Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times (Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific) (54 page)
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Ching-wen Hsu is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. She earned her degree at the University of Washington and has published on tourism and place making in urban Taiwan. Her current project focuses on Taiwanese transnational families in the United States.
Miyako Inoue is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of
Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan
(University of California Press 2006). She is currently writing a book on a social history of Japanese stenography, which explores the idea of “fidelity” in the stenographic reproduction of speech and its cultural and political-economic implications in the context of Japanese modernization and modernity since the late nineteenth century.
Hyunhee Kim is a research fellow at the Institute of Cultural Studies, Seoul National University, Korea. Her research interests include Asian Migration and racializaion, (il)legality and citizenship, American and Korean legal cultures, Asians in popular culture. Her PhD dissertation, “Ethnic Intimacy, Race, Law and Citizenship in Korean America,” discusses the New York Korean community and its struggles for American citizenship.
Gabriella Lukacs is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research explores televisual and new media, capitalism, labor, and subjectivity in contemporary Japan. Her publications include
Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan
(Duke University Press, 2010). Her current research examines questions of subjectivity and capitalism with a focus on new labor subjectivities such as the Internet idols who become famous by posting their photos and diaries on the Web, cell phone novelists whose novels have recently come to dominate literary bestseller lists, or entrepreneurial homemakers who accumulate wealth from day trading.
So Jin Park is a research fellow at the Institute for Social Development Studies, Yonsei University. Her research focuses on Korean family and gender
issues,
neoliberal subjectivities, study abroad of Korean college students, and Chinese students in Korean universities. Her published work includes “Educational Manager Mothers: South Korea’s Neoliberal Transformation” (
Korea Journal
2007) and “Reconsidering Korean Culture and Society and Seeking Self Identity in the World: Short-Term Study Abroad Motivation and Experiences” (
Comparative Korean Studies
2010, in Korean).
Nickola Pazderic completed his doctorate at the University of Washington. He has taught at the University of Washington, Yale University, CYUT, National Taichung Institute of Commerce, National Chung Hsing University, and National Cheng Kung University. His article “Recovering True Selves in the Electro-Spiritual Field of Universal Love” appeared in
Cultural Anthropology
in 2004, and “Mysterious Photographs” was published in
Photographies East
, edited by Rosalind Morris (Duke University Press 2009).
Hai Ren is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He is the editor of
Neo-Liberal Governmentality: Technologies of the Self & Governmental Conduct
, which is a special issue of
Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
10 (Spring 2005), and coeditor of
New Media Subversion
, a special issue of
Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures
7 (Spring 2010). He is also the author of two books:
Neoliberalism and Culture in China and Hong Kong: The Countdown of Time
(Routledge, 2010) and its sequel,
The Middle Class in Neoliberal China
:
Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces
(Routledge, 2012).
Jesook Song is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her book
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis
(Duke University Press, 2009) deals with homelessness and youth unemployment during the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. A second book,
Living on Their Own
(SUNY Press, in press), is about single women’s financial struggles in South Korea. Her edited volume
New Millennium South Korea
(Routledge, 2010) explores transnational movements and global capital. Her current research explores psychological health markets at the margins such as psychotherapists helping victims of state violence and LGBT advocacy organization counselors.
Trang X. Ta is Lecturer in Medical Anthropology within the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University. She is a
Fulbright
Visiting Scholar at the University of Hong Kong for 2012–2013, and her areas of research include medical anthropology, biotechnology, and global food studies. Her dissertation, “A State of Imbalance: Corporeal Politics and Moral Order in Contemporary China” (2011), traces the contours of the Chinese state, its projects of moral revitalization, and its use of neo-liberal ruling technologies under conditions of economic liberalization that have transformed everyday life in late-socialist China.
Yan Hairong is an anthropologist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is the author of
New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
(Duke University Press, 2008), coauthor of
East Mountain Tiger, West Mountain Tiger: China, Africa, the West and “Colonialism”
(Maryland Monograph Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, no. 186), and coeditor of “What’s Left of Asia?” (a special issue of
positions
15(2), 2007). Her current research includes projects on China–Africa links and the rural cooperative movement in China. Her intellectual interests include labor, gender, rurality and rural–urban relations, and socialism and postsocialism.
Index
Abelmann, Nancy,
18
Adults of value,
191–92
Affective economies,
17–21
Affective labor: in China,
17
; defined,
17
; domestic workers and,
158
,
161–62
; education and,
19
; and EQ (emotional quotient),
26
n
12
; gender reform and,
22
.
See also
Happiness and smiling
Anagnost, Ann,
180
Anthropology and ethnography,
3
,
17
,
24
,
94
,
195
n
6
,
267–71
“The Apprentice” (television show),
161
Asian Century,
11
Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001),
250
,
252–54
,
259
,
260
,
262
,
264
,
266–67
Assemblage,
13
Bacevich, Andrew,
159
Badiou, Alain,
51
n
27
Banta, Martha,
161
Barber, Brace,
No Excuse Leadership
,
160
,
161
,
170–71
Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society (Japan),
219
Battle metaphor,
20
.
See also
Military, concept/metaphor of
Battle Royale
(manga, film),
20
,
191
Baudrillard, Jean,
147
Beach Boys
(television show),
231
Beauty Quotient (BQ),
145
Becker, Gary,
52
n
38
Beijing, China,
76–95
Beijing Fuping Professional Training School,
150–71
Beijing Review
(newspaper),
158
Berlant, Lauren,
15
Beveridge Plan,
4
Biopower,
36
Blair, Tony,
255
Blasé attitude,
83
Borovoy, Amy,
125
n
8
Brand
(television series),
229
Brinton, Mary,
244
Brooks, Peter,
80–81
Capitalism: freeters and,
23
; and globalization,
192–94
Cassegard, Carl,
175
Chan, Jacky,
167
Chaoyang University of Technology (CYUT),
18–19
,
129–48
Charity,
46
Cheah, Pheng,
14
Chen Duxiu,
136
Chen Lianyu,
32
Chiang Ching-kuo,
136
Chiang Kai-shek,
136
The Child Is Turning Strange
,
186
China: class in,
15–16
,
29
,
33–48
; consumption in,
35–44
,
49
n
10
; domestic labor in,
150–71
; economy in,
96
n
4
; freedom in,
27
n
14
,
45
,
77
;
health
care in,
17
,
76–95
,
95
n
2
,
97
n
7
,
97
n
8
; inequality in,
33–34
,
77
,
92
; melodrama in,
81–83
,
87
; middle class in,
34–44
; nation-building in,
26
n
6
; neoliberalism in,
29–35
,
76–77
,
91
,
152–53
,
156
,
172
n
2
; Olympics in,
87
,
96
n
3
; responsibility in,
30
,
33–36
,
42–48
; and reunification,
30–32
; rural-to-urban migration in,
76
; state-citizen social contract in,
6
; Taiwan and,
30
,
70–71
,
129
,
140
; television shows in,
88–89
; transformations in,
87–89
,
91
,
98
n
18
China Youth National Salvation Corps,
134
Chinese Central Television,
85
,
162
Chinese Ethnic Culture Park, Beijing,
35–43
,
50
n
17
,
50
n
18
Chinese Nationalists.
See
Kuomintang
Chinese Social Sciences Press,
160
Chi-Yŏng Kong,
251
Cities: blasé attitude in,
83–84
; rural areas vs.,
77
,
87
,
162–63
; rural migration to,
76
Class: in China,
15–16
,
29
,
33–48
; and inequality,
15–16
,
125n8
College education.
See
University education
Colonialism, Taiwan and,
55
Commodities,
89–90
.
See also
Consumption
Communication, of illness and need,
77–95
Communist Party (China),
30–31
,
56
,
81
Compassion fatigue,
90
Confession,
215
Consumption: in China,
35–44
,
49
n
10
,
89
; gender and,
242
; neoliberalism and,
232
; in Taiwan,
57–58
; in themed built environments,
36
,
38–39
.
See also
Commodities
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW),
199–200
Cosmopolitanism: China and,
32
,
35
,
77
; globalization and,
103
; South Korea and,
103
; Taiwan and,
56–57
,
59
,
63
,
70–72
Cruikshank, Barbara,
177
Cultural Revolution (China),
30
,
131
,
163
CYUT.
See
Chaoyang University of Technology
Datong Department Store, Kujiang, Taiwan,
57
,
59
Dear Woman
(television series),
226
,
237
Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan),
128–29
,
132
,
143
Derrida, Jacques,
172
n
9
Disadvantaged groups (
ruoshi qunti
),
6
,
15–16
,
33–34
,
48
,
80
,
153
,
171
Dutton, Michael,
96
n
3
East Asia, modernity in,
8–12
Economy: Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001),
250
,
252–54
,
259
,
260
,
262
,
264
,
266–67
; in China,
96
n
4
; education oriented toward,
19–20
; global financial crisis (2008),
6
,
179
; of Japan,
175–77
,
179
,
184–85
,
197–98
,
230
; military and,
161
; of South Korea,
250
,
252–54
,
272
n
3
.
See also
Miracle economies