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Book SynopsisTransnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Kevin N. CAWLEY and Julia C. SCHNEIDER
PART ONE. CULTURES CROSSING BORDERS
Chapter 1. Confucianism and Becoming-in-the-World: A Transnational
Modus VivendiKevin N. CAWLEYChapter 2. Diffusion and Transnationalism: Emplantation and the Crossing of Cultural Boundaries
James H. GRAYSONChapter 3. The Battle of Red Cliffs: From History to Transnational Identity
Carlotta SPARVOLIChapter 4: Translation beyond the Written Word: The Transnational Spread of
The Journey to the West in East Asia
Barbara WALLPART TWO. NATION, EMPIRE AND BEYOND
Chapter 5. Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing Empire
Julia C. SCHNEIDERChapter 6. Multilingualism as a Tool of Resistance Against Homogenising National Narratives: South Korean Female Subjectivities and Colonial Memory in Pak Sunnyŏ’s
Ai rŏbŭ yu (
I Love You, 1962)
Nadeschda BACHEMChapter 7. Conjuring a Battling China: Willi Münzenberg and his International Popular Front
Lei QINChapter 8.
Fanxiang Toupiao 返鄉投票: Migrating Political Cleavages and Transnational Electoral Mobilisation in Vienna’s Taiwanese Community
Julia MARINACCIOPART THREE. TRANSNATIONALISM IN POPULAR CULTURES
Chapter 9. Return Ticket to Pyongyang: Transnational Aspects in the Work of Film Maker Yang Yong-hi
Till WEINGÄRTNERChapter 10. Re-Presenting Sino-Japanese relations through
Flavors of YouthJamie COATES and Jennifer COATESChapter 11. Translation /Transplantation of Queer in South Korea
Allan SIMPSONChapter 12. A Transnational Approach in Understanding Japanese Colonial Influence in Taiwan: Manifestations in Taiwan’s Cinema and Popular Music
Yu-Wen CHENPART FOUR. TRANSNATIONALISM IN GLOBAL EAST ASIA
Chapter 13. A Gateway to Exciting Opportunities? The Lives of African Migrants inside and outside Taiwan’s University Campuses
Sarah HANISCHChapter 14. Transnationalism and the Medical Cooperation in Family Planning in East Asia (1950s-70s)
Aya HOMEIChapter 15. From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward: Ethnic Koreans and Assimilation in Northeast China, 1945-1962
Adam CATHCARTChapter 16. The New Challenges of Transnational Security in Twenty-first Century East Asia: The Case of North Korea
Marco MILANI
