Trans-Asia As Method - Theory and Practices

This collection offers an interdisciplinary discussion of "trans-Asia" approaches from critical theory, historical studies, cultural studies to film studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Towards Trans-Asia: Projects, Possibilities, Paradoxes, Gladys Pak Lei Chong, Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen de Kloet
2. Trans-Asia as Method: A Collaborative and Dialogic Project in a Globalised World, Koichi Iwabuchi
3. What is the "Trans" in Trans-Asia? Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen de Kloet
4. Transcending Trans-Asia? Lessons from Trans-Europe, Ien Ang
5. Towards Asian Independence: The Transpacific and Inter-Asian Trajectories of Taraknath Das, Chih-Ming Wang
6. On Exile Trilogy: Trans-Asia Trajectory, Soyoung Kim
7. Asian Theatricalities in the Transpacific: The Hispanophone Transculturation of Nick Rongjun Yu's The Crowd or, Performing the Chinese Cultural Revolution in Peru, Rossella Ferrari
8. Repeating Anime's Creativity Across Asia, Stevie Suan
9. Trans/Asia: A Multi-Mobilities Solution to Identity Politics? Jiyu Zhang
10. Dwellings, Aspirations, and the Good Life: Inter-Referencing Young People in Beijing and Hong Kong, Gladys Pak Lei Chong
11. Coda: Rolling Back Towards a Trans-Asia

About the author

Jeroen de Kloet is Professor of Globalisation Studies and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies at the University of Amsterdam.Yiu Fai Chow is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.Gladys Pak Lei Chong is Assistant Professor of Liberal and Cultural Studies at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Summary

This collection offers an interdisciplinary discussion of "trans-Asia" approaches from critical theory, historical studies, cultural studies to film studies.

Product details

• Authors: Jeroen De Kloet, Jeroen Fai Chow De Kloet
• Assisted by: Chow Yiu Fai (Editor), Jeroen De Kloet (Editor), Yiu Fai Chow (Editor), Gladys Pak Lei Chong (Editor), Kloet Jeroen de (Editor), Gladys Pak Lei Chong (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781538148105
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4810-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology