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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lo, Kwai-Cheung, editor.

Li, Hongqiong, editor.

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]

Summary:

"This volume, edited by Kwai-Cheung Lo and Hung-chiung Li, explores the notion of entangled waterscape to reflect beyond the traditional continental perspectives. It understands Asia and beyond through the multifaceted interplay of history, economics, politics, culture, and ecological concerns. The conceptualization of waterscape echoes contemporary geopolitical tensions, economic interdependencies, military strategies, and historical-cultural dynamics, offering fresh viewpoints on rethinking cultural politics and engaging with Anthropocene concerns and ecological imperatives. The volume reverberates with the discourses of the Global South, complicating prevailing worldviews and ideological underpinnings, and thereby prompts a re-evaluation of the concept of "Asia.""-- Provided by publisher.

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.

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

OCLC:

1482188401

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.