...Jesook Song Duke University Press 2006 Family Breakdown and Invisible Homeless Women: Neoliberal Governance during the Asian Debt Crisis in South Korea, 1997 – 2001 Jesook Song This article examines the relationship between the South Korean welfare...

...Sang Mi Park Duke University Press 2006 The Making of a Cultural Icon for the Japanese Empire: Choe Seung-hui’s U.S. Dance Tours and “New Asian Culture” in the 1930s and 1940s Sang Mi Park The case of Choe Seung-hui 1911 – 69?) (fig. 1),1 a prominent...

...Tani E. Barlow Duke University Press 2007 Asian Women in Reregionalization Tani E. Barlow Scholarship about sex inequality and women in “Asia” is now widely avail- able at precisely a moment when engaged scholars agree that Asia is neither...

...Tobias Hübinette Duke University Press 2007 Asia as a Topos of Fear and Desire for Nazis and Extreme Rightists: The Case of Asian Studies in Sweden Tobias Hübinette Introducing a Delicate Issue The origin of this article comes from having spent a couple of years...

...Jeffrey Santa Ana Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions Jeffrey Santa Ana The current era of war, militarism, and neocolonialism in the Pacific...

... “seen to speak.” This fact is then understood in terms of other developments in the global economy, and in reference to the specific history of electoral politics in the era of Thaksin Shinawatra. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Populist Politics in Asian Networks: Positions...

...Lisa Rofel What does it mean to say that positions opened up a space for queer intellectual work? How do we delineate that space? How does this space work in articulation with queering Asian studies more broadly? This essay addresses how the journal positions created the intellectual space...

... to be analyzed historically as well as opened up through a continuous rethinking of Asia and the racialized relationship among nationality, state, and international orders. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Asian Boundaries, Documentary Regimes, and the Political Economy of the Personal Tina...

...Fiona I. B. Ngô; Mimi Thi Nguyen; Mariam B. Lam In the introduction to the special issue, Ngô, Nguyen, and Lam argue that Southeast Asian American studies can model both epistemological and ontological inquiries about the circulation of, the negotiation with, or challenges to the knowledge regimes...

...Khatharya Um As a meditation on our longing for relationality across time and rupture, “Exiled Memory” examines the relationship between history, memory, and identity in the Southeast Asian diaspora. It situates the politics and art of remembering against the ravages of genocide and displacement...

...Viet Thanh Nguyen This article considers the challenges facing Southeast Asian American studies and the interventions the nascent field can make, particularly into Asian American studies, Southeast Asian studies, and American studies. Nguyen argues for dislodging the implicit identity politics...

...Daniel P. S. Goh Studies of Asian values discourse emphasize its link to the ideological articulation of Singapore's ruling elite in contemporary circumstances of global modernity. Significantly, an influential commentary has reflexively raised the postcolonial discomfort connected to the hybrid...

... “disguising” of his Marxist view of history behind a Hegelian logic of nation-state formation and discusses the problem of mimesis and representation in the inversion of Hegel. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 So˘ In-­sik’s Communism and the East Asian Community (1937 – 40) Travis Workman...

...Aihwa Ong Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Roundtable Southeast Asian Refugees and Investors in Our Midst Aihwa Ong The word diaspol-a evokes two kinds of intellectual predicament: The first is about cultural Otherness...

...Mark T. Berger Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Yellow Mythologies: The East Asian Miracle and Post-Cold War Capitalism Mark T. Berger Introduction: The Rise of East Asia and the End of the Cold War The end of the Cold War and the ensuing...

...Yukiko Hanawa Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 inciting sites of political interventions: queer 'n' asian Yukiko Hanawa It has always been an unstable identity, psychically, culturally, and politically. It, too...

...Barry Sautman Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Theories of East Asian Intellectual and Behavioral Superiority and Discourses on ”Race Differences” Barry Sautman In a 1993 interview, Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s longtime strongman...

...E. Nathaniel Gates Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Call for Papers Diasporic Intersections: African/East Asian Encounters in Postcolonial Contexts E. Nathaniel Gates, guest editor A new current of racialist thought, tied loosely to the older...

... stars. The emergence of participatory cyberculture has further ethnicized or globalized transnational Chinese or Asian stars such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chow Yun-fat, and Ken Watanabe, who are known for their compelling, exotic images to the Westernized audience. Among others...

...Brian Bernards As a repressed space that lies behind the national heartland and beyond the purview of the dominant ideological contestation between official and cinematic discourses over this heartland, Singapore’s “inter-Asian hinterland” denotes the spaces where three key interrelations play out...