Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

Article	Citations
Peripherality and nostalgia in Singapore island fiction	13
“Losing language is a loss of nation”: transnational movement to preserve Mon scripts in Thailand	9
Debordering: woodcut printmaking practice in inter-Asian context	8
Social impacts of zero-COVID policy on airline workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	8
Multiculturalism through a lens: migrants’ voice in Taiwanese documentaries	8
Reading “The Yūko Incident”: the monstrous feminine at the intersection of Cold War anxieties in “Japanizing” Thailand	7
Deracinating ethnic minors: the affect of authoritarian certitude	7
Gendered subalternity in Khwabnama	6
Hong Kong: dating apps, political activism and the neoliberal subject	6
Tenderness amid tensions: reflections on the 2024 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) Summer School	6
Scholars as political influencers: celebrity, social media and political movements in Thailand	6
The uses of education: young women negotiating migration, employment, and romance in Gujarat, India	6
Tomar naam, amar naam, Vietnam Vietnam! Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinema	6
Editorial: archiving Asian cities amidst time in motion	5
From amorous histories to sexual histories: rethinking male love narrative in Ming and Qing dynasties and the discourse on homosexuality in modern China	5
“Let us build the world anew” here and now: from Sukarnoism to Bandung School	5
Citizenship policies and precarity of stateless Vietnamese from Cambodia migrating to Vietnam	4
Statism as a lifestyle: deciphering society in films on North Korea and evolving communication through cinema	4
Alienation perhaps: the entanglement of suffering and agency of young employees in Chinese internet companies	4
Syeda Farhana, landscaper of perpetual motion	4
The pragmatics of alienation: revisiting humanitarianism in Lebanon	3
From slash youth to flow workers: exploring the work issues behind the slash youth phenomenon in Mainland China	3
Ambedkar and the cinema of reconstitution	3
Seeing, seeing death, and us: notes on Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes	3
Introduction: localizing Cold War experiences in Hong Kong	3

Post-World War II perspectives on Choi Seung-hee: ideological blind spots in Asia-based and Anglophone scholarship	3
The Indonesian theater’s laku aktor : a counter discourse to the neoliberal depoliticization of the subject	3
Breaking the mold of servitude: subaltern agency and possibilities of freedom in Elias’ Khwabnama	3
Developing social work education in Vietnam: the student field practicum during the pandemic	2
Who archives the city? place-making at Gwanghwamun square: power struggles between political authority and civil power	2
Interrogating Hong Kong’s Cold War settlement: a Christian perspective	2
Under the Red-and-White Flag: elective Chineseness and socialist realism in Hei Ying's Jakarta	2
Postcolonial aging, amah, and diaspora in A Simple Life	2
The old Seoul Station as a performative space: undoing the archive in the city	2
Changes in the lives of Muslim women infected with HIV by their husbands in Thailand’s southernmost border provinces	2
Bangalore: migration, boundary-drawing and the worlds of work	2
The Russia-Ukraine war: a view from the Southern Left	2
Patching worlds through levitating machinic vision: Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes	2
blind spot: media, memory, and resistance	2
Dragonfly Eyes as cosmic theater: from anthropological fiction to fictionalizing anthropology	2
Editorial introduction	2
Fantastical infrastructure imagining: The MegandThe Wandering Earthas global science fiction cinema in the age of China’s rise	2
Can Marxism, liberalism, and Chinese neo-traditionalism co-exist/co-become ( gongsheng )? Provisional reflections on Jon Douglas Solomon’s The Taiwan Cons	2
The scramble for Xiaobei: epistemic extraction, racialised knowledge, and representation in Africa–China urban encounters	2
Transborder assemblages: Johnnie To’s co-production action films in Mainland China	2
Geographies of the classical: Kathak across India and Hong Kong	2
Correction	2
Hello, Okinawa	2
Digital intimacy: young women in inter-Asia	2
Roundtable on alternative modernities and alternative methodologies in Southeast Asia	1
Curatorial abstraction and the re-animation of the cold war: the re-emergence of an exclusive report on Taiwanese media	1
Ambivalence of entertainment: the Cold War and pro-communist Mandarin cinema	1
Realigning the islands, contesting infrastructural Okinawa: toward Yamashiro Chikako’s archipelagic fabulation	1
Expropriated life, class struggle, and the colonial relation along Okinawa’s fence-line	1
Bringing art back to life: the practice of artistic participation in urban China	1
Inter-Asian dance as method, artistic research as method: Nam Hwayeon’s work on Choi Seung-hee	1
Internet as an ideology: nationalistic discourses, and multiple subject positions of Chinese internet workers	1
Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond	1
Mourning for Itaewon Halloween tragedy	1
Chinese Killer King: trespassing the boundaries of crime fiction and Cantonese literature	1
Alienated in one’s own land: ecology, border security, and nationalism in chars of Bengal	1
Anticolonialism to postcolonialism to decolonialization/decoloniality: history in transition or genealogies in oblivion?	1
Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur	1
Vietnam’s poverty reduction policies for ethnic minorities: the Raglai in Bac Ai, Ninh Thuan, Vietnam	1
“The nightingale is a graceful dancer”: Bulbul Chowdhury, dance heritage, and the new nation-state of Pakistan	1
“We are just after the company”: tactical resistances of (racial minority) gig workers in Hong Kong	1
Main challenges of Vietnamese families nowadays and in the coming years	1
India digitalized: surveillance, platformization, and digital labour in India	1
The past recollected: One Day We’ll Understand	1
The reorganization of space and literary representation of Seoul during the liberation period, 1945–1950	1
Visualising the borderlands: Kang Yong Suk’s Korean state village photographs	1
Be strong, be confident: the rise of China and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games	1
A Singapore communist subaltern writes back: He Jin’s life stories as historical testimony	1
Editors’ Note	1
Losing one’s place in the world: rethinking alienation as a diagnostic for our time	1

Sheep herding in Shanghai, 2022	1
Crafting futures in a county city in China: leaving and staying among female vocational college students in transition to adulthood	1
Partially ethnographic and an ethno fiction ? An anthropological revisit of Dragonfly Eyes	1
The intimate affliction of vicarious racialization: Afro-Chinese couples in South China	1
Michael Liu’s Magic and Trans to a New Life : yao/trans/queer kinship, documentary mediation, and the NGO gaze	1
Wonders within domestic encounters: three women from Elias’ Khwabnama	1
A reflection on Hong Kong’s yellow economic circle	1
Novelistic heteroglossia in Khwabnama and its aesthetical ventures in reshaping historical narratives	1
Comparative adversaria of Gandhi and Marx: self-clarification through thinking in diaries and letters	1
Mobile genders: the trans* journeys of Chinese students in Australia	1
Technology and the limits of cultural critique	1
Chinese tradition “voyages in” Western modernity: a case study of Gu Hongming	1
The aesthetics of intercultural method: from process to procession in new Indonesian and Indo-Australian dance	1
Chinese daughters’ day: an image-based exploration of Qiqiao traditions in Xihe County	1
Cultural diplomacy, artistic network, and the politics of decolonization between Taiwan and the Philippines in the Cold War era	1
Transnational media production from the margins of “Cultural China”: the case of Singapore’s media producers	1
Dreams’ navel: a special issue on Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s Khwabnama	1
The “Y” phenomenon: dystopia, utopia, and heterotopia in Thai boys love media	1
Futurology in Taiwan and mainland China: geopolitical imagination of futures in the late twentieth century	1
Smug justice: alienation on the court lawns during the Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest, Mparntwe/Alice Springs	1
Landscape of borders—some fragmentary thoughts	1
Anocha Suwichakornpong, film festivals and the institutionalization of art cinema auteur	1
Thing-in-between ( zhong-jian-wu 中間物)	1
Singapore: boundary-work, digital creativity, and the normative life script	1
Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s look back in anguish: time traveler in search of left utopia	1
A reappraisal of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks: family, gender, individual vs. state, and colonialism	1
iCOOP puzzle: localistic practices, internationalism values, and Fair Trade in South Korea’s cooperative movement	1
Watching the romance together: the affective audiences in A Dream of Splendor	1
Queer theory impossible	1
Carnivalesque communities: Thai TV dramas and the Chinese censorship	1
Abstinence for the sake of modest success: a Chinese anti-masturbation group’s path to individualisation	1
The extreme reality of surveillance: Dragonfly Eyes and the impossibility of narration	0
Mediatized eco-religious movements in Indonesia: negotiating religiosity and environmentalism in digital Islam	0
From “abandoned people” to “stealth entrants”: a genealogy of identity shifts of Chinese migrants	0
Double alienation: regrounding critical consciousness in troubling times	0
Politik rakat : regional politics of the marginalised Indonesian domestic migrants	0
Tribal mobilization for religious identity and political space: ongoing demand for inclusion of Sarna-Tribal religion in the census of India	0
From site to sight: embodying, repositioning, and challenging transgender corporeality	0
Getting behind workplace bullying of women academics and professional women in Pakistan’s universities and corporations	0
From Ong to idols: hyper-real religions, spiritual practices, and popular culture among Thai youth	0
Taiwanese female microcelebrities in Japan: cross-cultural romance, Japanese tourism, and the post-3.11 Taiwan-Japan friendship	0
Bengali bhadralok and the Bengali press: a study of the early nineteenth century	0
Introduction: challenging transformations for Vietnam	0
Bangkok’s changing foodscape: mob urbanism and the mob(ile) foodscape	0
Theorizing China in/as political praxis	0
Toward a poetic “new self”: examining the shanshui moving image project through Shanshui: Fuchun River as Method	0
Inter-Asia traditional dances in dialogue: reflections on a performance-lecture between Singaporean practitioner-scholars	0
Editorial introduction: East Asian pop culture in the era of China’s rise	0
Thing-in-between	0
Making icons: the rise of the K-pop adjacent industries	0
History as a battleground: the Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies as a method of artistic intervention	0
Exploring identity and affinity: Myanmar students learning spaces on the southernmost border between Thailand and Myanmar	0
Ghosting Taiwan: sound, lights, and action in recollections of the White Terror	0
Intellectuals, expressions, and transnational networking: a case study on Feng Zikai’s overseas cultural practices and religious productions Protection of Life during th	0
Slim and slender: homoerotic images of young men in the 1980s Thai gay magazines	0
Writing the Hong Kong self: fiction, artifacts and the making of history in Dung Kai-cheung’s Works and Creation: Vivid and Lifelike	0
Gender and education mobilities in China and India: towards an inter-Asia comparative framework	0
The disappearance of the working class hero in the New Independent Turkish Cinema: globalization and the politics of festivalism	0
When dance goes viral: racial othering and the making of Sino-African cultural imaginaries	0
Ramifications of cultural exports for cultural dynamics: assimilation ofMcDull, a Hong Kong movie series relocated to China	0
Dairy and diaspora: postponed reform on the guangming overseas Chinese farm of Shenzhen	0
Introduction: Thailand in conjuncture	0
Sharpening the analytics of alienation	0
World Picture: Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes and its exhibition	0
In the time of Khwabnama	0
Japanese dancers, Bollywood dance: finding authenticity at Tokyo’s Namaste India Festival	0
Inter-Asia referencing: further methodological note	0
Dancers in the Japanese entertainment troupe of comfort in the 1940s: traveling along the Burma–China frontline	0
“All forward-looking people”: Pax Americana , transition, and The Remains of the Day	0
Geo-social milieu of IACS 2025	0
Wartime collaboration through a collaborator’s eyes: Zhou Fohai (1897–1947) and his diary	0
Authoritarian trajectories of (de)alienation: political affect, invoking the state and humanist-Marxist legacies	0
North Korean appropriating Stanislavsky for the revolutionary theatre acting: focusing on experience	0
Women on the move: students from rural China in Japan (re)negotiating gender expectations and family relations	0
Family language policy in the Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning : a review essay ( 2016–2022 )	0
Fluid motherhood: gender, Chinese religions, and kinship maneuvers in the Buddhist women’s Southern Sea diaspora (1880–1960)	0
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work and health of university library staff	0
The right to ecology: Rohingya refugees and citizens contest over natural resources in Bangladesh	0
Shanghai lockdown and alienation under China’s state capitalism	0
Reassessing the Chinese diaspora from the South: history, culture and narrative	0

Chineseness in Sino-Malay printing: a triptych of self-criticism	0
Globalizing Thai amulets: the Chinese - Singaporean role in commoditizing objects of faith	0
Awaiting a new dawn in Bangladesh	0
Litter-picking for placemaking and forming sense of belonging: Chinese queer women’s resilience and subjectivity	0
Is “Taiwan” a psychoanalytic creation?	0
Urban stratification: Hsinchu city as an inclusive archive	0
Love with exploitation: monogamy, prostitution and concubinage	0
Dancing me from South to South: on Wu-Kang Chen and Pichet Klunchun’s intercultural performance	0
Dire-Straits: Taiwanese TV screenwriters in the neoliberal and authoritarian 2010s	0
Gendering Chinese diaspora:New Women’s Monthlyand transnational sisterhood in postwar Malaya	0
Writing in solidarity: Gu Cangwu, Cultural Revolution, Cold War	0
The political unconscious of Global China Studies: a response to Mark McConaghy’s review of The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies: Spectral Transitions	0
Practicing Islamic law in late imperial China: dispersed Muslim minority and normative legal pluralism	0
Beyond diaspora’s horizons: mass deportations to China and an alternative to the diaspora paradigm	0
Working through a surplus: negative transference in inter-Asia encounters	0
Hermeneutics of Hamletmachine in Fangzi: Hsu Ping’s documentary photography	0
Social reproduction and the division of labour	0
Sex/ xing 性/ yin 淫 and translation as “thing-in-between”: the reconfiguration of sex/gender knowledge in late Qing China	0
Viral imperialism: outbreaks in South Korean film	0
Editorial statement	0
Knowledge in movement: configuring Asian American studies in Asian classrooms	0
Naeseon Ilche and Nazi medievalism: making nation, history, and film	0
Middle-class occupations in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: impact factors and policy implications	0
Negotiating difficult (in)tangible heritage: the intricate journey of museum making for the “Dai-ichi Saloon” comfort station in Shanghai	0
The afterlives of Bandung	0
WeTV in Thailand: (g)localised strategies of Chinese streaming media and Y-series	0
How committed is China to zero-COVID? Debating on how to execute China’s COVID policy	0
The hidden injuries of platform capitalism: alienation and overwork death in China’s platform economy	0
From “who” to “how”: the evolution of ecologism, pacifism, and feminism in Hayao Miyazaki from the perspective of critical theory	0
Guangzhou: embroidering visibility, presenting positivity	0
Sense and scents: Kulsum’s smell-world and Khwabnama as an affective assemblage	0
The role of women’s political activism against enforced disappearances in Balochistan: a study of the Baluch missing persons	0
“How can a small app piss off an entire country?”: India’s TikTok ban in the light of everyday techno-nationalism	0
The unthinkable e-waste: uncover the dual narrative of the afterlife of electronic devices in China	0
The making of Malayans: life-writing and memory work by Wang Gungwu and He Jin	0
The living legend of the lost kingdom	0
Inter-praxis: feminism and trauma	0
Education mobility at the cost of widening gender gap? The silent women behind Pakistani male students’ success stories in China	0
The 1927 Beijing Art Convention and Lin Fengmian in China: from a social movement to an artistic movement	0
Factors that contribute to impoverished women gaining access to social work services in Ho Chi Minh City	0
Between gendered selfhood and patriarchal family: young women’s non-metropolitan education mobilities in urban north India	0
The new “Great Game”? Decolonizing wargames in the era of China’s rise	0
Camouflage as truth: trans-Strait and tactical identities of younger–generation Taiwanese migrating to China	0
Choreographing neutrality: dance in Cambodia’s Cold War diplomacy in Asia, 1953–1970	0
Relay translation and South–South imaginary: the case of Muhammad Iqbal in China	0
Guest Editors' Note	0
Digital feminism in post-socialist China: a reflection on gender and class through neologisms	0
Saigon’s penalscape: interpreting colonial prisons in Vietnam	0
Toward a care utopia: Chunmiao, socialist medicine and revolutionary acts	0
The main axis as utopian architecture: campus planning at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan	0
Gendered modernities, neoliberal subjects: aspirational cities in inter-Asia perspective	0
Joseon-Soviet Culture (Jo Sso Munhwa) and Baek Seok’s translation	0
“Memory struggle” and contact zones in-between the two Koreas: the politics of representation in documentary films	0
A saga of courage and protest: a vigilante’s crusade against gendered violence	0
Typewriters and typists in Republican China, 1910s–1940s: everyday technology and race, class and gender	0
Staycation tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Inter-Asia referencing and orientalist consideration of the transnational fandom of Thai boys’ love drama in Japan	0
A historical garden and a student centre: two memorial landscapes to reposition Hong Kong, 1959–1968	0
The Politics of dark tourism in Sri Lanka	0
Non-liberal parables for the Millennium: speculative pasts of the West and other futurities	0
Multicultural dance-making in Singapore: Merdeka, youth solidarity and cross-ethnicity, 1955–1980s	0
Becoming Chinese in the Malay world: colonialism, migration and history in Singapore	0
Singing from the same hymnbook: South Asian Canadian solidarity in the long sixties in British Columbia	0
Pathways to social development: Rosa Luxemburg’s studies on the anthropology and sociology of imperialism	0
The challenge of engaging art into the social reality: preliminary thoughts on Chinese contemporary avant-garde art	0
Subalternity under neo-colonial division system and re-launch of intellectual movements: inter-referencing between Taiwan and South Korea	0
Two worlds apart: a qualitative study of culture-led rural regeneration projects in China	0
Joining bits and pieces: a Chinese Indonesian mother–daughter collaborative witnessing as a resource for writing an autobiographical novel	0
Oracles in the fracture: the symbiotic narrative of shamanic art and contemporary spirituality	0
Overview and current status of Zainichi Korean magazines in Japan in an era of cultural pluralism: focusing on developments from 1980 to the present	0
A critical overview of Zainichi Korean films since 1945	0
Exquisite corpse: the dead and the problem of community in Elias’s Khwabnama	0
Nomads in a city of their own making: a portrait of migrant workers in Shenzhen, 1980–2000	0
La(n)bility among disadvantaged yaos in Northeast China	0
Spectacle of democracy: the quasi-executive functions of television news in India	0
Pop culture at frontline	0
The “rational” fan? Negotiating transnational cosmopolitanism and nationalism among Hong Kong BTS fans	0
Translating the pet man: the “milky puppy” imaginary and neoliberal subjectivity	0
Folding the digital and the city: boundary work and the infrastructures of intimacy in Asia	0
Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia	0
Visual imagination and narrativisation of COVID-19: the case of Sonny Liew	0
Alienation during crisis: experiences of COVID-19 vaccine sceptics in Singapore	0
Between history and memory	0
Subcontinental media	0
Using mobile communication and implications for constructive and open dialogue in enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City	0
Universality and particularity: woodcut portraits in Asia	0
Much ado about nothing: alley life, dwelling ethics, and environmentalism of life in Taiwan	0
Artists under the influence: from avant-garde to proletarian identity in interwar Japan	0
The ideological roots of Mongolia’s democratic revolution: Nergui’s theory of “latent colonialism” and its interpretations	0
Within the borders of 6 by 9 inches: book cover design and the art of the contact zone	0
Exhibition as method: rethinking the cartography of trans-Asia	0
The new dynamics between the state, local ideals, and (anti-)corruption: an ethnographic study of the ethical practices of China's pharmaceutical industry	0
Extravagant thrifters: online sales shopping and the making of “new frugalities” among the urban young in Kolkata	0
Bharatanatyam and Buddhist diplomacy: inter-Asia significations in Santha Bhaskar’sAnweshana: The Search for Nalanda	0
How does criticism civilize: the possibility and limitation of literature criticism in university education	0