Territorial Order and Collective-Identity Tensions in Confucian Asia: China, Vietnam, Korea

Woodside, Alexander

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“…And although rituals to honour the dead were practised in Vietnam for millennia, what we know today as ancestral worship was a result of reappropriated Chinese civil religion. 1 As a facet of Chinese imperial statecraft (as well as Vietnamese stateforming 2 ), venerating ancestors upon home altars (Bàn Thò) has been practised within households in Vietnam and across the diaspora for centuries. Through repeated acts and offerings, collective Vietnamese identities are formed through individual altar practices.…”

Section: Offerings Altars and Identity-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Altars to Alterity: Offerings and Inheritances for Queer Vietnamese Kin

Nguyen¹

2022

Architectural Design

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As a child of Vietnamese refugees who settled in suburban Mississauga in Ontario, Thompson Cong Nguyen describes his hybrid cultural identity, queerness and complex inter‐relations with the historic ritual of his ancestors and the divergent manifestations of Canadian society. He does so through the design of the set of transportable altars that were part of his MArch thesis at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University in Ottawa.

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Section: Offerings Altars and Identity-makingmentioning

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From Altars to Alterity: Offerings and Inheritances for Queer Vietnamese Kin

Nguyen¹

2022

Architectural Design

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“…In addition to Buddhist concepts, Confucian values play a significant role in the cultural conception of disability. The Confucianism ideology which flowed in from China has been practised for centuries in Vietnam and is also hierarchical in its conception of social relations (Huy, 1998;McHale, 2004;Porter, 1993;Slote & De Vos, 1998;Woodside, 1998). Absolute loyalty and submission are paid to the king or authority, be it teachers, doctors or older people in the family and society.…”

Section: Ideologies On Disability and Autism In Everyday Life And Culturementioning

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Representation of autism in Vietnamese online news media between 2006 and 2016

AISDL¹

2020

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Being a parent advocate of the rights of children with autism, I have witnessed how the Vietnamese news media perpetuate misrepresentation, misinformation and disinformation about autism. As the first media study of its kind in Vietnam, this thesis set out to describe, interpret and explain the issue of misrepresentation, misinformation and disinformation about autism in the Vietnamese online news media between 2006 and 2016.

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“…In particular, it consolidated the identity of China’s lettered elites, orienting local leaders to serving the state, either as village magistrates or through service in the imperial bureaucracy. Not merely a Chinese phenomenon, Neo-Confucianism spread throughout China’s immediate periphery, most notably, in Korea, Vietnam and Japan (Woodside, 1998). The state-strengthening opportunities that Neo-Confucianism spawned spurred the growth of a precociously modern form of statist polity — centralized, bureaucratically administered and supported by an ideologically unified lettered service elite — that would only take hold centuries later in Western Europe (Lee, 2016: 17; Wong, 1997; Woodside, 1998).…”

Section: Civilization Barbarism and Hierarchy In Historical East Asiamentioning

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“…Not merely a Chinese phenomenon, Neo-Confucianism spread throughout China’s immediate periphery, most notably, in Korea, Vietnam and Japan (Woodside, 1998). The state-strengthening opportunities that Neo-Confucianism spawned spurred the growth of a precociously modern form of statist polity — centralized, bureaucratically administered and supported by an ideologically unified lettered service elite — that would only take hold centuries later in Western Europe (Lee, 2016: 17; Wong, 1997; Woodside, 1998). Confucian state-building nevertheless also sharpened the divide between Confucian states and neighbouring polities on China’s terrestrial frontiers.…”

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Contesting the Confucian peace: Civilization, barbarism and international hierarchy in East Asia

Phillips

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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International Relations scholars have turned to China's tributary system to broaden our understanding of international systems beyond the 'states-under-anarchy' model derived from European history. This scholarship forms the inspiration and foil for this article, which refines International Relations scholars' conceptualizations of how international hierarchy arose and endured in East Asia during the Manchu Qing Dynasty-China's last and most territorially expansive imperial dynasty. I argue that existing conceptions of East Asian hierarchy overstate the importance of mutual identification between the region's Confucian monarchies in sustaining Chinese hegemony. Instead, we can understand Qing China's dominance only once we recognize the Manchus as a 'barbarian' dynasty, which faced unique challenges legitimating its rule domestically and internationally. As 'barbarian' conquerors, Manchus did not secure their rule by simply conforming to pre-existing Sinic cultural norms. Instead, like other contemporary Eurasian empires, they maintained dominance through strategies of heterogeneous contracting. Domestically, they developed customized legitimacy scripts tailored to win the allegiance of the empire's diverse communities. Internationally, meanwhile, the Manchus strategically appropriated existing Confucian norms and practices of tributary diplomacy in ways that mitigated-but did not eliminate-Confucian vassals' resentment of 'barbarian' domination. East Asian hierarchy may have been more peaceful than Westphalian anarchy, but the absence of war masks a more coercive reality where the appearance of Confucian conformity obscured more fractious relations between Qing China and even its ostensibly most loyal vassals.

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Territorial Order and Collective-Identity Tensions in Confucian Asia: China, Vietnam, Korea

Cited by 9 publications

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From Altars to Alterity: Offerings and Inheritances for Queer Vietnamese Kin

From Altars to Alterity: Offerings and Inheritances for Queer Vietnamese Kin

Representation of autism in Vietnamese online news media between 2006 and 2016

Contesting the Confucian peace: Civilization, barbarism and international hierarchy in East Asia

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