1st Edition
The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader
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
Biography
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).
