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.
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Kuan-Hsing Chen teaches at the National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He is the author of Media/Cultural Criticism: A Popular-Democratic Line of Flight (Taipei, 1992) and co-editor of Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (Routledge, 1996).
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An indispensable text for doing Asia/Pacific cult studies,
This review is from: Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Culture and Communication in Asia) (Paperback)
This is an indispensable text for doing Asia/Pacific cultural studies in the contemporary moment, exposing a range of tactics and problems under construction. The range of work and disciplinary mixtures challenge prior and stable senses of what constitutues the field of social science, or literary studies for that matter, and "cultural studies" is itself seen to be a mongrel fate of uncertainty and exploration, tracing "trajectories" from Taipei to Birmingham and Honolulu and beyond. A work of global/local engagements, in the full sense of that dialectic. Ien Ang is NOT the co-editor at all, by the way.
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A useful approach to the maze of Asia/Pacific struggles.,
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This review is from: Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Culture and Communication in Asia) (Paperback)
Dislocates and relocates practices and discipline of cultural studies in an array of Asia/Pacific sites in the context of resurrecting decolonizing dynamics and social democratic energies from earlier projects. The end result is a useful and multiple approach to the complex maze of Asia/Pacific cultural and political struggles,with more to come from Taiwan and elsewhere beyond the Birmingham old model.
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This introductory chapter is a small theoretical exercise to trace selective episodes of responses to colonialism in the era immediately following the end of World War Two, essentially concerned with the problems within the (ex-) colonies, in order to situate the essays in the book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marginal imperialism, colonial cultural imaginary, queer valentines, chih movement, critical syncretism, global decolonization movement, global power center, phobic narrative, top ten grossers, transborder participatory democracy, tragic love songs, colonial identification, press movements, active yielding, administrative absorption, yielding mode, neocolonial structure, social ensemble, white panic, passive yielding, queer desire, enunciative position, interracial intimacy, press unions, cultural activism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, New York, East Timor, Mad Max, Pleng Luktoong, New Park, Oxford University Press, Southeast Asia, Indiana Jones, Jackie Chan, Stuart Hall, Straits Times, Southeast China, Ashis Nandy, Princeton University Press, University of Tokyo, Armor of God, Duke University Press, Tongues Untied, University of Minnesota Press, World War Two, Better Tomorrow, Indiana University Press, Okakura Tenshin, Pleng Pua Chiwit New!
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This introductory chapter is a small theoretical exercise to trace selective episodes of responses to colonialism in the era immediately following the end of World War Two, essentially concerned with the problems within the (ex-) colonies, in order to situate the essays in the book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marginal imperialism, colonial cultural imaginary, queer valentines, chih movement, critical syncretism, global decolonization movement, global power center, phobic narrative, top ten grossers, transborder participatory democracy, tragic love songs, colonial identification, press movements, active yielding, administrative absorption, yielding mode, neocolonial structure, social ensemble, white panic, passive yielding, queer desire, enunciative position, interracial intimacy, press unions, cultural activism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, New York, East Timor, Mad Max, Pleng Luktoong, New Park, Oxford University Press, Southeast Asia, Indiana Jones, Jackie Chan, Stuart Hall, Straits Times, Southeast China, Ashis Nandy, Princeton University Press, University of Tokyo, Armor of God, Duke University Press, Tongues Untied, University of Minnesota Press, World War Two, Better Tomorrow, Indiana University Press, Okakura Tenshin, Pleng Pua Chiwit New!
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- RC Series Bundle: The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics) by Homi K. Bhabha on 5 pages
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- The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories by Partha Chatterjee on 4 pages
- Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore (Politics in Asia) by Beng-Huat Chua on 4 pages
- The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia by Alison Broinowski on page 256, page 259, and page 261
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