
Entangled Waterscapes in Asia
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 27. February 2025
Book
Hardback
218 pages
978-90-04-71916-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume, edited by Kwai-Cheung Lo and Hung-chiung Li, explores the notion of entangled waterscape to reflect beyond the traditional continental perspectives. It understands Asia and beyond through the multifaceted interplay of history, economics, politics, culture, and ecological concerns.
The conceptualization of waterscape echoes contemporary geopolitical tensions, economic interdependencies, military strategies, and historical-cultural dynamics, offering fresh viewpoints on rethinking cultural politics and engaging with Anthropocene concerns and ecological imperatives. The volume reverberates with the discourses of the Global South, complicating prevailing worldviews and ideological underpinnings, and thereby prompts a re-evaluation of the concept of "Asia."
The conceptualization of waterscape echoes contemporary geopolitical tensions, economic interdependencies, military strategies, and historical-cultural dynamics, offering fresh viewpoints on rethinking cultural politics and engaging with Anthropocene concerns and ecological imperatives. The volume reverberates with the discourses of the Global South, complicating prevailing worldviews and ideological underpinnings, and thereby prompts a re-evaluation of the concept of "Asia."
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-71916-3 (9789004719163)
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Persons
Kwai-Cheung Lo, Ph.D., (Stanford University) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University, specializing in trans-Chinese cinemas and cultural studies. He is the author of Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions (SUNY Press, 2010); Chinese Face / Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong (University of Illinois Press, 2005); Ethnic Minority Cinema in China's Nation-State Building (University of Michigan Press, 2025); and the editor of Chinese Shock of the Anthropocene: Image, Music and Text in the Age of Climate Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Hung-chiung Li, Ph.D., (National Taiwan University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is also founding Co-Coordinator of the Asia Theories Network and founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Asia Archives. His research interest includes critical theory, comparative literature, and Taiwan and East Asian cultures and thoughts.
Hung-chiung Li, Ph.D., (National Taiwan University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is also founding Co-Coordinator of the Asia Theories Network and founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Asia Archives. His research interest includes critical theory, comparative literature, and Taiwan and East Asian cultures and thoughts.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: The Contexts, Subjects, and Politics of Waterscapes Entangled in Asia
?Kwai-Cheung Lo
2 A Critical Genealogy of Forced Migratory Labor in the Asian Mediterranean Sea
?Joyce C. H. Liu
3 Enclosing and Opening: China's Oceanic Structures of Feeling
?Dongyang Li and Elspeth Probyn
4 The Politics of Maritime Imaginary in Modern Japan
?Satofumi Kawamura
5 Floating Islands and the Oceanic in the Making of the U.S. Imperial Archipelago
?Oscar V. Campomanes
6 Medium in the Middle: Dual Mediation in Syaman Rapongan
?Hung-chiung Li
7 Sea, Ship, and City: Figuring the Impossible in Mieville, Hugo, and Kobayashi
?Christophe Thouny
8 The Poetics of Water in Dung Kai-cheung's (Meta-)Apocalyptic Tale
?Yeekwan Wong
9 Politics of the Plastisphere: For an Existential Transmutation of the In/Visible
?Chun-Mei Chuang
10 The Maritime Convergence of East Asian Cinema in Taiwan
?Woosung Kang
11 The Water That Breaks and Connects: Entangled Infrastructures of Hong Kong and China
?Kwai-Cheung Lo
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: The Contexts, Subjects, and Politics of Waterscapes Entangled in Asia
?Kwai-Cheung Lo
2 A Critical Genealogy of Forced Migratory Labor in the Asian Mediterranean Sea
?Joyce C. H. Liu
3 Enclosing and Opening: China's Oceanic Structures of Feeling
?Dongyang Li and Elspeth Probyn
4 The Politics of Maritime Imaginary in Modern Japan
?Satofumi Kawamura
5 Floating Islands and the Oceanic in the Making of the U.S. Imperial Archipelago
?Oscar V. Campomanes
6 Medium in the Middle: Dual Mediation in Syaman Rapongan
?Hung-chiung Li
7 Sea, Ship, and City: Figuring the Impossible in Mieville, Hugo, and Kobayashi
?Christophe Thouny
8 The Poetics of Water in Dung Kai-cheung's (Meta-)Apocalyptic Tale
?Yeekwan Wong
9 Politics of the Plastisphere: For an Existential Transmutation of the In/Visible
?Chun-Mei Chuang
10 The Maritime Convergence of East Asian Cinema in Taiwan
?Woosung Kang
11 The Water That Breaks and Connects: Entangled Infrastructures of Hong Kong and China
?Kwai-Cheung Lo
Index