Issue 9.1 Open Issue (Spring 2023)

Back and front cover of the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Back cover: Table of Contents. Front cover, featured image: Laura Kina’s painting “Ufushu Gajumaru (giant banyan tree), Valley of Gangala, Okinawa, Japan.”

Editors’ Introduction

Storying Global Asias
Tina Chen

Convergence

A&Q
The Problems and Possibilities of Global Asias Pedagogy
Tina Chen, Nadine Attewell, Anushay Malik, David Ludden, Michael R. Jin, Mark Chiang

PORTFOLIO
Of Scrolls and Tears: Trinh Mai’s Archival Art and Organic Ephemera
H. J. Tam

FIELD TRIP
Left Internationalisms in Nationalist Times
Andrew Way Leong, Darwin H. Tsen, Paul Nadal, Roanne L. Kantor, Calvin Cheung-Miaw, Jason G. Coe

Essays

Monuments of Culture: Minzoku Taiwan and the Search for Local History in Colonial Taiwan (1938–1950)
Anne Ma Kuo-An

Intimacies of the Future: Techno-Orientalism,All-under-Heaven (Tian-Xia天下), and Afrofuturism
Lily W. Luo

Insomniac Nights and an Aesthetics of Passivity: On Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker Series
Elizabeth Wijaya

Belonging beyond Borders: Japanese Brazilian Stories of Diasporic Return without a “Homecoming”
Shannon Welch

“Finding New Routes”: Visualizing an Oceanic Okinawa in Laura Kina’s Holding On (2019)
Ryan Buyco