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Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Culture and Communication in Asia)

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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.

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.