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Waiyee Loh

Waiyee Loh

Waiyee Loh is Associate Professor of World Literature at Kanagawa University in Yokohama, Japan. Her research and teaching center on the history of British and Japanese imperialism and their legacies today. Her first book, Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy, is published by SUNY Press.

Tokyo, Japan

Pan-Asianism Redux, or Why We Think Japan Is Special

Observers have long hailed Japan’s aptitude for cultural synthesis. Is this characterization warranted, or does it reflect a collective fantasy about exceptionalism?
Fifty Shades affective labor

Fifty Shades of Affective Labor for Capital

Fifty Shades of Grey sells an absurd fantasy version of a romantic relationship—as between man and woman, so between capitalism and female workers.