scholarly journals A Study on the East Asian Diaspora Characteristics of the War in Choi Chuk Jeon

2015 ◽  
Vol null (30) ◽  
pp. 145-174
Author(s):  
김용기
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Asian Diaspora

‘All Tee, No Shade’: A manifesto for a subtle critical practice negotiating queer, East Asian masculinities through T-shirts

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Sang Thai
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Critical Design ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Discrimination And Oppression ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Industry Experience

‘All Tee, No Shade’ is a practice-led research project that explores the use of the men’s T-shirt to challenge and disrupt hegemonic subjectivities that contribute to the marginalization and discrimination of the queer Asian diaspora. Through an exploration of my pilot project of the same name, produced as part of the arts programme of Virgin Australian Melbourne Fashion Festival in 2020, I propose that norm-critical design methodologies exploring intersectional experiences of fashion and dress can produce material outcomes that challenge the discrimination and oppression associated with compounding conditions of race and sexuality. I use the notion of ‘subtle’ traits as a condition of the East Asian diasporic experience to reveal how race and sexuality might be expressed through fashion production to disrupt conceptions of ‘otherness’. This is achieved with T-shirts that have printed graphic configurations that align with contemporary streetwear but with ‘subtle’ signifiers embedded through the signs and lexicons of Asian and queer communities. Using an autoethnographic approach, the work is informed by my past fashion design industry experience and reflects on racial and queer marginalization and discrimination through styling and fit. The project contributes to broader discourses aimed at decentralizing dominant narratives in fashion practice and responds to a lack of academic research into diasporic Asian experiences of dress and, more specifically, queer diasporic Asian dress.

scholarly journals "Too White": Model Minority counter-stories in Canadian institute of higher education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Jeong Han
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Model Minority Myth ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The North ◽  
Canadian Institute ◽  
Asian Identity

The Model Minority Myth (MMM) is a discursive trait of Asianness in the North American context. It defines East Asian identity as a hardworking and a resilient group despite experiencing discrimination. Marginality in a positive stereotype seems like an oxymoron, however when the MMM is the only representation of the Asian community, it robs individuality of Asians who are excluded from this representation. Historically, the monolithic representation of the Asian diaspora with the MMM was used as a hegemonic tool to oppress racialized groups, including other Asians to legitimize whiteness. In this MRP, narratives of three participants provided counter stories to erode monolithic stories of Asians. Furthermore, it provided the discursive space to have conversations about Asianness with the participants. Keywords : model minority, Asianness, race, gender, narrative approach, counter-story

scholarly journals "Too White": Model Minority counter-stories in Canadian institute of higher education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Jeong Han
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Model Minority Myth ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The North ◽  
Canadian Institute ◽  
Asian Identity

The Model Minority Myth (MMM) is a discursive trait of Asianness in the North American context. It defines East Asian identity as a hardworking and a resilient group despite experiencing discrimination. Marginality in a positive stereotype seems like an oxymoron, however when the MMM is the only representation of the Asian community, it robs individuality of Asians who are excluded from this representation. Historically, the monolithic representation of the Asian diaspora with the MMM was used as a hegemonic tool to oppress racialized groups, including other Asians to legitimize whiteness. In this MRP, narratives of three participants provided counter stories to erode monolithic stories of Asians. Furthermore, it provided the discursive space to have conversations about Asianness with the participants. Keywords : model minority, Asianness, race, gender, narrative approach, counter-story

scholarly journals The Phenomenal and the Cultural in Contemporary Paintings from Indian Diaspora

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmita Sarkar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Phenomenological Theory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Phenomenology Of Perception ◽  
Contemporary Painting ◽  
Embodied Engagement

Contemporary painting is a complex practice that incorporates elements of different media and bear diverse historical and cultural influences. Contemporary painting from South-East Asian diaspora is no less different. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze a few contemporary painters’ work in light of phenomenological theory. Merleau-Ponty’s (1993, 2004, 2008) theory of embodiment and phenomenology of perception has been used to show how the fusion of material exploration, embodied engagement with the lived environment, and knowledge of art-historical and contemporary trend results in creation of painting. It was also shown that the artists discussed are adept at combining cultural and sensual components in their painting thus creating works of art that has a broad cross-cultural appeal. It was argued that a theoretical lens that pays due attention to material and sensual aspects of art can open-up new horizon of analysis.

scholarly journals Feeling Asian Together: Coping With #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512094822
Author(s):  
Crystal Abidin ◽  
Jing Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
East Asian ◽  
East Asians ◽  
Asian Community ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Mutual Care

Since the onset of COVID-19, incidents of racism and xenophobia have been occurring globally, especially toward people of East Asian appearance and descent. In response, this article investigates how an online Asian community has utilized social media to engage in cathartic expressions, mutual care, and discursive activism amid the rise of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during COVID-19. Specifically, we focus on the 1.7-million-strong Facebook group “Subtle Asian Traits” (SAT). Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the 1,200 new posts it publishes daily have swiftly pivoted to the everyday lived experiences of (diaspora) East Asians around the world. In this article, we reflect on our experiences as East Asian diaspora members on SAT and share our observations of meaning-making, identity-making, and community-making as East Asians collectively coping with COVID-19 aggression between January and May 2020.

Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
W.J. Boot
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

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