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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|154 pages
Setting the agenda
part II|62 pages
State violence
part III|66 pages
Americanism
chapter 11|21 pages
‘America' as desire and violence
chapter 12|22 pages
Okinawa's ‘postwar'
part IV|56 pages
Feminism
chapter 13|20 pages
‘You are entrapped in an imaginary well' 1
chapter 15|22 pages
Caught in the terrains
part V|79 pages
Sexuality
chapter 17|31 pages
State power, prostitution and sexual order in Taiwan
part VI|80 pages
Cinema
chapter 19|22 pages
Transnational imagination in action cinema
chapter 20|18 pages
The ‘Bollywoodization' of the Indian cinema
chapter 22|15 pages
The birth of the local feminist sphere in the global era
part VII|63 pages
Other popular cultures
chapter 24|16 pages
Emotional energy and sub-cultural politics
chapter 26|18 pages
The power of circulation
part VIII|44 pages
Movements