slug":"20191003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/2019\/10\/20191003\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color: red;\">Cancellation<\/span>: Tonan Talk with Dr. Ong Soon Keong on Oct. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title<\/strong>:\u2018To be or not to be Chinese\u2019: A socio-economic interpretation of the emergence of Peranakan identity in Singapore, 1890s to 1930s<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: Dr. Ong Soon Keong, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: <s>October 3rd (Thurs.) 2019, 16:00 &#8211; 18:00<\/s><br \/>\n<strong>Venue<\/strong>: Tonan-tei (Room no. 201) on the second floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderator<\/strong>:  Prof. Caroline HAU, CSEAS, Kyoto University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>:<br \/>\nThis paper revisits the emergence and representation of Peranakan ethnic<br \/>\nidentity during colonial Singapore. The conventional understanding of<br \/>\nthe separation of Peranakans \u2013 the descendants of unions between early<br \/>\nSouthern Chinese traders and local Malay women \u2013 from ethnic Chinese is<br \/>\nmainly cultural. As individuals of mixed racial heritage, Peranakans<br \/>\ndisplay a unique hybrid culture that combined elements of southern<br \/>\nChinese and Malay traditions, and scholars today believe that such<br \/>\nPeranakan identity was formed as soon as seafaring Chinese began to<br \/>\nintermarry with local women and adopt Southeast Asian social practices<br \/>\nand language in the seventeenth century.<\/p>\n<p>I argue instead that as late as nineteenth century colonial Singapore,<br \/>\nnot only were Peranakans considered by the British as Chinese, they also<br \/>\npresented themselves as Chinese. This was because they needed to stay<br \/>\nChinese to continue to act as middlemen in the China trade, and also to<br \/>\nserve as community leaders to help the British colonizers rule its<br \/>\nChinese subjects. They only distinguished themselves from the Chinese \u2013<br \/>\nby emphasizing their mixed heritage, English education, and British<br \/>\nsubjecthood \u2013 towards the end of the nineteenth century when their<br \/>\nsuperior social and economic positions in the British colony were<br \/>\nseriously undermined by the new immigrants from China.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the speaker<\/strong>:<br \/>\nOng Soon Keong is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Nanyang<br \/>\nTechnological University in Singapore. His work centres on the mechanism<br \/>\nof Chinese migration and overseas Chinese-China relationships; his<br \/>\nresearch currently focuses on the construction of overseas Chinese<br \/>\nidentities in Singapore and on the southeast China coast. He received<br \/>\nhis PhD in history from Cornell University, and taught at the University<br \/>\nof North Florida and the University of Missouri \u2013 Columbia before<br \/>\nreturning to Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:\u2018To be or not to be Chinese\u2019: A socio-economic interpretation of the emergence of Peranakan identity in  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8zpss-20191003","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15561,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}