Tan Chee‐beng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3773692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tan Chee‐beng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tan |
| FAMILY NAME | Chee‐beng |
| SIGNATURE | BENG T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Human Geopolitics – States, Emigrants, and the Rise of Diaspora by Alan Gamlen
Remigration and Re-establishing Home
When ethnic Chinese are forced by war or racial discrimination to be repatriated to China, do they finally find home? Do they feel nostalgia about their former lives? This article describes the repatriation of the overseas Chinese from Malaya (now Malaysia), Indonesia, Vietnam and India and their re-establishment of home at the Yingde Overseas Chinese Farm in Guangdong. The discussion is organised around the idea of home as a process. The returne…
The Malayan Emergency
Scholars and students of Malaysia (Malaya and Singapore before 1957) are familiar with the Malayan Emergency. This small book, written by an anthropologist, is not a detailed chronological descript
Confucianism
It is widely acknowledged that Confucianism has a dominant influence in Chinese culture. Chinese scholars writing in Chinese generally see Confucianism ( ruxue , or rujia , thinking) as a school of Chinese philosophy, and the question of whether Confucianism is a religion or not does not arise. Western scholars on religion, however, often regard Confucianism as a religion. Indeed, Weber's famous work on Chinese religion is entitled The Religion o…
Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State
This edited volume is about the study of irony and cynicism in everyday practice and moral imagination in China, as co-editor Hans Steinmuller points out in the introduction. It contributes to a re
Malaysia
On 31 August 2007, Malaysia celebrated her fifty years of Independence from British rule. While Malaysians and non-Malaysians may hold differing views of Malaysia, both would, however, agree that there has been considerable economic achievement and visible modernity as symbolized by the famous Petronas Twin Towers and modern highways. But in recent years, there is a mounting general dissatisfaction among Malaysians over a number of developments, …
Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong
This paper describes the re-migration and adjustment of Indonesian Chinese to living in Hong Kong and their cultural belonging to Hong Kong, China, and Indonesia. Known in China as guiqiao or ‘Returned Overseas Chinese’, these were Chinese who re-migrated from Indonesia to mainland China in the 1950s and 1960s. By the early 1970s, many were allowed to migrate to Hong Kong. Although arriving with very little money, many have succeeded in establish…
Capitalist market values in East Malaysia and China
This article discusses the ecological and political bases of values, and their significance in our understanding of cultural life, through an ethnographic reflection of an indigenous minority in East Malaysia, the Badeng Kenyah's, encounter with capitalist markets. In addition, post-Mao China's encounter with the global capitalist market is also discussed to show the nature of values and social change and the need to reinvent values and create in…
Culinary Nostalgia
The Promotion of Tea in South China
This article describes the promotion and consumption of tea in South China, particulaly in Quanzhou, Fujian. Contrary to popular knowledge of tea drinking as an ancient Chinese tradition, tea drinking in Quanzhou today is actually a re-invented tradition. The article shows that the popularity of tea drinking in Quanzhou today came about as a result of promotion by various agents involving tea farmers, tea merchants, and the government in post-Mao…
Reterritorialization of a Balinese Chinese Community in Quanzhou, Fujian
This paper is about a special category of guiqiao or 'returned overseas Chinese', in southern Fujian. Arriving in China from Bali, Indonesia in 1961, the people were settled in an overseas Chinese farm. The paper illustrates how the re-migrants coped with life in China and how they see themselves today. The returned overseas Chinese reterritorize their Indonesian and Balinese cultural life in China, and they, including the local-born children, sp…
Confucianism
It is widely acknowledged that Confucianism has a dominant influence in Chinese culture. But what is religion in the Chinese context? Chinese scholars writing in Chinese generally see Confucianism ( ruxue or rujia thinking) as a school of Chinese philosophy, and the question of whether Confucianism is a religion or not does not arise. Western scholars on religion, however, often regard Confucianism as a religion. Indeed, Weber's famous work on Ch…
State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies
Anthropology and Indigenization in a Southeast Asian State
New Anthropology Journals in Mainland China and Taiwan
Ethnic identities and national identities
Using examples from Malaysia, this paper emphasizes the importance of relating ethnicity to the power of the state and political processes involving different ethnic groups. Ethnic group formation involves processes that make people identify as an imagined community in a nation‐state. Indeed, the processes that create ethnic and national identities are part and parcel of the same historical processes. It is also necessary to relate national ident…
Chinese Identities in Malaysia
Indigenous People, The State and Ethnogenesis
This article describes the communal associations of the “Dayak” communities in Sarawak, and their functions of relating to the state and articulating local interests of the indigenous minorities. The significance of communal associations to the ethnogenesis of indigenous peoples is considered as well. Overall, communal associations are useful for projecting the presence of indigenous peoples in a communally stratified nation-state
A Note on the Orang Yunnan in Terengganu
Structure and change
Introduction1 This paper deals with acculturation and the ethnic identity of the Baba Chinese in Malaysia (see also Tan 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983b, and 1984a & b). It intends to show that, in studying cultural change, one has to pay attention to what may be called the underlying structure of a culture. One does not merely describe the cultural form, but should examine how a new or apparently new cultural feature may have been shaped by the underlyin…
The Development and Distribution of Dejiao Associations in Malaysia and Singapore. A Study on a Religious Organization
Chinese Religion in Malaysia
Baba Chinese, Non-Baba Chinese and Malays
Chinese Identities in Malaysia
Reterritorialization of a Balinese Chinese Community in Quanzhou, Fujian
This paper is about a special category of guiqiao or 'returned overseas Chinese', in southern Fujian. Arriving in China from Bali, Indonesia in 1961, the people were settled in an overseas Chinese farm. The paper illustrates how the re-migrants coped with life in China and how they see themselves today. The returned overseas Chinese reterritorize their Indonesian and Balinese cultural life in China, and they, including the local-born children, sp…
The Promotion of Tea in South China
This article describes the promotion and consumption of tea in South China, particulaly in Quanzhou, Fujian. Contrary to popular knowledge of tea drinking as an ancient Chinese tradition, tea drinking in Quanzhou today is actually a re-invented tradition. The article shows that the popularity of tea drinking in Quanzhou today came about as a result of promotion by various agents involving tea farmers, tea merchants, and the government in post-Mao…
Indigenous People, The State and Ethnogenesis
This article describes the communal associations of the “Dayak” communities in Sarawak, and their functions of relating to the state and articulating local interests of the indigenous minorities. The significance of communal associations to the ethnogenesis of indigenous peoples is considered as well. Overall, communal associations are useful for projecting the presence of indigenous peoples in a communally stratified nation-state
Chinese Religion in Malaysia
Structure and change
Introduction1 This paper deals with acculturation and the ethnic identity of the Baba Chinese in Malaysia (see also Tan 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983b, and 1984a & b). It intends to show that, in studying cultural change, one has to pay attention to what may be called the underlying structure of a culture. One does not merely describe the cultural form, but should examine how a new or apparently new cultural feature may have been shaped by the underlyin…
Ethnic identities and national identities
Using examples from Malaysia, this paper emphasizes the importance of relating ethnicity to the power of the state and political processes involving different ethnic groups. Ethnic group formation involves processes that make people identify as an imagined community in a nation‐state. Indeed, the processes that create ethnic and national identities are part and parcel of the same historical processes. It is also necessary to relate national ident…
Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State
This edited volume is about the study of irony and cynicism in everyday practice and moral imagination in China, as co-editor Hans Steinmuller points out in the introduction. It contributes to a re
Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong
This paper describes the re-migration and adjustment of Indonesian Chinese to living in Hong Kong and their cultural belonging to Hong Kong, China, and Indonesia. Known in China as guiqiao or ‘Returned Overseas Chinese’, these were Chinese who re-migrated from Indonesia to mainland China in the 1950s and 1960s. By the early 1970s, many were allowed to migrate to Hong Kong. Although arriving with very little money, many have succeeded in establish…
A Note on the Orang Yunnan in Terengganu
Baba Chinese, Non-Baba Chinese and Malays
Chinese Religion in Malaysia
The Development and Distribution of Dejiao Associations in Malaysia and Singapore. A Study on a Religious Organization
Structure and change
Introduction1 This paper deals with acculturation and the ethnic identity of the Baba Chinese in Malaysia (see also Tan 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983b, and 1984a & b). It intends to show that, in studying cultural change, one has to pay attention to what may be called the underlying structure of a culture. One does not merely describe the cultural form, but should examine how a new or apparently new cultural feature may have been shaped by the underlyin…
A Note on the Orang Yunnan in Terengganu
Chinese Identities in Malaysia
Indigenous People, The State and Ethnogenesis
This article describes the communal associations of the “Dayak” communities in Sarawak, and their functions of relating to the state and articulating local interests of the indigenous minorities. The significance of communal associations to the ethnogenesis of indigenous peoples is considered as well. Overall, communal associations are useful for projecting the presence of indigenous peoples in a communally stratified nation-state
Ethnic identities and national identities
Using examples from Malaysia, this paper emphasizes the importance of relating ethnicity to the power of the state and political processes involving different ethnic groups. Ethnic group formation involves processes that make people identify as an imagined community in a nation‐state. Indeed, the processes that create ethnic and national identities are part and parcel of the same historical processes. It is also necessary to relate national ident…
New Anthropology Journals in Mainland China and Taiwan
Anthropology and Indigenization in a Southeast Asian State
Confucianism
It is widely acknowledged that Confucianism has a dominant influence in Chinese culture. But what is religion in the Chinese context? Chinese scholars writing in Chinese generally see Confucianism ( ruxue or rujia thinking) as a school of Chinese philosophy, and the question of whether Confucianism is a religion or not does not arise. Western scholars on religion, however, often regard Confucianism as a religion. Indeed, Weber's famous work on Ch…
State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies
Culinary Nostalgia
The Promotion of Tea in South China
This article describes the promotion and consumption of tea in South China, particulaly in Quanzhou, Fujian. Contrary to popular knowledge of tea drinking as an ancient Chinese tradition, tea drinking in Quanzhou today is actually a re-invented tradition. The article shows that the popularity of tea drinking in Quanzhou today came about as a result of promotion by various agents involving tea farmers, tea merchants, and the government in post-Mao…
Reterritorialization of a Balinese Chinese Community in Quanzhou, Fujian
This paper is about a special category of guiqiao or 'returned overseas Chinese', in southern Fujian. Arriving in China from Bali, Indonesia in 1961, the people were settled in an overseas Chinese farm. The paper illustrates how the re-migrants coped with life in China and how they see themselves today. The returned overseas Chinese reterritorize their Indonesian and Balinese cultural life in China, and they, including the local-born children, sp…
Malaysia
On 31 August 2007, Malaysia celebrated her fifty years of Independence from British rule. While Malaysians and non-Malaysians may hold differing views of Malaysia, both would, however, agree that there has been considerable economic achievement and visible modernity as symbolized by the famous Petronas Twin Towers and modern highways. But in recent years, there is a mounting general dissatisfaction among Malaysians over a number of developments, …
Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong
This paper describes the re-migration and adjustment of Indonesian Chinese to living in Hong Kong and their cultural belonging to Hong Kong, China, and Indonesia. Known in China as guiqiao or ‘Returned Overseas Chinese’, these were Chinese who re-migrated from Indonesia to mainland China in the 1950s and 1960s. By the early 1970s, many were allowed to migrate to Hong Kong. Although arriving with very little money, many have succeeded in establish…
Capitalist market values in East Malaysia and China
This article discusses the ecological and political bases of values, and their significance in our understanding of cultural life, through an ethnographic reflection of an indigenous minority in East Malaysia, the Badeng Kenyah's, encounter with capitalist markets. In addition, post-Mao China's encounter with the global capitalist market is also discussed to show the nature of values and social change and the need to reinvent values and create in…
Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State
This edited volume is about the study of irony and cynicism in everyday practice and moral imagination in China, as co-editor Hans Steinmuller points out in the introduction. It contributes to a re
Confucianism
It is widely acknowledged that Confucianism has a dominant influence in Chinese culture. Chinese scholars writing in Chinese generally see Confucianism ( ruxue , or rujia , thinking) as a school of Chinese philosophy, and the question of whether Confucianism is a religion or not does not arise. Western scholars on religion, however, often regard Confucianism as a religion. Indeed, Weber's famous work on Chinese religion is entitled The Religion o…
The Malayan Emergency
Scholars and students of Malaysia (Malaya and Singapore before 1957) are familiar with the Malayan Emergency. This small book, written by an anthropologist, is not a detailed chronological descript
Remigration and Re-establishing Home
When ethnic Chinese are forced by war or racial discrimination to be repatriated to China, do they finally find home? Do they feel nostalgia about their former lives? This article describes the repatriation of the overseas Chinese from Malaya (now Malaysia), Indonesia, Vietnam and India and their re-establishment of home at the Yingde Overseas Chinese Farm in Guangdong. The discussion is organised around the idea of home as a process. The returne…
Human Geopolitics – States, Emigrants, and the Rise of Diaspora by Alan Gamlen
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Asian Studies and History (13 works) · Law (13 works) · China (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (8 works) · Ethnic group (7 works)