Kamila Hladíková

Rune Steenberg

Nikolaos Mavropoulos

Halina Zawiszová

Martin Lavička

Annegret Bergmann

Pia Eskelinen

Letizia Guarini

Noriko Hiraishi

Fumi Inoue

Bhavana Kumari

Madhu

Rafael Vinícius Martins

Robert Ono

Silvia Picchiarelli

André Pinto Teixeira

Martina R. Prosperi

Tenha Seher

Freya Terryn

Robert Tsaturyan

Jessica Uldry

This volume consists of 19 chapters that reflect the titular theme - Voiced and Voiceless in Asia - from a variety of angles, making use of diverse scholarly approaches and disciplines, while focusing specifically on China, India, Japan, and Taiwan. The chapters are broadly divided into two parts: (1) Politics and Society, and (2) Arts and Literature, although the texts included in the second part also deal with social themes. In addition to historical topics, such as Japanese colonialism or Chinese agricultural reforms in the 1950s, the volume also addresses current issues, including restrictive Chinese policies in Xinjiang, Japanese activist movements against gender-based violence and discrimination, or the problems of migrant laborers in India and performing arts in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, it provides insight into satirical woodblock prints from the Boshin War period or works of literature produced in Japanese leprosariums in the first half of the 20th century, as well as into selected topics in contemporary Chinese, Japanese, and Sinophone Tibetan literature. Collectively, the chapters comprised in this volume narrate the multifaceted relationship between 'voice' and 'power,' thus highlighting the fact that the question of 'voice' is closely intertwined with a variety of social, political, and cultural issues.

Rune Steenberg

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