Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.1.0142
Haiyan Lee
{"title":"A Sino-Jewish Encounter, a Humanitarian Fantasy","authors":"Haiyan Lee","doi":"10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.1.0142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.1.0142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128852131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.4.2.0014
Rdk Herman
{"title":"Pacific Worlds: Indigeneity, Hybridity, and Globalization","authors":"Rdk Herman","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.4.2.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.4.2.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114693442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.1.0198
Chien-ting Lin
{"title":"Taiwan's Transpacific Medical Modernity: Race and Medical Humanitarianism in Buddha Bless America","authors":"Chien-ting Lin","doi":"10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.1.0198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.1.0198","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117028478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.1.2.0042
Jonathan E. Abel, C. Reed
{"title":"The Utility of Aesthetics: Exhibition, Pedagogy, and Critical Questions for Postcolonialism","authors":"Jonathan E. Abel, C. Reed","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.1.2.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.1.2.0042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122011516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.1.1.0100
Anne Cong-Huyen
{"title":"Asian/American and the DigitalTechnological Thus Far","authors":"Anne Cong-Huyen","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.1.1.0100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.1.1.0100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124598983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.3.2.0144
María Montt Strabucchi
Abstract:This article explores the barrio chino (Chinatown) as a space from which to analyze the perception of China in Mexico through Cristina Rivera Garza's novel Verde Shanghai (2011). Building on Jean-Luc Nancy's “being singular plural” and Sara Ahmed's notion of “strange encounters,” and using Graham Huggan's notions on how the “exotic” can be put into play, this article argues that the Chinatown depicted in the novel lays bare the refusal of boundaries and challenges fixed identities. Embracing ambiguity, the novel opens up the meaning of a mestizo Mexico, and the Chinatown becomes a constitutive part of the cityscape of Mexico City. The novel thus challenges discourses of national homogeneity, informing our understanding of alterity and community.
{"title":"Mexico City's “Chinos” and “Barrio Chino”: Strangerness and Community in Cristina Rivera Garza's Verde Shanghai (2011)","authors":"María Montt Strabucchi","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.3.2.0144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.3.2.0144","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores the barrio chino (Chinatown) as a space from which to analyze the perception of China in Mexico through Cristina Rivera Garza's novel Verde Shanghai (2011). Building on Jean-Luc Nancy's “being singular plural” and Sara Ahmed's notion of “strange encounters,” and using Graham Huggan's notions on how the “exotic” can be put into play, this article argues that the Chinatown depicted in the novel lays bare the refusal of boundaries and challenges fixed identities. Embracing ambiguity, the novel opens up the meaning of a mestizo Mexico, and the Chinatown becomes a constitutive part of the cityscape of Mexico City. The novel thus challenges discourses of national homogeneity, informing our understanding of alterity and community.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124808996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1215/9780822384236-017
T. Zadeh
{"title":"Unruly Subjects","authors":"T. Zadeh","doi":"10.1215/9780822384236-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822384236-017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123282185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.4.2.0163
C. Horn, Patricia Philip, C. Sabang
Abstract:For Indigenous communities, cultural globalization can be “an ambiguous paradox.” This applies particularly to information and communication technologies, or ICTs. Critics argue that globalization appears as a homogenizing force as Indigenous culture is commodified, often without granting Indigenous people the rights and rewards of author- or ownership. On the other hand, Indigenous peoples use ICTs as a means for visual documentation, cultural continuity, and political participation. In this article, we explore uses of ICTs by Indigenous groups in Sarawak, focusing on conservation of Indigenous languages, visual representation of cultural heritage, and civic participation.
{"title":"Getting Connected: Indigeneity, Information, and Communications Technology Use and Emerging Media Practices in Sarawak","authors":"C. Horn, Patricia Philip, C. Sabang","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.4.2.0163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.4.2.0163","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:For Indigenous communities, cultural globalization can be “an ambiguous paradox.” This applies particularly to information and communication technologies, or ICTs. Critics argue that globalization appears as a homogenizing force as Indigenous culture is commodified, often without granting Indigenous people the rights and rewards of author- or ownership. On the other hand, Indigenous peoples use ICTs as a means for visual documentation, cultural continuity, and political participation. In this article, we explore uses of ICTs by Indigenous groups in Sarawak, focusing on conservation of Indigenous languages, visual representation of cultural heritage, and civic participation.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"4 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114109056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.4.2.0002
L. Skog
{"title":"Thinking with Indigeneity: Imperatives and Provocations","authors":"L. Skog","doi":"10.5749/vergstudglobasia.4.2.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.4.2.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116656979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.1.0078
A. Hinton
{"title":"Ellipsis: The Authoritative Guide to the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes","authors":"A. Hinton","doi":"10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.1.0078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.1.0078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125303366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}