'Centring his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavour. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonisation begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialisation became impossible to imagine in imperial centres such as Japan and the United States. Chen contends that it is now necessary to resume those tasks, and that decolonisation, deimperialisation, and an intellectual undoing of the cold war must proceed simultaneously. Combining postcolonial studies, globalisation studies, and the emerging field of "Asian studies in Asia," he insists that those on both sides of the imperial divide must assess the conduct, motives, and consequences of imperial histories.

'Chen is one of the most important intellectuals working in East Asia today; his writing has been influential in Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and mainland China for the past fifteen years. As a founding member of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society and its journal, he has helped to initiate change in the dynamics and intellectual orientation of the region, building a network that has facilitated inter-Asian connections. Asia as Method encapsulates Chen’s vision and activities within the increasingly "inter-referencing" East Asian intellectual community and charts necessary new directions for cultural studies.' (from the back cover)

Includes bibliography and index.

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Onsite

Location code
REF.CKH
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

321

ISBN / ISSN

9780822346760

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Introduction: Globalisation and Deimperialisation

Chapter 1. The Imperialist Eye: The Discourse of the Southward Advance and the Subimperial Imaginary

Chapter 2. Decolonisation: A Geocolonial Historical Materialism

Chapter 3. De-Cold War: The Im/possibility of 'Great Reconciliation'

Chapter 4. Deimperialisation: Club 51 and the Imperialist Assumption of Democracy

Chapter 5. Asia as Method: Overcoming the Present Conditions of Knowledge Production

Epilogue: The Imperial Order of Things, or Notes on Han Chinese Racism

Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization
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