Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements   Volume 24   No. 3  June  2023

General Issue

Table of Contents 

Essays

Internet as an ideology: nationalistic discourses, and multiple subject positions of Chinese Internet workers

Yuqi NA and Ngai PUN

“How can a small app piss off an entire country?”: India’s TikTok ban in the light of everyday techno-nationalism

Lin SONG and Avishek RAY

The intimate affliction of vicarious racialization: Afro-Chinese couples in South China

Wei WANG, Andrew Pau HOANG and Lucy Porter JORDAN

Multiculturalism through a lens: migrants’ voice in Taiwanese documentaries

Adina ZEMANEK and Lara MOMESSO

Postcolonial aging, amah, and diaspora in A Simple Life

Jessica Ka Yee CHAN

Vietnam’s poverty reduction policies for ethnic minorities: the Raglai in Bac Ai, Ninh Thuan, Vietnam

LE Hue Huong, TRAN Khai Thuan and BUI Loan Thuy

Cultural diplomacy, artistic network and the politics of decolonization betwwen Taiwan and the Philippines in the Cold War era

Hui-Yu TANG

Visual Essay

Nomads in a city of their own making: a portrait of migrant workers in Shenzhen, 1980-2000

Jian XIAO and Zheng WAN

Media and South Asia

Subcontinental media

John HUTNYK

Bengali Bhadralok and the Bengali press: a study of the early nineteenth century

Shaswati DAS

Tomar naam, amar naam, Vietnam! Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinema

John HUTNYK

Tracing the rise of video halls and transient media forms in Bengal: an archaeology of the non-archived

Dattatreya GHOSH

Empowered, thy name is woman: lite feminism and Hindi SVOD platforms in India

Runa CHAKRABORTY PAUNKSNIS

Spectacle of democracy: the quasi-executive functions of television news in India

Abhijit ROY

Commentary

Mourning for Itaewon Halloween tragedy

Kim Ji Youn