...C. J. W.-L. Wee Rapid economic development in East Asia in the 1980s–1990s saw a revivification of the idea of “Asia,” a region no longer regarded as backward. This article examines the East Asian visual arts scene, one of the most visible sites of cultural interaction in which the idea...

...Stefan Tanaka This essay operates from a challenge that is evident in Miyoshi’s life and career, a humility of our knowledge system and the quest to exceed it. I suggest that Asia is trapped within a historical framing (as the Orient) that prevents people and places within Asia from extracting...

...Rob Wilson Duke University Press 2001 Tracking Un/American Poetics in Asia/Pacific Experimental Writing: Pamela Lu and Catalina Cariaga Rob Wilson As has been noted in small-press circles, Pamela Lu took the am- biguous ‘‘we...

... has been frustrated by the apparent inability of liberalism to take root despite rapid capitalist economic development in East Asia. This is partly because the countries in East Asia are newly minted nations that emerged after the end of the Second World War and were immediately plunged into the cold...

...Leo T. S. Ching This essay analyzes two Taiwan differences in East Asia—the presence of an indigenous population and its alleged pro-Japan sentiments— and examines how indigeneity and intimacy offer the potential to rethink questions of reconciliation outside of the state-centric model of political...

...Ahmed Jdey History has its own laws and its own tricks. Dictators, who are inherently antihistorical, do not realize it; yet humanity, in its rich and exciting trajectory, continues to instruct the great dictators and despots of the world about the force of history, in Africa as well as Asia...

... Europe and Asia. Reading Russian narratives about the Caucasus alongside narratives by Muslim writers of the Caucasus, I challenge the ideologically constructed binaries of Self and Other, Europe and the Orient, as well as history and personal memory. More specifically, this article discusses the figure...

... in Bob Dylan” opens into transnational dynamics, transcultural wariness, and post-Jeremaic aims of American cultural poetics and politics in contexts of globalization and Asia-Pacific differences. This essay develops from talks at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Hong Kong University...

... intellectual upbringing that shapes Japan as the most advanced modern power in Asia rather than an archenemy to be defeated. “End of the Day” is examined as a tale that reveals the second postwar generation’s ambivalence toward corrupted politicians that emerged after the collapse of the authoritarian rule...

...Zhao Chuan; Lennet Daigle World Factory is a Grass Stage production that has been performed all over China, elsewhere in Asia, and in North America. It focuses on China’s role as site of the “world factory,” whose first incarnation was in Manchester at the dawn of industrial capitalism. A recurring...

... across Asia. References Zhao Chuan . 2010 . “Shenti juchang” [“Body Theater”] . Shucheng 7 : 44 – 48 . Zhao Chuan . 2014 . Jijin yishu xiaoshi: bashiniandai Shanghai jishi [A Short History of Radical Art: A Record of Shanghai in the Eighties] . Shanghai : sanlian chubanshe...

... the transnational impulses in recent Asian American literature. Using asymmetry as an analytical lens, it then provides a critical interpretation of Ruth Ozeki’s important novel A Tale for the Time Being (2013) to consider the intricate connections between Asia and North America that are embedded...

... attractive to foreign students, hailing mostly from the wealthier classes of East and South Asia. The People’s Republic of China holds a particular fascination as a source of students, who also bring with them the promise of commercial links. Notable among accommodations of the PRC is the compliance of US...

... in temporal, border-crossing, translational, field-reframing, and revisionary senses. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Japan area studies Asia national...

... the nation-state in play, while not essentializing it. The Eperjesi / The American Asiatic Association 197 capital looked to expand into Asia and the Pacific at the turn of the cen- tury.3 David Harvey asks, ‘‘What role does geography play in the process of crisis...

... © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Contributors Chua Beng Huat, Provost’s Professor, is concurrently head of the Department of Sociology; leader of the Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster, Asia Research Institute, and convenor of the Cultural Studies Programmes...

... Thomas T. 1997 . “ Ever Closer Encounters: The Appropriation of Culture and the Apportionment of Peoples during the Mongol Empire .” Journal of Early Modern History 1 , no. 1 : 2 – 23 . Baik Young-seo . 2015 . “ Implications of Chinese Empire Discourses in East Asia: Critical Studies...

..., our hero takes the form of a commodity produced and dis- tributed by the English East India Company. Grown in the newly conquered Indian territories of Bengal and Bihar under the auspices of the company, the enormously profitable commodity was used to create markets in South- east and East Asia...

... to the Deltas of Asia . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . Chang Kwang-chih Goodenough Ward H. 1996 . “ Archaeology of Southeastern Coastal China and Its Bearing on the Austronesian Homeland .” In Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific , edited by Goodenough Ward Hunt , vol. 86...

... the paranoid binaries of what Chalmers Johnson calls the far-flung “empire of bases” that secures U.S. presence around the globe, Pacific Rim still enchants and enframes Asia and the Pacific region into seeming oneness with all its mysterious allure, civilizational divides, and geopolitical...