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French traces in Vietnam, by Dominique Rolland, ethnologist, lecturer, InalcoDate : 01/05/2012 Author : Dominique Rolland Area of Research : Vietnam 
Today the French language lost its influence in Vietnam. Being sad or indifferent about it, doesn’t change anything. The Anglo-Saxon, the Chinese or the Korean cultural productions have invaded the media space. This process is inevitable, despite the vitality of the bilingual classes and the passionate commitment of their teachers to French literature, continuing a long tradition. We sometimes have an echo, increasingly fading as time passes by, when an old man with a weary body and a lively spirit, sitting on a bench at the coast of Hoan Kiem Lake, recites to us without omitting not a single verse to the “Oceano Nox” by Victor Hugo and Lamartine's Le Lac. I had a grandfather who resembled them. He was of mixed origin and he was reciting Kim Van Kieu and the century legend to me. Like all children and adolescents, it was sometimes tiring for me. "Even Cain fled from Jehovah, still the story of Kieu and Kim," I often thought of it with a sort of indifference. The old man was little bit monotonous and rambling. The first time I came to Vietnam, walking around with a smile, I thought he appeared although he was long dead then, coming to meet me, as a fragile figure of one of those early morning walkers, when there is still fog on the lake. It was him who approached me, asking me if I was French. And he also spoke to me about Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Montaigne, and still having had hundreds of verses in his memory, he was reciting to me to me with his shining eyes, probably those of his youth, when he was a professor, as he told me. I also thought he must have had small children, who perhaps also found their grandfather as little bit monotonous, but more polite than the French children, I assumed that they were supposed to show that.  The Philippines : a never-ending democratic transition…Date : 01/04/2012
Author : Dominique Caouette
Area of Research : The Philippines
On the 25th of February 2012, President Benigno « Noynoy » Aquino, son of former president Corazon « Cory » Cojuangco Aquino and of the assassinated senator Benigno « Ninoy » Aquino II who was killed during the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, opened the commemorative ceremonies of the EDSA people’s revolt. EDSA is the acronym for an important artery of the capital where over a million people mobilized in February 1986 to force the departure of Dictator Marcos. Preceding the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the more recent Arab Spring wave of protests, the EDSA uprising is still remembered as the symbol of a determined and militant citizenship, ready to defy the tanks and to offer flowers to soldiers. Nonetheless, 26 years later, have the Philippines really changed?  Will the Pacific become a Chinese Province?, by Fabrice Argounès, PhD in Political science, Emile Durkheim center (Sciences Po Bordeaux)Date : 01/02/2012
Author : Fabrice Argounès
Area of Research : China - Oceania (Central and South Pacific)
Does East Asia can be mixed with Asia Pacific? Behind a question about the limits of an area that would encompasses part of East Asia and Western Pacific, we consider the two terms are not natural and reveal the power relations that frame the regional approach. East Asia – a Japanese concept – has emerged in the 1930s and 1940s, and then revived in the 1990s, with the increasing trade in the area, the spread of Japanese capital - before Chinese capital - and the construction of an Asian regionalism, partly driven by ASEAN. Asia-Pacific – an American concept - has emerged after WW2 and during the Cold War, through the U.S. alliance system (hub and spoke) in the region and the increase of transpacific trade with Japan or Australia. Now, Asia-Pacific appears more than ever claimed by Barack Obama, from his birth in Hawaii, to the affirmation of a “manifest destiny” in the region, with the relay islands from Guam to the allied, Australia, Japan or Taiwan, where the US are strongly anchored. The geographic competition between two symbols of power relations in the region has re-emerged in the late 2000s, with two projects: the Asia Pacific Community - APC, led by the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, facing the East Asia Community – EAC, suggested by the Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.  Chinese periurban environment and globalisation, by Thierry Sanjuan, geographer at Paris I UniversityDate : 01/01/2012
Author : Thierry Sanjuan
Area of Research : China
Chinese cities experienced profound changes during the period of reforms in the late 1970s. The creation of special economic zones in the South in 1980 and areas of economic and technical development on the outskirts of major towns in coastal areas in 1984 were amongst the country’s most memorable moments. The real turning point however, took place at the beginning of the following decade with the creation of the New Pudong Area in 1990 and the return to reforms reinitiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1992. At the time, political decisions such as working contracts, creating a housing market and the reform of State companies had a major impact on the economic and social fabric of cities – as well as refocusing on development - which were previously based in the free-trade zones, and for the coastal campaigns, in the cities themselves. Up until now, these had been ‘bypassed’ by Chinese reforms, becoming actors, leaders and models instead.  Was Confucius Korean? Sources of contention between Chinese and Korean, by Samuel Guex, Assistant Professor at the University of GenevaDate : 30/11/2011
Author : Samuel Guex
Area of Research : South Korea - North Korea - China
Anti-Japanese feelings in South Korea have a long history dating back for many to the Wako, Japanese pirates who plundered Korean coasts during the 14th century. More recently, it was most certainly the painful experience of colonization (1905-1945), but also and maybe mostly the way Japan manages this sensitive heritage that has fueled many Koreans’ resentment. Since the 1980s, their grievances have focused on issues like history teaching, the behaviour of some Japanese political leaders who go to offer theirs respects to the Yasukuni shrine where Class-A war criminals are enshrined, compensation for “comfort women” who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II, and the territorial dispute over the islets of Tokto/Takeshima.  Sake, a Japanese exception, by Nicolas Baumert, Geographer, Associate Professor, Nagoya UniversityDate : 01/11/2011
Author : Nicolas Baumert
Area of Research : Japan
As a cultural product, sake is as important in Japan as wine in Europe. However, this beverage is not very well known outside the Far-East regions. Contrary to popular belief, sake is not a strong distilled beverage; instead, it is a “rice wine”, produced by the fermentation of rice in water and its alcohol degrees usually range between 12 and 17. Sake, also called nihonshu in Japanese (that means “Japanese wine”), belongs to the categories of beverages made by rice, but the exclusive appropriation by Japanese culture is an interrogation.
All similar drinks could have been representative of every rice civilization, but only Japan made its sake an identity product.  Inter-Korean tensions: ideology first, at any cost?, by Alain Nass, expert on Asia and KoreaDate : 01/10/2011
Author : Alain Nass
Area of Research : North Korea - South Korea
2010 has been the worst year of inter-Korean confrontation for decades. Human losses are heavy for the South, with about 50 victims, military and civilians, with two major incidents in the West Sea: a Ship of the ROK Navy sunk by an undetected action attributed to DPRK, which then poured artillery shells on Yeonpyong Island. The result of the South Korean military responses is not known.  Brunei 2011, between diplomatic skill and hydrocarbon rent, by Marie-Sybille de Vienne, professor at the InalcoDate : 01/09/2011
Author : Marie-Sybille de Vienne
Area of Research : South-East Asia
Located at 300km in the south-west of the northern most point of Borneo, Brunei is of modest dimensions: 400,000 inhabitants (one tenth of Singapore's population) and 5,765km² (8 times the surface of Singapore and the equivalent of Delaware), embedded in Sarawak whose Limbang division parts its territory in two. Non-citizensrepresent some 35% of the resident population, divided into: Malaysian Malays (9%), overseas Chinese (8%), other Malaysian indigenous (1%), Philipinos and Indonesians(17%)  Sericulture in Asia: Yesterday, today, tomorrow, by Bernard Mauchamp, Agricultural Engineer, INRADate : 01/08/2011 Author : Bernard Mauchamp Area of Research : China - India - Japan - Asia
The term of sericulture, stricto sensu, is to be limited to the production techniques of the cocoons by a caterpillar, the silkworm. In a broader sense, it includes the stages of stifling and reeling to obtain the raw silk fleets, which is how raw silk is marketed. Other interventions are necessary before obtaining the silk fabrics. It is the ennoblement of silks.
I would limit myself to the restricted direction of sericulture. Since the silkworm is fed with mulberry tree leaves, the culture of the mulberry tree is part of sericulture. The breeding of the silkworms and the culture of the mulberry tree is a saga which shaped the world.  The New Korean Asianism, by Arnaud Leveau, Korean Foundation Field Research FellowDate : 30/06/2011
Author : Arnaud Leveau
Area of Research : South Korea - South-East Asia
According to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund South Korea in 2010 was the 15th world economy. The country should reach the 13th rank in 2011. Due to a catch-up effect and thanks to its dynamism, South Korea economic and cultural diplomacy garnered many successes in the in recent years garnered. Some of these success had been made at the expense of France such as in Abu Dhabi in 2009 when a consortium led by Kepco has won a contract worth over 20 billions dollars to build for nuclear reactors. South Korea now claims the status of middle-size power and asserts its determination to play a more active role on the international stage. The South Korean foreign policy has long been serving mainly the interests of domestic conglomerates. It now attempts to work independently from the Chaebols and to present Korea as a new spoke country for the less advanced economies of Asian, Africa or Latin American, but also as a leader on the regional integration between Northeast Asian and southeast Asian countries and as a major bridge to link Northeast Asian economies  Beyond the Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Patterns of Justice and Memory in Cambodia, by Anne Yvonne Guillou, Researcher at the CNRSDate : 26/05/2011
Author : Anne Yvonne Guillou
Area of Research : Cambodia
In 2007, televisions and radios from all around the world broadcasted the news of the arrest of five former Khmer Rouge leaders. They are still held in preventive detention by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC, commonly known as the “Khmer Rouge Tribunal”) and are charged of crimes against humanity, genocide and severe violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention, committed between April 1975 and January 1979, when Cambodia was under the rule of a radical communist regime inspired by Maoism and headed by Pol Pot. It ordered the deportation and forced labour of hundreds of thousands of people in rural cooperatives that were supposed to boost the rice production and secure the country’s prosperity. This revolution was based on the tabula rasa ideology and the destruction of the old religion, education and health care system. Finally, more than 1.7 million people died of ill-treatment, starvation, exhaustion or were executed. This toll of victims represents almost a quarter of the Cambodian population in 1975. It even includes Khmer Rouge both superior and low ranking officers, crushed by the paranoiac system of purges.  Rice production systems in Asia, by Guy Trébuil, Geo-agronomist, CiradDate : 01/05/2011
Author : Guy Trébuil
Area of Research : Asia
The rice plant (Oryza sativa species) was domesticated in Asia some 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. At the beginning of the 21st century, it is still the leading cereal in human food systems and the main source of energy and significant share of proteins consumed by almost three billion people. In some Asian developing countries, the annual consumption per capita can reach 200kg of white rice, but it falls to approximately 50kg of high quality grains in rich, industrialised countries like Japan. The annual global production of rice amounts to over 600 million tonnes of paddy rice (the whole grain before milling), 90% of which is located in Asia where the largest producing countries are China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand.  The Strait of Malacca: an Inland Sea, by Nathalie Fau, Nathalie Fau, geographer, lecturer at the University of Paris 7Date : 01/02/2011 Author : Nathalie Fau
The Strait of Malacca is a major axis in worldwide maritime traffic and a vital artery of intraregional commerce. It is located at the juncture of the transoceanic merchandise shipping lines between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, intra-Asian lines and east-west circumterrestrial maritime routes. Often considered solely as a narrowing of the maritime region in which navigating conditions frequently become difficult, the Strait of Malacca is rarely considered a separate territory structured by longitudinal as well as latitudinal flow. The originality of the Strait of Malacca is precisely the fact that it is both a zone of major exchange and transit in international commerce, in which the nations situated along its coasts have always been deeply integrated, and a region in itself, shaped, despite the borders that separate the opposing coasts, by a tight web of commercial and cultural relations between the two coasts.
 Globalization or Asianization?, by Nayan Chanda, editor of YaleGlobal OnlineDate : 01/01/2011 Author : Nayan Chanda
For over three decades, supporters and critics of globalization considered it a synonym for Americanization. Emblematic of this American globalization was corporate America’s sway over the world, shown by the omnipresent Golden Arches of MacDonald’s and the vermillion red billboards proclaiming “Things go better with Coke”. The arches and Coca-Cola billboards with different slogans are still there but the fizz has gone out of Americanized globalization.
 Mongol pilgrimages to Wutaishan, by Isabelle Charleux, researcher at CNRS (Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités)Date : 01/12/2010 Author : Isabelle Charleux Wutaishan, or Five Plateau Mountain, in China's Shanxi province has been attracting pilgrims from across the Buddhist world for centuries, thanks to its position as residence to Mañjuśrī, bodhisattva of wisdom for Mahayana Buddhists. Owing to the coexistence of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist groups and Wutaishan’s location at the edge of Chinese territory, from the thirteenth century onwards, these sacred peaks became a cosmopolitan meeting place between Han, Tibetan, Mongol and Manchu people. During the Republican era, Wutaishan was certainly the most important site for dialogue and contact between Chinese and Tibetan Gelugpa Buddhists. Today, Wutaishan is one of the most active Buddhist centres in China, home to over a hundred preserved or rebuilt monasteries, continually enriched by donations from not only the Chinese world but from places like Korea, Japan and Nepal as well. The mountain was recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2009 and attracts tourists, pilgrims, hikers and Buddhists on retreat.  The Future of Taiwan: Unification or “Silent Normalisation”?, by Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Senior Researcher, CNRSDate : 01/10/2010 Author : Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Since President Ma Ying-jeou’s election and the Kuomintang (KMT)’s return to power in 2008, Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have entered a period of unprecedented detente. Unofficial contact and meetings between the Taiwanese and the Chinese governments have increased; twelve commercial and technical agreements have been signed; in June 2010 an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (EFCA) was concluded, deepening Taiwanese economic dependence already stimulated by ever-increasing bilateral trade (US$120 in 2009); PRC tourism in Taiwan is developing very rapidly (over a million visits since 2009); a genuine rapprochement is taking place between the Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party, easing a reconciliation between the two arch-enemies of the civil war period and promoting its “Chineseness” again in an almost militant way and having gotten rid of its “Taiwaneseness”, the current KMT government is daring less and less to make decisions that might offend Beijing (such as refusing to meet with the Dalai Lama or issuing a visa to Rebiya Kadeer). In other words, Taiwan is increasingly under the PRC’s influence.
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