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Book SynopsisWe hereby launch UNLIRICE, a project encompassing emergent creative culture from across Asia. What exactly is Asia to begin with? Of course, each person conjures up different cultures or regions in response to this word. One person might think of Chinese calligraphy, while another imagines glamorous idols dancing onstage. Where one person's mind may be imprinted with the image of an endless flow of motorbikes under a searing sun, for others, Asia may evoke a sleek city of skyscrapers. We could call any of these images accurate, and also inaccurate. Perhaps all of us still don't really know anything about Asia. UNLIRICE's goal is not to discover the answer to this question. We are neither concerned with unifying the diverse images of Asia, nor calling for pan-Asian sol- idarity. Instead, it seems that we still don't recognize each other for who we are. So we've tried to sketch a map that makes it possible for us to notice one another. This is a map that didn't exist to begin wit
