Transferring, Wayfaring and Tourism: Rethinking Communal Imagination

Panel Convenor(s)

• SM

  Satoshi Masutani

  Rikkyo University, Japan

Panel Chair(s)

• SM

  Satoshi Masutani

  Rikkyo University, Japan

Presenter(s)

• SM

  Satoshi Masutani

  Rikkyo University, Japan
• GM

  Gyo Miyabara

  Osaka University, Japan
• RN

  Richard Wing To Ng

  University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
• KH

  Kong Hoi Pan Karma

  Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU, Australia
• LC

  Li Chung Tai Kris

  Osaka University, Japan

The growing interest in contact zones and border crossings at the end of the 20th century has forced a reconsideration of classical descriptions and localising strategies that attribute objects in terms of physical 'places', i.e. bounded communities and divisions such as centre, periphery and region. Terminologies such as Transnationalism, Transmigration, Translation and other 'trans-' terms, Diaspora, Contact Zone, etc. have emerged to describe moving objects (people, goods, money and resources). This turn seems to have been moderately successful in subsequent academic research. 

However, the abstract concepts of above mentioned 'trans-' terms, as well as Diaspora and in-between, left two problems. First, these concepts continued to focus on such suspended 'in-between' states that brought more agony than glory. These terms also, unintentionally, reaffirmed the actual social entities (i.e. nations, regions and the cultures attributed to places) on both sides. For the actors, however, such entities appear in their minds only fragmentarily, as memories, signs or other forms. Secondly, the deterritorialised set of concepts still awaits refinement in the cultural description of the era in which people earnestly seek identities. Such fragments have been imagined as markers, interacting, relating and excluding populations depending on the situation. This panel will discuss strategies for describing and interpreting border crossings in the broadest sense, from tourism to migration, with examples provided by each contributing scholar.

Presentations:

• 11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

  Travel Writing Studies as Contact Zone in Sinophone
  

  Presenter: Satoshi Masutani – Rikkyo University
• 11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

  Reshaping Proximity: Cultural Heritage Tourism and the Communal Imagination
  

  Presenter: Gyo Miyabara – Osaka University
• 11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

  Transculturation of Chinese Exiles in Postwar Japan: Pan-Asianism and Beyond
  

  Presenter: Richard Wing To Ng – University of Shiga Prefecture
• 11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

  Seeking The Past from Eyes of Others: Nostalgia for Kowloon Walled City in Post-handover Hong Kong
  

  Presenter: Kong Hoi Pan Karma – Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU
• 11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

  Forging Contact Zone: On Politicized Affects of Cantophone in Diasporic Hong Kong Literature in Taiwan
  

  Presenter: Li Chung Tai Kris – Osaka University