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Recentring Asia histories, encounters, identities
Title
Recentring Asia [electronic resource] : histories, encounters, identities / edited by Jacob Edmond, Henry Johnson and Jacqueline Leckie.
ISBN
9781906876258
9789004212619 (e-book)
Published
Leiden, The Netherlands : Global Oriental, 2011.
Physical Description
xiv, 339 p. : ill.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"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.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 23, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The dark passage : history, piracy and the Melaka Strait / Barbara Andaya
In interesting times : Northeast Asia's tipping-point and its implications for the southern hemisphere / Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Indians in the South Pacific : recentred diasporas / Jacqueline Leckie
The legend of Minamoto no Tametomo : controversy and connections between Ryukyuan/Okinawan and Japanese histories / Ito Yushi
Dislocated location and impersonal : the object of contemporary Chinese poetry / Jacob Edmond
The city as a contact zone : Shanghai as a crossroad between China and Japan / Hasegawa Eiko
From diasporic communities to "abandoned people" (kimin) / Roman Rosenbaum
Hiding behind ambiguity : identifying an ethnicity / Anthony Shome
Supporting foreigners in Japan : NGOs and advocacy / Nanami Akiko
Indecent intimacies : Chinese men as sexual predators in New Zealand fiction, 1934 to 2006 / Kathy Ooi
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
Wartime tanka poetry : writing in extremis / Leith Morton
Reaching out with chimugukuru : positioning Okinawan identity at the Fourth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival and beyond / Miyahira Katsuyuki and Peter Petrucci
Musical moves and transnational grooves : education, transplantation and Japanese taiko drumming at the International Pacific College, New Zealand / Henry Johnson.
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