Full Description
This rich collection of essays offers a multi- and inter-disciplinary discussion of "trans-Asia" approaches from critical theory, historical studies, cultural studies to film studies. In doing so the authors lay down the groundwork for a more inclusive knowledge-production and fruitful transnational collaboration. The authors engage with the implications of "trans-Asia" using a range of empirical cases. At the heart of the book is a desire and attempt to give a grounded understanding of what "trans-Asia" approaches are by examining human mobilities, media culture flows and connections across Asia and beyond in four key aspects: cross-border flows and connections; inter-Asian comparison and referencing; transnational and de-nationalized approaches; and cross-border collaboration.
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 Future? Yiu Fai Chow, Gladys Pak Lei Chong and Jeroen de Kloet
