Entangled Waterscapes in Asia

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This volume, edited by Kwai-Cheung Lo and Hung-chiung Li, explores the notion of entangled waterscape to reflect beyond the traditional continental perspectives. It understands Asia and beyond through the multifaceted interplay of history, economics, politics, culture, and ecological concerns.

The conceptualization of waterscape echoes contemporary geopolitical tensions, economic interdependencies, military strategies, and historical-cultural dynamics, offering fresh viewpoints on rethinking cultural politics and engaging with Anthropocene concerns and ecological imperatives. The volume reverberates with the discourses of the Global South, complicating prevailing worldviews and ideological underpinnings, and thereby prompts a re-evaluation of the concept of “Asia.”

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Kwai-Cheung Lo, Ph.D., (Stanford University) is Professor and Head of the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University, specializing in trans-Chinese cinemas and cultural studies. He is the author of Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions (SUNY Press, 2010); Chinese Face / Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong (University of Illinois Press, 2005); Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building (University of Michigan Press, 2025); and the editor of Chinese Shock of the Anthropocene: Image, Music and Text in the Age of Climate Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Hung-chiung Li, Ph.D., (National Taiwan University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is also founding Co-Coordinator of the Asia Theories Network and founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Asia Archives. His research interest includes critical theory, comparative literature, and Taiwan and East Asian cultures and thoughts.
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1 Introduction: The Contexts, Subjects, and Politics of Waterscapes Entangled in Asia
Kwai-Cheung Lo
2 A Critical Genealogy of Forced Migratory Labor in the Asian Mediterranean Sea
Joyce C. H. Liu
3 Enclosing and Opening: China’s Oceanic Structures of Feeling
Dongyang Li and Elspeth Probyn
4 The Politics of Maritime Imaginary in Modern Japan
Satofumi Kawamura
5 Floating Islands and the Oceanic in the Making of the U.S. Imperial Archipelago
Oscar V. Campomanes
6 Medium in the Middle: Dual Mediation in Syaman Rapongan
Hung-chiung Li
7 Sea, Ship, and City: Figuring the Impossible in Miéville, Hugo, and Kobayashi
Christophe Thouny
8 The Poetics of Water in Dung Kai-cheung’s (Meta-)Apocalyptic Tale
Yeekwan Wong
9 Politics of the Plastisphere: For an Existential Transmutation of the In/Visible
Chun-Mei Chuang
10 The Maritime Convergence of East Asian Cinema in Taiwan
Woosung Kang
11 The Water That Breaks and Connects: Entangled Infrastructures of Hong Kong and China
Kwai-Cheung Lo

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Scholars and graduate students in the fields of Asian studies, cultural studies, literary studies, critical theory, and environmental humanities.
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