ABSTRACT
From my standpoint as a higher education peacebuilder in China and Korea, postmodernism is very much not dead. It may have seemed so when Wang Ning (2013, p. 296) wrote, ‘postmodernism, as a literary and cultural movement, came to an end some time ago not only in the West but also in China’. But after the 2016 UK and US elections, the 2017 Twitter wars on the Korean Peninsula, and the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, postmodernity is clearly enjoying a revival. This is because modernity too is very much alive. Postmodernity has been appropriated in this post-truth era by nationalists and neo-colonialists alike to justify anti-intellectualism, ethnocentric education, and exclusionary politics that were at the very heart of the early modernist agendas (Epstein, 1999).
