Entangled Waterscapes in Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71916-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

Reihe: African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities

This volume, edited by Kwai-Cheung Lo and Hung-chiung Li, explores the notion of entangled waterscape to reflect beyond the traditional continental perspectives. It understands Asia and beyond through the multifaceted interplay of history, economics, politics, culture, and ecological concerns.

The conceptualization of waterscape echoes contemporary geopolitical tensions, economic interdependencies, military strategies, and historical-cultural dynamics, offering fresh viewpoints on rethinking cultural politics and engaging with Anthropocene concerns and ecological imperatives. The volume reverberates with the discourses of the Global South, complicating prevailing worldviews and ideological underpinnings, and thereby prompts a re-evaluation of the concept of “Asia.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lo, Kwai-Cheung

Li, Hung-chiung

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: The Contexts, Subjects, and Politics of Waterscapes Entangled in Asia

Kwai-Cheung Lo

2 A Critical Genealogy of Forced Migratory Labor in the Asian Mediterranean Sea

Joyce C. H. Liu

3 Enclosing and Opening: China’s Oceanic Structures of Feeling

Dongyang Li and Elspeth Probyn

4 The Politics of Maritime Imaginary in Modern Japan

Satofumi Kawamura

5 Floating Islands and the Oceanic in the Making of the U.S. Imperial Archipelago

Oscar V. Campomanes

6 Medium in the Middle: Dual Mediation in Syaman Rapongan

Hung-chiung Li

7 Sea, Ship, and City: Figuring the Impossible in Miéville, Hugo, and Kobayashi

Christophe Thouny

8 The Poetics of Water in Dung Kai-cheung’s (Meta-)Apocalyptic Tale

Yeekwan Wong

9 Politics of the Plastisphere: For an Existential Transmutation of the In/Visible

Chun-Mei Chuang

10 The Maritime Convergence of East Asian Cinema in Taiwan

Woosung Kang

11 The Water That Breaks and Connects: Entangled Infrastructures of Hong Kong and China

Kwai-Cheung Lo

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kwai-Cheung Lo, Ph.D., (Stanford University) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University, specializing in trans-Chinese cinemas and cultural studies. He is the author of Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions (SUNY Press, 2010); Chinese Face / Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong (University of Illinois Press, 2005); Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building (University of Michigan Press, 2025); and the editor of Chinese Shock of the Anthropocene: Image, Music and Text in the Age of Climate Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).


Hung-chiung Li, Ph.D., (National Taiwan University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is also founding Co-Coordinator of the Asia Theories Network and founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Asia Archives. His research interest includes critical theory, comparative literature, and Taiwan and East Asian cultures and thoughts.