ABSTRACT

Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies scholarship to the international English speaking world and constantly challenging existing conceptions of cultural studies, the journal has emerged as the leading publication in Cultural Studies in Asia.

 

The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader brings together the best of the ground breaking papers published in the journal and includes a new introduction by the editors, Chen Kuan-Hsing and Chua Beng Huat. Essays are grouped in thematic sections, including issues which are important across the region, such as State violence and social movements and work produced by IACS sub-groups, such as feminism, queer studies, cinema studies and popular culture studies.

 

The Reader provides useful alternative case studies and challenging perspectives, which will be invaluable for both students and scholars in media and cultural studies.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements project

part I|154 pages

Setting the agenda

chapter 1|57 pages

How does Asia mean?

chapter 2|37 pages

The politics of imagining Asia

A genealogical analysis

chapter 3|12 pages

Alternative frames?

Questions for comparative research in the third world

chapter 5|21 pages

Producing knowledge of Southeast Asia

A Malaysian view

part II|62 pages

State violence

chapter 6|15 pages

Democracy and the violence of the state

A political negotiation of death

chapter 9|16 pages

Indonesia's original sin

Mass killings and capitalist expansion, 1965–66

part III|66 pages

Americanism

chapter 11|21 pages

‘America' as desire and violence

Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War

chapter 12|22 pages

Okinawa's ‘postwar'

Some observations on the formation of American military bases in the aftermath of terrestrial warfare 1

part IV|56 pages

Feminism

chapter 13|20 pages

‘You are entrapped in an imaginary well' 1

The formation of subjectivity within compressed development – a feminist critique of modernity and Korean culture

chapter 14|12 pages

Women and freedom

chapter 15|22 pages

Caught in the terrains

An inter-referential inquiry of trans-border stardom and fandom 1

part V|79 pages

Sexuality

chapter 16|17 pages

Embodying gender

Transgender body/subject formations in Taiwan 1

chapter 17|31 pages

State power, prostitution and sexual order in Taiwan

Towards a genealogical critique of ‘virtuous custom' 1

part VI|80 pages

Cinema

chapter 19|22 pages

Transnational imagination in action cinema

Hong Kong and the making of a global popular culture

chapter 20|18 pages

The ‘Bollywoodization' of the Indian cinema

Cultural nationalism in a global arena

chapter 21|23 pages

Detouring through Korean cinema

chapter 22|15 pages

The birth of the local feminist sphere in the global era

‘Trans-cinema' and Yosongjang

part VII|63 pages

Other popular cultures

chapter 24|16 pages

Emotional energy and sub-cultural politics

Alternative bands in post-1997 Hong Kong

chapter 26|18 pages

The power of circulation

Digital technologies and the online Chinese fans of Japanese TV drama

part VIII|44 pages

Movements