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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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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 0.482) 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
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Peripherality and nostalgia in Singapore island fiction Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Samuel Perks
ABSTRACT Singapore’s celebrated economic development during the post-independence period involved the wholesale reshaping of Singapore’s landscape. This had well-documented effects upon Singaporean cultural imaginaries and public history. The transformation of Singapore’s rivers and peripheral islands, however, is rarely cited in the national narrative. Many of Singapore’s peripheral islands were repurposed
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Hong Kong: a future in archives Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Shu-Mei Huang, Wing Yin Cheung
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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India digitalized: surveillance, platformization, and digital labour in India Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Šarūnas Paunksnis
ABSTRACT This article critically engages with the rationale of Digital India, a flagship programme of the Government of India, launched in 2015. It argues that this programme has been instrumental for the state and the corporate sector in order to steadily create a system of surveillance capitalism which collects the users’ behavioural data. The article analyses these problems by looking at the rise
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The right to ecology: Rohingya refugees and citizens contest over natural resources in Bangladesh Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Md Reza Habib
ABSTRACT More than a million Rohingya have fled Myanmar to live in Bangladesh, mostly in Cox’s Bazar district. The government has been praised worldwide for sheltering them, but this enormous influx has strained its limited resources. As the host communities struggle with the Rohingya for control over and access to the scarce natural resources they depend on for their livelihood — land, water, agriculture
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Editorial statement Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Kuan-Hsing Chen, Beng Huat Chua
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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The disappearance of the working class hero in the New Independent Turkish Cinema: globalization and the politics of festivalism Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Aslı Daldal
ABSTRACT In the mid-1990s, a new cinema began to flourish in Turkey led by an intellectual, cosmopolitan and individualistic generation. Although the problems of income distribution were still very persistent in the society, these new filmmakers were no longer interested in the demands of the working class and the social problems arising from the economic structure, albeit between 1960 and 1980, a
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Joining bits and pieces: a Chinese Indonesian mother–daughter collaborative witnessing as a resource for writing an autobiographical novel Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Alberta Natasia Adji, Wanwan Tjitrodjojo
ABSTRACT In this article, I as researcher and my mother as collaborator present small stories about our own and my late grandmother’s lived experiences during the New Order and Reformasi eras in Indonesia. Both perform a collaborative witnessing, which is a form of “relational autoethnography” that enables researchers to focus on and evocatively tell the lives of others through conversation and shared
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Visual imagination and narrativisation of COVID-19: the case of Sonny Liew Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Pin-chia Feng
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 John Hutnyk
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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“Let us build the world anew” here and now: from Sukarnoism to Bandung School Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Kuan-Hsing Chen
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Choreographing neutrality: dance in Cambodia’s Cold War diplomacy in Asia, 1953–1970 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Darlene Machell de Leon Espena
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of dance in Cambodia’s Cold War diplomacy in Asia from 1953 up until the establishment of the Khmer Republic in 1970. It explores how Sihanouk leveraged Cambodian dances to enact Cambodia’s neutral stance during the Cold War and forge cordial relations with other Asian states. Through an examination of the myriad of dance performances of the Royal Ballet and
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Japanese dancers, Bollywood dance: finding authenticity at Tokyo’s Namaste India Festival Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Kristen Rudisill
ABSTRACT By sharing the stories of the Japanese Bollywood dancers at the Namaste India Festival in Tokyo, this paper explores their self-developed hierarchy of authenticity to argue that there are multiple ways to claim and access authenticity as it relates to the performance of Bollywood dance. The dance form’s base as global, hybrid, and commercial rejects authenticity as a concept, but its performance
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Editorial introduction Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Emily Wilcox, Soo Ryon Yoon
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 23, No. 4, 2022)
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The aesthetics of intercultural method: from process to procession in new Indonesian and Indo-Australian dance Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Sadiah Boonstra, Paul Rae
ABSTRACT This article examines how three dances featuring Indonesian artists and commissioned for Melbourne's 2020 Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts staged their method of creation in ways that make explicit core features of cultural production in inter-Asia contexts. In The Seen and Unseen, by Kamila Andini and Ida Ayu Wayan Satyani, a self-contained world is best understood as participating
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Bharatanatyam and Buddhist diplomacy: inter-Asia significations in Santha Bhaskar’s Anweshana: The Search for Nalanda Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Aparna R Nambiar
ABSTRACT This paper considers a work of the Indian classical dance form Bharatanatyam performed as a vehicle for inter-Asian soft-diplomatic ventures in Singapore. Widely practiced by Singapore’s ethnic Tamil-Hindu minority, Bharatanatyam took a brief “Buddhist turn” in the early 2010s. In stark contrast to Bharatanatyam’s standard recourse to Hindu mythology, several high-profile stage productions
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“The nightingale is a graceful dancer”: Bulbul Chowdhury, dance heritage, and the new nation-state of Pakistan Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Priyanka Basu
ABSTRACT This article focusses on the cultural work of dancer Bulbul Chowdhury who performed extensively in East and West Pakistan (1950) and toured Europe with his troupe (1953). Chowdhury’s approach towards dance in newly formed Pakistan coincided with larger political events of WWII, Bengal Famine, Partition as well as the Language Movement. His methodology of dance encompassed a vision of “inter-Asia”
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blind spot: media, memory, and resistance Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Michael Sakamoto
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 23, No. 4, 2022)
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Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Adrianna Dirisio
Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 23, No. 4, 2022)
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Politik rakat: regional politics of the marginalised Indonesian domestic migrants Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 William Yanko
ABSTRACT There has been a rise in research on rap and hip hop as tools to unite and empower marginalised groups and communities in recent years. To contribute to this growing discourse, this paper draws from my fieldwork with Bali-based Eastern Indonesian rap group Mukarakat to explore the use of rap and hip hop as tools to unite and empower marginalised Eastern Indonesian domestic migrants in Western
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Statism as a lifestyle: deciphering society in films on North Korea and evolving communication through cinema Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 JeongWon Bourdais Park
ABSTRACT This article concerns a core distinctive representation portrayed in North Korean films, namely statism grounded in Juche ideology in the context of the evolution of cinema on North Korea. The paper examines, from an outsider's point of view, how the cinema represents statism that is embedded in the daily life of North Korean people, paying greater attention to two films, Comrade Kim Goes
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Overview and current status of Zainichi Korean magazines in Japan in an era of cultural pluralism: focusing on developments from 1980 to the present Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Seungjin Lee
ABSTRACT This paper gives an overview of Zainichi Korean magazines (magazines published by ethnic Koreans living in Japan) from 1980 to the present and examines the directions of major magazines. Zainichi Korean magazines started mostly as outlets for the ethnic Korean community in Japan in the political environment of the 1940s and 50s. Faced with factors such as the division of their Korean homeland
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Saigon’s penalscape: interpreting colonial prisons in Vietnam Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IF 0.482) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Sophie Fuggle, John Hutnyk
ABSTRACT This article explores how purpose-built museums interpret the story of colonial imprisonment in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Prisons integral to the 100-year French colonial occupation, and the subsequent American War, have been re-purposed, destroyed, or obscured. In response, memorial museums have an important role presenting prison history to international tourists and local visitors alike