Asia As Method Toward Deimperialization

Name: Asia As Method Toward Deimperialization
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ISBN: 9780822346760

ISBN-10: 0822346761

ISBN-13: 9780822346760

Edition: 2010

Authors: Kuan-Hsing Chen

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Centring his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent, global endeavour. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of de-imperialization was rendered impossible to imagine in imperial centres such as Japan and the United States. Chen contends that it is now necessary to resume those tasks, and that decolonization, de-imperialization, and an intellectual undoing of the Cold War must proceed simultaneously. Combining postcolonial studies, globalization studies, and the emerging…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Introduction Globalization and Deimperialization



The Imperialist Eye: The Discourse of the Southward Advance and the Subimperial Imaginary



Decolonization: A Geocolonial Historical Materialism



De-Cold War: The lm/possibility of “Great Reconciliation”



Deimperialization: Club 51 and the Imperialist Assumption of Democracy



Asia as Method: Overcoming the Present Conditions of Knowledge Production


Epilogue The Imperial Order of Things, or Notes on Han Chinese Racism


Notes


Special Terms


Bibliography


Index