...Chih-ming Wang In honor of the late Masao Miyoshi, whose work has opened a transpacific dimension in Asian American studies, this essay first explores the notion of asymmetry, which is seminal to his critical vision, to build an analytical framework for understanding and evaluating...

...Susan Koshy Duke University Press 2001 Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness Susan Koshy The meaning of Caucasian as at one time prevalent has been now...

...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...

... ideological divide between the Soviet aligned and nonaligned nations, I render visible the relationship between two genealogies of anti-imperial thinking born from the nonaligned Bandung and the lesser known Soviet affiliate, the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association. In this way, I argue that the Global South...

... Walt Whitman and his structural echoes of American first-person narratives such as Moby-Dick, The Great Gatsby, All the King's Men , and Invisible Man , Lee troubles the autoethnographic mode that he employs, in common with other important Asian American writings. Lee's work combines imaginative...

... by the perceived need to avoid community corrosive liberalism, a development of communitarian ideology. As these developments consolidate, and the social and economic benefits become obvious to the citizenry, the likelihood that East Asian nations will adopt the standard form of liberal capitalist democracy...

... and Arendt is worth tracing because it allows readers to understand her response to the post‐WWII age, which witnessed the emergence of manifold diverse “revolutions” in the social and political realm brought by decolonization, both in the European and non‐European (i.e., Asian, African, postcolonial...

...—in the Western rediscovery of World Literature in the era of globalization. Similarly, Western postcolonial scholars have only recently begun to acknowledge the creative, cultural and political affiliations of Global South writers to internationalist organizations such as the Afro‐Asian Writers Association which...

... of pre-Islamic Southwest Asian cultures. Yet the European Orientalist tradition still needed to create a “coherence” out of Islamic history in order to place it within a hierarchy of so-called civilizations. This essay discusses the issues regarding the Orientalist legacy of the terms Middle Ages...

... into a contemporary world-system that Cedric Robinson and others have called “racial capitalism.” © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Asian American experimental poetry avant-garde comparative racialization racial capitalism References Appadurai Arjun . 1996 . Modernity at Large: Cultural...

.... What’s in a Name? Confucius by Any Other . . . Political leaders who have grand, global aspirations, like the PRC’s current rulers, want their particular culture to have an international impact. Confucius, newly wrested from the arms of other East Asian politicians and business...

... knowledge of the Chinese language, and without the community of a Chinatown or a suburban Asian American com- munity. His condition of exile, however, has proved to be immensely produc- tive of emotional intensity and imagination, and his poetics derives largely from his ontological condition...

... Platform for Free Trade, Investment,” Korea Herald, November 11, 2004. . Seong-Ryoul Cho, “APEC’s Role in Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula,” Journal of East Asian Affairs 19 (2005): 135. . Christopher Leigh Connery, “Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary...

... Professor of History, Emeritus, at the Uni- versity of Chicago, and adjunct senior research professor at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. He has written extensively on Japan’s intel- lectual and cultural history and is completing a book titled “Marx after Marx...

... arbitrary. Rather, it is marked by the fact that only certain ethnic or dermographic groups appear to experience this phenomenon. “Certain ethnic and dermographic populations,” write Nanavati et al., “are more prone to high FTE rates than others. . . . Those of Pacific Rim/Asian...

... 2002 Contributors Ryan Bishop is Senior Research Fellow in English Language and Literature and American Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is coauthor with Greg Clancey of ‘‘The City as Target in Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes (ed...

... on passion, the gift, and the nature of political commitment. Manu Goswami is an assistant professor of history and East Asian studies at New York University. She is the author of Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space (2004). Her work has also appeared in Comparative Studies in So...

.... • • • • Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950) catapulted “Asian cinema” to inter- national recognition at the Venice Film Festival of 1951. In retrospect, it is remarkable that Kurosawa’s experimentation with narrative perspectives— and their lack of a common or unified referent—was one of the first events to give...

... the New Middle East. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Amoore, Louise. The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security beyond Probability. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Bakrania, Falu. Bhangra and Asian Underground: South Asian Music and the Poli- tics of Belonging...

... and Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity. Bishnupriya Ghosh currently teaches postcolonial literature and theory, gender/ sexuality, and film studies at the Department of English, University of California, Davis. Besides publishing several essays on South Asian cultural and gender studies, Ghosh...