Recentring Asia [electronic resource] : histories, encounters, identities / edited by Jacob Edmond, Henry Johnson and Jacqueline Leckie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edmond, Jacob.

Johnson, Henry.

Leckie, Jacqueline.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Asia.

Ethnology.

Asia--History.

Asia.

Asia--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Global Oriental, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"These essays argue that recentring Asia necessitates a revision not only of notions of Asia but also of the centre itself. On the one hand, recentring Asia asserts the centrality of Asia, especially overlooked Asian histories, encounters and identities, to world history, culture and geopolitics. On the other hand, the concept of recentring provides a way to address and rethink the concept of the centre, a term critical to Asian Studies, area studies and, more broadly, to the study of globalization, postcolonialism, diaspora, modernism and modernity. Drawing on new approaches in these fields, Recentring Asia forces the reader to rethink the centre not as a single site towards which all is oriented, but as a zone of encounter, exchange and contestation."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

The dark passage : history, piracy and the Melaka Strait / Barbara Andaya

In interesting times : Northeast Asia's tipping-point and its implications for the southern hemisphere / Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Indians in the South Pacific : recentred diasporas / Jacqueline Leckie

The legend of Minamoto no Tametomo : controversy and connections between Ryukyuan/Okinawan and Japanese histories / Ito Yushi

Dislocated location and impersonal : the object of contemporary Chinese poetry / Jacob Edmond

The city as a contact zone : Shanghai as a crossroad between China and Japan / Hasegawa Eiko

From diasporic communities to "abandoned people" (kimin) / Roman Rosenbaum

Hiding behind ambiguity : identifying an ethnicity / Anthony Shome

Supporting foreigners in Japan : NGOs and advocacy / Nanami Akiko

Indecent intimacies : Chinese men as sexual predators in New Zealand fiction, 1934 to 2006 / Kathy Ooi

The trope of the ghost and cultural hybridity in Kim Sok Pom's Mandogi yurei kitan (The extraordinary ghost story of Mandogi) (1971) / Elise Foxworth

Wartime tanka poetry : writing in extremis / Leith Morton

Reaching out with chimugukuru : positioning Okinawan identity at the Fourth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival and beyond / Miyahira Katsuyuki and Peter Petrucci

Musical moves and transnational grooves : education, transplantation and Japanese taiko drumming at the International Pacific College, New Zealand / Henry Johnson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-26567-2

9786613265678

90-04-21261-2

OCLC:

751697444

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004212619 DOI