Caroline Hau

Caroline Hau
Kyoto University | Kyodai · Center for Southeast Asian Studies

PhD

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Introduction
Caroline Hau is Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Her latest book is "Character: Essays."
Education
August 1993 - May 1998
Cornell University
Field of study
  • English Language and Literature
June 1986 - March 1990
University of the Philippines System
Field of study
  • English Studies

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Publications (69)
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This article presents an overview (by no means exhaustive) of the critical and popular reception of José Rizal's María Clara in the nearly one hundred and forty years since the publication of the "Noli me tángere." Looking at the lively, at times heated, debates that have erupted over María Clara's character (that is, her mental, physical, and mora...
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This glossary, by no means exhaustive, presents potted histories of keywords and phenomena that are evocative of the Ferdinand Edralin and Imelda Romualdez Marcos era (1965-1986) in the Philippines. Terms in bold font have their own entries. Forthcoming in Iyra Buenrostro-Cabbab, Mary Grace Concepcion, JPaul S. Manzanilla, and Ruel V. Pagunsan, ed...
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Chinese ethnicity is an elastic and contested, though nonetheless useful, concept for making sense of the histories, cultures, politics, and societies of Southeast Asia(ns). As a marker of identity and difference, homogeneity and diversity, fragmentation and community, it calls attention to the ways in which subjectivity, group identification, soci...
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Commencement speech reflecting on the Cebuano concept of "dasig" (liveliness, determination) and the need for honor, courage, and historically- and critically- minded storytelling in these troubled times
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Personification-representing a thing or an abstraction as human-is a master trope of storytelling. This article looks at Filipino literary and political uses of personification (pagsasatao) as a rhetorical device to depict and narrate everyday as well as organized resistance against state surveillance and repression. The revolutionary organization...
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This book offers a gallery of portraits of colorful characters, fictional and otherwise, from Rizal heroine Maria Clara to president's mistress Dovie Beams, from tidying expert Marie Kondo to kasambahay Eudocia Tomas Pulido, plus women warriors, tiger mothers, lifestyle gurus, bestselling authors, misbehaving presidents, an outlier country called t...
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Editor(s): Pheng Cheah, Caroline S. Hau Contributor(s): Dai Jinhua, Elaine Yee Lin Ho, Wendy Larson, Ping-Hui Liao, Pei-yin Lin, Kwai-Cheung Lo, Tai-lok Lui, Laikwan Pang, Lisa Rofel, David Der-wei Wang, Erebus Wong, Robert J. C. Young Subjects Postcolonial and Colonial Studies, Theory and Philosophy > Postcolonial Theory, Asian Studies > East As...
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The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American...
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Edited by Leia Castañeda Anastacio and Patricio N. Abinales, this book brings into conversation historians, journalists, political scientists, pundits, lawyers and economists across generations as they engage in a collective assessment of Ferdinand E. Marcos, Sr.’s regime. Extensive as well as incisive, the essays in this unprecedented anthology ap...
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This article examines the rise and spread of the American discourse and ideology of hyperconsumption in the 1980s through the popularization of sociological types called the "yuppie" in the 1980s and the "bobo" in the 1990s. By the twenty-first century, these types would be part of the "global elites". The article discusses two iconic cultural text...
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Which audiences, publics, and peoples do Southeast Asianists address and serve? The question of “audience(s)”—real and imagined, intended and unintended—is arguably central to (re)conceptualizing the rationale, scope, efficacy, and limits ofSoutheast Asian Studies. It has an important bearing on what kind of topics are chosen for study, what and ho...
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Edel Garcellano's coruscating wit, trenchant analyses, and principled critical stance and interventions on literary, cultural, social, and political issues have made him one of the most influential, though underappreciated, critics of our time. This article combines personal reminiscences with an attempt to provide a preliminary overview of Garcell...
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Nowadays, people take for granted that in global cities such as Paris, London, Tokyo, and New York, one can find “brand streets” lined with luxury-goods shops selling international brand names such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Chanel, Christian Dior, and Boss. But until the late 1970s, this had not been the case, for example, in Japan or Asia or most o...
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The Philippines is commonly understood to occupy an anomalous position in Southeast Asian area studies. This essay explores the logic, politics, and logistics of the inclusion and exclusion of the Philippines in or from Southeast Asian studies. Perspectives on and from the Philippines can help rethink and refine concepts of “region” by emphasizing,...
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Although people live with uncertainty all their lives, only in recent years has critical, sustained attention been paid by the social sciences to how uncertainty figures in — and is arguably central to — attempts to make sense of the world and to act within it. Region-thinking and region-making efforts under the rubric of “Southeast Asia,” “Asia-Pa...
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This article explores the ramifications of American actress Dovie Beams's exposé of her affair with Ferdinand Marcos in 1970. The ensuing scandal provoked subversive laughter and provided ammunition to various anti-Marcos groups; significantly, some believed it enabled Imelda Marcos to accrue greater political power. The competing accounts of this...
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This book collects two long essays about Jose Rizal. The essays have been updated and expanded to incorporate new findings and recent scholarship.
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The Filipino “elites” have a starring role as heroes and villains in Philippine history. So-called “ilustrados” were vanguards of the Propaganda Movement whose writings helped inspire the Philippine Revolution in the late nineteenth century and from whose ranks have been drawn many of the country’s “National Heroes.” The urban middle sector and mun...
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This article revisits the debate in 2010 among Philippine Daily Inquirer columnists over the question of whether or not, in José Rizal’s novel Noli me tángere, Padre Damaso “raped” Maria Clara’s mother, Pia Alba, a debate inspired by the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill. The article examines how Rizal employs rhetorical strategies of reticence and rev...
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Both Chitra Konuntakiet from Thailand and Lillian Too from Malaysia capitalize on their claims of and access to “Chineseness” and “Chinese culture” to pursue successful careers as “ethnopreneurs”. The historical timing, political and economic contexts, and intellectual and ideological underpinnings of their acts of cultural arbitrage account for ho...
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Đây là bài phát biểu của GS. Caroline Sy Hau tại Thảo luận bàn tròn do CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University) tổ chức tại International Convention of Asian Scholars diễn ra ngày 24-27/6/2013 ở Macau (Trung Quốc). Bài được đăng trong CSEAS Newsletter No. 68/ 2013. Chuyển ngữ: Bùi Thế Cường.
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Among the professors whose courses I took in Cornell as a graduate student, Ben Anderson was the one whose seminars proved most resistant to note-taking and regurgitation. Students have described the first few weeks of Ben’s class as a deeply unsettling experience akin to that of finding themselves in a foreign country and not being able to underst...
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Oligarchy, principalía, cacique, ilustrado, dato, "haves", maykaya, makapangyarihan, may pinag-aralan. Who are the Filipino "elite"? This anthology collects some of the most memorable, multi-faceted literary portraits of the elite: as dynastic founders, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and patriots, but also as killers, opportunists, and purveyors of...
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In the thirty years since the "People's Power Revolution" of 1986, there is still no consensus on what EDSA was and what it means. Prominent participants and members of the Church, the military, the business community, the middle classes, and even the U.S. State Department have claimed credit for the February event. This anthology gathers together...
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The tropic gothic genre holds up a mirror to the country's so-called best and brightest. What do we see?
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Bequeathing Families: Inheritance, Maintenance, and Change - Volume 3 Issue 2 - Caroline S. Hau
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Amy Chua catapulted to fame in the United States with the publication of her bestselling World on Fire: How Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (2002) and a much-discussed Wall Street Journal excerpt from her next book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011). A wry account of a ‘Chinese’ mother's efforts, not all succe...
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: Reynaldo Ileto’s “Orientalism in the Study of Philippine Politics” (1999) highlighted the problematical relationship between colonialism and knowledge production in American scholarship on the Philippines. In recent decades the target of the critique has shifted to Filipino-American and overseas Filipino intellectuals. This article examines the c...
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Over the past few decades, the rise of East Asia and mainland China has spurred the revival of “Chineseness” in the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia. Defined during the Cold War era as economically dominant, politically disloyal, and culturally different, the “Chinese” are now not only politically integrated into the Filipino imagined...
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Whether vilified as "No. 2" or analyzed as an institution or celebrated as a lifestyle choice, the querida is at once commonplace and complex. This anthology spans one hundred and twenty-five years of Filipino literary portrayals of "the mistress" and its variants, from Jose Rizal's Dona Consolacion in "Noli me tangier" to Angela Manalang Gloria's...
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The Hong Kong film industry has often been described and analyzed in terms of transnationalism and globalization, and the conjoined categories of "global" and "local."1 In this essay, we identify the conceptual limits of these perspectives and argue in favor of the salience of "region" as a unit of analysis in understanding the cross-border and cro...
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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson, the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government, and Asian Studies at Cornell University and a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of Philippine Studies, is one of the world's most influential thinkers...
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:Miguel Syjuco's acclaimed novel Ilustrado (2010) was written not just for an international readership, but also for a Filipino audience. Through an analysis of the historical origins and changing meanings of "ilustrado" in Philippine literary and nationalist discourse, this article looks at the politics of reading and writing that have shaped inte...
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Co-edited with Kasian Tejapira. Kyoto and Singapore: Kyoto UP and NUS Press, 2011. Cross-border movements are often discussed as a high-level abstraction, but people cross borders as individuals. Their lives are reshaped by the experience, and in some cases they in turn reshape their own environment. For the ten individuals whose biographies appear...
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The region of East Asia has been characterized by rapid region-wide economic development that has led to the emergence of increasingly urbanized and middle-class societies, as well as the deepening and widening of gaps between urban centers and rural areas. With the end of Cold War, the transformation of global political structure from bipolarity t...
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Jose Angliongto's The Sultanate (1969), the first Chinese-Philippine novel, focuses on the politically contentious, economically overdetermined, and ideologically riven discourse and practice of citizenship during the first two and a half decades of the postindependence period. The novel concerns itself with the ritual expression of patriotism on w...
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This article views the historical phenomenon of "Asianism" through the critical lenses of network and fantasy. A chance encounter in the late 1880s between José Rizal and Suehiro Tetchō offers one snapshot of an early link in the "Asianist" network. The article explains how and why that link gave rise to fantasies about Asianist solidarity on the p...
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As a field of literary practice, the Filipino novel in English is constructed out of a series of paradoxes. Created out of the solitary act of writing and consumed through the solitary act of mute reading, the novel is nevertheless fundamentally premised on accessibility to a wider public and for this reason appears the most communal of all literar...
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Historically ident$ed with commerce, capital, and communism, and long defined by its problematic relationship with Philippine nationalism, "Chineseness" has been reconfigured over the last three decades in line with the geopolitical, demographic, economic, social, and cultural transformations of the Philippine nation-state and society. This article...
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"On the Subject of the Nation" looks at fiction and nonfiction produced since the martial law era in light of two historical developments that have definitively shaped Philippine experience: revolution and migration. This book examines the critical interfaces between the personal and political that frame the utopian visions of Bai Ren's fictional a...
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Language policy is a sensitive issue in most countries. In countries where more than one language is spoken—the vast majority—language policies affect the ability of individuals and groups to participate in government, to be treated fairly by governmental agencies, to have access to government services, to take advantage of educational opportunitie...
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Complete Introduction of the book "Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946-1980" (2000, Ateneo de Manila University Press).
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"Necessary Fictions" examines the intimate but fraught connection between Philippine literature and nationalist discourse through close readings of the works of Jose Rizal, Amado Hernandez, Nick Joaquin, Edgardo Reyes, Ricardo Lee, Kerima Polotan, Carlos Bulosan, and Mano de Verdades Posadas. The book argues that the long-standing affinity between...
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