America in East Asia: The club 51 syndrome

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 12, 2001, Pages 73-86

  Chen, Kuan Hsing ^a  

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1. For detailed coverage, see Chang Pin-yi, 'Club 51 - Slogan: Neither Unification nor Independence, Let's be American: Make Taiwan a State of the US', China Times, 29 may 1996.
2. A Date with the US, p. 324.
3. In a recent forum held in Taipei, a young man with a Min-nan accent, confessing his disappointment with performance of the new DPP government, expressed the same sentiment.
4. The term was coined by my friend, Huang Zhi-xiang, a prime-time TV scriptwriter, in the 'Big Eunuch and Little Carpenter' series, broadcast back in 1994.
5. A Date with the US, p. 2.
6. '"Left Alone with America": The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture', in Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, eds, Cultures of United States Imperialism, Durham 1993, p. 17. Kaplan's strategy is to reconnect 'United States nation-building and empire-building as historically coterminous and mutually defining'. Her argument seems to have struck home. By 1998, 'Empire and Imperialism' had become the theme of the Annual Conference of the Association of American Studies.
7. See Cho Hee-yeon, 'The Structure of the South Korean Developmental Regime and its Transformation', Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements, vol. 1, no. 3, 2000.
8. For the sketch of a 'geo-colonial historical materialism' to explain this kind of articulation, see Kuan-Hsing Chen, 'Decolonization and Cultural Studies', Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 21, 1996, pp. 73-140.
9. Yoo Sun-Young, 'Embodiment of American Modernity onto the Colonial Body', paper presented at 2000 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference: Transitional Era, Transformative Work, Fukuoka, Japan.
10. Discourse on Colonialism, New York 1972, p. 60.
11. See Song Qiang, Qiao Bian, Zhang Zangzang, China Can Say No, Beijing 1996; Ker Rey-ming, Taiwan Can Say No, Taipei 1996.
12. See Song Qiang, Qiao Bian, Zhang Zangzang, China Can Say No, Beijing 1996; Ker Rey-ming, Taiwan Can Say No, Taipei 1996.
13. Black Skin, White Masks, New York 1967.
14. For this, see Tejaswini Niranjana, 'Alternative Frames? Questions for Comparative Research in the Third World', Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements, vol 1, no. 1, 2000, pp. 97-108.