1st Edition
Alterities in Asia Reflections on Identity and Regionalism
1. The Asian as Other, Leong Yew 2. The Transformation of Asian Regionalism and the Construction of Anticommunist Identity: The Discourse of ‘Asia’ in Early Cold War South Korea, Kim Ye-rim 3. Constructing an Alternative Regional Identity: Panchsheel and India–China Diplomacy at the Asian–African Conference 1955, Sally Percival Wood 4. Naming and locating Asia: Australian dilemmas in its regional identity, David Walker 5. Singapore, Southeast Asia and the Place of Orientalism, Leong Yew 6. Boutique Alterity: Southeast Asia’s Exotics Abroad and At Home, Tamara S. Wagner 7. Misreading Asia: A Survey of What Filipinos Read of Asia, Karina Bolasco 8. Inquiring into a Parallel Other: A Filipino Gazing Back at Thailand, Antonio P. Contreras 9. The Construction of ‘Indigenous Peoples’ in Cambodia, Ian G. Baird 10. Asian Hauntings: Horror Cinema, Global Capitalism and the Reconciliation of Alterity? Christopher SelvaRaj
Biography
Leong Yew is Assistant Professor in the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore.
"[I]t is a really useful advance on discussions of Asian otherness beyond the Western discourse of Orientalism. In particular, the book does a good job demythologising the notion of ‘Asia’ as a singular Other. Instead, multiple constructions of Asian selves and Asian others are at play in this extremely diverse and heterogeneous region. In a time when ‘Asia’ is widely perceived as ‘on the rise’ on the global stage, the book is a timely reminder that active processes of othering exist internally to Asia, not just imposed onto it." - Ien Ang, Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia
"In asking that we re-engage otherness and Orientalism and alert ourselves against its apparent certainties, Alterities in Asia makes good ground in pointing towards that." - Dell Marie Butler; In-Spire: Journal of Law, Politics and Societies, Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 2011
