The twofold challenge for Karen Baptist intellectuals in colonial Burma: A national claim and its failure
The twofold challenge for Karen Baptist intellectuals in colonial Burma: A national claim and its failure
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殖民地缅甸克伦浸信会知识分子面临的双重挑战：民族主张及其失败
DOI：
10.1017/s0022463422000613
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发表时间：
2022
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0.6
通讯作者：
Fujimura Hitomi
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作者：
Kuromiya K;Aoki K;Ishibashi K;Yotabun M;Sekai M;Tanimura N;Iijima S;Ishikawa S;Kamasaki T;Akieda Y;Ishitani T;Hayashi T;Toda S;Yokoyama K;Lee CG;Usami I;Inoue H;Takigawa I;Gauquelin E;Sugimura K;Hino N;Fujita Y;Sayuri Nakamura;Hayashi Takuma;林 拓磨;Fujimura Hitomi
英缅战争结束两年后，英国殖民者完全接管了缅甸，但仍然受到叛乱爆发的影响，一小群克伦浸信会知识分子在仰光成立了克伦民族协会（KNA），试图对克伦民族地位提出政治要求。本文以1887年仰光庆祝维多利亚女王登基50周年的仪式上，克伦族代表递交的两封英文和Sgaw Karen信件为研究对象，探讨殖民地政治中的忠诚和民族诉求。缔约国辩称，这些信件是为两种不同的读者写的，克伦浸礼会这样做是在提出双重要求：一种是针对英国殖民当局，另一种是针对缅甸克伦族的广大人口，他们有多种克伦族语言和宗教及其他方面的联系。然而，这两项呼吁都没有得到预期的回应。本文然后讨论了自相矛盾的是，这种主张克伦民族疏远浸信会领导人从自己的多元化社区。
Two years after the Anglo-Burmese War, with the British colonial takeover of Burma complete and yet still subject to outbreaks of rebellions, a small group of Karen Baptist intellectuals in Rangoon who formed the Karen National Association (KNA), attempted to assert a political claim to Karen nationhood. This article focuses on two letters, in English and Sgaw Karen, presented by Karen delegates on the occasion of the ceremony to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 in Rangoon, to investigate the colonial politics of loyalty and national claim. It argues that the letters were written for two different audiences, and by doing so the Karen Baptists were asserting dual claims; one directed at the British colonial authorities and the other, the wider population of Karen in Burma, with their multiple Karennic languages and religious and other affiliations. Both appeals failed to get the desired responses, however. This article then discusses the contradiction that this assertion of Karen nationhood alienated the Baptist leaders from their own diverse community.