Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization

by Kuan-Hsing Chen and 

Book Overview

Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. 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 deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial centers such as Japan and the United States. Chen contends...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822346761
• ISBN13: 9780822346760
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"