Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2016

Editorial Statement

Essays

Apple, Foxconn, and Chinese workers’ struggles from a global labor perspective

PUN Ngai, SHEN Yuan, GUO Yuhua, LU Huilin, Jenny CHAN, and Mark SELDEN

Racial contacts across the Pacific and the creation of minzoku in the Japanese empire

Noriaki HOSHINO

Kim Ki Duk’s promise, Zanussi’s betrayal: film festival, world cinema and the subject of the region

Ratheesh RADHAKRISHNAN

Counterpublic but obedient: a case of Taiwan's BL fandom     

Feichi CHIANG

Visual essays

About the Circumgyration project

CHEN Chin-pao

Chua Beng Huat on power, politics and pop culture

What’s it like to be a Singaporean intellectual? An interview with Chua Beng Huat

Kuan-Hsing CHEN and Daniel PS GOH

“Doing” cultural studies: Chua Beng Huat on popular culture

Meaghan MORRIS

Life is not complete without critique: Chua Beng Huat as model

KWOK Kian-Woon

East Asian pop culture and the trajectory of Asian consumption

C. J. W.-L. WEE

Responses and debates

On Geoffrey Benjamin’s deep sociology of the nation-state

Allen CHUN

Historicizing

“To be or not to be”: the double consciousness of the Tamil Muslims during the early 20th century

Yunush Ahamed Mohamed Sherif