Asian English: Histories, Texts, Institutions

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Tables
1 Introduction: Redefining English in Asia for the Twenty-First Century
	References
2 British Romanticism in China: Received, Revised, and Resurrected
	“Romanticism” and Langman Zhuyi: Translation and Revision
	Introduction of Romanticism: Late-Qing Appropriation
	The Proliferation of Romanticism: The New Culturist Enthusiasm and Division
	Revolutionized Romanticism: Communist China’s Suppression and Revision
	Whither Romanticism: Post-1976 Resurrection and Counter-Currents
	References
3 Teaching and Learning English Language During the Early British Rule in India
	Constructing the Narrative
	The Colonial Education Policy
	The Informal Route of Learning the English Language
	Scotsmen as Spokesmen for the English Language
	The Dharmatola Academy
	Alexander Duff and the Scottish Missionaries
	The Vidyalaya—Abode of Learning, 1817
	English Teaching as the Cause for the Revolt of 1857
	Concluding Observations
	Bibliography Primary Sources
4 The Crisis and the Challenge: South Korean English Studies in the Age of Digital Transformation
	Introduction
	The Crises South Korean English Scholars Face in the Digital Age
	A Brief Survey of South Korean English Studies, Focusing on T. S. Eliot’s Case
	The Challenge of South Korean English Scholars in the Age of Digital Transformation
	Conclusion
	References
5 Seminar in the Ruins: The Salzburg Seminar and Its Significance in Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in East Asia
	The Origin of Cold War Cultural Diplomacy
	American Studies In/From the Heart of Europe and Beyond
	Seminar in the Ruins as a Cultural Instrument for Democratization
	Primary Sources
6 Cultural Diplomacy, Literature(s) in English and Creative Writing in Cold War Asia
	Introduction
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	Conclusion
	Bibliography
7 Stephen Spender and Japanese Atomic Bomb Poetry in the 1950s
	Introduction
	Spender’s Cold War Poetics
	Japanese Atomic Bomb Literature and the Bikini Incident
	Spender and the Ashes of Death Controversy
	Spender’s Hiroshima Lecture and Ohara’s Criticism
	Conclusion
	References
8 Unfree Association: On Philippine Creative Writing and US Cultural Diplomacy
	References
9 The Crisis in the Humanities: A Perspective from the Middle East
	The American University of Beirut
		Majors
		Faculty Hiring
		Funding
		Overview
	Northwestern University in Qatar
		Majors
		Faculty Hiring
		Funding
		Overview
	References
10 De-, and Re-Centering: Teaching Dystopian Texts to Emirati Students
	Perspective
	De-Centering and Re-Centering Canonical Literary Texts
	De-Centering and Re-Centering of Textual Boundaries: Sexuality in Zamyatin’s We and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
	De-, and Re-Centering the Dystopian Text: An Emirati Perspective
	Conclusion
	References
11 The Canon Zoomed Out: Big Data and the Literary Canon
	The Worldly Canon
	The Migratory Canon
	References
12 A New “Westernism” in the Intercultural Humanities
	References
13 Global English’s Centers of Consecration
	References
14 Asian English in Arnold, Mill and Newman
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	References
15 Literature and the Humanities in the Age of Technological Disruption
	The Game
	Lifelong Learning
	Humanities in Crisis
	Future Ready
	Literature and Strangeness
	Unearthly Light
	Towards a Media Ontology
	References
Index