C J W-L Wee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C J W-L Wee |
| GIVEN NAMES | C J W-L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wee |
| SIGNATURE | WEE C J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | English, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: Art, culture, capitalist development and Kuo Pao Kun
The Suppressed in the Modern Urbanscape: Cultural Difference and Film in Singapore
The Singapore People's Action Party (PAP) state's adapted Euro-US modernist impulses were reflected not in high cultural achievements but in building construction. Since independence, the PAP has revamped Singapore's colonial downtown into a conceptually empty postnational space filled with decontextualized buildings designed by famous foreign architects. While this uniformly high-rise environment and urban development is common among the high-ec…
Screening Singapore: The Cinematic Landscape of Eric Khoo's Be With Me
This paper investigates the mutually constitutive relationship between the context of film production and the composition and content of images produced. Singapore film director Eric Khoo is central to our investigation, and his 2005 film Be With Me is a key example of how Singapore's ongoing urban redevelopment to become a world city reflexively shapes the style and appearance of the city-state projected in the film. Singapore's history as a dev…
Contesting Performance
Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The col
We Asians”? Modernity, Visual Art Exhibitions, and East Asia
Rapid economic development in East Asia in the 1980s–1990s saw a revivification of the idea of “Asia,” a region no longer regarded as backward. This article examines the East Asian visual arts scene, one of the most visible sites of cultural interaction in which the idea of contemporary New Asia was curated into “being” in Japanese, Australian, and Singapore museums. A key goal was the attempt to imagine a cosmopolitan-multicultural Asia able to …
The Theatre of Krishen Jit: The Politics of Staging Difference in Multicultural Malaysia
In a career spanning more than 40 years, playwright and director Krishen Jit, who passed away in April 2005, was the doyen of Malaysian theatre. Jit constantly reinvented himself. His shifting cultural position was part of an ongoing analysis of changing national sociopolitical moods and mores. A public intellectual, Jit was passionately engaged in a critique of cultural difference in relation to the staging of Malaysian identity
Books
March 01 2004 The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theatre in an Age of Globalization The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theatre in an Age of Globalization. By BharuchaRustom C.J.W.-L. Wee C.J.W.-L. Wee Teaches literature and cultural theory in the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information C.J.W.-L. Wee Teaches liter…
Staging the Asian Modern: Cultural Fragments, the Singaporean Eunuch, and the Asian Lear
Creating High Culture in the Globalized “Cultural Desert” of Singapore
December 01 2003 Creating High Culture in the Globalized “Cultural Desert” of Singapore C.J.W.-L. Wee C.J.W.-L. Wee C.J.W.-L. Wee teaches literature and cultural theory at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was formerly a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and is the author of Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern (Lexington Books, 2003), and the editor of Local Cultures and the “New Asia”:…
National Identity, the Arts, and the Global City
Local Cultures and the New Asia: The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, until the Asian economic crisis of 1997-2000, was a high economic growth area. However, despite the neo-liberal and globalizing logic of capitalism, local conditions and cultures determine that capitalism will spread in ways not entirely consonant with its Western origins. Capitalism is not a free-floating entity -- it is a socially embodied phenomenon that needs to function in various cultural contexts. Consequently, the tension …
"Local Cultures and the "New Asia: The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, until the Asian economic crisis of 1997-2000, was a high economic growth area. However, despite the neo-liberal and globalizing logic of capitalism, local conditions and cultures determine that capitalism will spread in ways not entirely consonant with its Western origins. Capitalism is not a free-floating entity -- it is a socially embodied phenomenon that needs to function in various cultural contexts. Consequently, the tension …
Mediating 'Progress': The National Narrative of Economic Development and Liberalism in Singapore
Singapore is unique in the extent to which the People's Action Party (PAP) government has socio-culturally re-engineered society for economic development. The hegemonic historical narrative of commercial-industrial emergence - one in which 'national' identity is taken to be economic identity - reflects this purpose. This article examines the cultural logic underlying such a post-colonial narration of modernity. It argues, first, that while the PA…
The end of disciplinary modernisation? The Asian economic crisis and the ongoing reinvention of Singapore
Singapore's high-speed post-independence economic development from the 1960s to the 1990s - an expression of a desire to be an insider within advanced capitalism - was wrought through a state-imposed 'disciplinarity' that is here described as 'disciplinary modernisation'. The result was a protective- interventionist state that supported the free trade process. The ideological model that Singapore used was drawn from a Western European model of an…
Asian Values”, Singapore, and the Third Way: Re-Working Individualism and Collectivism
The “Clash” of Civilizations? Or an Emerging “East Asian Modernity
This paper examines Samuel Huntington's influential article, Clash of Civilizations?, particularly his interest in Confucian civilizations. Huntington's civilizational approach, this paper suggests, is marred by ahistorical and essentialist thinking on both the causes of the emergence of and Southeast Asian newly industrializing economies (NIEs) and the reasons for the clashes between and West in recent years. What is at stake instead is to a lar…
Staging the New Asia: Singapore's Dick Lee, Pop Music, and a Counter-Modernity
Research Article| September 01 1996 Staging the New Asia: Singapore's Dick Lee, Pop Music, and a Counter-Modernity C. J. W.-L. Wee C. J. W.-L. Wee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 489–510. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-3-489 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation C. J. W.-L. Wee; Staging the New Asia: Singapore's Dick Lee, Pop Mu…
Contending with Primordialism: The “Modern” Construction of Postcolonial Singapore
Research Article| August 01 1993 Contending with Primordialism: The “Modern” Construction of Postcolonial Singapore C. J. W.-L. Wee C. J. W.-L. Wee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1993) 1 (3): 715–744. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1-3-715 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissio…
Contending with Primordialism: The “Modern” Construction of Postcolonial Singapore
Research Article| August 01 1993 Contending with Primordialism: The “Modern” Construction of Postcolonial Singapore C. J. W.-L. Wee C. J. W.-L. Wee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1993) 1 (3): 715–744. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1-3-715 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissio…
Asian Values”, Singapore, and the Third Way: Re-Working Individualism and Collectivism
The end of disciplinary modernisation? The Asian economic crisis and the ongoing reinvention of Singapore
Singapore's high-speed post-independence economic development from the 1960s to the 1990s - an expression of a desire to be an insider within advanced capitalism - was wrought through a state-imposed 'disciplinarity' that is here described as 'disciplinary modernisation'. The result was a protective- interventionist state that supported the free trade process. The ideological model that Singapore used was drawn from a Western European model of an…
Staging the Asian Modern: Cultural Fragments, the Singaporean Eunuch, and the Asian Lear
Staging the New Asia: Singapore's Dick Lee, Pop Music, and a Counter-Modernity
Research Article| September 01 1996 Staging the New Asia: Singapore's Dick Lee, Pop Music, and a Counter-Modernity C. J. W.-L. Wee C. J. W.-L. Wee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 489–510. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-3-489 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation C. J. W.-L. Wee; Staging the New Asia: Singapore's Dick Lee, Pop Mu…
Introduction: Art, culture, capitalist development and Kuo Pao Kun
The Suppressed in the Modern Urbanscape: Cultural Difference and Film in Singapore
The Singapore People's Action Party (PAP) state's adapted Euro-US modernist impulses were reflected not in high cultural achievements but in building construction. Since independence, the PAP has revamped Singapore's colonial downtown into a conceptually empty postnational space filled with decontextualized buildings designed by famous foreign architects. While this uniformly high-rise environment and urban development is common among the high-ec…
We Asians”? Modernity, Visual Art Exhibitions, and East Asia
Rapid economic development in East Asia in the 1980s–1990s saw a revivification of the idea of “Asia,” a region no longer regarded as backward. This article examines the East Asian visual arts scene, one of the most visible sites of cultural interaction in which the idea of contemporary New Asia was curated into “being” in Japanese, Australian, and Singapore museums. A key goal was the attempt to imagine a cosmopolitan-multicultural Asia able to …
The “Clash” of Civilizations? Or an Emerging “East Asian Modernity
This paper examines Samuel Huntington's influential article, Clash of Civilizations?, particularly his interest in Confucian civilizations. Huntington's civilizational approach, this paper suggests, is marred by ahistorical and essentialist thinking on both the causes of the emergence of and Southeast Asian newly industrializing economies (NIEs) and the reasons for the clashes between and West in recent years. What is at stake instead is to a lar…
Contending with Primordialism: The “Modern” Construction of Postcolonial Singapore
Research Article| August 01 1993 Contending with Primordialism: The “Modern” Construction of Postcolonial Singapore C. J. W.-L. Wee C. J. W.-L. Wee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1993) 1 (3): 715–744. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1-3-715 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissio…
The “Clash” of Civilizations? Or an Emerging “East Asian Modernity
This paper examines Samuel Huntington's influential article, Clash of Civilizations?, particularly his interest in Confucian civilizations. Huntington's civilizational approach, this paper suggests, is marred by ahistorical and essentialist thinking on both the causes of the emergence of and Southeast Asian newly industrializing economies (NIEs) and the reasons for the clashes between and West in recent years. What is at stake instead is to a lar…
Staging the New Asia: Singapore's Dick Lee, Pop Music, and a Counter-Modernity
Research Article| September 01 1996 Staging the New Asia: Singapore's Dick Lee, Pop Music, and a Counter-Modernity C. J. W.-L. Wee C. J. W.-L. Wee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 489–510. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-3-489 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation C. J. W.-L. Wee; Staging the New Asia: Singapore's Dick Lee, Pop Mu…
Asian Values”, Singapore, and the Third Way: Re-Working Individualism and Collectivism
Mediating 'Progress': The National Narrative of Economic Development and Liberalism in Singapore
Singapore is unique in the extent to which the People's Action Party (PAP) government has socio-culturally re-engineered society for economic development. The hegemonic historical narrative of commercial-industrial emergence - one in which 'national' identity is taken to be economic identity - reflects this purpose. This article examines the cultural logic underlying such a post-colonial narration of modernity. It argues, first, that while the PA…
The end of disciplinary modernisation? The Asian economic crisis and the ongoing reinvention of Singapore
Singapore's high-speed post-independence economic development from the 1960s to the 1990s - an expression of a desire to be an insider within advanced capitalism - was wrought through a state-imposed 'disciplinarity' that is here described as 'disciplinary modernisation'. The result was a protective- interventionist state that supported the free trade process. The ideological model that Singapore used was drawn from a Western European model of an…
National Identity, the Arts, and the Global City
Local Cultures and the New Asia: The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, until the Asian economic crisis of 1997-2000, was a high economic growth area. However, despite the neo-liberal and globalizing logic of capitalism, local conditions and cultures determine that capitalism will spread in ways not entirely consonant with its Western origins. Capitalism is not a free-floating entity -- it is a socially embodied phenomenon that needs to function in various cultural contexts. Consequently, the tension …
"Local Cultures and the "New Asia: The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, until the Asian economic crisis of 1997-2000, was a high economic growth area. However, despite the neo-liberal and globalizing logic of capitalism, local conditions and cultures determine that capitalism will spread in ways not entirely consonant with its Western origins. Capitalism is not a free-floating entity -- it is a socially embodied phenomenon that needs to function in various cultural contexts. Consequently, the tension …
Creating High Culture in the Globalized “Cultural Desert” of Singapore
December 01 2003 Creating High Culture in the Globalized “Cultural Desert” of Singapore C.J.W.-L. Wee C.J.W.-L. Wee C.J.W.-L. Wee teaches literature and cultural theory at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was formerly a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and is the author of Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern (Lexington Books, 2003), and the editor of Local Cultures and the “New Asia”:…
Books
March 01 2004 The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theatre in an Age of Globalization The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theatre in an Age of Globalization. By BharuchaRustom C.J.W.-L. Wee C.J.W.-L. Wee Teaches literature and cultural theory in the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information C.J.W.-L. Wee Teaches liter…
Staging the Asian Modern: Cultural Fragments, the Singaporean Eunuch, and the Asian Lear
The Theatre of Krishen Jit: The Politics of Staging Difference in Multicultural Malaysia
In a career spanning more than 40 years, playwright and director Krishen Jit, who passed away in April 2005, was the doyen of Malaysian theatre. Jit constantly reinvented himself. His shifting cultural position was part of an ongoing analysis of changing national sociopolitical moods and mores. A public intellectual, Jit was passionately engaged in a critique of cultural difference in relation to the staging of Malaysian identity
Contesting Performance
Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The col
We Asians”? Modernity, Visual Art Exhibitions, and East Asia
Rapid economic development in East Asia in the 1980s–1990s saw a revivification of the idea of “Asia,” a region no longer regarded as backward. This article examines the East Asian visual arts scene, one of the most visible sites of cultural interaction in which the idea of contemporary New Asia was curated into “being” in Japanese, Australian, and Singapore museums. A key goal was the attempt to imagine a cosmopolitan-multicultural Asia able to …
Screening Singapore: The Cinematic Landscape of Eric Khoo's Be With Me
This paper investigates the mutually constitutive relationship between the context of film production and the composition and content of images produced. Singapore film director Eric Khoo is central to our investigation, and his 2005 film Be With Me is a key example of how Singapore's ongoing urban redevelopment to become a world city reflexively shapes the style and appearance of the city-state projected in the film. Singapore's history as a dev…
The Suppressed in the Modern Urbanscape: Cultural Difference and Film in Singapore
The Singapore People's Action Party (PAP) state's adapted Euro-US modernist impulses were reflected not in high cultural achievements but in building construction. Since independence, the PAP has revamped Singapore's colonial downtown into a conceptually empty postnational space filled with decontextualized buildings designed by famous foreign architects. While this uniformly high-rise environment and urban development is common among the high-ec…
Introduction: Art, culture, capitalist development and Kuo Pao Kun
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Asian Studies and History (6 works) · Media studies (6 works)