Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society

Keiichi Amano has been one of the most significant non-partisan leftist anti- establishment movement activists in Japan since late 60’s. He is a pioneer of han-tennousei undo (movement against Japanese emperor system). Most of Japanese traditional leftist recognized the post-war emperor system as a mere nominal symbol of Japan which was regarded as completely different from pre-war and during war Japanese emperor regime. Contrary with this kind of view point, Amano proposed significant role of post-war emperor system as an ideological and cultural integration of Japanese people into Japanese nationalism. Also he concerns about political terrorism and murders by right wing militia and Yakuza based on emperor ideology which are another important characteristics of post-war emperor system to repress leftists and people’s movements against governments and dominant structure in Japan. He is one of founders of Han-tennousei Undo Renrakukai(Han-Ten_Ren; The Liaison Network of Movements Against Emperor System) which is the most influential group against emperor system in Japan. Another his main concern is peace movement in Japan. He is one of co-founders of the Asian Peace Alliance(APA). Amano wrote a lot of books including anti emperor system based on analyzing mass media analysis and national ceremonies, peace movements, and social movements from alternative point of view. Amano is a steering committee member of the People’s Plan Study Group(PPSG), editorial board member of the IMPACION, independent leftist journal. Also he works as an editor of the several Japanese political zines which is not depend on commercial market.

Jeremy Brecher is a historian and the author of ten books on labor and social movements, including Strike!, Brass Valley, History from Below, Building Bridges, Global Visions, Global Village or Global Pillage, and Globalization from Below. Brecher serves as Humanities Scholar-in-Residence at Connecticut Public Television and Radio, a position supported by the Connecticut Humanities Council. He has written the scripts for the documentaries The Roots of Roe, Schools in Black and White, Rust Valley, The Amistad Revolt, Electronic Road Film, Brass City Music, and Dance on the Wind, the last two of which he co-produced. He won two Emmy Awards and the Edgar Dale Screenwriting Award for The Roots of Roe.

Dr Hui Po-keung was a former student of Muto at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he received his PhD in Sociology in 1995. He is now teaching at the Cultural Studies Department of Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His main research interests are cultural economy, history of capitalism, and alternative development. He has co-edited the Cultural and Social Studies Translation Series (文化社會研究繹叢), jointly published by Oxford University Press (Hong Kong) and Bianyi Chubanshe (Beijing). He is the author of What Capitalism is Not 資本主義不是什麼 (Hong Kong Oxford University Press, 2002).

Dr Lau Kin-chi teaches at the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. She is Co-convenor of ARENA’s Regional School Local Governance Programme, and Board member of the James Yen Rural Reconstruction Institute based in Zhaicheng Village, Hebei Province, China.

Ohashi Seiko

• 1955  Born in Hokkaido Japan
  75  First time visited Thailand and started to aware the distorted relation between Asia and Japan after attend international student conference organized by Asian Student Association (ASA)
• 76  Joined human rights movement to support democratization movement in Thailand after the military coup.
• Joined anti pollution- export movement.(eg. Japanese companies’ pollution-export to south Korea, Philippines)
• 79  Full time staff at Pacific Asia Resources Center (PARC)
• 81-91 Secretary General of PARC
• 82-87 Editor in chief of AMPO magazine
• 85-90 Board member of ACFOD (Asian Cultural Forum on Development)
• 91   Joined Alter-Trade Japan ( People’s trade between Japanese consumers’ union and farmers in Negros island in the Philippines.Organic Banana and brown sugar)
• 91-96 Board member of ARENA (Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives)
• 95   Liaison staff of Japan Committee for Negros Campaign (JCNC) until present
• 2003-2005 Board member of ARENA
• Since 1995, after I got married with Alfredo Bodios from Negros island, I have been living in the Philippines.

Lawrence Surendra was trained as a Chemical Engineer and then worked on Science and Technology Policy at the Research Policy Institute, Lund University, specialised in Environmental Economics at the Sorbonne University. Founder Director of ARENA, co-founder and first International Coordinator of PP21 Japan and worked in the Asian region closely with activist intellectuals and social movements especially on issues of grass roots democracy and democratisation for now a quarter of a century. (This is the 25th anniversary of ARENA founded in July also!). Part of a leading left intellectual group in South India and still active in local issues of ecological conservation, heritage and people, plant biodiversity and local knowledge, sustainability and the politics of democratisation. Written and lectured extensively on many of the latter issues. Visiting professor, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, Asian College of Journalism, Madras, University of Mysore, India and Queen’s University, Canada, Chulalongkorn University. Also serve Regional Adviser, UNESCO-APCEIU and Senior Adviser, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden. Regular contributor to the prestigious Indian fortnightly Frontline.

Jai Sen is an installation architect, and presently lives and works out of New Delhi, India. He has worked as an architect and urban designer, as a civil campaignist and researcher on dwelling, labour, planning, and rights-related issues, and as an independent researcher and writer on the history and dynamics of popular movements in India for a place to live. Much of his recent work has been on the internationalisation and globalisation of civil movement, on cultures of politics, and on the concept of ‘open space’. Among other things, he has edited, together with Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar, and Peter Waterman, World Social Forum : Challenging Empires (New Delhi : The Viveka Foundation, 2004); ‘Explorations in Open Space : The World Social Forum and Cultures of Politics’, special issue 182 of the International Social Science Journal, together with Chloé Keraghel (UNESCO and Blackwell’s, December 2004); and Are Other Worlds Possible ? Talking New Politics with Mayuri Saini (New Delhi : Zubaan Books, 2005). He has also written ‘A World to Win - But whose world is it, anyway ?’ in Whose World Is It Anyway ? Civil Society, the United Nations, and the Multilateral Future, edited by John W Foster with Anita Anand (Ottawa : United Nations Association of Canada, 1999).

Luis Lopezllera Mendez is director/architect, Promocion del Desarrollo Popular (PDP), A.C. (Promotion of Popular Development)

Lee Kyong

• Ph.D. in Korean Literature (Dissertation: A Critical Study on the ‘Modernity’ in Korean Modern Novels, 1997) from the Pusan National University.
• Professor in the Jinju International University
• Literary Critic, and a Columnist writing cultural critics for the Pusanilbo.
• An Editorial Member of the Korean Critical Review

Lee Kyung’s current academic concern concentrates on how Korean people have accepted the modernity which was imposed under the colonialism of more ‘modernized’ nations such as Imperialist Japan. The process of such acceptance can be explained by analysing the relationship between the subject and its others. The relationship has been conceptualized from various values such as normality, rationality, reason, progress, and so on, most of which might be expressed as violent repression.

So, it is natural that she is, at present, interested in the sub-cultures of Korean society, with aid of perspectives of Feminism. The results of this study aggregate to her book titled Ventriloquy of Novels(Seoul: Cholhakkwahynsilsa, 2003). “Semiotics of Foods in Korean Novels of 1950’s and 1960’s” (Korean Journal of Social Theory, vol.26, No.1, 2005), “Householders v. Survivors Family, and Home v. Road” (Writers and Society, Vol.19, 2005) are more recent publications.

Josephine Ho became intensely involved in the burgeoning counter-cultural movement as well as the feminist movement since her return to Taiwan in 1988 after receiving two doctorates from US universities. As perhaps the best-known feminist scholar in Taiwan, she later founded the Center for the Study of Sexualities at National Central University in 1995, widely-recognized for both its activism and its intellectual stamina. The Center’s annual conferences have been continuously opening up social space for marginal issues in gender/sexuality-related theory and research by bringing to Taiwan celebrated activists/scholars including Cindy Patton, D. A. Miller, Eve Sedgewick, Judith Halberstam, Neil Garcia, Pan Sui-Ming（潘綏銘）, Li Yin-He（李銀河）, Zhang Bei-Chuan（張北川）, Leslie Feinberg, Junko Mitsuhashi, Anne Bolin, and Jamison Green. Josephine Ho herself has been writing both extensively and provocatively on many cutting-edge issues in the Taiwanese context, spearheading sex-positive views on female sexuality, gender/sexuality education, queer studies, sex work studies and activism, transgenderism, and most recently body modification. Her theoretically informed but discursively accessible books, all written in Chinese as timely interventions into Taiwanese gender/sexuality politics, include The Gallant Woman–Feminism and Sexual Emancipation (1994), Gendered Nations–Sexuality, Capital and Culture (1994), Sexual Moods: A Therapeutic and Liberatory Report on Female Sexuality (1996), Radical Sexuality Education: Gender/Sexuality Education for the “New Generation” (1998), and The Admirable/Amorous Woman (1998). She has since written and edited eight other volumes of Taiwanese gender/sexuality research in sex work studies, queer studies, and transgender studies which greatly enhanced and challenged Taiwanese academic research into marginal gender/sexualities. Her present research interests lie with extreme bodies and sexualities. Josephine Ho’s continuous and articulate efforts on marginal issues have made her the number one “public enemy” for conservatives in Taiwan who tried and still are trying many different ways to silence her sexual dissidence. Her academic website was forced out of the academic net space in 2001 because of its sex-positive stance on teenage sexuality. In 2003, a total of 13 conservative NGOs banded together to bring lawsuit against Josephine Ho for two hyperlinks on her massive sexuality studies databank that lead to zoophilia websites. With the support of students, scholars, activist groups, along with a wide-spread international petition drive, to which many of us contributed, and plus her own articulate self-defense in court, Josephine Ho won the court case both in the district court and in the high court in 2004. And for her tireless effort in resisting bigotry and prejudice, and her work on human rights and sex rights, she has just been selected as one among the thousand women from all over the world who are collectively nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

Junko Mitsuhashi: As the first transgender university professor in Japan’s long history, Junko Mitsuhashi is now visiting researcher at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo. Describing herself as Male to Female Transgender, she now heads the Club Fake Lady (CFL) in Japan and is also a member on the Research Team on Social History of Transgender in Japan, working on issues such as gender identity theory, social construction of sexuality, cross-dressing, sex-reassignment surgery, laws that govern the change of identity, sex work, the culture of kimono, etc. Mitsuhashi Sensei began her career as Junko in 1990, organized Tokyo’ Fake Lady Club in 1994, and have since sponsored many activities for cross-dressers in Tokyo. Besides being both a practitioner and researcher of gender-crossing, she is also an accomplished columnist, writing extensively on the life of transgenders as well as dialoging with members from the gay movement to improve the overall understanding about transgender. In the second of the 1990s, Mitsuhashi Sensei divided her time between working with support groups for Gender Identity Disorder and part-time volunteer hostessing in one of the new half clubs in Shinjuku, Tokyo. She was also active in introducing the transgender issue to the academic world and the media during the same period of time, making many public appearances and publishing profusely. These experiences make up Mitsuhashi Sensei’s unique understanding of the historical development of the transgender scene of Japan, which she will present in today’s paper.

Chae Unjo has recently defended her MA dissertation on the abject status of transgender populations in Turkish society at the Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

Toshimaru Ogura is a tenured professor of Toyama University, Department of Economics (Political Economy). He is working as a co-president of the People’s Plan Study Group(PPSG), a progressive organization based on researcher-activist initiative. He is one of founders of the Cultural Typhoon in Japan which is an annual conference in terms of cultural studies beyond academia. Also as an activist, he has been tackling against freedom of expression issues in modern art scene in Japan,especially in terms of political censorship by right wing to art works using Japanese emperor as art materials. he is involved in an advisory committee member of the Privacy International(UK), the World Social Forum Solidarity Network in Japan, Anti Surveillance Network, Asian Peace Alliance Japan and so on. His recent concern is culture and politics, globalization movements, and surveillance society issues based on ICT. He published many books in Japanese.His recent books as an editor are as follows; Toshimaru Ogura ed., Gurohbartuka to Kanshi keisatu-kokka heno Teikou[Resistance against Globalization and Surveillance-police State], Kinohana-sha, 2005. Toshimaru Ogura ed., Rojo ni Jiyu o [Freedom on Streets], Impact Shuppankai, 2004. His recent article in English is appeared following People’s Plan Japonesia website: “Making an Issue of the “Alternative World” “, http://www.ppjaponesia.org/modules/tinycontent0/index.php?id=3. His new book titled Shutai to Teikou[Subject and Resistance] will be appeared in this summer.

Anthony Y.H. Fung is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation work is on theories of political economy of communication in Hong Kong. His research interests included gender and youth identity, popular culture and cultural studies, and new media technologies. His research articles have been published in major international communication and cultural studies journals such as Journal of Communication Inquiry, Gazette: A Journal for International Communication, Asian Journal of Communication, Asian Survey, Sex Roles, Asian Pacific Media Educator, World Communication, Cultural Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Culture, Market and Consumption, New Media and Society, and Mass Communication & Society. He was editor and author of a few Chinese books on culture, policy and communication, including Cultural Feeling: In the Voices of Their Own (2000), Cultural Feeling II: Passion, Sentiment, Obsession and Others (2002), Sensitive Music Areas (2001), The Special Administrative Region (SAR), Public Policy and Ethics (2001) and Hong Kong Popular Music Culture: A Cultural Studies Reader (2004).. He is co-author (with Michael Keane and Albert Moran) of Out of Nowhere: Television Formats and the East Asian Cultural Imagination (in press).

Tunghung Ho is currently teaching as assistant professor in Sociology at Fo Guang College in Ilan, Taiwan. Before doing his MA and Ph.D degrees in Lancaster University, England, he had worked in an indie label ‘Crystal Records’ for three years as production coordinator. His main research interests are about ‘alternative music scenes’, ‘ the development of Taiwan’s music industry’, and ‘music and politics’. He is currently doing a research on the historical comparison between ‘new Taiwanese songs’ in the late 1980s and ‘new Hakka songs’ in the last five years. This research attempts to locate their various practices in relation to the issues of cultural governance under the cultural-political context that has seen Democratic Progressive Party from opposition to ruling party.

Teresita Gimenez Maceda is a Professor of Philippine Literature and Philippine Studies at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, College of Arts and Letters of the University of the Philippines. She earned her PhD in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines. Her dissertation, “Mga Tinig mula sa Ibaba, Kasaysayan ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas at Partido Sosialista ng Pilipinas sa Awit, 1930-1955″ (Voices from Below, a History of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the Socialist Party of the Philippines in Song, 1930-1955), published in 1996 by the U.P. Press, received the U.P. Chancellor’s Award for Best Book of the Year in 1997. Professor Maceda pioneered in writing scholarly articles on Pinoy (slang for Filipino) pop music. Some of these include “Ang Himig Natin” (Our Songs) published in Sagisag Magazine (1979), “Philippine Pop Music (International Popular Culture Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, New York, 1979, pp. 24-32) and “History of Pinoy Pop Music”(CCP Encyclopedia of the Arts, Vol. VI). Later, she expanded the scope of her study of popular music to also include the protest songs of social movements. Among her published articles are: “The Katipunan Discourse on Kaginhawahan: Vision and Configurations of a Just and Free Society” (Kasarinlan Quarterly Journal of the UP Third World Studies Center, XIV:2, 1998); “History of Philippine Protest Songs” (CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, Vol. VI), ); “Song as a Cultural Weapon” (Kasarinlan I:1, 1985), “Songs of Legitimation, Songs of Change” (The Politics of Culture: The Philippine Experience, PETA, 1984). She was also a member of Inang Laya (Freedom Mother), a protest singing group during the Martial Law period. Apart from being teacher and scholar, Professor Maceda has worked in mainstream media: as public affairs manager of the television network IBC-13 In 1986, where she pioneered in producing the first talk show in Filipino; and as producer of the New York Festivals Bronze WorldMedal award-winning radio social-drama-forum “Pitlag: Kwento ng Buhay, Isyu ng Bayan (Jolt! Stories and Issues of People and the Nation) aired in Radio Mindanao Network.

Ubonrat Siriyuvasak is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University. She is currently the UNESCO Chair in Freedom of Expression, a joint project between UNESCO and Chulalongkorn University. Her areas of interests are communication rights, media reform, popular culture, women and children in the media and audience studies. Her research articles have been published in numerous journals and books including “Popular culture and youth consumption: Modernity, identity and social transformation”(in Koichi Iwabuchi (ed.) Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV Dramas, 2004), “On democratizing the broadcast media for Santi Prachatham”(in Santi Pracha Dhamma : Essays in honour of the late Puey Ungphakorn, 2001), “Thai pop music and cultural negotiation in everyday politics”(in Kuan-Hsing Chen (ed.) Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 1998). She is the author of The Political Economy of Thai Radio and Television System and Its Impact on the Rights and Freedom of Expressions (1999) (in Thai). She also translated Herbert I. Schiller’s book, Communication and Cultural Domination.

Shin Hyunjoon is a research professor in Institute for East Asian studies in Sunkonghoe University. He received his Ph.D. from the Economics Department of Seoul National University. His dissertation work is on the transformation of Korean music industry in globalization age. His research interests included youth identity, popular culture, cultural studies and ‘music and politics’. Besides his academic career, he has worked as a critc-cum-journalist on popular music and popular culture in general and has published many books(in Korean) on those themes, including Alt.culture and Rock Music (1996), Shut Up and Dance: History and Future of Electronic Dance Music (1998), Global, Local and Music Industry in Korea (2001), Into the World Music (2003), An Archaeology of Korean Pop Music: 1960~70s (2005). Some of his research articles in English are “Beyond K-culture, Beyond Cultural Wars”, “Regional Politics of K-pop: Out of ‘Gayo’ Nationalism into Pop Asianism” and “A Theoretical Approch for ‘An Archaeology of Korean Pop Music’: ‘Group Sound(s)’ in 1960~70s”(in process).

Sun Ge, educated in Jilin University in China, is Research Fellow in the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her main research interest is history of political thought, currently working on the Post World War II Japan. Her books include: How does Asia mean? (2001), The Space of the Dissipitating Subject (2002), Takeuchi Yoshimi’s Dilemma (2005); and edited and translated Takeuchi Yoshimi’s Overcoming the Modern.

Zheng Hongsheng 鄭鴻生，自由撰稿者. 臺灣台南人，西元一九五一年生.

作 品有：《揚帆吧！雪梨》（聯經，1999年，澳洲旅遊散文）, 《青春之歌》（聯經，2001年，追憶1960/70年代臺灣學生運動歷史）, 《踏著李奧帕德的足跡》（允晨，2002年，海外觀鳥遊記）, 《荒島遺事》（印刻，2005年，有關1970年代囚禁政治犯之綠島印象）

• 一九六九年台南一中畢業後就讀台灣大學.
• 一九七一年開始，介入台大學生保釣運動、校園民主抗爭與民族主義論戰.
• 一九七三年台大哲學系畢業，正值「台大哲學系事件」動盪之秋.
• 一九七三年十月入伍，受訓後分發至囚禁犯人之綠島(火燒島)服役.
• 一九七五年八月退伍後赴美留學，改讀電腦碩士，並在電腦網路公司工作.
• 一九八八年回台，進入資策會，負責大型資訊系統與網路之規劃設計.
• 一九九六年與妻遊學澳洲雪梨(Sidney)一年.
• 一九九七年迄今，居住台北，從事寫作與家管.

Eric Kit-wai Ma. Associate Professor, School of Journalism & Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 2000-present: Associate Professor, Chinese University of HK
• 1995-2000: Assistant Professor, Chinese University of HK
• 1989-1992: Researcher, Program Development Unit, Radio Television Hong Kong
• 1988-1989: Assistant Producer, Asian Television Ltd.
• 1987: Associate Producer, Breakthrough Centre

Yoshitaka Mōri is Associate Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He has BA (economics, Kyoto University), MA (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, U of London) and PhD (Sociology, Goldsmiths, U of London). His research interests are contemporary culture, in particular, media and urban culture and its relationships to politics. Hi publications includes ‘Culture-Politics: The Emergence of New Cultural Forms of Protest in the age of Freeter’ in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 2005 vol.5 no.1

Audrey Yue. Department of English with Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Liu Shih-Diing teaches at the Department of Communication, University of Macau, China. Research fields: Communication and cultural studies.

Rob Wilson is a western Connecticut native who was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a doctorate in English in 1976 and was founding editor of the Berkeley Poetry Review. Since that time he has taught in the English Department at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Korea University in Seoul, and was a visiting professor of literature at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. As of January 2001, he relocated here to Santa Cruz to become a professor of transnational/postcolonial literatures at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Advisory editor for the journals boundary 2, UTS Review, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, his works of poetry and cultural criticism include Waking In Seoul; American Sublime; Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production; Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary; Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics and the New Pacific; and Reimagining the American Pacific: From ‘South Pacific’ to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond. He is working on two poetry and cultural poetics collections: Ananda Air: American Pacific Lines of Flight; and Automat: Unsettling Anglo-Global Poetics Along Asian/Pacific Lines of Flight; and an anthology of cultural criticism called Worldings: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization forthcoming with New Pacific Press in Santa Cruz, California. During the fall of 2004, he was a visiting professor in the Cinema Department at the Korea National University of the Arts in Seoul, South Korea. Web for some web links to his work as scholar and poet, see: http://www2.ucsc.edu/aparc/aparc.htm

Ju Changkyu, KNUA, Korean Cinema.

Park Pyongwon, KNUA, Chinese Cinema.

Kim Kyung Hyun, University of California, Irvine.

Hiroaki Ozawa, 1958-, Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University, Japan. Research fields: Modern and Contemporary History of East Central Europe; Theory of Nationalism and Ethnicity. Executive secretary of Metropolitan Network against National University Corporation Act.

Wan-wen Chu, Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Research fields: East Asian economic development, industrial policy, and industrial organization.

Huang Hou-ming is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan. He has BA, MA, Ph.d of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Research fields include Sociology of Information Society, Sociological Theory, and Sociology of Culture. He is Deputy Secretary-General of Taiwan Sociology Association and Standing Director of Taiwan Academy for Information Society Member of Editorial Board of the journal, Cyber Culture and Information Society.

Angel Lin received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1996. She is an associate professor in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. She works in the areas of critical education studies, urban and school ethnography, critical discourse analysis, feminist media studies and youth cultural studies. With a background in ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and social theory, her theoretical orientations are phenomenological, sociocultural and critical. In September 2005 she will be moving to the Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Kang Myung Koo is Professor of Communication, Seoul National University. He is the author of Theories of News and Journalism in Korea, and Popular Culture and Postmodernism in Korea. He has completed a number of researches in discursive analysis of news and popular culture, published in Korea as well as international scholarly journals. He received his Ph.D in Journalism and Mass Communication from University of Iowa, USA in 1986.

Hong Duck-Ryul, born in 1957, is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Daegu University, Korea. His research fields include Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Social inequality. He is a Member of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning.

Chen Kuan-Hsing 陳光興 is Professor in the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and is currently a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He has published extensively in both Chinese and English, including edited volumes in English: Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (1996) and Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (1998); and in Chinese: Cultural Studies in Taiwan (2000) and The Partha Chatterjee Seminar–Locating Political Society: Modernity, State Violence and Postcolonial Democracies (2000). His own books include Media/Cultural Criticism: A Popular-Democratic Line of Flight (1992, in Chinese), and The Imperialist Eye (2003, in Korean). A core member of the Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, he is a co-executive editor of the journal and books series of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements.

Kim Hyun Mee is currently an associate professor of the dept. of Sociology and the chair of the Graduate program in Culture and Gender Studies, Yonsei University, Korea. As a cultural anthropologist, her areas of theoretical interest lie in the political economy of gender, feminist cultural studies, and postcolonialism. Her current research include the Korean pop culture flow in the Asian regions and international marriage and sex work issues in Korea.

Kaoru Aoyama is a PhD student at Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK, currently awaiting for the viva. Her areas of interest are sex work, International migration, Issues around gender and sexuality, Thai-Japan international and inter-people relations, Intimate Citizenship, Structuration Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and recently in the grass-roots conservatism particularly in women who support the right in Japan.

Wang Fang Ping has been a labor movement activist in Taiwan for 16 years. She had been the Secretary General of National Federation of Mass Media Trade Unions in Taiwan.

• 1997-2001, Secretary General, Taipei Alliance of Licenced Prostitute (TALP) ,organizing the protest campaigns with sex workers together for initiating the sex worker rights movement in Taiwan
• 2001-now, Secretary General, Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters (COSWAS)
• 2002, Candidate, Taipei City Councilor election, advocating for the decriminalization of sex workers.

CHUA Beng Huat 蔡明發, a Singaporean, obtained his PhD from York University, Toronto, Canada. He has held visiting professorships at universities in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, Australia and the US. During his recent Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fellowship at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he delivered the Inaugural Lecture of the Carolina Asia Center. He has published widely in urban planning and public housing, comparative politics in Southeast Asia and the emerging consumerism across Asia: Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore (London and New York: Routledge, 1995) and Political Legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). He has edited, Consumption in Asia: Lifestyles and Identities (London and New York: Routledge, 2000). His most recent book is Life is Not Complete without Shopping (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003). A new book of which he is the contributing editor will be in print in March, 2004, entitled Communitarian Politics in Asia (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon). In addition to being on the editorial board of many international social science and cultural studies journals, he is currently founding co-executive editor of the journal, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (London: Routledge).

Kim Soojin is a Doctor of Sociology at Seoul National University. Her Ph. D. thesis dealt a discourse field of a New Woman, figures of New Woman and politics of colonial identity in Korea. She has been interested in representations of Korean woman in historical contexts, and a testimony of Korean Sexual Slaves, and recently in a modern formation of media apparatus in Korea. Her areas of theoretical interest are post-colonial theory, historical cultural studies, and gender system theory. Her publications include: “New Woman: Writing History from an Open Past and a Suspended resent”(2000), “Memory and the Politics of Gaze, History and the Representation of Memory”(2000) “Motherhood at the Border between Normalcy and Pathology”(1999) and History Rewritten Through Memory: Korean Military ‘Comfort Women’ Dragged off by Force 4(co-ed., P’ulpit, 2000).

Dai Jinhua 戴錦華 was born in Beijing, in 1959. She graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature, the Peking Universit, in 1982 and then taught in the Literature Department of the Peking Academy of Cinema. She is currently Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, and Professor of the East Asian Department of the Ohio State University. She has been visiting Professor in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Her work has been in the history of cinema, women’s literature and popular culture. Her books include: Guide for Film Theory and Criticism 《电影理论与批评手册》, Screen and Popular Myth《镜与世俗神话——影片精读十八例》, Breaking out of the Screen Castle《镜城突围》, Invisible Writings: Chinese Cultural Studies in the 90’s《隐形书写——90年代中国文化研究》, Inside the Screen: Interviews with Dai Jinhua《犹在镜中——戴锦华访谈录》, Scenery in the Fog: Chinese Cinema Culture, 1978-1998《雾中风景:中国电影文化1978—1998》, Chinese Women’s Writing and Culture in the New Era《涉渡之舟:新时期中国女性写作与女性文化》,Cinema and Desire:A Feminist Maxism and Cultral Politics in Dai Jinhua’s works.

Earl Jackson, Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, and recently Visiting Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of the Arts. His publications include: Strategies of Deviance (Indiana University Press, 1995); College Connections Web Resource (Macmillan 1996). Forthcoming publications include East Asian Film Literacies, an electronic book.

Kim Soyoung Professor of Cinema Studies at School of Film and Multimedia, Korea National University of Arts . Also taught at UC. Irvine and UC. Berkeley. Has published several books including Specters of Modernity: Fantastic Korean Cinema (Korean, 2000), Blue Flower in the Land of Technology (Korean, 1997). Her articles appeared in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Traces, Post-Colonial Studies and Gendai Shiso (Japanese) and Shiso (Japanese). Currently co-editing Electronics Elsewheres (Minnesota University Press, forthcoming) with Lynn Spiegel and Chris Berry. Have recently completed The Trilogy on Women’s History screened at Yamagata International Documentary Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival and Seoul Women’s Film Festival, Berlin Digi-Beta festival among many.

Meaghan Morris is Chair Professor of Cultural Studies and Coordinator of the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme at Lingnan University, Hong Kong . Her books include ‘Race’ Panic and the Memory of Migration (co-edited with Brett de Bary, 2001); Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998); Australian Cultural Studies: A reader (co-edited with John Frow) and The Pirate’s Fiancee: feminism, reading, postmodernism (1988). She is Senior Editor of Traces: a Multilingual Journal of Cultural Theory and Translation, and in 2004 was elected Chair of the international Association for Cultural Studies. Her latest book, Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (co-edited with Stephen Chan and Siu-leung Li), is forthcoming from Hong Kong University Press.