The Inter-Asia cultural studies reader / editors, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Chua Beng-Huat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, Kuan-Hsing.

Chua, Beng Huat.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Civilization.

Asia--Civilization.

Asia.

Asia--Social life and customs.

Asia--Civilization--Case studies.

Asia--Social life and customs--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 624 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies scholarship to the international English-speaking world and constantly challenging existing conceptions of cultural studies, the journal has emerged as the leading publication in Cultural Studies in Asia. The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader brings together the best of the ground-breaking papers published in the journal and includes a new introduction by the editors, Kuan-Hsing Chen and Chua Beng Huat. Essays are grouped in thematic sections, identifying issues which are important across the region, such as state violence and social movements, as well as work produced by IACS sub-groups, covering topics such as feminism, queer studies, cinema studies and popular culture studies. The Reader provides useful alternative case studies and challenging perspectives, which will be invaluable for both students and scholars in media and cultural studies.

Contents:

Introduction: The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements project / Kuan-Hsing Chen, Chua Beng Huat 1

Part I Setting the agenda 7

1 How does Asia mean? / Sun Ge, Hui Shiu-Lun, Lau Kinchi 9

2 The politics of imagining Asia: a genealogical analysis / Wang Hui, Matthew A. Hale 66

3 Alternative frames? Questions for comparative research in the third world / Tejaswini Niranjana 103

4 Conceptualizing an East Asian popular culture / Chua Beng Huat 115

5 Producing knowledge of Southeast Asia: a Malaysian view / A. B. Shamsul 140

Part II State violence 161

6 Democracy and the violence of the state: a political negotiation of death / Partha Chatterjee 163

7 Decolonialization and assumption of war responsibility / Hanasaki Kohei, Muto Ichiyo 178

8 Mourning Korean modernity in the memory of the Cheju April Third Incident / Kim Seong-Nae 191

9 Indonesia's original sin: mass killings and capitalist expansion, 1965-66 / Hilmar Farid 207

Part III Americanism 223

10 Embodiment of American modernity in colonial Korea / Yoo Sun-Young, Francis Lee Dae Hoon 225

11 'America' as desire and violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War / Shunya Yoshimi, David Buist 246

12 Okinawa's 'postwar': some observations on the formation of American military bases in the aftermath of terrestrial warfare / Toriyama Atsushi, David Buist 267

Part IV Feminism 289

13 'You are entrapped in an imaginary well': the formation of subjectivity within compressed development - a feminist critique of modernity and Korean culture / Cho Han Hae-Joang, Michael Shin 291

14 Women and freedom / Firdous Azim 311

15 Caught in the terrains: an inter-referential inquiry of trans-border stardom and fandom / Eva Tsai 323

Part V Sexuality 345

16 Embodying gender: transgender body/subject formations in Taiwan / Josephine Ho 347

17 State power, prostitution and sexual order in Taiwan: towards a genealogical critique of 'virtuous custom' / Hans Tao-Ming Huang 364

18 Reticent poetics, queer politics / Liu Jen-Peng, Ding Naifei 395

Part VI Cinema 425

19 Transnational imagination in action cinema: Hong Kong and the making of a global popular culture / Meaghan Morris 427

20 The 'Bollywoodization' of the Indian cinema: cultural nationalism in a global arena / Ashish Rajadhyaksha 449

21 Detouring through Korean cinema / Paul Willemen 467

22 The birth of the local feminist sphere in the global era: 'trans-cinema' and Yosongjang / Kim Soyoung 490

Part VII Other popular cultures 505

23 Discourse of cultural identity in Indonesia during the 1997-1998 monetary crisis / Melani Budianta 507

24 Emotional energy and sub-cultural politics: alternative bands in post-1997 Hong Kong / Eric Ma 523

25 Feminization of the 2002 World Cup and women's fandom / Kim Hyun Mee, Hong Sung Hee 539

26 The power of circulation: digital technologies and the online Chinese fans of Japanese TV drama / Kelly Hu 550

Part VIII Movements 569

27 Asian peace movements and empire / Muto Ichiyo 571

28 Revitalizing the Bandung spirit / Hee-Yeon Cho 578

29 Rethinking social movements through retranslating the economy / Po-Keung Hui 592.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415431347

0415431344

0415431352

9780203960981

020396098X

9780415431354

OCLC:

144228347