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The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana

Spectral Transitions

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  1. Jon Douglas Solomon

    1. Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires et Multilingues, Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France

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  • This is a timely intervention into the status of Taiwan, one of the burning issues at the heart of the new cold war

  • Features a foreword by Naoki Sakai

  • This work theorizes the relations between translation and transitional justice, neoliberalism and area studies

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lix
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  2. Introduction

    • Jon Douglas Solomon
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Taiwan Consensus

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Detention and the Rousseauian Consensus

      • Jon Douglas Solomon
      Pages 19-62

    3. Spectres, Monsters, and Trauma (The Ethos of Area Studies I)

      • Jon Douglas Solomon
      Pages 63-117

    4. The Taiwan Consensus and Transitional Justice

      • Jon Douglas Solomon
      Pages 119-230

  4. The Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
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    2. Transition, or Area as a Tool to Manage the Capitalist Outside

      • Jon Douglas Solomon
      Pages 233-270

    3. From Dullesism to Financialisation (The Ethos of Area Studies II)

      • Jon Douglas Solomon
      Pages 271-336

    4. Cofiguration

      • Jon Douglas Solomon
      Pages 337-372

    5. From Anti-Centrism Studies to Translation

      • Jon Douglas Solomon
      Pages 373-416

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 417-456
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About this book

This book constitutes a timely intervention into debates over the status of Taiwan, at a moment when discussions of democracy and autocracy, imperialism and agency, unipolarity and multipolarity, dominate the intellectual agenda of the day. Pursuing a parallel trajectory that is both epistemic and historical, that is traced out in relation both to Taiwan’s recent history and to the disparate forms of knowledge production about that history, this work engages in scholarly debate about some of the burning issues of our time, including transitional justice, hegemony and conspiracy in the digital age, debt regimes, cultural difference, national language, and the traumatic legacies of war, colonialism, anticommunism, antiblackness, and neoliberalism. Providing trenchant analyses of the fundamental bipolarity that persists amidst both unipolar and multipolar conceptions of the world schema inherited from the colonial-imperial modernity, this book will be of interest to scholars in many fields, including translation studies, postcolonial studies, Marxism studies, trauma studies, media studies, poststructural theory, gender studies, cold war studies, area studies, American studies, black studies, and so forth.   

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires et Multilingues, Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France

    Jon Douglas Solomon

About the author

Jon Solomon is a professor in the Department of Chinese Literature, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and a researcher attached to the Centre de Recherches Plurilingues et Multidisciplinaires, Université Paris Nanterre. His publications have focused on the biopolitics of translation, developing a critique of the disciplinary divisions of the Humanities in their relation to the economic and political divisions of the postcolonial world. Recent publications include a book in Chinese about the 2019 Hong Kong anti-ELAB movement, A Genealogy of Defeat of the Left: Translation, Transition, and Bordering in the anti-ELAB Movement in Hong Kong, and an article in English titled Logistical Species and Translational Process: A Critique of the Colonial—Imperial Modernity that appeared in the Montreal-based journal Intermédialités.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana

  • Book Subtitle: Spectral Transitions

  • Authors: Jon Douglas Solomon

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3322-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-3321-1Published: 30 June 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-3324-2Due: 14 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-3322-8Published: 29 June 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: LIX, 456

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Asian Politics, Asian History, Social Philosophy

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