Trajectories

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

Kuan-Hsing Chen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• eBook ISBN: 9781134742240
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Regional Studies

Trajectories brings together cultural theorists not only from countries with a known historical critical tradition such as America, Canada and Australia but from the East-Asia locations of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, India and Thailand. It constitutes a critical confrontation between the imperial and colonial co-ordinates of north and south, east and west. Without rejecting the Anglo-American practices of cultural studies, the contributors present critical cultural studies as an internationalist and decolonized project. Trajectories links critical energies together and charts future directions of the discipline. The contributors discuss subjects such as Japanese colonial discourse, cultural studies out of Europe, Chinese nationalism in the context of global capitalism, white panic, stories from East Timor, queer life in Taiwan and new social movements in Korea. The book ends with an interview with Stuart Hall.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Culture and Communication in Asia
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Series Editor’s Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: The decolonization question
• Part I Refiguring the Colonial
• Part II Inside/Outside the Nation/State
• Part III Renegotiating Movements
• Index