Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, also known as theMovements project, is a transborder collective undertaking to confront Inter-Asia cultural politics. The question of culture is among the most important yet difficult facing Inter-Asia today. Prolonged histories of feudal ideology, patriarchy, heterosexism and, within as well as between countries, racism and discrimination against subjugated peoples continue to block struggles for popular democracy. Long-term complex-antagonisms generated by the uneven histories of global capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism, the imposed nation-state structure and regressive forms of nationalist identity politics have rendered meaningful dialogues within the region very difficult. At the same time, the globalization and regionalization of technology, economy and cultural production, and the recent breakdown of the ColdWar structure, have opened up a unique moment for dialogues within Asia and internationally. Unfortunately, this potentially generative moment has been met with triumphalist sentiment. Since the 1980s, a pervasive rhetoric of the “rise of Asia” has come to mean more than the concentrated flow of capital into and out of the region. It has come to constitute a structure of feeling that is ubiquitous yet ambiguously felt throughout Asia. Historically, this feeling of the “rise of Asia” is complicated by the region’s colonial past. While Asia’s political, cultural, and economic position in the global system will continue to fluctuate, there is a need to question and critique the rhetorical unities of both the “rise” and of “Asia.” Wealth and resources are unevenly distributed and there is no cultural or linguistic unity in this imaginary space called Asia. On the other hand, no matter whether there are common experiences shared by sub-regional histories, there is an urgent need for forging political links across these sub-regions. Hence, “inter-Asia” cultural studies. The politico-economic transformations across the region in the Post Cold War era have engendered both new social movements and critical cultural studies as forces of decolonization. These forces have given rise to alternative modes of knowledge production, and yet no adequate means exists for the circulation of intellectual work and for interaction among critical intellectuals. It is at such a pivotal conjuncture that Inter-Asia Cultural Studies has emerged as part of a movement for the ongoing construction and reconstruction of critical Inter-Asia subjectivities. It gives a long overdue voice to the intellectual communities in the region and recognizes its own existence as an attempt to continue critical lines of practices. The journal’s aim is to shift existing sites of identification and multiply alternative frames of reference: it is committed to publishing work not only out of “Asia” but also other coordinates such as the “third world.” Its political agenda is to move across: state/national/sub-regional divisions, scholarship and activism, modalities/forms of knowledge, and rigid identity politics of any form. These movements actively engage with local cultural politics within an ever-changing international environment, where politics is increasingly operating in the sphere of culture, under the dictates of a global cultural industry, mediated by new electronic and information technologies, and shaped by different forms of representation – visual, virtual, financial. This new situation has brought political economy, culture, and politics together in different ways, and forced us to create new ways of thinking and acting. For this reason, the project is more interested in generating new questions or finding ways of asking questions differently, than providing fixed answers. Toward these ends, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies will serve as a link between critical intellectual groupings; we are actively building connections with journals and groups in different locales.

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亚洲文化研究，也被称为运动项目，是一项跨界集体事业，旨在对抗亚洲文化政治。文化问题是当今亚洲间面临的最重要但最困难的问题。长期以来的封建思想，父权制，异性恋的历史以及国家内部以及国家之间以及对被屈服民族的种族主义和歧视继续阻碍着争取民主的斗争。全球资本主义，殖民主义和帝国主义的不平衡历史所产生的长期复杂对抗，民族主义身份政治的强加的民族国家结构和回归形式使该地区内部的有意义的对话非常困难。同时，技术，经济和文化生产的全球化和区域化，以及最近冷战结构的崩溃，为在亚洲和国际上进行对话开辟了一个独特的时刻。不幸的是，这一潜在的产生时刻引起了胜利主义者的情绪。自1980年代以来，“亚洲崛起”的泛滥用语已不仅意味着资本进出该区域的集中流动。它已经构成了一种感觉结构，这种感觉结构在整个亚洲无处不在，却模棱两可。从历史上看，这种“亚洲崛起”的感觉由于该地区的殖民历史而变得复杂。尽管亚洲在全球体系中的政治，文化和经济地位将继续波动，但有必要对“崛起”和“亚洲”的言辞统一提出质疑和批评。在这个虚构的空间（亚洲）中，财富和资源分布不均，没有文化或语言上的统一。另一方面，无论次区域的历史是否有共同的经验，迫切需要在这些次区域之间建立政治联系。因此，进行“亚洲间”文化研究。冷战后时期，该地区的政治经济转型引发了新的社会运动和批判文化研究，成为非殖民化的力量。这些力量导致了知识生产的替代方式，但是还没有足够的手段来进行知识工作的流通和关键知识分子之间的互动。正是在这样的关键时刻，亚洲文化研究才出现，这是正在进行的构建和重建重要的亚洲间主体性运动的一部分。它向该地区的知识界发出了早就该发出的声音，并承认自己的存在是为了继续坚持一些重要的做法。该杂志的目的是转移现有的身份识别地点，并增加其他参考框架：它不仅致力于出版工作，而且不仅出版“亚洲”，而且出版其他坐标，例如“第三世界”。它的政治议程跨越：州/国家/次区域分裂，奖学金和行动主义，知识的形式/形式以及任何形式的僵化的身份政治。这些运动在瞬息万变的国际环境中积极参与当地文化政治，在这种环境下，政治在文化领域中越来越活跃，这是在全球文化产业的指导下，由新的电子和信息技术介导的，并由不同形式的代表性–视觉，虚拟，财务。这种新情况以不同的方式将政治经济，文化和政治结合在一起，并迫使我们创造新的思维和行动方式。因此，该项目比提供固定答案更感兴趣于产生新问题或寻找不同的提问方式。为此，亚洲间文化研究将作为批判性知识团体之间的联系；