Trans-Asia Cultural Studies

ごぶさたしています。カルチュラル・タイフーンでお忙しい方もいらっしゃると思いますが、久しぶりに夏休み前にトランスアジア文化研究会を開催します。

今回は、韓国とシンガポールから、二人の韓国研究者をお招きしてお話をしてもらいます。一人は、韓国外国語大学校（Hunkuk University of Foreign Studies)のチョウ・ヨンハンさん。チョウさんは、スポーツとグローバル化について研究をしている気鋭の若手研究家です。特に野球の植民地時期から現在における東アジア（韓国、日本、台湾、フィリピン）の研究を行う一方で、野球やサッカーなどのスポーツのトランスナショナルな研究者ネットワークづくりに精力的に取り組んでいます。ワールドカップの熱気も冷めない今ぜひスポーツについて議論したいと思います。

もうひとりは、シンガポールの南洋工科大学（Nanyang Technological University）のリー・ヒュウジュンさん。リーさんは、韓国のミュージカル演劇の歴史的な移り変わり、特にアメリカのブロードウェイ的な文化ヘゲモニーがどのように変化してきたかを議論します。

興味のある方はどなたでも歓迎ですのでぜひお越しください（報告は英語で行われます）。

■とき　：２０１０年７月１４日（水）１８：３０〜２０：００

■ところ：東京芸術大学北千住キャンパス１Ｆ第一講義室

(※今回会場は芸大北千住キャンパスなのでご注意ください)
〒120-0034　東京都足立区千住1-25-1　Tel: 050-5525-2742
http://www.geidai.ac.jp/access/senju.html
ＪＲ地下鉄北千住駅徒歩５分

■報告１

●報告者：チョウ・ヨンハン（韓国大学校助教授）

Younghan Cho, Assistant Professor

Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea)　

●報告タイトル

「現代アジアにとってスポーツは重要か？議論すべきいくつかのこと」

■報告２

●報告者：リー・ヒュンジュン（シンガポール南洋工科大学助教授）

Hyunjung Lee, Assistant Professor in the Division of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

●報告タイトル

「現代韓国の音楽演劇を考察する：省察と問題」

(詳しい概要と報告者略歴は、以下の英語をご参照ください)

■お問い合わせ

毛利嘉孝(東京芸術大学)　yoshimouri(a)hotmail.com (a)を@に変えてご送信下さい。

■    Titles and abstracts

Paper 1

Do Sports Matter in Modern Asia: Several Issues to be Considered.

Abstract:

Aided by new media technologies, sports have been globalized with tremendous rapidity. American sports in particular became an international juggernaut in the 1990s.  During this period, Asian markets skyrocketed as the number of cable and satellite channels devoted to sport coverage hugely expanded Asian fans’ opportunities to enjoy sports programs broadcast from anywhere in the world.  However, the popularity of global sports has neither resulted in cultural homogenization (i.e., Americanization) among local sports fans nor severed the connections between sport fandom and fans’ local roots. 

Instead, in spite of globalization, sports in Asia remain inherently connected to both national and local roots.  Rather, the globalization of sport in Asia comprises diverse connections among global, regional, and national identities.  Still, the body of sports studies remains focused on European and American contexts: research on the complex relationship between global sport and local receptivity in Asia remains scarce. 

In this presentation, I will introduce both my published articles and my current research project, which have dealt with several issues in sports such as nationalism, media representation, governmentality, fandom, and identity politics in the contexts of South Korea and East Asia to certain degrees.  In so doing, I will ask whether or how the study on sports would contribute to providing a better understanding of modern Asia and its relation to the processes of globalization. 

Paper 2

Approaching Musical Theatre in contemporary South Korea: Reflections and Questions

Abstract:

Musical theatre in South Korea has been symbolized as American cultural hegemony and its popularity reflects American strategic influence largely through the promotion of cultural understanding of America.  A wide variety of Broadway musicals such as Guys and Dolls, Annie, and Oliver! were translated and adapted for performance by Korean actors starting roughly in the mid 1980s.  Musical’s popularity with Korean audiences, which increased through the decade, was further fuelled by rapid globalization in the early 1990s.  However, quite different from the way musical was pursued and staged in the 1980s, more recent musical productions in South Korea show that while the aura of the “Broadway” still exerts its hegemonic power, the viewers are more interested in seeing an on-going South Korean social problems and issues inserted into the performance.  In this workshop, I will be talking about my research on contemporary South Korean performances, concentrating on how the overall rationale of South Korean cultural development has been envisioned on stage.  By sharing the ways in which I undertook this research, I hope to discuss about the shared contests in East Asia between national desires for development (i.e. modernization) and the omnipresence of (Euro)American hegemony.

■Speakers’ biographies

Younghan Cho earned his master degree in Communication Studies at Seoul National University in 2002, and his doctoral degree in Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina in 2007 under the advice of Lawrence Grossberg.  He was also a postdoctoral fellow in Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore between April 2008 and March 2010.  Currently, he teaches Korean culture and Society as the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.  His major research is on nationalism and globalization, mass media and representation, and sports and online fandom. His current projects include East Asian popular culture and theorization on ‘blog-media.’  His publications have appeared in numerous journals, including Inter-Asian Cultural Studies (2008), Media, Culture & Society (2009), and Sociology of Sport Journal (2009).  He is currently working on publishing his dissertation into a book, entitled as “Undoing Nationalism: Local Fandom and American Sports in Globalized Korea.”

Hyunjung Lee is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received her Ph.D. degree in comparative literature from the University of Texas at Austin, writing her dissertation on ‘Global Fetishism: Dynamics of Transnational Performances in Contemporary South Korea’ (2008). Lee’s research interests focus on theatre studies, literature and popular culture. She has published in Theatre Research International, Korea Journal, and in Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context and has a forthcoming article in the Journal of Popular Culture. Lee is now working on a monograph which deals with the representation, reception and consumption of Broadway musical productions in contemporary East Asia.

Call for Contributions to Proposed Book 

East Asian Film Stars: From the Local to the Global

Editors: Leung Wing-Fai (University of Bristol) & Andy Willis (University of Salford) 
 

East Asian Film Stars: From the Local to the Global seeks to contribute to an extension of star studies beyond its traditional geographical and cultural foci on Hollywood and European performers. This proposed collection of essays wishes to explore some of the most globally recognisable, yet academically underexplored, film stars from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Toshiro Mifune, ‘Beat’ Takeshi Kitano, Jet Li, Kang-ho Song, Chow Yun Fat, Gong Li and Maggie Cheung. Alongside these, chapters will also investigate more regionally and locally popular figures such as Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Donnie Yen as well as exploring the phenomena of intra-Asian film stardom often fuelled by the multi-media existence of popular personalities from the world of television, pop music and paparazzi journalism. East Asian Film Stars: From the Local to the Global also wishes to take into account the increasingly important international co-production of titles that are aimed at diverse markets and so discusses stardom across national and regional borders in relation to the notions of gender, ethnicity and identity.  

Bringing together new work from international scholars in film, media, cultural and area studies, East Asian Film Stars: From the Local to the Global traverses disciplinary boundaries and considers film stardom as part of ever-changing cultural practices and discourses. We therefore welcome chapter proposals from a range of perspectives on East Asian film stars that may include, but are by no means restricted to, the following: 

• Historical perspectives on individual performers, stars and the shifting idea of film stardom
• New approaches to old favourites such as martial arts stars Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sonny Chiba and Jet Li
• Cult connections: studies of East Asian stars and their consumption in the west especially in relation to cult and extreme cinema. These may include star-auteurs
• Female stars, gender and nation: Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Zhang Ziyi
• Popular and arthouse crossovers such as Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung and Takeshi Kaneshiro and Min-sik Choi 
• Sexuality, exploitation and low budget stars
• Intra-Asian film/multi-media stars drawn from Greater China media, Korean Wave and Japanese idoru
• New technologies and film stardom
• Stars from East Asian diasporas: Anna May Wong, Nancy Kwan, Lucy Liu
• Fan cultures and transnational East Asian stars

If you are interested in contributing please send a 300-500 word abstract and a short 150 word biography (not more than 150 words) to both

Wing Fai-Leung at wingfai.leung@googlemail.com and

Andy Willis a.willis@salford.ac.uk by 31^st May 2010

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Perfect Beat

Reminder: CALL FOR PAPERS
Perfect Beat will publish two special issues in 2011 on ‘trends in contemporary music in Asia’. The first issue (January 2011) concerns traditional, and contemporary fusion, hybrid and crosscultural musics of Asia, whereas the second issue (July 2011) will focus on the popular musics of Asia. While both of these special issues are open to a range of topics, articles which focus on the following themes are especially welcome:

• Cultural nationalism and music;
• Tradition and globalization;
• Networks and structures of patronage;
• Reconfigurations of the social structures of music;
• Media and digital culture;
• Cultural consequences of economic globalisation;
• Issues related to the mobility of people, musics, ideas and sounds;
• Innovative uses of technology and communication;
• New trends in performance practice.

Expressions of Interest
Intended contributors are asked to submit expressions of interest in order to identify the likely scope of material in the issue and to ensure priority consideration in the event of there being more material submitted than can be published. Expressions of interest should not exceed 300 words. Two guest editors have been commissioned to produce the special issues, and any further questions should be directed to them.

The deadline for expressions of interest for the January 2011 issue, edited by Dr Adrian McNeil, has lapsed, but expressions of interest concerning popular music in Asia remains open.

Please email Dr Shelley Brunt (Editor July 2011 issue) shelley.brunt@otago.ac.nz
Deadline for expressions of interest is 31 July 2010

Acceptance of abstracts does not guarantee publication.

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journal published by Equinox Publishing (London). It is dedicated to the study of the music and cultures of indigenous
and Euro/Asian/North American migrant groups in the Pacific since the late 1800s.
For more information about the journal please go to: www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php

第２２回トランスアジア文化研究会のご案内（転載・転送歓迎／マルチポストで失礼いたします）

以下のとおり、トランスアジア文化研究会を行います。貴重な映像の紹介も含めた刺激的な報告ですので、興味のある方はぜひご参加ください。

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「自主映画を通じて考える中国政治文化の現在」

　今回のトランスアジア文化研究会は、ジャーナリストの麻生晴一郎さんをお招きして、激動する中国の文化と政治を、最近のドキュメンタリー映像を手掛かりにお話ししていただきます。麻生さんは、最近『反日、暴動、バブル：新聞・テレビが報じない中国』(光文社新書）を出版しました。国家や主要メディアが伝えない普通の生活をする中国人を詳細な調査を通じた渾身のルポは、激動する中国の今を考える上で重要な一冊です。

　取材を通じて麻生さんが見出したドキュメンタリー自主映画の世界は、テレビや新聞が報じない中国を伝える貴重なメディアです。先日「北九州国際ビエンナーレ」で麻生晴一郎ディレクション映画企画で上映された『自由城的囚徒（自由都市の囚人）』（監督　胡佳／２００７年／３１分）や『女人５０分鐘（女50分間）』（監督　石頭／２００６年／５４分）などの政治的なドキュメンタリー作品を中心に、中国の文化政治の今を議論したいと思います。

　どなたでも参加できますので、関心のある方はぜひご参加ください。

■とき　：２００９年１２月１７日（木）１８：００〜２０：００
■ところ：東京芸術大学北千住キャンパス１Ｆ第一講義室
〒120-0034　東京都足立区千住1-25-1　Tel: 050-5525-2742
http://www.geidai.ac.jp/access/senju.html
ＪＲ地下鉄北千住駅徒歩５分

■報告者　麻生晴一郎（ジャーナリスト）
■討論者　村井寛志（神奈川大学）

■麻生晴一郎略歴（ＨＰより転載）

1966年福岡県生まれ、幼少・青年期を北九州、大分、東京、神奈川などで過ごす。湘南高校を経て東京大学国文科に進む。80年代以来の時代の空気に馴染めず、大学在学中の1987年から上海、ハルビンなどを放浪。大学卒業後、テレビマンユニオンに就職するものの「史上最悪のＡＤ」の異名を持ち２度の長期失踪の末に3年足らずで退社。以来1998年までの大半を中国、香港、タイ、ラオス、インドや東京の中国人社会などで過ごし、無一文同然の生活を送る。1998年より執筆とテレビ制作（ディレクター・プロデューサー）開始、2003年より執筆に一本化。著書に『北京芸術村　抵抗と自由の日々』（社会評論社）、『旅の指さし会話帳　中国』（情報センター出版局）、『こころ熱く武骨でうざったい中国』（情報センター出版局）などがある。

■お問い合わせ
毛利嘉孝（東京芸術大学）yoshimouri(at)hotmail.com (at)は＠に変換してください。

＜第21回トランスアジア文化研究会のお知らせ＞（転送歓迎）

ごぶさたしています。久しぶりにトランスアジア文化研究会を開催します。
今回は明治学院大学博士課程で、シンガポール映画研究をしている盛田茂さんをお招きして11月19日（木）に行います。盛田さんは、この夏シンガポールでフィールドワークを行い、シンガポールの映画監督のインタビューなどを行って帰国したばかりで、新鮮なお話もうかがえると思います。
関心のある方はぜひご参加ください。

■とき　：２００９年１１月１９日（木）１９：００〜２０：３０
■ところ：東京芸術大学北千住キャンパス１Ｆ第一講義室
〒120-0034　東京都足立区千住1-25-1　Tel: 050-5525-2742
http://www.geidai.ac.jp/access/senju.html
ＪＲ地下鉄北千住駅徒歩５分
※今回は会場が東京芸術大学なのでご注意ください。
※研究会に先立って発表で取り上げる映画の上映会を17時から行います。こちらもご参加ください。

■報告者　盛田茂（明治学院大学）
■討論者　テヅカヨシハル（駒澤大学）

■報告タイトル
シンガポール映画『881』から見る政府・映画制作者間の「交渉のダイナミズム」

■報告概要
産業構造転換を推進するシンガポールでは、次世代産業の有力候補として映画は、98年の「映画委員会」創設以降コンテンツ産業発展の一翼を担う位置付けを与えられた。
制作費補助等の「映画産業振興政策」により、国産映画の制作本数は99年の8本から08年には32本（劇場公開17本）と急増する一方で、政府の振興政策を逆手に取った映画制作者の多様な「異議申し立て」が表出している。本報告では、国産映画興行収入第1位（07年）となったシンガポール映画『881：歌えパパイヤ』（ロイストン・タン監督）を基に「交渉のダイナミズム」を検証する。


■お問い合わせ
毛利嘉孝（東京芸術大学）yoshimouri(at)hotmail.com (at)は＠に変換してください。