Transnational East Asian Studies / edited by Kevin Cawley and Julia Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cawley, Kevin., Author.

Contributor:

Cawley, Kevin, editor.

Schneider, Julia C., editor.

Series:

Transnational modern languages ; Volume 8.

Transnational Modern Languages Series ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

XV, 294 p. ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Transnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

Contributors

Introduction: The Value of Transnationalism in the Study of East Asia (Kevin N. Cawley and Julia C. Schneider)

Part I: Cultures Crossing Borders

1. Confucianism and Becoming-in-the-World: A Transnational Modus Vivendi (Kevin N. Cawley)

2. Diffusion and Transnationalism: “Emplantation” and the Crossing of Cultural Boundaries (James H. Grayson)

3. The Battle of Red Cliffs: From History to Transnational Identity (Carlotta Sparvoli)

4. Translation beyond the Written Word: Imagining the Transnational Spread of The Journey to the West in East Asia (Barbara Wall)

Part II: Nation, Empire, and Beyond

5. Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing Empire (Julia C. Schneider)

6. Multilingualism as a Tool of Resistance against Homogenising National Narratives: South Korean Female Subjectivities and Colonial Memory in Pak Sunnyŏ’s Ai rŏbŭ yu (“I Love You”, 1962) (Nadeschda Bachem)

7. Conjuring a Battling China: Willi Münzenberg and His International Popular Front (Lei Qin)

8. Fanxiang Toupiao 返鄉投票: Migrating Political Cleavages and Transnational Electoral Mobilisation in Vienna’s Taiwanese Community (Julia Marinaccio)

Part III: Transnationalism in Popular Cultures

9. Return Ticket to Pyongyang: Transnational Aspects in the Work of Film-Maker Yang Yong-hi (Till Weingärtner)/

10. Re-Presenting Sino-Japanese Relations through Flavors of Youth (Jamie Coates and Jennifer Coates)

11. Translation/Transplantation of Queer in South Korea (Allan C. Simpson)

12. A Transnational Approach to Understanding Japanese Colonial Influence in Taiwan: Manifestations in Taiwan’s Cinema and Popular Music (Yu-Wen Chen)

Part IV: Transnationalism in Global East Asia

13. A Gateway to Exciting Opportunities? The Lives of African Migrants Inside and Outside Taiwan’s University Campuses (Sarah Hanisch)

14. Transnationalism and Medical Cooperation in Family Planning in East Asia (1950s–1970s) (Aya Homei)

15. From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward: Ethnic Koreans and Assimilation in North-East China, 1945–1962 (Adam Cathcart)

16. The New Challenges of Transnational Security in Twenty-First-Century East Asia: The Case of North Korea (Marco Milani)

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Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-80207-225-X

1-80207-910-6