Kuan‐hsing Chen

Biographic Data

ID3583988
NAMEKuan‐hsing Chen
GIVEN NAMESKuan‐hsing
FAMILY NAMEChen
SIGNATURECHEN K H
AFFILIATIONSRussian State Agrarian Correspondence University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS86
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX6

  • Let us build the world anew” here and now: From Sukarnoism to Bandung School

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2023

    “Let us build the world anew” here and now: from Sukarnoism to Bandung School." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 24(1), pp. 181–182 Additional informationNotes on contributorsKuan-Hsing ChenA self-claimed Bandungist, Kuan-Hsing Chen is the co-initiator of Inter-Asia School, Neuro-Net, and Bandung Schools, and co-editor of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements and Renjian Thought. His publication includes Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialization (5 …

  • Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization

    Open AccessKuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing Chen et al.ARTICLECommunication Theory2022Cited by: 2References: 1

    As intellectuals in modern education systems, “we are all foreigners,” foreign to our histories, local conditions, and commoners living next to us. The proposal for a global Bandung School (BS) has been on the table, with the mission to transform existing modes of thought and carry on the de-imperializing spirit of Bandung. By establishing Mandarin-World Bandung School (MBS), we propose to rediscover the spirit of anti-imperialism through locally…

  • Small-medium-large countryism: Divesting the nation-state

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2021References: 3

    2018 marks the sixty-third anniversary of the 1955 Bandung Conference and fifty-fifth anniversary of the 1966 Belgrade Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement. This presentation addresses one aspect of the Bandung and Belgrade legacies, which has inherited from the anti-colonial struggle and continued to shape the post or ex/colony in the present moment of world history, namely the consolidation of the modern nation-state form. Revisiting intellec…

  • Trajectories, institutions, and re-locations: A conversation on Inter-Asia outside Asia

    Christopher Lee, Kuan‐hsing Chen et al.ARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2019Cited by: 1

    This conversation explores the resonances of the Inter-Asia project outside the geographical boundaries of Asia. The participants, who represent diverse national, institutional, and professional experiences, discuss the following topics: how Asia and the Inter-Asia project has affected their intellectual trajectories; navigating academic institutions and formations; the changing meaning of diaspora and migration and their effects on language and …

  • In memory of Sheng-Xun, our family

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2017

    On the night of 26 February 2016, after five days of a hurried but intellectually gratifying field study trip in Xianyou, Putian, and Xiamen, I arrived in Naha, with tremendous delight, to particip

  • Introduction: “Bandung/Third World 60 Years” – in memory of Professor Sam Moyo

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2016

  • What's it like to be a Singaporean intellectual? An interview with Chua Beng Huat

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing Chen et al.ARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2016

    Professor Chua Beng Huat is an internationally well-known and respected sociologist and cultural studies scholar from Singapore. In early 2015, his long-time collaborator and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies co-founder, Kuan-Hsing Chen, and his former student turned present colleague, Daniel Goh, interviewed Chua on the eve of his retirement as the Head of the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. This wide-ranging interview…

  • The minjung world of live: For Professor Mizoguchi Yūzō

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2016

  • Facing history with a sense of awe: An interview with Professor Mizoguchi Yūzō

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing Chen et al.ARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2016

    In this wide-ranging interview and discussion with Kuan-Hsing Chen and Sun Ge, Mizoguchi Yūzō describes the origins of his interest in China studies and the process through which he developed his perspective on China, Japan, and the world. Mizoguchi details his break with both old-style Japanese Sinology and Western-influenced scholarship, which assumes Japanese superiority over China and takes Euro-American society and concepts as its standard. …

  • The formation of an African intellectual: An interview with Mahmood Mamdani

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing Chen et al.ARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2016

    In mid-April 2015, Professor Mahmood Mamdani, a leading African intellectual, was on a 12-day journey, organized by the Inter-Asia School, first to participate in the “Bandung/Third World 60 Year”

  • Codesria as a pan-African intellectual community: An interview with Professor Sam Moyo

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing Chen et al.ARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2016Cited by: 3

    Editorial note: We first met Professor Sam Moyo in the context of the “Bandung/Third World 60 Years” Hangzhou Forum, 18–20 April 2015. At the end of the gathering, he initiated the idea for us to j

  • Inter-Asia Journal Work

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2016Cited by: 1

    Journals have played a central role in the formation of intellectual communities throughout Asia since modern times. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements, launched in 2000, is no exception, except that it has attempted to connect with local intellectual circles and to build a multilayered international network in the region to overcome divisions and boundaries produced by the history of neo/colonialism and the cold war. Over the past sixteen ye…

  • The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing Chen et al.BOOKInter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader2015

  • Takeuchi Yoshimi's 1960 ‘Asia as Method’ lecture

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2012Cited by: 4References: 1

    Takeuchi Yoshimi was a leading thinker in Postwar Japan. The originality of his work has been rediscovered in the past decade. Based on the present author's Asia as Method—toward De-Imperialization (2010) as a point of dialogue, this essay rereads Takeuchi's intuitive formulation of ‘Asia as Method’ in the 1960 and tries to pinpoint different characteristics of knowledge conditions between now and then. It discovers that the ‘Inter-Asia methodolo…

  • Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization

    Open AccessKuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenBOOKAsia As Method2010

  • Living with tensions: Notes on the Inter‐Asia movement

    Kuan‐hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2010Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Intellectual engagement under the conditions of the division system: An interview with Paik Nak‐chung

    Kuan‐hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2010

    Chen: This interview is a follow up of your one‐week visit to Taiwan in May 2008. Having read some of your work in English and Chinese translations, I feel one thing that is unique about your long

  • Paik Nak‐chung’s theory of overcoming ‘division system: Rethinking the China–Taiwan relation with reference to the two Koreas

    Kuan‐hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2010Cited by: 3References: 1

    No truth can be called a genuine truth unless it is realized in daily life. (Paik Nak‐chung 2005: 19) In 1988, when cross‐strait interactions were re‐initiated, the independent‐left journal Taiwan

  • Knowledge production in the era of neo‐liberal globalization: Reflections on the changing academic conditions in Taiwan

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Sechin Y S Chien et al.ARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2009Cited by: 5References: 2

    This essay is an intervention to interrupt the blind adoption of the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) by Taiwan’s academic regime to evaluate scholarly work. Situating the changing local conditions of knowledge production in the larger context of neo‐liberal globalization, we trace the trajectory of implementing the new evaluation system and then pinpoint the critical impacts on intellectual work in this wave of ‘internationalizing’ research …

  • Problems and problematics of teaching cultural studies in Taiwan

    Kuan‐hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2008References: 3

    The essay was written in the context of a Teaching Cultural Studies (in Asia) Workshop. In dialogues with practitioners and young faculty in Taiwan and Asia, it utilizes the author's own past and present experiences to articulate the difficulties and problematic of teaching Cultural Studies. The main argument proposes that teaching Cultural Studies needs to be grounded in local intellectual traditions and histories upon which critical works out o…

  • Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies

    Stuart Hall, David Morley andDavid Morley et al.BOOKStuart Hall2006

    Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book provides a representative selection of Hall's enormously influential writings on cultural studies and its concerns: the relationship with Marxism; postmodernism and 'New Times' in cultural and political…

  • Civilizationalism

    Open AccessKuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLETheory Culture & Society2006Cited by: 1

  • Civil society and min-jian: On Political Society and Popular Democracy

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLECultural Studies2003Cited by: 6

    Arguing for the necessity of multiplying and shifting the existing reference points in the critical work of cultural studies, this paper attempts to demonstrate what can be gained from a different understanding of 'Asia as method'. In dialogue with Partha Chatterjee's recent formulation of a 'political society', the essay places 'civil society' side by side with the long-standing notion of 'min-jian', in order to rediscover planes of social forma…

  • Why is 'great reconciliation' im/possible? De-Cold War/decolonization, or modernity and its tears (Part II)

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2002Cited by: 3References: 3

    (2002). Why is 'great reconciliation' im/possible? De-Cold War/decolonization, or modernity and its tears (Part II) Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 235-251

  • An introduction

    Kuan‐hsing Chen, Kuan-Hsing ChenARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2002