Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements Volume 21 Number 2 June 2020
Table of Contents
Editorial
Introduction: art, culture, capitalist development and Kuo Pao Kun
C. J. W.-L. WEE
Interview
What makes theatre modern?: an interview with Kuo Pao Kun by Quah Sy Ren
KUO Pao Kun and QUAH Sy Ren (Translated by WONG Chee Meng, edited by C. J. W.-L. WEE and QUAH Sy Ren)
Articles
Challenges to Asian public intellectuals
KUO Pao Kun (Edited by C. J. W.-L. WEE)
Intellectual consciousness and the negation of the intellectual class: Kuo Pao Kun’s pre-detention drama and its context
QUAH Sy Ren
The feeling of being watched: lived Confucianism and theatricality in Kuo Pao Kun’s mid-1980s monodramas
Paul RAE
Drawing from Grotowski and beyond: Kuo Pao Kun’s discourse on audiences in Singapore in the 1980s
NG How Wee
Beyond national identity: Kuo Pao Kun’s contemporary theatre and an open culture
C. J. W.-L. WEE
Visual essay
Kuo Pao Kun and his theatre
QUAH Sy Ren
Reflexive notes
Robinsonades: pertaining to allegories from the East India Company in Ceylon and other islands, from Marxism to Post-structuralism, and in which, dear reader, a 300-year-old adventure book may still have something to say
John HUTNYK
Asian thoughts
The dialectics of “iron hook” and “tofu”: the shifts in Liang Shuming’s thinking in the 1950s and the “duality” of Chinese socialist practices
Zhen ZHANG, Jia’en PAN, Huiyu ZHANG, Shixuan LUO, and Tiejun WEN
Corrigendum notice