Leong Yew - Alterities in Asia

This book investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge, and so on) and at different points in time. Although coming from different perspectives such as literary criticism, film studies, geography, cultural history and political science, the contributors collectively argue that Asian otherness is more than the dialectical interplay between the Western self and one of its many others, and more than just the Orientalist discourse writ large. Rather, they demonstrate the existence of multiple levels of inter-Asian and intercultural contact and consciousness that both subvert as much as they consolidate the dominant Western Core-Asian periphery framework that structures what the mainstream assumes to be knowledge of Asia.

With chapters covering a wealth of topics from Korea and its Cold War history to Australias Asian identity crisis, this book will be of huge interest to anyone interested in critical Asian studies, Asian ethnicity, postcolonialism and Asia cultural studies.

Leong Yew is an Assistant Professor in the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Disjunctive Empire of International Relations (2003).

1 Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe
Shopping for allies
Czeslaw Tubilewicz

2 The Asia-Europe Meeting
The theory and practice of interregionalism
Alfredo C. Robles, Jr

4 Asian-European Relations
Building blocks for global governance?
Edited by Jrgen Rland, Gunter Schubert, Gnter Schucher and Cornelia Storz

5 Taiwans Environmental Struggle
Toward a green silicon island
Jack F. Williams and Chang-yi David Chang

6 Taiwans Relations with Mainland China
A tail wagging two dogs
Su Chi

7 The Politics of Civic Space in Asia
Building urban communities
Edited by Amrita Daniere and Mike Douglass

8 Trade and Contemporary Society Along the Silk Road
An ethno-history of Ladakh
Jacqueline Fewkes

12 Human Genetic Biobanks in Asia
Politics of trust and scientific advancement
Edited by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner

13 East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective
Current features and a vision for the future
Edited by Tamio Nakamura

15 Preventing Corruption in Asia
Institutional design and policy capacity
Edited by Ting Gong and Stephen Ma

16 Expansion of Trade and FDI in Asia
Strategic and policy challenges
Edited by Julien Chaisse and Philippe Gugler

17 Business Innovation in Asia
Knowledge and technology networks from Japan
Dennis McNamara

19 Regionalism in ChinaVietnam Relations
Institution-building in the greater Mekong Subregion
Oliver Hensengerth

20 From Orientalism to Postcolonialism
AsiaEurope and the lineages of difference
Edited by Sucheta Mazumdar, Kaiwar Vasant and Thierry Labica

21 Politics and Change in Singapore and Hong Kong
Containing contention
Stephan Ortmann

22 Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia
Considering the other through ethnonyms, territories and rituals
Edited by Christian Culas and Franois Robinne

23 Asia and Latin America
Political, economic and multilateral relations
Edited by Jrn Dosch and Olaf Jacob

24 Japan and Africa
Globalization and foreign aid in the 21st century
Edited by Howard P. Lehman

25 De-Westernizing Communication Research
Altering questions and changing frameworks
Edited by Georgette Wang

28 Alterities in Asia
Reflections on identity and regionalism
Edited by Leong Yew

Reflections on identity and regionalism

First published 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Alterities in Asia: reflections on identity and regionalism/edited by Leong Yew.
p. cm. (Routledge contemporary Asia series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-415-58750-1 ISBN 978-0-203-83936-2 (eISBN) 1. Group identityAsia. 2. Identity (Psychology)Asia. 3. Social psychologyAsia.
4. Other (Philosophy)Social aspectsAsia. 5. RegionalismSocial aspectsAsia. 6. AsiaSocial conditions. I. Yew, Leong, 1969
DS12.A495 2010
302.4095dc22 2010019646

ISBN 0-203-83936-6 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-58750-1 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-203-83936-2 (ebk)