Tina S. Clemente – författare

New Asian Connectivities brings together scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, business, and law to reimagine the nuances of regional interconnectivity in Asia and to challenge notions of boundaries and boundedness in reconceptualizing the field of Asian studies. Focusing on connections that animate Asian regionalism and the academic study of Asia, this edited volume operates in three overlapping interdisciplinary areas: the construction of cultural positionality; the interdependence of governance, policy, and legislation; and the enmeshment of regionalized political economies amid increasingly decentralized global power. These contributions foreground analyses of cultural production, economic flows, and social mobility that cut across South and Southeast Asia and extend toward East and West Asia to form new networks of regional interconnection. Pushing against the rigid boundaries of nationalized identities, state institutions, internationalized development schemes, and government-sanctioned trade policies, these essays reexamine the diverse dimensions of intra-Asian regionalism and its robustness as an approach to scholarly inquiry.

How did the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution affect everyone's lives? Why did people re/negotiate their identities to adopt revolutionary roles and duties? How did people, who lived with different self-understandings and social relations, inevitably acquire and practice revolutionary identities, each in their own light?This book plunges into the contexts of these concerns to seek different relations that reveal the Revolution's different meanings. Furthermore, this book shows that scholars of the Cultural Revolution encountered emotional and intellectual challenges as they cared about the real people who owned an identity resource that could trigger an imagined thread of solidarity in their minds.The authors believe that the Revolution's magnitude and pervasive scope always resulted in individualized engagements that have significant and differing consequences for those struggling in their micro-context. It has impacted a future with unpredictable collective implications in terms of ethnicity, gender, memory, scholarship, or career. The Cultural Revolution is, therefore, an evolving relation beneath the rise of China that will neither fade away nor sanction integrative paths.