Jinba Tenzin
Biographic Data
| ID | 243123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jinba Tenzin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jinba |
| FAMILY NAME | Tenzin |
| SIGNATURE | TENZIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9571-5487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The (Im)possibility of authenticity: Landscape ruination and quiet refusal in inner Asia
What does it mean to be an “authentic” voice when a people's way of life is being systematically erased? This article examines this question through the life of Temür, a Yugur writer from Inner Asia. The state's architecture of erasure—landscape ruination and liquidation of pastoral ethos—paradoxically produces the conditions for Temür's poetics of quiet refusal. Through embodied witness and archival counter-memory, he becomes a symbol of cultura…
Rethinking Dependency and Knowledge Production Amid China's Rise
There remains a serious lack of a comprehensive examination of academic dependency, decolonization, and indigenization in China and East Asia. Our special issue is intended to fill this gap by situating this issue in the Chinese context, thanks to China's extraordinary leaps in its economy and higher education and enhanced indigenizing movements. In particular, we hope to open a new dialog on the dynamic relationship between the rise of China, ac…
Seeing Like a Native Anthropologist: A Post-Postcolonial Reflection on the Native Turn in Asian Academia
This article aims to delve into the "native turn" emerging in anthropology and broad academia in Asia and the Global South in the last two decades, represented by their growing momentum in decolonization, autonomy, and "indigenization." There, however, exists a tendency in anthropology, especially among non-Western and "mixed" anthropologists, to dismiss the idea of native(s) or native anthropologists and sometimes replace it with the amorphous n…
Are We Still Dependent? Academic Dependency Theory After 20 Years
Academic dependency theory has attracted increasing attention in academia in the last two decades, especially during the last decade. Syed Farid Alatas, a Singapore-Malaysia based sociologist, has contributed significantly to the popularization of the idea of academic dependency through theorizing and foregrounding the conditions of dependency in Western-dominated knowledge production and the global division of academic labor. The growing importa…
Rethinking the Rise of China: A Postcolonial Critique of China and a Chinese Critique of the Postcolonial
This article is intended to rethink a symbiotic but otherwise inadequately attended relationship between postcolonial studies and Chinese academia at a time when the rise of China evokes epistemic, ontological and empirical challenges for critical reflection. Above all, I argue that China is situated in her postcolonial conditions in such a way that these conditions largely define China's multi-faceted positioning as colonial agent, (semi-)coloni…
M ax O idtmann . Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet goes far beyond the Golden Urn (a reinvented imperial ritual in 1792 to identify major reincarnations) or the politics of reincarnation in the Qing dynasty and in Tibet. Possibly due both to Max Oidtmann’s modesty and to his self-defined research agenda, the book’s potential contribution to important debates within the field may go overlooked. Therefore, to give a …
Seeing like Borders: Convergence Zone as a Post-Zomian Model
This article examines the interests and concerns of two ethnic communities straddling the Sino-Tibetan borderlands-the Gyalrongwa and Qiangzu-in the reconfigurations of their relations with the Chinese state, the Han, the Tibetans, and with each other, especially since 2008. I argue that both the Gyalrongwa and Qiangzu employ various tactics for their anticipated goals, notably strategic marginality, dissimilation through analogy, or the marginal…
Jack Patrick Hayes. A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan
Journal Article Jack Patrick Hayes. A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan. Get access Jack Patrick Hayes. A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014. Pp. xlvi, 251. Cloth $95.00, e-book $94.99. Jinba Tenzin Jinba Tenzin Lanzhou University & CNRS [email protected] Searc…
In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border
Setting Foot in the Queen's Land 2. Masculine and Feminine Internal Others in China 3. From the Valley of Beauties to the Eastern Queendom 4. The Queendom and Grassroots Politics 5. The Moluo Tourism Association: How Far to Go? Conclusion NotesGlossary Bibliography Index
The Eastern Queendom Dispute and Grassroots Politics on the Sino-Tibetan Border
In a collective action to reclaim the label of the Eastern Queendom—a legendary matriarchal kingdom—the villagers in Suopo township, Danba county, Sichuan take advantage of the media and a newly founded tourism association to press their claims by highlighting their political marginality in Danba and condemning the local state for its favoritism and partisanship. In consequence, a struggle over the “ownership” of the queendom has both manifested …
Are We Still Dependent? Academic Dependency Theory After 20 Years
Academic dependency theory has attracted increasing attention in academia in the last two decades, especially during the last decade. Syed Farid Alatas, a Singapore-Malaysia based sociologist, has contributed significantly to the popularization of the idea of academic dependency through theorizing and foregrounding the conditions of dependency in Western-dominated knowledge production and the global division of academic labor. The growing importa…
Seeing like Borders: Convergence Zone as a Post-Zomian Model
This article examines the interests and concerns of two ethnic communities straddling the Sino-Tibetan borderlands-the Gyalrongwa and Qiangzu-in the reconfigurations of their relations with the Chinese state, the Han, the Tibetans, and with each other, especially since 2008. I argue that both the Gyalrongwa and Qiangzu employ various tactics for their anticipated goals, notably strategic marginality, dissimilation through analogy, or the marginal…
Rethinking the Rise of China: A Postcolonial Critique of China and a Chinese Critique of the Postcolonial
This article is intended to rethink a symbiotic but otherwise inadequately attended relationship between postcolonial studies and Chinese academia at a time when the rise of China evokes epistemic, ontological and empirical challenges for critical reflection. Above all, I argue that China is situated in her postcolonial conditions in such a way that these conditions largely define China's multi-faceted positioning as colonial agent, (semi-)coloni…
Rethinking Dependency and Knowledge Production Amid China's Rise
There remains a serious lack of a comprehensive examination of academic dependency, decolonization, and indigenization in China and East Asia. Our special issue is intended to fill this gap by situating this issue in the Chinese context, thanks to China's extraordinary leaps in its economy and higher education and enhanced indigenizing movements. In particular, we hope to open a new dialog on the dynamic relationship between the rise of China, ac…
In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border
Setting Foot in the Queen's Land 2. Masculine and Feminine Internal Others in China 3. From the Valley of Beauties to the Eastern Queendom 4. The Queendom and Grassroots Politics 5. The Moluo Tourism Association: How Far to Go? Conclusion NotesGlossary Bibliography Index
The Eastern Queendom Dispute and Grassroots Politics on the Sino-Tibetan Border
In a collective action to reclaim the label of the Eastern Queendom—a legendary matriarchal kingdom—the villagers in Suopo township, Danba county, Sichuan take advantage of the media and a newly founded tourism association to press their claims by highlighting their political marginality in Danba and condemning the local state for its favoritism and partisanship. In consequence, a struggle over the “ownership” of the queendom has both manifested …
Jack Patrick Hayes. A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan
Journal Article Jack Patrick Hayes. A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan. Get access Jack Patrick Hayes. A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014. Pp. xlvi, 251. Cloth $95.00, e-book $94.99. Jinba Tenzin Jinba Tenzin Lanzhou University & CNRS [email protected] Searc…
Seeing like Borders: Convergence Zone as a Post-Zomian Model
This article examines the interests and concerns of two ethnic communities straddling the Sino-Tibetan borderlands-the Gyalrongwa and Qiangzu-in the reconfigurations of their relations with the Chinese state, the Han, the Tibetans, and with each other, especially since 2008. I argue that both the Gyalrongwa and Qiangzu employ various tactics for their anticipated goals, notably strategic marginality, dissimilation through analogy, or the marginal…
M ax O idtmann . Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet goes far beyond the Golden Urn (a reinvented imperial ritual in 1792 to identify major reincarnations) or the politics of reincarnation in the Qing dynasty and in Tibet. Possibly due both to Max Oidtmann’s modesty and to his self-defined research agenda, the book’s potential contribution to important debates within the field may go overlooked. Therefore, to give a …
Are We Still Dependent? Academic Dependency Theory After 20 Years
Academic dependency theory has attracted increasing attention in academia in the last two decades, especially during the last decade. Syed Farid Alatas, a Singapore-Malaysia based sociologist, has contributed significantly to the popularization of the idea of academic dependency through theorizing and foregrounding the conditions of dependency in Western-dominated knowledge production and the global division of academic labor. The growing importa…
Rethinking the Rise of China: A Postcolonial Critique of China and a Chinese Critique of the Postcolonial
This article is intended to rethink a symbiotic but otherwise inadequately attended relationship between postcolonial studies and Chinese academia at a time when the rise of China evokes epistemic, ontological and empirical challenges for critical reflection. Above all, I argue that China is situated in her postcolonial conditions in such a way that these conditions largely define China's multi-faceted positioning as colonial agent, (semi-)coloni…
Rethinking Dependency and Knowledge Production Amid China's Rise
There remains a serious lack of a comprehensive examination of academic dependency, decolonization, and indigenization in China and East Asia. Our special issue is intended to fill this gap by situating this issue in the Chinese context, thanks to China's extraordinary leaps in its economy and higher education and enhanced indigenizing movements. In particular, we hope to open a new dialog on the dynamic relationship between the rise of China, ac…
Seeing Like a Native Anthropologist: A Post-Postcolonial Reflection on the Native Turn in Asian Academia
This article aims to delve into the "native turn" emerging in anthropology and broad academia in Asia and the Global South in the last two decades, represented by their growing momentum in decolonization, autonomy, and "indigenization." There, however, exists a tendency in anthropology, especially among non-Western and "mixed" anthropologists, to dismiss the idea of native(s) or native anthropologists and sometimes replace it with the amorphous n…
The (Im)possibility of authenticity: Landscape ruination and quiet refusal in inner Asia
What does it mean to be an “authentic” voice when a people's way of life is being systematically erased? This article examines this question through the life of Temür, a Yugur writer from Inner Asia. The state's architecture of erasure—landscape ruination and liquidation of pastoral ethos—paradoxically produces the conditions for Temür's poetics of quiet refusal. Through embodied witness and archival counter-memory, he becomes a symbol of cultura…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · China (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)