East Asian pop culture and the trajectory of Asian consumption

Abstract

He has held Visiting Fellowships at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India, and the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, among other institutions. Wee is the author of Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern (2003) and The Asian Modern: Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore (2007), and a board member of the journal Modern Asian Studies.

Discrepant knowledge and interAsian mobilities: unlikely movements, uncertain futures

“…These questions are particularly apposite in the context of contemporary Asia where recent transformations are opening up new possibilities for connections and mobilities within and beyond the region: demographic variations in the region see some nations encountering a booming youth population while others are struggling for demographic renewal (Lukacs, 2015); culture is circulating much more widely within the region with new centres emerging and consumerism taking on both shared and divergent forms (Wee, 2016); and while development trajectories of Asian nations vary considerably, there is much circulation of models of development through the region and efforts to emulate seemingly successful cases (Lim, 2015). Knowledge mobilities run through all of these transformations but as the papers in this special issue make clear their manifestations are not even but rather take on discrepant forms as well as dominant modes, working from the margins to alter expectations about movement, learning and future possibility.…”

Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography

“…This form of mimesis is reverberated in the various issues of skate magazine Unsung (2012-2015), a Seoul-based collaboration between Timber Skate Shop and the Korean-Canadian hardware company Kadence Distribution. Although the quarterly production cycle of the magazine was brought to a halt in 2015, the lasting appeal of Unsung is not to be underestimated: like Timber Skate Shop, Unsung appeals to neophytes because of its Northern American staff and international outlook, which can possibly be related to the often signalled drift of Korea's youth cultures to appropriate global and international ideologies, symbols, and values (Shim, 2006;Lie, 2012;Messaris, 2016;Wee, 2016).…”

Education Equity in Special Education Transfer Payments to Low-income Groups

“…That is to say, when the normal distribution assumption is violated, the ADF method can obtain more than the maximum likelihood method. Based on the previous OLS regression analysis, Figure 1 shows the non-recursive structural equation diagram of the interaction between ledupc and ltranspc (Wee, 2016). The illustration shows that there is a cyclic feedback relationship between ledupc and ltranspc, and the disturbances of these two endogenous variables are correlated.…”