ISBN:
0415431344
,
0415431352
,
9780415431347
,
9780415431354
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 624 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader
DDC:
306.095
Keywords:
Asia - Civilization
;
Electronic books
;
Asia Civilization
;
Asia Social life and customs
;
Asia Case studies Social life and customs
;
Asia Case studies Civilization
;
Asia History
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors and translators; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements project; Part I: Setting the agenda; Chapter 1 How does Asia mean?; Chapter 2 The politics of imagining Asia: A genealogical analysis; Chapter 3 Alternative frames?: Questions for comparative research in the third world; Chapter 4 Conceptualizing an East Asian popular culture; Chapter 5 Producing knowledge of Southeast Asia: A Malaysian view; Part II: State violence
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 Democracy and the violence of the state: A political negotiation of deathChapter 7 Decolonialization and assumption of war responsibility; Chapter 8 Mourning Korean modernity in the memory of the Cheju April Third Incident; Chapter 9 Indonesia's original sin: Mass killings and capitalist expansion, 1965-66; Part III: Americanism; Chapter 10 Embodiment of American modernity in colonial Korea; Chapter 11 'America' as desire and violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 12 Okinawa's 'postwar': Some observations on the formation of American military bases in the aftermath of terrestrial warfarePart IV: Feminism; Chapter 13 You are entrapped in an imaginary well': The formation of subjectivity within compressed development - a feminist critique of modernity and Korean culture; Chapter 14 Women and freedom; Chapter 15 Caught in the terrains: An inter-referential inquiry of trans-border stardom and fandom; Part V: Sexuality; Chapter 16 Embodying gender: Transgender body/subject formations in Taiwan
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 17 State power, prostitution and sexual order in Taiwan: Towards a genealogical critique of 'virtuous custom'Chapter 18 Reticent poetics, queer politics; Part VI: Cinema; Chapter 19 Transnational imagination in action cinema: Hong Kong and the making of a global popular culture; Chapter 20 The 'Bollywoodization' of the Indian cinema: Cultural nationalism in a global arena; Chapter 21 Detouring through Korean cinema; Chapter 22 The birth of the local feminist sphere in the global era: 'Trans-cinema' and Yosongjang; Part VII: Other popular cultures
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 23 Discourse of cultural identity in Indonesia during the 1997-1998 monetary crisisChapter 24 Emotional energy and sub-cultural politics: Alternative bands in post-1997 Hong Kong; Chapter 25 Feminization of the 2002 World Cup and women's fandom; Chapter 26 The power of circulation: Digital technologies and the online Chinese fans of Japanese TV drama; Part VIII: Movements; Chapter 27 Asian peace movements and empire; Chapter 28 Revitalizing the Bandung spirit; Chapter 29 Rethinking social movements through retranslating the economy; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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