The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415431347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 624 str.

Kuan-Hsing Chen; Chua Beng Huat

Opis

A collection of groundbreaking essays from the highly respected journal, the reader provides useful alternative case studies and challenging perspectives bringing Asian cultural studies to the international English-speaking world.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Problematizing ‘Asia’: Setting the Agenda  1. How Does Asia Mean? Sun Ge  Part 2: State Violence  2. Democracy and the Violence of the State: A Political Negotiation of Death Partha Chatterjee  Part 3: Americanism  3. America’ as Desire and Violence: Americanization in Post War Japan and Asia During the Cold War Shunya Yoshimi  Part 4: Feminism  4. Women and Freedom Firdous Azim  Part 5: Sexuality  5. Reticent Poetics, Queer Politics Liu Jen-peng and Ding Naifei  Part 6: Cinema  6. The 'Bollywoodization' of Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena Ashish Rajadhyaksha  Part 7: Other Popular Cultures  7. The Power of Circulation: Digital Technologies and the Online Chinese Fans of Japanese TV Drama Kelly Hu  Part 8: Movements  8. Asian Peace Movements and Empire Muto Ichiyo  Part 9: Movements  9. Asia Peace Movement and Empire (2003) Muto Ichiyo 

O autorze

Chen Kuan-Hsing is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Coordinator of the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies at the National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan. He is founding co-executive editor of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. His previous publications, in English and Chinese, include Trajectories: Cultural Studies Inter-Asia (2000) and Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, edited with Dave Morley, (1996).

Chua Beng Huat is professor in the Asia Research Institute and the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. He is founding co-executive editor of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. His previous publications include Life is Not Complete Without Shopping (2003) and Consumption in Asia: Lifestyles and Identities (2000).