.... By conducting semistructured in-depth interviews with eleven skilled trade workers, this study has found that trade workers’ translocal and transnational experiences should be viewed as a continuous process with both consistencies and discontinuities between the two scales of mobility. International migration...

... Asia's rural areas. Findings reveal how rural changes in South Korea have created corresponding changes in rural areas in Vietnam through transnational and translocal rural marriages. Given the nuanced revelations of the ways in which the rural forms and changes, this article calls for its...

...Ting-Fai Yu Abstract Based on interviews and ethnographic engagement with Malaysian consumers of post-1990s Chinese-language popular media products (television, film, and music), this article argues that overseas Chinese identity formation may be as much a translocal as a transnational phenomenon...

... Inventing a Visual Currency: Socialist Realism and East Asian Art. Joanne Leow is an assistant professor of transnational and decolonizing literatures in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Her most recent work has been published in Journal of Asian American Studies, Verge: Studies...

... of scholarly publication. Linh Khanh Nguyen's “Geometries of Fractals and Power: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia's Global Ruralities” kicks off a set of studies all focused on global labor migration. In the article, Nguyen lays out a relatively familiar spatial configuration—the urban...

... elucidate between state-led transnationalism “from above” and the myriad forms of transnationalism “from below” instantiated in the lived experiences of ordinary people. From an ethnographic perspective, this issue considers a wide range of transnational movements affecting cultural life within and beyond...

... on Asian transnationalities, we began with the premise that transnationalism could not be charted in a unitary and de- fin iti ve fashion. The terms transnationalism,transnational practices, and trans- nationalities also suggest...

... and assemblages are operative from global (e.g., regional, transnational, and geopolitical) down to local levels (e.g., biographical, translocal, and ethnographic). In this article, we are interested in what it is like to live in a culturally, materially, and geopolitically shifting Asia-Pacific region, in an era...

... mobility, the article reflects on the possibility of a minor transnational positionality that decenters statist configurations of identity. It argues that the case of mainland students in Hong Kong illuminates how a hybridized political subject could emerge amid the effects of the new, Sino-centric version...

... of texts that promise the anthropologist entry into something particularly Chinese. This is because the texts she reads contain ideas, phrasings, references, and meanings that are truly translocal, in that they authorize the discourses...

... policies in India and their transnational contexts. These subjects may not be wholly resistant to the spread of global brands such as Barbie but may certainly subvert the project because they are not positions...

..., and the Histories of Art . London : Routledge . Reilly Maura . 2007 . “Introduction: Toward Transnational Feminisms ”. In Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art , edited by Reilly Maura and Nochlin Linda , 15 – 45 . London : Merrell . Scott Joan . 1986 . “ Gender...

... of the dead and the disappeared. With the nation splintered by exile, the “community” that Karl Mannheim and Maurice Halbwachs deem necessary for the anchoring of collective memory and remembrance is necessarily translocal and transnational...

... migrant with Australian nationality now working for a transnational com- pany in Shanghai. In spite of the fact that he is a Henan native, in his maid’s imagination his waidi status has clearly been eclipsed by a Western and, by implication, more...

... and asymmetric articulations between local and translocal socioeconomic pro- cesses as Tibetans in Labrang coped with the intensifying encroachments of competing outsiders by the turn of the twentieth century. Such a perspective can reveal particularly...

... of transnational marriages that makes these Hmong American women indignant. Instead, it is that the male tourists promise escape from peasant life through marriage but only spend a lascivious evening with a homeland girl and then move...

...., the Asia Times and Satellite Televi- sion Asia Region [STAR] TV) that nurtures a translocal Asian subjectivity. As Leo Ching has noted, these reregionalization processes form new con- ditions for “economic production and symbolic reproduction under...

... Ming and Old Wang were committed to mobilizing and managing resources for philanthropic organizations, calling themselves caogen gongyiren 草根公益人 (grassroots philanthropists). The term caogen 草根(grassroots) denotes not only their commitment to local as opposed to transnational affairs such as those...

...’” with a (re)imag(in)ing of the city that takes into account its historical specificities of transit(ion) and current developments in the global formation.6 The recent intensification of globalization processes—the transnational hy...

... they believe this new economy functions and by dramatizing their hoped- for place within it. The circular stage at the bottom of the pseudo Greco- Roman arena was laid out as a symbolic map of the new transnational East Asian economic sphere...