Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society

Partha CHATTERJEE, founding member of the Subaltern Studies editorial collective, is the director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and visiting professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Professor Chatterjee’s books include The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (Columbia UP, 2004); A Princely Impostor? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal (Princeton UP, 2002); Partha Chatterjee Omnibus (Oxford UP, 1999); A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism (Oxford UP, 1997); The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton UP, 1993) and Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? (Zed Books, 1986).

Soyoung KIM is Professor of Cinema Studies at Korea National University of Arts, chief editor of Trans: Journal of Visual Culture Studies, and editorial collective member for Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and Traces: A multilingual Journal of Cultural Theory and Translation. Author of Specters of Modernity: Fantastic Korean Cinema; Kim Soyoung’s Film Reviews; Cinema: Blue Flower in the Land of Technology, editor of Cine-Feminism: Reading popular Cinema; and director of Koryu: Southern Women and South Korea, opening film for the 3rd Seoul Women’s Film Festival and in competition at Yamagata documentary Film Festival, 2001; and other short films made for women filmmakers’ collective in late 80s. She is now the director of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society.

Hilmar FARID is cultural activist and historian, co-founder of Jaringan Kerja Budaya (JKB, Cultural Worker Network) and Institut Sejarah Sosial Indonesia (ISSI, the Indonesian Institute of Social History). He is on the editorial board of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.

WANG Hui is professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsing Hua University, Beijing, where he also heads the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. He is an adjunct professor in Nankai University, Tianjin. An executive editor of the most important monthly journal, Du-Shu, Wang Hui is a leading intellectual in China. His major research areas include Chinese intellectual history and modern Chinese literature, which includes The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought（4 volumes）（Beijing: San-lian, 2004）, China’s New Order (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), For a New Asia （Seoul: Creation and Criticism Publisher, 2003）, Re-warming the ceasing fire （Beijing: People’s Literature Publisher, 2000; Korean Edition, 2004）.

Huricihan İslamoğlu is currently Professor of Economic History and Economic Theory at Bogazici University and Recurrent professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Central European University , Budapest. Her recent academic interests include comparative study of state and legal transformation with an emphasis on transformation of property rights in the 19th century and in post-socialist societies; institutional economics; public administration; political economy of law; comparative history of modernity. She is heading a project on “Making of Global Markets and the Transfoirmation of Turkish Agriculture’. Her publications include articles published in numerous edited volumes and in Annales, ESC. , REVIEW(Binghamton, NY); The Journal of Early Modern Europe ,International Encyclopedia for Social and Behavioral Studies( article Civil Society, history and concept) and books Constituting Modernity: Private Property in the East and west (London :I.B. Tauris,2004), The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy( CUP,1987); State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire(1994);Neden Avrupa Tarihi?(why European History?(1996); editor with Peter Perdue of MIT of the special issue of The Journal for Early Modern History entitled ‘Shared Histories of Modernity in China and the Ottoman Empire’ December, 2001. She is also completing a book-length study on ‘Comparative Makings of Markets in 19th century Ottoman empire , France and Russia and late 20th century Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Tejaswini NIRANJANA is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India. Her most recent book is Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad (Duke UP, 2006). She is also the author of Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context (California, 1992). She has published widely in the areas of feminist theory, translation, and film studies, and is on the executive committee of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies journal。

WEN Tiejun is Professor and Dean of the School of Agriculture & Rural Development, Renmin University of China. An agricultural economist, Wen won reputation as the creator of China’s first free farmer’s training centre - the Yanyangchu Countryside Construction Institute in Hebei Province. A prolific researcher of rural economies and rural affairs, Wen is never satisfied with developing new theories. He bases his research on massive field investigations across the country, and his research projects concerned such problems as farmers’ credit situation, rural finance, farmers’ insurance, and medical reform in China’s countryside.

Dai JINHUA graduated from the Department of Chinese, Peking University, in 1982. She is Professor of the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture in Peking University, the Director of the Cultural Studies Workshop, and Visiting Professor of the Department of East Asia, Ohio State University, USA. A leading feminist scholar, she is engaged in studies of mass culture, film history and feminist literature. Her over 10 publications include Surfacing from History: A study of Contemporary Women Literature, Breaking Out of the City of Mirrors: Women, Film, Literature, The Mirror and Secular Myths: 18 Film Cases, As If in the Mirror: Interviews with Dai Jinhua, Invisible Writing: Chinese Cultural Studies in the 1990s, Outlook from a Slanting Tower: Chinese Film Culture 1978-1998.

Firdous AZIM is Professor of English and is currently the Chairperson of the Department of English and Humanities at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has published widely on post-colonial and feminist issues. Her main publications include The Colonial Rise of the Novel (Routledge, 1993) and a collection of short stories Galpa: Short Stories of Short Stories by Women from Bangladesh (Saqi Books, London, 2004). She is a member of Naripokkho, a leading women’s organization in Bangladesh, and she tries to blend her academic activities with her activist role.

Melani BUDIANTA is a professor of literature and cultural studies, currently head of the Department of Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia. She teaches and does researchi n gender, literature and cultural politics. Her recent publication includes “Decentralizing Engagements: Women and the Democratization Processes in Indonesia” Signs (Summer 2006, vol 31 ), and “The Dragon Dance: Shifting Meaning of Chineseness in Indonesia” forthcoming in Kathryn Robinson (ed) Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion, Palgrave.

CHO Hae-joang, a practicing cultural anthropologist and feminist, is a professor at Yonsei University. Her early research focused on gender studies in Korean modern history; her current interests and research are in the area of education and youth culture in the global/local and post‐colonial context of modern day Korea. She teaches: Gender and Society, Cultural Anthropology in the Globalizing World, Popular Culture , Qualitative Methodology, and Graduate Seminar on Alternative Education, Cultural Studies. Recently, her interest is moving towards ‘caring society’ in the age of crisis of care. Cho is the author of [Women and Men in South Korea](1988), [Reading Texts, Reading Lives in the Post‐colonial Era] 3 volumes (1992, 1994), [Chidren Refusing School, Society Refusing Children] (1996), [Reflexive Modernity and Feminism] (1998), [Children Searching School, Society Searching Children] (2000) and the coauthor of [talking at the Edge: Letters Between Japanese and Korean Feminists] (2004, with Ueno Chizuko). She coedited [Beyond the Division: For Cultural Coexistence of Two Koreas] (2000) with Lee Wu-young. All are written in Korean. [Korean Society and the Gender] (Hose University Press) and [talking at the Edge] (Iwanami Publisher) are translated in Japanese. As an ‘action researcher’, Cho has founded a youth center (The Youth Factory for Alternative Culture. www.haja.net ) and the Seoul Alternative Learning Community Network in 1999 and in 2001. She also serves as the principal of two alternative schools (The haja Production School and Sungmisan Community School) in Seoul since 2001 and 2004.

Now Chair of the English Department, National Central University, Taiwan and outgoing President of the Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan, Josephine HO has been 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. 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, which greatly enhanced and challenged Taiwanese academic research into marginal gender/sexualities. Website http://sex.ncu.edu.tw

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 Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (co-ed. with Siu-leung Li and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu, 2005); New Keywords: a Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (co-ed with Tony Bennett and Lawrence Grossberg, 2005); “Race” Panic and the Memory of Migration (co-ed. with Brett de Bary, 2001); Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998); and The Pirate’s Fiancée: 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 next book, Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture is forthcoming from Sage in 2006.

SUN Ge is a Researcher (Professor) and the Assistant Director of the Research Group in the Comparative Literature Group at the Literature Research Institute of the China Academy of Social Studies, in Beijing China. Born in 1955 in Changchun, Jilin Province in China, she graduated from the Department of Chinese literature at Jilin University and received an additional Ph.D. in Politics and Law in 2003, from Tokyo Metropolitan University, in Tokyo Japan. Building arguments around the dilemma that narrates Asia in the context of modernity and globalization, her essays directly deal with a series of contemporary provocative issues, such as Japanese right wing history textbooks, assessment of the Nanjing atrocities, official visits to Yasukuni Shrine, and the lawsuits against veteran witness Shiro Azuma. These essays have made great impacts in China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea, and some of them have been translated into English for the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (v.1, n.1 &2, 2000). Her other titles include Seeking Errors (Beijing, 1998), Research on Chinese Classical Opera Performed Overseas (co-authored with CHEN Yangu, Shanghai, 2000) and What does Asia mean?: [Japan] ’s cultural space (Taipei, 2001). She is also a founder of the intellectual forum “The Japan/China Knowledge Community.” Holding multiple symposiums for six years, this “Community” opened one of the few common Asian intellectual spaces and has been a powerful influence and an important testimony of both the challenges and opportunities in the inter-Asian cross-cultural studies.

Shunya YOSHIMI is Dean and Professor of Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo. Specialized in Sociology, Cultural Studies and Media Studies; He wrote many books on cultural theory, urban culture, international exposition, media culture, emperor system, and Americanization in modern Japan and East Asia. Some of his articles in English are; “‘Made in Japan’: the cultural politics of ‘home electrification’in postwar Japan”, Media, Culture and Society, Vol.21, No.2, 1999,“Consuming ‘America’”, in Consumption in Asia, Chua Beng-Huat ed., Routledge, 2000, “‘America’ as Desire and Violence: Americanization in Postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol.4 No.3, 2003