Entangled waterscapes in Asia / edited by Kwai-Cheung Lo, Hung-chiung Li.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lo, Kwai-Cheung, editor.

Li, Hongqiong, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

African and Asian Anthropocene: studies in the environmental humanities ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waterways--Asia.

Waterways.

Ocean--Social aspects--Asia.

Ocean.

Sea in literature.

Water and civilization.

Asia--Civilization.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]

Contents:

Introduction : the contexts, subjects, and politics of waterscapes entangled in Asia / Kwai-Cheung Lo

A critical genealogy of forced migratory labor in the Asian Mediterranean Sea / Joyce C.H. Liu

Enclosing and opening : China's oceanic structures of feeling / Dongyang Li and Elspeth Probyn

The politics of maritime imaginary in modern Japan / Satofumi Kawamura

Floating islands and the oceanic in the making of the U.S. Imperial archipelago / Oscar V. Campomanes

Medium in the middle : dual mediation in Syaman Rapongan / Hung-chiung Li

Sea, ship, and city : figuring the impossible in Miéville, Hugo, and Kobayashi / Christophe Thouny

The poetics of water in Dung Kai-cheung's (meta-)apocalyptic tale / Yeekwan Wong

Politics of the plastisphere : for an existential transmutation of the in/visible / Chun-Mei Chuang

The maritime convergence of East Asian cinema in Taiwan / Woosung Kang

The water that breaks and connects : entangled infrastructures of Hong Kong and China / Kwai-Cheung Lo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 03, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Entangled waterscapes in Asia

ISBN:

9789004719170

9004719172

Publisher Number:

40032712462

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.