Recentring Asia
Subtitle: histories, encounters, identities
By: edited by Jacob Edmond, Henry Johnson & Jacqueline Leckie
Publisher: Global Oriental; Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden, Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781906876258
Subjects: Ethnology; Civilization; History
Description: "These essays argue that recentring Asia necessitates a revision not only of notions of Asia but also of the centre itself. On the one hand, recentring Asia asserts the centrality of Asia, especially overlooked Asian histories, encounters and identities, to world history, culture and geopolitics. On the other hand, the concept of recentring provides a way to address and rethink the concept of the centre, a term critical to Asian Studies, area studies and, more broadly, to the study of globalization, postcolonialism, diaspora, modernism and modernity. Drawing on new approaches in these fields, Recentring Asia forces the reader to rethink the centre not as a single site towards which all is oriented, but as a zone of encounter, exchange and contestation."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dark passage : history, piracy and the Melaka Strait / Barbara Andaya; title: In interesting times : Northeast Asia's tipping-point and its implications for the southern hemisphere / Tessa Morris-Suzuki; title: Indians in the South Pacific : recentred diasporas / Jacqueline Leckie; title: The legend of Minamoto no Tametomo : controversy and connections between Ryukyuan/Okinawan and Japanese histories / Ito Yushi; title: Dislocated location and impersonal : the object of contemporary Chinese poetry / Jacob Edmond; title: The city as a contact zone : Shanghai as a crossroad between China and Japan / Hasegawa Eiko; title: From diasporic communities to "abandoned people" (kimin) / Roman Rosenbaum; title: Hiding behind ambiguity : identifying an ethnicity / Anthony Shome; title: Supporting foreigners in Japan : NGOs and advocacy / Nanami Akiko; title: Indecent intimacies : Chinese men as sexual predators in New Zealand fiction, 1934 to 2006 / Kathy Ooi; title: The trope of the ghost and cultural hybridity in Kim Sok Pom's Mandogi yurei kitan (The extraordinary ghost story of Mandogi) (1971) / Elise Foxworth; title: Wartime tanka poetry : writing in extremis / Leith Morton; title: Reaching out with chimugukuru : positioning Okinawan identity at the Fourth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival and beyond / Miyahira Katsuyuki and Peter Petrucci; title: Musical moves and transnational grooves : education, transplantation and Japanese taiko drumming at the International Pacific College, New Zealand / Henry Johnson.