This essay addresses the 'demand for humanism, with a nod toward Asia' (as Gayatri Spivak once put it) within current theory and global intellectual political culture. I argue that using humanism as a way to understand China (a habit inside and especially outside the PRC) keeps us within the...

How to make sense of “Asia,” an impossible object of study, and what it means today, in light of the rise of China after the age of opium wars and full-on imperialism. Asia as ASEAN 3 or a China-centered regional and global system. The “case” of the PRC poses a number of challenges to...

Chinese Abstract: 从趋同思想的适用性角度反思，发生在中国南方的两次抗议，乌 坎起义和”雨伞革命”，他们都未能在一个未命名的、”西方”过程 化的程度上引进”民主”。...