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{"title":"Hong Kong: a future in archives","authors":"Shu-Mei Huang, Wing Yin Cheung","doi":"10.1080/14649373.2023.2182941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2182941","url":null,"abstract":"Hong Kong used to be a city of disappearance (Abbas [1997] 2008), where change was the norm. Yet, unprecedented changes that happened just within the past decade left the city in shock. No one was expecting to see cultural workers and educators being put in custody for publishing politically “inappropriate” contents, examples including popular songs and children’s books that depict sheep being attacked by wolves—an allusion to the state crackdown on prodemocracy activists in the city; nor did anyone expect the dramatic closure of Apple Daily, an outspoken, pro-democracy tabloid that never hesitated to criticize Beijing or expose local cases of corruption for its 26-year-long life in Hong Kong. The series of drastic changes have pushed Hong Kongers to archive every disappearing thing as much as possible. Meanwhile, people are leaving or, more precisely, have been leaving the city that is being forced to shed its characters of Hong Kong-ness. As of July of 2021, the departure hall of Chek Lap Kok International Airport was crowded with passengers and their families in tears; flights were packed with desperate travelers leaving for the UK to make use of their last chance granted by Leave Outside the Immigration Rules (LOTR). It is certainly impossible for one to pack up a beloved city and leave for a new home elsewhere and not everyone can afford to leave. The beaches and harbors cannot be relocated; the local-grown vegetables and chickens cannot be relocated elsewhere as the soil and water of Hong Kong cannot be brought across borders. At the same time, those who have decided to stay must prepare themselves for a continuously, rapidly changing Hong Kong that totally erases its existing uniqueness as Hong Kong. In terms of food, it has become increasingly difficult for the remaining Hong Kongers to afford local-grown produce due to decreasing productive farmlands in Hong Kong, that once gave rise to transformative planning practices that were seemingly bringing hopeful, regenerative politics and more prospects for a socio-ecologically sustainable Hong Kong (Huang 2021). Existing literature and popular media have been paying attention on how Hong Kongers have brought their recipes and cuisine styles with them to their second home locations such as Vancouver, Toronto, London, Taipei, etc. Among others, cha chaan teng—Hong Kong style cafes that serve affordable, hybrid forms of food—has been recognized as one of the most well-known social spaces through which overseas Hong Kongers would retrieve and retain the daily taste of Hong Kong. For instance, the successful consumption and heritagization of Hong Kong style milk tea testified to Hong Kongers’ presence in many global cities around the world (Mak 2021). Heritage in Hong Kong has never been just about tradition or authenticity but (re)invention. Old Hong Kong has","PeriodicalId":46080,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"284 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45295189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peripherality and nostalgia in Singapore island fiction","authors":"S. Perks","doi":"10.1080/14649373.2023.2182937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2182937","url":null,"abstract":"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 during the development drive, as islanders were relocated to the main island and supplanted by oil refineries, tourism attractions, and landfill. Commemoration of this history of resettlement is scant, and the islands remain peripheral and relatively inaccessible to most Singaporeans. This article draws on Vyjayanthi Rao’s conceptualisation of the “city-as-archive” in tandem with Elizabeth DeLoughrey’s “tidalectics” to put forward a method of reading literature for its fluid construction of historical meaning in relation to places. By positioning Singapore’s islands and rivers in world-historical processes, it explores representations of living cultures and cultural memory to show how the bounded places of the southern islands and Seletar Reservoir act as repositories for cultural memory and practice. Through analysis of Isa Kamari’s novel Rawa and Suratman Markasan’s novel Penghulu, this article foregrounds these peripheries, illustrating how cultural histories are brought to the fore as living and dynamic, rather than merely preserved.","PeriodicalId":46080,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"223 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42835749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chinese Killer King: trespassing the boundaries of crime fiction and Cantonese literature","authors":"Nga Li Lam","doi":"10.1080/14649373.2023.2156117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2156117","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay introduces readers to a Cantonese writer, editor, and director, Yam Wu-Fa/Ren Huhua (?-1976), whose creative life peaked between the 1930s and the 1950s among a Cantonese-speaking readership across the Pacific. Pertinent to our discussion is his crime fiction series, Chinese Killer King (zhongguo sharenwang). The Killer King, “Charlie Chiu”—not to be confused with Earl Derr Biggers’s “Charlie Chan”—is a Cantonese borderland hero who derives from various references, both fictional and historical, addressing a cosmopolitan yet Cantonese imaginary. Overlooked, Yam and his works represent more than the marginalisation that is commonly experienced by Southernly “popular fictions” in a histography under an elitist and Shanghai-Beijing-centric framework. Chinese Killer King challenges the kind of place-bound identity politics evident in today’s discussion on Hong Kong literature and Sinophone writings. The author hence explores the possibility of using “Cantonese literature” as a critical framework to historicise and theorise a Cantonese-ness and its border-crossing dimension and discusses how the series may be positioned among world crime fictions.","PeriodicalId":46080,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"36 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46754167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Visual imagination and narrativisation of COVID-19: the case of Sonny Liew","authors":"P. Feng","doi":"10.1080/14649373.2023.2156681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2156681","url":null,"abstract":"When the report of the spread of a SARS-like disease was detected in Wuhan in December 2019","PeriodicalId":46080,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"101 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46416455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparative adversaria of Gandhi and Marx: self-clarification through thinking in diaries and letters","authors":"John Hutnyk","doi":"10.1080/14649373.2023.2156129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2156129","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We can now see in the public sphere almost everything written by Karl Marx and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Both are widely read, and both have had major impacts on how many people, if not all in some way, understand political activity. Both were prolific writers, but their ideas would exceed the forms in which they were expressed. Access to even their most intimate writings—diary, drafts, notebooks, personal letters—perhaps allows us to better see, in a retrospective way, their thinking unfold. Looking at private correspondence, notebooks and diaries of famous political figures reveal writing as a tool of self-clarification, providing insight into the labour required as a prelude to formal publication. Seeking out how public texts were rehearsed and assembled in more intimate forms for the ears of others also raises questions about who gets to write and read, and of course, what is retained and what is excluded by publication. Comparing Marx’s notebooks and drafts with Capital or Gandhi’s daily diary with its published versions might mean asking different self-clarifying questions, in our different contexts of distraction. And of Marx and Gandhi, might we ask if it is still possible for someone politically engaged to write all the time? An emphasis on “adversaria” may itself be a privileged diversion, available only to those who will be measured in turn.","PeriodicalId":46080,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"159 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42769094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Joining bits and pieces: a Chinese Indonesian mother–daughter collaborative witnessing as a resource for writing an autobiographical novel","authors":"A. Adji, Wanwan Tjitrodjojo","doi":"10.1080/14649373.2023.2156115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2156115","url":null,"abstract":"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 storytelling as a source that informs my life writing practice. Collaborating with my mother, this article is a reflection on how I, as a young Chinese Indonesian woman writer, capture and negotiate my family’s hybrid identities as double minorities through writing an autobiographical novel on my late grandmother’s and my mother’s lived experiences as well as my own.","PeriodicalId":46080,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"19 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42919434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pathways to social development: Rosa Luxemburg’s studies on the anthropology and sociology of imperialism","authors":"Peter Hudis","doi":"10.1080/14649373.2023.2156126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2156126","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 While Rosa Luxemburg is widely known for her critique of reformism and political authoritarianism, less attention has been paid to her anthropological and ethnographic studies of non-Western and precapitalist societies. This chapter examines Luxemburg’s work on this in her Introduction to Political Economy and writings composed between 1907 and 1914 at the school of the German Social-Democratic Party in Berlin. In doing so, it compares and contrasts Luxemburg’s studies on the non-Western world with the late writing of Marx (1872–1883), especially concerning “the so-called primitive accumulation of capital.”","PeriodicalId":46080,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"129 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43262106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Russia-Ukraine war: a view from the Southern Left","authors":"Ranabir Samaddar, B. Xiang","doi":"10.1080/14649373.2023.2156130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2156130","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 \u0000 The Left is under siege across the globe. Anti-NATO arguments are ridiculed as pro-Putin. The US military-industry nexus is rapidly extending to become a global military-industry-finance-media nexus. The Left in China, India, Turkey, Brazil and many other countries have been crushed or became complicit with authoritarianism. In Europe, progressive ideals that have enjoyed wide support since the end of World War Two are being seriously challenged. In this conversation, Ranabir Samaddar from India and Biao Xiang from China reflect on the shortcomings of the Western Left in their response to the Russia-Ukraine war, and argue that the international Left must take viewpoints from the Global South much more seriously.","PeriodicalId":46080,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"174 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45694652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social reproduction and the division of labour","authors":"LY Hoang Minh Uyen","doi":"10.1080/14649373.2023.2156128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2156128","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Analysis of social reproduction and the division of labour in recent years has (again) attracted attention. In this paper, examples from India and Vietnam are considered to show how the roles of women and those considered “unproductive” in present-day capitalist societies are in fact essential to sustaining capitalist production. Through readings of Marx and Marxist-feminist analysis, this article will show why there is division among workers in factories along lines of gender, within the family, and among family generations. This paper also contributes to the analysis of social reproduction worldwide by offering some criticisms of Indian and Vietnamese authors on topics such as childcare (Anganwadi) and others. Notwithstanding a long tradition, reaching back to Marx’s own commentaries, which are followed closely in the second half of this paper, social reproduction studies have been innovative because they displace stereotypes that reinforce a limiting conception of women and others as being of lesser importance for capitalist production. In this way, a clear focus on what Marx had to say, and how it can be developed in new contexts, is the means of clarifying an analysis of social structures and social development.","PeriodicalId":46080,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"143 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48472553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wartime collaboration through a collaborator’s eyes: Zhou Fohai (1897–1947) and his diary","authors":"Dongyoun Hwang","doi":"10.1080/14649373.2023.2156118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2156118","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 This paper examines the politics and ideology of collaboration in China during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression through Zhou Fohai’s diary. It suggests that his collaboration be understood as a complex wartime phenomenon that demonstrates a different version of nationalism with an aim to alleviate pains and hardships of the people during the war and with a prospect for China’s survival and development based on anti-communism and Sun Yat-sen’s Pan-Asian idea that viewed Japan as its crucial partner. Zhou’s collaboration also needs to be approached within the context of the Guomindang’s political culture and history, as he believed that organizing a separate National Government had been an acceptable political undertaking in the party with two precedents. His diary also testifies that the debacle of the Nanjing collaborationist government was not just due to its nature as a “puppet regime,” but a product of complex factors deep-seated in the party’s incorrigible culture and practice.","PeriodicalId":46080,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"52 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47179747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}