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The Politics of The Everyday: Discursive and Communicative Negotiation between Control, Violence, and Resistance in Modern Chinese Literature and Media
The past few decades have witnessed China undergoing waves of social and cultural restructuring against shifting dynamics of political and economic systems, which consequently results in drastic reshaping of everyday life experienced by every social stratum. To navigate the shifting scenes of the everyday, modern Chinese literature and media prioritize the task of negotiating individual …
China-Japan Competition or Possibilities for Cooperation? Debates On Belt and Road Initiative and Free and Open Indo-Pacific Initiative
China and Japan have been competing with each other over economic assistance, which is, according to both liberal and realist perspectives, a diplomatic tool to exercise the nation’s influence over the recipient nation. Among other things, rapid railway system is an example of such a competition (e.g, Indonesian project), and for a recipient country, competition …
Re-thinking Creative Economy Through Fashion in Asia
The rise of Asia in recent years not only as economic powerhouse but as global cultural soft power has shifted geopolitical trajectories for the region and its ‘imagined’ threat to the West. Despite the fact that Asia’s growing interest in creative industries such as fashion consumption is seen to hold out opportunities for countries like …
Aspects of the Female Intellectuals: Fictional Characters, Writers, Activists and Archivists
This panel examines the four aspects of female intellectuals in twentieth-century China, which lay beyond the current definitions of the mere ‘talented women’ or the Bluestocking circle, and the legacy of these aspects for succeeding women intellectuals. It looks at how female writers Chi Li 池莉 and Tie Ning 鐵凝 subject their heroines to moral …
At the Crossroads: Challenges and Solutions in Cross Cultural East Asia
Every person plays a role in a string of cultural and social encounters. From the grassroot to national leaders, in modern and contemporary East Asian history, such role is all about facing challenges and finding solutions. In this respect, families, medical practitioners, politicians, are all the same – every individual is a problem-solver. This panel …
The Fate of Locality in Modern China: Changes and Continuity
Unlike the conventional picture in studies of nationalism in which the dawn of nation-states ushered in the dusk of things local, the emergence of the nation-state in China was not accompanied by a decline of the local. This local-national symbiosis is understandable if we view locality in the Chinese republic as inheritance from the late …
Dissent, Public Space and Politics of Citizenship in Pakistan
The costs for dissent in Pakistan are high. The active, and increasingly anticipatory, suppression of opposition in Pakistan has momentous consequences for the freedoms of citizens in times of rising socio-economic disparities and human right violations. The space for free speech is diminishing evident from increasing penalization of journalists, student activists and minorities for state …
Rural Revitalization in Contemporary Korea and China
Korea and China have similar patterns in rural modernization and rapid urbanization. More and more rural communities are incorporated into the urban area. In rural areas of the two countries, it is easy to see high rised apartments in rural towns. Traditional rural life has been fundamentally tranformed. This radical transformation entails serious challenges. For …
Constructing the Cultural Public Sphere of and Beyond Japan: Fluidity and Dynamics in East Asia
Jürgen Habermas highlighted the development of bourgeois public spheres, which refers to a mediating domain between private and public authorities that emerged in eighteenth-century Europe. To account for increasingly complicated social realities, McGuigan proposes the idea of the cultural public sphere, referring to articulation of politics, public and personal terrains through effective modes of communication. …
Regimes of Disaster Truth in the Aftermath of 3.11
Disasters always cause panic, involve casualties and take a heavy toll on the lives of affected communities. However, some regions and groups of people are being affected by disasters more severely than others. This panel brings together original papers that explore the link between disaster and justice. By discussing whose narratives gain media attention and …