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DESCRIPTION:Amid persecution of dissidents and stagnant political reforms i
 n early Republican China\, Lin Yutang lamented at how “the good men\, in
  all countries\, have abstained from politics\,” recounting the isolatio
 n and defeatism of reformist intellectuals from K’ang Yuwei to Lu Hsun a
 nd Hu Shih (Lin 1935). Yet it is worth reconsidering to what extent these 
 intellectuals viewed (or reframed) their political exiles\, self-imposed o
 r otherwise\, as (dis)empowering them in their political advocacy and rela
 ted intellectual pursuits.\n\nApplying concepts of subjectivity (Rodriguez
  & Schwenken 2013\; Kara 2016) and “agency in mobility” (Tran & Vu 201
 8\; Xu 2021) from the migration studies literature\, this study undertakes
  a critical review of literature and a thematic analysis of primary texts 
 (scholars’ personal correspondence\, essays\, and fiction) to investigat
 e the experiences of Chinese scholars-in-exile in Japan and Taiwan in the 
 early Republican context. This study aims to broaden the range of scholars
 ’ experiences represented in the mainstream literature and yield a nuanc
 ed image of how prominent scholars’ writings influenced their contempora
 ries’ understanding of their own experiences of exile and agency. This s
 tudy also develops and complicates extant definitions of forced versus vol
 untary migration in migration theory (see Erdal & Oeppen 2018\; Hunkler et
  al. 2022).
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LOCATION:Room 201 (Seats 42)
SUMMARY:Dissidents abroad or stranded sea turtles? Re-examining the persona
 l agency of scholars-in-exile from the early Republic of China - Eric D. d
 e Roulet
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/DMZVB9/
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