Hong Kong's Eurasian “Web” Viewed through the Lens of Inter-Asian Studies

Comments on Engseng Ho's “Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies”

Bibliographic Data

ID11558462
AuthorsEmma Teng (Technology and Management Services (Switzerland), corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume76
Issue4
Pages943-951
Publication date2017-10-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021911817000948
OpenAlexW2766163061
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

Engseng Ho proposes that “the study of Asia, thought of as an Inter-Asian space, and smaller than the whole globe, can provide tractable concepts for a new round of research to shed light on the social shapes of societies that are mobile, spatially expansive, and interactive with one other.” Moving us away from more static models of China studies, Japan studies, etc., the concept of “inter-Asian”—where I take the “inter” to stand for inter-national, inter-regional, inter-faith, inter-racial, and inter-ethnic—offers a productive framework for examining histories that have been previously marginalized in dominant historical narratives: for example, the history of colonial Hong Kong's Eurasian community. In such a case, where the scope of inquiry is neither fully global in scale nor strictly local, the inter-Asian framework provides a middle ground and intermediate scale that brings this history into focus

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