Foreign Literature Studies by Andy Wang
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Cultural Studies, 2017
This essay introduces the peculiar state of cultural studies from Taiwan by reflecting on its mom... more This essay introduces the peculiar state of cultural studies from Taiwan by reflecting on its moments of emergence and the projects it strives to accomplish with recent updates. While it is inevitable that a survey of this nature is doomed to be cursory and selective, it hopes to delineate and address the predicaments of cultural studies in and from Taiwan and the struggles therein, as it strives not only to get its voices heard, but also to chart a critical path towards the decolonization of our consciousness.
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Conference Presentations by Andy Wang
This panel explores variegated conditions and people’s responses to the neoliberal changes in Eas... more This panel explores variegated conditions and people’s responses to the neoliberal changes in East Asia. In the past decades, East Asia has been experiencing a very condensed and extensive neoliberalization, but its processes and structural changes have been differently implemented and materialized in different cities and districts. Although per capital incomes gradually increased in many parts, the intensive neoliberalization could not provide solution to polarization of populace. The failure of the neoliberal reform not only resulted in growing economic inequality, but also made people discontent with the current changes.
This panel discusses the diverse ramification of neoliberal changes to people and their variant responses such as their cooperation, negotiation, contestation or resistance against the structural changes. It considers both people’s predicaments in urban and rural areas, and the public movements including the Sunflower movements in Taiwan, and the Umbrella movement in Hong Kong. In so doing, this panel aims at understanding multiplicity and contradiction of people’s conditions under neoliberalization, which it refers to the states of precarity. Understanding of people’s precarious states would be critical with capturing the characteristics of the neoliberal conjuncture in East Asia. The neoliberal conjuncture in East Asia would demonstrate both continuities and ruptures in relation to neoliberalization of the other parts of the world. Meanwhile, the efforts of exploring the neoliberal conjunctures of East Asia will contribute both to indicating that there are different paths to the modes of modern livings (or predicaments) and to providing useful resources for theorizing multiple modernities in the world.
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Sinophone Articulations by Andy Wang
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Book Reviews by Andy Wang
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Transpacific Approaches to Asian/American Studies by Andy Wang
Trans-Asia as Method, 2019
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Boundary 2, 2019
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Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2019
Working through the entanglements of diaspora, national identification, and minority formation in... more Working through the entanglements of diaspora, national identification, and minority formation in the protracted aftermath of the Korean War, this article intends to take the dyadic subject of North Korean defector/refugee as an entry point for unpacking the rhetoric of freedom and salvation. The defector/refugee figure often rests upon a transpacific passage from Asia to North America and is embedded in the inter-Asian history of the Cold War. The co-mingling of transpacific and inter-Asian factors provides us with a comparative lens to view the transnational minority formation of the Asian American in relation to borderland subjects such as the North Korean defector/refugee and the Joseonjok (Korean Chinese) who have remained invisible to them until now. Taking a cultural studies approach that regards literature as a terrain of political engagement for reconsidering the narratives of freedom in relation to the hierarchy of nationhood embedded in the protracted Cold War in Asia, I examine Krys Lee’s novel How I Became a North Korean (2016), an Asian American text that weaves together the story of an Asian American returnee with those of North Korean refugees in the North Korean-China borderland. Conflating refugee and returnee, Lee’s novel occasions an exploration of the ethics of co-presence that undergirded Asian American studies, to consider both the predicaments of North Korean refugees and the linkage between Asian America and Asia. Taking literature as a form of activism, this article furthermore seeks to reflect on the promise of activism by asking how the demands for the right for return may complicate the orthodox of humanitarian imagination, and render a moment for relational thinking beyond representation.
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Intrigued by the question of diasporic return, this article is concerned with the cultural politi... more Intrigued by the question of diasporic return, this article is concerned with the cultural politics of what I call “homecoming stories” of the Vietnamese diaspora. In order not to be confused with the imaginary returns that have been practiced in many Vietnamese-US writings, such as Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge (1997) or Kien Nguyen's The Unwanted (2001), this article focuses instead on Vietnamese-US narratives about the experience of physical returns by looking at Andrew Pham's Catfish and Mandala (1999) and Andrew Lam's Perfume Dreams (2005). Understanding that ethnic memoirs are not to be read only as testimonies of war and personal traumas, this article argues that these two texts represent what critic Rocio G. Davis calls “relational life writing” that aims to intervene in the contested terrains of trans-Pacific memories and geopolitics. It further argues that Pham's and Lam's homecoming stories not only reconfigure the “refugee subjectivity” of Vietnamese diaspora but also recast Asian American studies in diasporic contexts by taking the aspirations and concerns of Vietnam seriously, although their journeys “home” are by no means patriotic returns but only temporary visits. These return narratives are significantly framed in the contentious memories of war and survival and are triangulated in the complex relations between the United States, Vietnam, and Vietnamese America. Via a critical reading of Catfish and Mandala and Perfume Dreams, this article seeks to engage with the ongoing conversations about transnational Asian American studies by working through the issue of Asian-US relations.
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Foreign Literature Studies by Andy Wang
Conference Presentations by Andy Wang
This panel discusses the diverse ramification of neoliberal changes to people and their variant responses such as their cooperation, negotiation, contestation or resistance against the structural changes. It considers both people’s predicaments in urban and rural areas, and the public movements including the Sunflower movements in Taiwan, and the Umbrella movement in Hong Kong. In so doing, this panel aims at understanding multiplicity and contradiction of people’s conditions under neoliberalization, which it refers to the states of precarity. Understanding of people’s precarious states would be critical with capturing the characteristics of the neoliberal conjuncture in East Asia. The neoliberal conjuncture in East Asia would demonstrate both continuities and ruptures in relation to neoliberalization of the other parts of the world. Meanwhile, the efforts of exploring the neoliberal conjunctures of East Asia will contribute both to indicating that there are different paths to the modes of modern livings (or predicaments) and to providing useful resources for theorizing multiple modernities in the world.
Sinophone Articulations by Andy Wang
Book Reviews by Andy Wang
Transpacific Approaches to Asian/American Studies by Andy Wang
This panel discusses the diverse ramification of neoliberal changes to people and their variant responses such as their cooperation, negotiation, contestation or resistance against the structural changes. It considers both people’s predicaments in urban and rural areas, and the public movements including the Sunflower movements in Taiwan, and the Umbrella movement in Hong Kong. In so doing, this panel aims at understanding multiplicity and contradiction of people’s conditions under neoliberalization, which it refers to the states of precarity. Understanding of people’s precarious states would be critical with capturing the characteristics of the neoliberal conjuncture in East Asia. The neoliberal conjuncture in East Asia would demonstrate both continuities and ruptures in relation to neoliberalization of the other parts of the world. Meanwhile, the efforts of exploring the neoliberal conjunctures of East Asia will contribute both to indicating that there are different paths to the modes of modern livings (or predicaments) and to providing useful resources for theorizing multiple modernities in the world.