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SUMMARY:Understanding Myanmar in mainland China (or the lack of it): recent reflections from the field
LOCATION:Room 3.07
DESCRIPTION:This panel shares recent experiences of several China-born, Wes
 tern-educated early career scholars on Myanmar, who have conducted fieldwor
 k and archival research in Myanmar, China and Thailand, and disseminated ac
 ademic findings across the world over the past decade. These accounts provi
 de a vivid picture of the volatile social environment of Myanmar from the p
 re-2011 dictatorship, to the post-2011 transition to democracy; and most re
 cently, the global pandemic and the ongoing repercussion from the 2021 coup
 . Being active practitioners in humanities across disciplines, presenters a
 lso reflect upon channels, or the lack of them, to share findings among aud
 ience in and outside of their home institutes, as well as in Myanmar and Ch
 ina, with curious mixture of opportunities and challenges from the academic
  colleagues, the authorities, the civil society, and the public.\n\nBearing
  the long-term conflicts of Myanmar in mind, this panel adopts open and up-
 to-date dialogues for nuanced, subtle, and sensible approaches in narrative
 s, methodology and practice. Furthermore, by sharing unique experience thro
 ugh non White and non-Burmese eyes, it engages with the current debate on d
 ecolonising the Burma Studies (Charney 2021, Chu May Paing and Than Toe Aun
 g 2021) by offering a diverse and non-binary dimension.\n\nBeiyin Deng, in 
 her anthropological work, explores the misunderstandings surrounding a well
 -revered Buddha statue, originally from Myanmar and is now located in Shang
 hai. Xu Peng discusses her archival research to examine formation and varie
 d degrees of success of ethnic militias along the Sino Myanmar border. Anni
 e Tong addresses her effort in balancing the quantitative and qualitative a
 pproaches when conducting her research of political science regarding the a
 ssociation between the survival and operation of the ethnic armed organizat
 ions/EAOs and the illicit economies on which these groups rely. Chenxue You
  traces the historical development of often misleading, sometimes damaging,
  mutual stereotypes (such as Tayoke) in Myanmar and China.\n\nAs profession
 als trained under Western disciplinary traditions yet individuals born and 
 bred in mainland China in the Open Door era, we walk a fine line, often wit
 h conflict and confusion, between ‘a counterweight to prevalent Euro- and U
 S centrism’ (Xie 2021) and a ‘Southeast Asianist’ (Heryanto, 2002) outside 
 of Southeast Asia– but close in geography and in subject matters.
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/understanding-myanmar-in-mainland-china-or-the-lack-of-it-recent-reflections-from-the-field
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