The Inter-Asia cultural studies reader / edited by Kuan-Hsing Chen and Chua Beng Huat.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-77) and index.

Introduction: The inter-Asia cultural studies: movements project / Kuan-Hsing Chen and Chua Beng Huat -- Pt. I. Setting the agenda. How does Asia mean? / Sun Ge ; The politics of imagining Asia: a genealogical analysis / Wang Hui ; Alternative frames? Questions for comparative research in the third world / Tejaswini Niranjana ; Conceptualizing an East Asian popular culture / Chua Beng Huat ; Producing knowledge of Southeast Asia: a Malaysian view / A. B. Shamsul -- Pt. II. State violence. Democracy and the violence of the state: a political negotiation of death / Partha Chatterjee ; Decolonization and assumption of war responsibility / Hanasaki Kohei ; Mourning Korean modernity in the memory of the Cheju April Third incident / Kim Seong-nae ; Indonesia's original sin: mass killings and capitalist expansion, 1965-66 / Hilmar Farid -- Pt. III. Americanism. Embodiment of American modernity in colonial Korea / Yoo Sun-Young ; 'America' as desire and violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War / Shunya Yoshimi ; Okinawa's 'postwar': some observations on the formation of American military bases in the aftermath of terrestrial warfare / Toriyama Atsushi -- Pt. IV. Feminism. 'You are entrapped in an imaginary well': the formation of subjectivity within compressed development - a feminist critique of modernity and Korean culture / Cho Han Hae-joang ; Women and freedom / Firdous Azim ; Caught in the terrains: an inter-referential inquiry of trans-border stardom and fandom / Eva Tsai --

Pt. V. Sexuality. Embodying gender: transgender body/subject formations in Taiwan / Josephine Ho ; State power, prostitution and sexual order in Taiwan: towards a genealogical critique of 'virtuous custom' / Hans Tao-ming Huang ; Reticent poetics, queer politics / Liu Jen-pheng and Ding Naifei -- Pt. VI. Cinema. Transnational imagination in action cinema: Hong Kong and the making of a global popular culture / Meaghan Morris ; The 'Bollywoodization' of the Indian cinema: cultural nationalism in a global arena / Ashish Rajadhyaksha ; Detouring through Korean cinema / Paul Willemen ; The birth of the local feminist sphere in the global era: 'trans-cinema' and Yosongjang / Kim Soyoung -- Pt. VII. Other popular cultures. Discourse of cultural identity in Indonesia during the 1997-1998 monetary crisis / Melani Budianta ; Emotional energy and sub-cultural politics: alternative bands in post-1997 Hong Kong / Eric Ma ; Feminization of the 2002 World Cup and women's fandom / Kim Hyun Mee ; The power of circulation: digital technologies and the online Chinese fans of Japanese TV drama / Kelly Hu -- Pt. VIII. Movements. Asian peace movements and empire / Muto Ichiyo ; Revitalizing the Bandung spirit / Hee-yeon Cho ; Rethinking social movements through retranslating the economy / Po-keung Hui.