《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements》Volume 22 Number 4 出版
2022-01-20
Introduction
Roxann PRAZNIAKa and Rob WILSONb
a Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
b Literature Department, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA
Given the complicated, antagonistic, if not phobic geopolitical relationships (as well as geospatial international border concerns) that have become aggravated between the People’s Republic of China and the virus-scapegoating world of Covid-19, we need to ponder and critique what Arif Dirlik called (dialectically as ever) China in the world and the world in China. But this is a worlded People’s Republic of China that must be situated against the nationalist populism and anti-globalist USA as well as the migrant-hostile UK and a wobbling European Union all aggravated during the tariff-flinging Trump administration (2016-2020) as well as while confronting the global pandemic that these countries and social communities still face across 2020 and 2021. On the horizon of such theorizing stands the city-state of Hong Kong all but sublated as a legal or social form into the mainland surveillance state of the PRC, a postcolonial Taiwan still perilously surviving as an integral site, as well as the polycentric Chinese diasporas and the rise of a resurgent indigenous Oceania that all call out for justice and global recognition. In such precarious contexts, this special issue of IACS that would articulate and will forward such situated complexity, a range of evolving transnational and transdisciplinary commitments, and (at the core) the historical ethos of what Marxist and Asia/Pacific scholar Arif Dirlik stood for should prove timely, urgent and of border-crossing interest across the Pacific and the broader world of critical theory, geopolitics, and planetary ecology we face as the Anthropocene.
To say that this special issue on comrade, teacher, lover, mentor, and friend Arif Dirlik enters into an over-determined and prefigured set of geopolitical oppositions, social tensions, and historical antagonisms (as this first paragraph gestures to evoke) is to put the matter politely. This special issue of IACS (a “movements” journal and coalition that Dirlik had mentored and contributed too since its founding days in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore) aims to interrogate these longer durations and commitments of Dirlik’s whole historical-material as well as cultural-political approach and his scholarly ethos embodying what Roxann Prazniak calls (in the last interviews, passages, and polemics authorized from a self-reflective Dirlik as collected and reflected upon in her essay herein) history as epistemology. History, that is, as a way of knowing and critically reflecting upon China in the world and the world in China as Arif puts it in his essay. Such reflections extend and update those articulated in his compelling critical last book-length work warningly called (holding back no critical punches), Complicities (2017). Many in this special issue, from Ravi Palat to Neferti Tadiar and Christopher Leigh Connery (in his afterword to this special issue), will come to terms with and try to remember forward.
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements Vol. 22 No. 4 December 2021
Table of Contents
Special issue title: After Dirlik: history, world, and radical imagination
Introduction
Introduction
Roxann PRAZNIAK and Rob WILSON
Section I: History and the World
The Voices of Those who Inhabit Places
Russell LEONG
“Everyday I am Çapuling”: Keeping Dirlik’s theoretical history in focus
Roxann PRAZNIAK
Indigenism as project: language politics and the hegemony of postcolonialism in Taiwan
Fang-chih Irene YANG and Sam L. M. MAK
The world(s) between places: Arif Dirlik and the fragile epistemologies of the Asia-Pacific-Americas
Ana Maria CANDELA
Seven poetic constellations of Asia/Pacific world-making: reflections on the diasporic life and organic-intellectual work of Arif Dirlik
Rob WILSON
Duplicities: the false promise of Asian Studies
Ravi Arvind PALAT
Sinified academic Marxism and Arif Dirlik’s (self-)criticism of postcolonial studies
Po-hsi CHEN
Section II: Radical Departures and Reflections
Arif Dirlik in Mandarin: radical interventions in China, Taiwan, and global entanglements
Chih-ming WANG
Arif Dirlik in South Korea
Dongyoun HWANG
The Cultural Revolution and its significance in world history: an interview with Arif Dirlik
Dongyoun HWANG
The difficulties of having Arif Dirlik published in the French language, and why I felt compelled to do it
David BARTEL
Arif Hoca and Turkish scholars
Veysel BATMAZ
Publishing Arif Dirlik in his native language
Ali ŞIMŞEK
Khatuns to comrades to capitalists: domestic violence law in modern Mongolia
Morris ROSSABI
Yang Lian’s exilic poetry: ghost poetics and self-dramatization
Victor MAIR and Qing LIAO
Visual essay
Photos of Arif Dirlik
Roxann PRAZNIAK
Section III: Tributes to Memory
Tributes to memory
Shaobo XIE
Complicity and responsibility: after Arif Dirlik on the Asia-Pacific and China
Neferti TADIAR
Arif’s gift
Masturah ALATAS
The end of the world as Arif showed us…
Paul A. BOVÉ
Complicitous?
Christopher Leigh CONNERY
Section IV: Farewell
After sunset
Tsering Wangmo DHOMPA
A Siena black rose
Roxann PRAZNIAK
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