Volume 19 Number 2 June 2018 @ Issue contents

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements

Volume 19 Number 2 June 2018

Editorial statement

Essays

“Gangnam Style” in Dhaka and Inter-Asian Refraction

Soo Ryon YOON

Theater of War: Tracing the strange careers of Shina No Yoru at the Crossroads of the Pacific, 1937-1954

Yu Jung LEE

Queer will: Hikikomori as willful subjects

Rosemary OVERELL

Renationalization and Resistance of Hong Kong Cinema: Milkway Image’s Journey to Mainland China

SUN Yi

Idyll or Nightmare: What does rurality mean for farmers in a Chinese village undergoing commercialization

Bing PENG, Zhijun LIU, Bingxuan ZHANG, and Xutang CHEN

Migrant Philippine teachers in Indonesia: the nexus between precarious skilled Work, illegal mobility and the cosmopolitan

Eileen TSANG and John LOWE

Decolonizing Educational/Curriculum Studies in East Asia:

Problematizing Shadow Education in South Korea

Jung-Hoon JUNG

Visual essay

Guest Room, 2nd Volume

Minstrel KUIK

Trajectories

When Feminism Encounters New Documentary Movement: an uncompleted academic discussion

LU Xinyu

Anti-Communist films sponsored by the US Government in Singapore and Malaya: on the New York Sound Masters Inc.

Wai-Siam Hee

Book Reviews (on Chua Beng Huat’s Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017)

Book Launch Speech on Chua Beng Huat, Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore

Chan Heng Chee

An alternative route towards socialization of democracy in Asia: review of Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore by Chua Beng Huat

Cho Hee-Yeon and Jang Hun-Gyo

Disavowing Liberalism: Recuperating Socialist Practices within Global Capitalism

Kwok Kian-Woon