... of contemporary New Asia was curated into “being” in Japanese, Australian, and Singapore museums. A key goal was the attempt to imagine a cosmopolitan-multicultural Asia able to transcend national boundaries, even as there was the awareness that the region's cultural diversity and history of political fractures...

... percent appointed and 30 percent elected members; this is a proposal that is unlikely to be accepted by the Thai people, who had battled long and hard against years of military authori- 204 boundary 2 / Summer 2010 tarian rule.8 Other countries, like Singapore and Malaysia, have...

...Masturah Alatas © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Malaysian Mandela At secondary school in Singapore in the mid-1980s,­ we read Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country. One word I will always associate with that novel is shantytown. The teacher told the class that shantytowns...

..., and Kevin Hewison (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1987), 5. Cheah  /  Biopower and the Division of Reproductive Labor  91 Kong, and Singapore.17 The pattern was repeated again and again, and hyperdevelopment quickly spread to the tiger economies of Southeast Asia, which...

..., National University of Singapore. He has held visiting professorships and research fellowships in the United States, Australia, Germany, and various Asian universities, including the Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fellowship at the Carolina Asia Center, Uni- versity of North...

...: Penang in 1786, and Singapore in 1819.11 Both ports played a key role in the transship- ment of opium grown in India for sale in the Malay Archipelago and China. The opium trade caused profound dislocations throughout Asia. In Java and the Malay Peninsula, it created a class of consumers, elite...

... 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...

...,” and is bringing to completion a book tentatively titled The Exilic Consciousness and Thinking: Essays on Edward Said and Hannah Arendt. C. J. W.-L. Wee is associate professor of English at the National Institute of Educa- tion, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has held visiting...

... across Asia/Pacific, ‘‘nothing slow to China / not a bullet train to Tokyotooth- less elephants roam Laos’’ (13). These disjunctures of race, class, place, language are captured on a larger scale in the concluding poem, ‘‘Excerpts from Bahala Na by means of juxtapositions of phrases from Singapore...

... Moten are the authors of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Harney teaches at Singapore Management University, and Moten teaches at the University of California, Riverside. Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, poet/performance art- ist Duriel E. Harris...

...: Portable Tradition in the Late-­ Modern World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000). Louie / Confucius the Chameleon 87 virtues in Singapore schools in the 1980s15 and for a long time had a large following in China.16 The liberalization...

...-state formation, transnationalism, and identity. His research has focused mostly on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. His most recent books are Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification (2017), On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification (2019), and From Social...

... . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Kassim Yang Razali . 2017 . “ South China Sea: Time to Change the Name .” In The South China Sea Disputes: Flashpoints, Turning Points and Trajectories , edited by Kassim Yang Razali , chap. 5.11 . Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte...

.... Ward Keeler. Seattle: University of Wash- ington Press in association with Singapore University Press, 2004. Rancière, Jacques. The Philosopher and His Poor. Ed. Andrew Parker. Trans. John Drury, Corinne Oster, and Andrew Parker. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Redhead, Steve. Paul...

... Naoki Joo Hyon Yoo , 279 – 315 . Singapore : New Scientific Publishing . Song Min Hyoung . 2013 . The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Suzuki Erin . 2014 . “ Transpacific .” In The Routledge...

... in Singapore (2008). She is cur- rently completing a novel set in Malaysia and Italy. Ben Conisbee Baer is associate professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. He recently published a translation of Tarashankar Bandyopadhay’s Han- suli Banker Upakatha as The Tale of Hansuli Turn (2011...

... Cheryl Narumi . 2023 . Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore . Oakland : University of California Press . Ong Aihwa , and Nonini Donald , eds . 1997 . Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism...

... si-hsiang shih lun (Essays on Modern Chinese Thought) , 441 – 80 . Taipei : Hushi Publishers . Wang Gungwu . 1992 . China and the Chinese Overseas . Singapore : Academic Press . Weber Eugen . 1976 . Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914...

..., Singapore , January 16–17 . Corcuff Stéphane . 2002 . “ The Symbolic Dimension of Democratization and the Transition of National Identity Under Lee Teng-Hui .” In Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan , edited by Corcuff Stéphane , 73 – 101...

..., and the mercantile community of the great ports of Asia and Oceania from Singapore to Yoko- hamaItisnottoomuchtohope that it will prove a powerful aid toward the continuance of an attitude of an uncompromising resolution on the part of the United States in support of the policy of the open door 25 23. Here, I...