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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.”

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Author:   Kwai-Cheung Lo ,  Hung-chiung Li
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.491kg
ISBN:  

9789004719163

ISBN 10:   9004719164
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   27 February 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Miéville, 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

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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.

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