... briefly explains how teaching about this occurrence of anti-Asian violence in East Asia might lead to important discussions of multiple imperialisms within/around Asia, while providing background on the broader potential of Asian American studies for pedagogical contexts within Asia. However, through...

...Karen Fang Abstract In the global outpouring during the 2020 racial justice protests and coverage of pandemic-related anti-Asian hate, modest forms of engagement such as reading and viewing lists were often suggested as means of fostering sympathy and understanding. This essay argues that combating...

...Alexa Alice Joubin Abstract The global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism...

... by critically engaging with the model of mesology 風土論, or the study of the mutual relationships between living creatures and their biological, social, and environmental surroundings. Mesology has had a long tradition in both Western and Asian histories. In China, the concept of fengtu 風土 (wind and soil...

... and gaps in cultural attainment among ethnic Chinese Singaporeans and their migrant predecessors. It ends by charting future directions for Southeast Asian Chinese literary studies that collectively track a broader locus of “Chinese-educated” literary and cultural practices, and that promote critical inter...

...Suk-Young Kim Abstract Lotus blossoms, dragon ladies, K-pop beauty queens, and crazy rich Asians . . . these are the jaded stereotypes distilled by the prevalent popular imaginary surrounding Asian/Asian American women. Despite their varying temperaments, they tend to focus on the particular...

...Emma J. Teng Abstract This article asks how the category of “mixed race” can help us think through the recent spate of violence against Asian Americans, culminating in the Atlanta mass shootings of March 2021. It further reflects on a tension within mixed-race studies: whereas mixed-race theory...

... in the new millennium. The essay aims to denaturalize the idea of infectious disease by reframing it as an assemblage of multiple histories of American geopower and biopower from the Cold War to the War on Terror. In particular, Asia and Asian bodies have been targeted by US discourses of infection...

... as disclosed in Kuan-Hsing Chen's Asia as Method —one adopts an “Asian studies in Asia” approach with an inter-referencing system; the other foregrounds a dynamic process of turning and hybridizing that occurs between Western colonial powers and local structures—to warp up the similar differentiation of Area...

.... Based on two case studies, the article explores two distinct themes. The first is Royal Nirvana (2019), a pseudo-historical drama that integrates Song-dynasty culture into the plot. In doing so, it beautifully demonstrates the appeal of “Chinese style” or “Asian aesthetics” in popular imagination...

... on sand from other Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam, Indonesia, and Cambodia. Mindy then asks if they have left the island-state just by relaxing on the artificial beach, to which Wang responds, “Next time I can take you to other reclaimed areas . . . to see the world!” 改天帶你去別的填海地區看看 . . . 環游世...

... nationwide debate over violence and structural racism. In the latter incident, a twenty-one-year-old man went to three spas and massage parlors in the Atlanta area, where he shot and killed eight individuals, six of whom were Asian women working at the spas: Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha...

... a definitive role in shaping the dynamics and critical terms of Chinese literature and culture as a whole. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 border boundary Sinophone Cold War form At the center of Kevin Kwan's (1973−) novel Crazy Rich Asians , which inspired the Hollywood hit film...

..., Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe, situate their efforts within a lineage of 1990s deconstructive and genealogical critiques of Asian studies—most notably represented by the writings of Rey Chow and Naoki Sakai, both of whom are featured among the contributors. The work of Giorgio Agamben is frequently cited...

... xunzhao Zhongguo qing yu shi 佛洛伊德尋找中國情與事 (Sigmund Freud in Search of Chinese Matter and Mind, 2002; hereafter Freud ) to the series Jingmeng 驚夢 (The Interrupted Dream). Inaugurated in 2018 as a trans-Asian project, the early installments of the series connect Tang's oneiric imaginary...

... as a Sino-Southeast Asian or a Sinophone Indies author in a long-distance nationalist vein, but to consider the particular focus on the dynamics between patriotism and sexuality in three stories: “Nandao huailianqu” 南島懷戀曲 (Elegy for the Southern Isles, 1933), “Meiyou baba” 没有爸爸 (Got No Dad, 1933...

... it as such is the consequence of three interrelated problems and entrenched assumptions: a generalization of imperial history as world history that obscures the agency of Asian subjects and states; a pernicious empiricism that treats the Cold War as a time frame instead of a conceptual problematic; and finally, an intellectual...

... in the vast Inner Asian frontiers, the Sinicization of minority cultures still occurred on a wide scale. This was particularly true of the development of modern education and publication systems, through which the imposition of the Chinese language and the Sinitic script became possible. The May Fourth...

...-language expressions of Chinese experience (or Chineseness) as proper objects of inquiry. This disciplinary intervention is not meant to suggest that such literature has never been analyzed with respect to its contributions to Chinese identity; indeed, Asian American studies in North America is but one...

... Hevia's book the Joseph Levenson Prize by the Association for Asian Studies in 1997 provoked harsh criticisms from eminent historians precisely on sinological grounds. 5 Similarly, the receptions of Prasenjit Duara's Rescuing History from the Nation (1995), Charles A. Laughlin's Chinese Reportage...