Transnational Asia Pacific: Gender, Culture, and the Public Sphere

by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (Editor), Larry E Smith (Editor), Wimal Dissanayake (Editor)

Provides a transnational perspective on some of the complex cultural effects of emerging global capitalisms and modernities in the Asia Pacific region.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published September 14, 1999

About the author

Lim is a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has also taught internationally at the National University of Singapore, the National Institute Education of Nanyang Technological University, and was the Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong where she also taught poetry and creative writing. She has authored several books of poems, short stories, and criticism, and serves as editor and co-editor of numerous scholarly works. Lim is a cross-genre writer, although she identifies herself as a poet.