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Negotiating difficult (in)tangible heritage: the intricate journey of museum making for the “Dai-ichi Saloon” comfort station in Shanghai Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Siyi Wang, Zhiliang Su, Shengjie Su
The heritage of comfort women has always remained on the periphery of authoritative heritage, classified as a “difficult heritage,” facing a predicament of social marginalization, government concea...
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Visualising the borderlands: Kang Yong Suk’s Korean state village photographs Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Nayun Jang
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The making of Malayans: life-writing and memory work by Wang Gungwu and He Jin Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Tham Wai Liang
Using an autobiographical studies framework, this paper outlines the persistence of a Malayan nation-of-intent through contemporary life-writings which revisit the 1950s–60s. The imagined nation co...
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Breaking the mold of servitude: subaltern agency and possibilities of freedom in Elias’ Khwabnama Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Humayun Kabir
The critically acclaimed novel Khwabnama by Akhtaruzzaman Elias is set in the 1940s and offers a “magical realist” portrayal of the lives and struggles of ordinary individuals of a rural community,...
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Sense and scents: Kulsum’s smell-world and Khwabnama as an affective assemblage Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Nasrin Khandoker
Published in 1996, Khwabnama is a novel which details the end of the British colonial era and the creation of Pakistan. Throughout the novel, the author Akhtaruzzaman Elias provides his readers, wh...
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Syeda Farhana, landscaper of perpetual motion Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Naeem Mohaiemen, Naveeda Khan
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 25, No. 4, 2024)
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Dreams’ navel: a special issue on Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s Khwabnama Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Naveeda Khan, Firdous Azim
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 25, No. 4, 2024)
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Exquisite corpse: the dead and the problem of community in Elias’s Khwabnama Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Naveeda Khan
Over the course of Khwabnama as one is treated to several roving apparitions, almost invariably those who died violent deaths, it occurs that the point of the ghostly dead is not direct involvement...
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Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s look back in anguish: time traveler in search of left utopia Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Naeem Mohaiemen
This essay looks at Akhtaruzzaman Elias’ modernist novel Khwabnama as the apex of a narrative arc of left utopia within the ruins of the present, distributed over multiple short stories and one ear...
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In the time of Khwabnama Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Dina M. Siddiqi
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 25, No. 4, 2024)
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Gendered subalternity in Khwabnama Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Sabiha Huq
As an insightful literary text exploring segments of labyrinthine South Asian peoples’ history, Akhtaruzzaman Elias’ Khwabnama (1996, the title translates as “The Narrative of Dreams”) is a fiction...
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Post-World War II perspectives on Choi Seung-hee: ideological blind spots in Asia-based and Anglophone scholarship Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Liujing Xiang
During and before World War II, Japanese colonial rule cast a profound impact on the cultural and artistic landscapes of its colonies. Choi Seung-hee (1911–1969), a prominent cultural figure from t...
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Ambedkar and the cinema of reconstitution Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Shyma P
The article analyzes an interview with Ambedkar, published in Filmindia, in 1942 as an insightful deliberation on the idea of decolonial cinema. The singularity of the interview derives from its an...
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Making icons: the rise of the K-pop adjacent industries* Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 CedarBough T. Saeji
Much scholarship on the labor of Korean popular music (K-pop) fans has focused on the work they do to produce popularity of their favorite groups, such as campaigns to chart a new release. The focu...
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Debordering: woodcut printmaking practice in inter-Asian context Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Lee Chun Fung, Krystie Ng, Kenichiro Egami
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2024)
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The Indonesian theater’s laku aktor: a counter discourse to the neoliberal depoliticization of the subject Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Zuhdi Siswanto
Neoliberalism is getting more intense in line with the increasing democratization of Indonesia’s post-Reformation political economy. The discourse of neoliberal freedom that positions individuals a...
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Queer theory impossible Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Minwoo Jung
This essay examines the institutional construction of “queer theory” as a field in the United States and its translation and subsequent failure outside the U.S. Despite presenting itself as a criti...
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iCOOP puzzle: localistic practices, internationalism values, and Fair Trade in South Korea’s cooperative movement Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Jiyun Jeon, Ngai Pun
This article illuminates an intellectual puzzle of how South Korean cooperative movements attempt to overcome the dilemma between localistic practices and the value of internationalism. Moving beyo...
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Intellectuals, expressions, and transnational networking: a case study on Feng Zikai’s overseas cultural practices and religious productions Protection of Life during the Cold War period (1950s–1970s) Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Zeng Qilin
Feng Zikai and Master Kong Hiap in Singapore not only completed and published the masterpiece Protection of Life at the behest of their mentor, Master Hong Yi but also actively contributed to the g...
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Inter-Asia referencing and orientalist consideration of the transnational fandom of Thai boys’ love drama in Japan Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Sae Shimauchi
This study focused on the Japanese cyber-fandom of Thai boys’ love (BL) dramas, examining how their perception of Thailand was transformed through viewership and participation in fandom activities ...
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Rethinking the “Arts of the Contact Zone” after thirty years: Korea between the Cold War and decolonization Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Jina E. Kim
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2024)
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“Memory struggle” and contact zones in-between the two Koreas: the politics of representation in documentary films Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Woohyung CHON
This article investigates the “Memory struggle” in-between the two Koreas presented in the documentary films after the April 2018 Panmunjom Declaration. The Children Gone to Poland and Shadow Flowe...
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Within the borders of 6 by 9 inches: book cover design and the art of the contact zone Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Chang Jae Lee
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The reorganization of space and literary representation of Seoul during the liberation period, 1945–1950 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Taeyoung Oh
Liberated on August 15, 1945, Seoul was reorganized as the “capital” of the nation-state instead of a “colonial dual city.” Public spaces and buildings in Gyeongseong that were built under Imperial...
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Landscape of borders—some fragmentary thoughts Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Kyung-sik Suh
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Citizenship policies and precarity of stateless Vietnamese from Cambodia migrating to Vietnam Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 NGUYEN Nu Nguyet Anh, CAO Thanh Tam
Most Vietnamese living and fishing in Cambodia are stateless and face a difficult life due to discriminatory treatment by some Cambodian officials and citizens. Therefore, many stateless ethnic Vie...
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Social impacts of zero-COVID policy on airline workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 DANG Thi Kim Phung, LUONG Thuy Ngan
After the COVID-19 epidemic began in 2020, many countries have adopted the Zero-COVID strategy that imposes social distancing. While that approach contained the virus's spread, its societal effects...
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Staycation tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 HUNG Nguyen Phuc, HUAN Minh Nguyen
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global tourism meant local communities in tourist destinations had to act to minimise detrimental influences. Researching the perceptions of locals towards to...
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Introduction: challenging transformations for Vietnam Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 John HUTNYK, NGUYEN Huu Minh
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Middle-class occupations in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: impact factors and policy implications Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 NGUYEN Thi Thu Trang
After 1975, Vietnam experienced a series of dramatic changes in social class structure, and these changes continue to have strong impacts in the present period. A significant change is the emergenc...
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Main challenges of Vietnamese families nowadays and in the coming years Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 NGUYEN Huu Minh
The Vietnamese government has always considered family development as one of the decisive factors for the success of the country. Over the past few decades, socio-economic changes stemming from int...
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Factors that contribute to impoverished women gaining access to social work services in Ho Chi Minh City Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 PHAM Thi Ha Thuong
Ho Chi Minh City has instigated measures to assist poverty-stricken citizens, both in general and disadvantaged women in particular, encouraging wide access to social work services for poverty alle...
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Using mobile communication and implications for constructive and open dialogue in enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 LE Thi Mai
Addressing the challenges of workplace communications, this empirical study asks if mobile communication devices—especially mobile phones—offer an effective means for employees to both improve the ...
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Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 John HUTNYK
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Developing social work education in Vietnam: the student field practicum during the pandemic Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 NGUYEN Thi Do Quyen, NGUYEN Thi Phuong Linh
Vietnam’s education provision faced challenges during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the first wave in early 2020, the majority of university classes had already converted to onli...
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work and health of university library staff Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 LE Hue Huong, BUI Loan Thuy
This study sheds light on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work of university librarians in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The article’s importance is in assessing the impact of new strategie...
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Naeseon Ilche and Nazi medievalism: making nation, history, and film Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Cha Yongku
The present study aims to compare the cinematic propaganda of colonial Korea and Nazi Germany, revealing how the two countries used film to construct narratives of nationalism. Furthermore, this st...
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Singing from the same hymnbook: South Asian Canadian solidarity in the long sixties in British Columbia Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ajay Bhardwaj
This essay breaks new ground in writing the history of the long sixties by bringing in a strand of the Third World diasporic activism shaped by transnational mobility. It alludes to the role of the...
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North Korean appropriating Stanislavsky for the revolutionary theatre acting: focusing on experience Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Jaebeom Hong, Seungmoo Paik, Seong-kwan Cho
This study investigates the correlativity between the acting of the Seonghwangdang (Village Shrine)-style revolutionary theatre in North Korea and the Stanislavsky system. Kim Jong-il dictates that...
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Watching the romance together: the affective audiences in A Dream of Splendor Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Ran Xi
This research unfolds a new form of TV viewing experience that has enjoyed increasing popularity over a decade in Asia media ecology, which is realized through a participatory commenting interface ...
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Hello, Okinawa Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Tongli AI
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 6, 2023)
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Extravagant thrifters: online sales shopping and the making of “new frugalities” among the urban young in Kolkata Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Runa Das Chaudhuri
Online shopping among the young in India has attracted much attention from scholars but the carnivals of sales shopping in cyberspace have been relatively less explored. This article addresses this...
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The role of women’s political activism against enforced disappearances in Balochistan: a study of the Baluch missing persons Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Shala Ashraf, Ikram Badshah, Usman Khan
The article attempts to highlight the issue of enforced disappearances in Balochistan and in particular the Baloch population. The focus is on blood relatives and specifically mothers, sisters, dau...
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Sheep herding in Shanghai, 2022 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 JI Shi
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 5, 2023)
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The Politics of dark tourism in Sri Lanka Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Debopriya Shome
Post-war Sri Lanka has witnessed revitalised tourism in the North. Tourism initiatives are now taking shape within a contested terrain still marred by decades of violence. Yet, tourism is reconfigu...
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The ideological roots of Mongolia’s democratic revolution: Nergui’s theory of “latent colonialism” and its interpretations Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Zul Zugeerbai
Regarding the origin, purpose, and political connotation of the Mongolian democratic revolution, academic circles have rarely mentioned the “theory-ideology-policy” of the Mongolian economist and r...
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Reassessing the Chinese diaspora from the South: history, culture and narrative Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Show Ying Xin, Sai Siew-Min
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)
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Becoming Chinese in the Malay world: colonialism, migration and history in Singapore Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Sai Siew-Min
ABSTRACT This article raises a neglected discussion on the intertwined connections between Chinese migration and European imperial formations in the Malay world using Singapore as a focal point. Working from the perspective of critical historiography in contemporary Singapore, the article highlights limitations in current approaches using concepts such as “Chinese migration” and “Chinese diaspora.”
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The past recollected: One Day We’ll Understand Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Sam I-shan
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)
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Tracing the rise of video halls and transient media forms in Bengal: an archaeology of the non-archived Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Dattatreya Ghosh
ABSTRACT The lack of archival materials and objects appears as a primary challenge in conducting research on the history of media and communications in India, specifically while writing a comprehensive historical account of Bengali cinema. This paper will try to look at video halls and video tapes as the transient media spaces and objects. In the case of West Bengal, video tapes and video halls are
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Vietnam’s poverty reduction policies for ethnic minorities: the Raglai in Bac Ai, Ninh Thuan, Vietnam Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Le Hue Huong, Tran Khai Thuan, Bui Loan Thuy
ABSTRACT Research conducted among the Raglai ethnic minority in the mountains of the South of Vietnam suggests that development projects supported by both government and international agencies that aim to benefit women are actually an impediment to sustainable poverty reduction because they do not take into account the ways matriarchal practices actively demotivate male members of the community. The
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Nomads in a city of their own making: a portrait of migrant workers in Shenzhen, 1980–2000 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Jian Xiao, Zheng Wan
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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Subcontinental media Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 John Hutnyk
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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Bengali bhadralok and the Bengali press: a study of the early nineteenth century Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Shaswati Das
ABSTRACT Bengal occupies a special position in the history of Indian journalism as the journey of the first English newspaper and, after that, the first vernacular newspaper, started from here. The country had the tradition of writing newsletters, but newspapers were a European import. Unlike other means of communication, newspapers were free from direct government control and they flourished mostly
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Empowered, thy name is woman: lite feminism and Hindi SVOD platforms in India Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis
ABSTRACT This essay problematises representations of Indian women on the SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand) platforms. The oft-invoked image of Indian woman as the repository of traditional values and feminine virtues has undergone a phenomenal transformation in recent years owing to several factors such as economic liberalisation, globalisation and technological revolution. Female characters in most
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Spectacle of democracy: the quasi-executive functions of television news in India Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Abhijit Roy
ABSTRACT This article calls for enhancing the horizon of Political Communication Studies, drawing attention to certain relation between the media, the state and the public in a globalised world. Focusing on private mainstream news television in post-liberalisation India, it tries to show how Media, in its singularised popular sense of sensationalising news, generating live-stream of public opinion
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Mourning for Itaewon Halloween tragedy Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Kim Ji Youn
ABSTRACT On the eve of Halloween on 29 October 2022, a crowd was killed in a narrow alley of the South Korean capital. Known for its diversity and ethnic communities, Itaewon is a melting pot of cultures and the mediating place to enjoy a new culture, and aptly so, for the celebration of Halloween. The common response to the tragedy was that of mystery and disbelief. However, the real mystery is why
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Editorial: archiving Asian cities amidst time in motion Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Hyunjung Lee
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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The old Seoul Station as a performative space: undoing the archive in the city Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Hyunjung Lee
ABSTRACT The old Seoul Station was established in 1925 as part of the Japanese effort to expand into Manchuria through the Korean Peninsula. The colonial-era edifice (then called Gyeongseong Station) served as a major gateway for this ambition. During South Korea’s rapid industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s, the station became a major entry point for a massive rural population who migrated to the
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Who archives the city? place-making at Gwanghwamun square: power struggles between political authority and civil power Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Hyun Kyung Lee
ABSTRACT Working within the framework of the “city-as-archive,” this article investigates recent place-making processes that have occurred in Seoul, South Korea—debates over the function and symbolism of Gwanghwamun Square. The nature of the dynamics in who archives a city is determined by which actors hold power in place-making. In turn, archiving a city is a vigorously political process. In order