Common lines and city spaces : a critical anthology on Arthur Yap

This collection of essays on the Singaporean writer and artist Arthur Yap is dedicated to his multifaceted creative work and makes it accessible to both general and academic readers. It features new and innovative essays on Yap’s prose, poetry and paintings by an international group of scholars and critics. The essays approach Yap’s work through literary and analytical methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, ecocriticism, studies of urban spaces, visual art and sexuality, with particular consideration for how his work contributes to a specifically Singaporean form of postcolonial critique.

From China to Facebookistan, the Internet has transformed global commerce. A cyber-law expert argues that we must free Internet trade while simultaneously protecting consumers.

On the ancient Silk Road, treasure-laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mountain passes, establishing trade between Asia and the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean. Today’s electronic Silk Roads ferry information across continents, enabling individuals and corporations anywhere to provide or receive services without obtaining a visa. But the legal infrastructure for such trade is yet rudimentary and uncertain. If an event in cyberspace occurs at once everywhere and nowhere, what law applies? How can consumers be protected when engaging with companies across the world?

In this accessible book, cyber-law expert Anupam Chander provides the first thorough discussion of the law that relates to global Internet commerce. Addressing up-to-the-minute examples, such as Google’s struggles with China, the Pirate Bay’s skirmishes with Hollywood, and the outsourcing of services to India, the author insightfully analyzes the difficulties of regulating Internet trade. Chander then lays out a framework for future policies, showing how countries can dismantle barriers while still protecting consumer interests.

Common lines and city spaces / Gui Weihsin The transformation of objects into things in Arthur Yap's poetry / Gui Weihsin The same tableau, intrinsically still, Arthur Yap, poet-painter / Boey Kim Cheng Go to bedok, you bodoh, Arthur Yap's mapping of Singaporean space / Angus Whitehead On places and spaces, the possibilities of teaching Arthur Yap / Eddie Tay Arthur Yap's ecological poetics of the daily / Zhou Xiaojing Except for a word, Arthur Yap's unspoken homoeroticism / Cyril Wong A long way from what? Folkways and social commentary in Arthur Yap's short stories / Angus Whitehead and Joel Gwynne. The argument here is that, although Indonesia would appear to be the natural leader in Southeast Asia, it has been singularly unsuccessful in putting its stamp on ASEAN. If anything, ASEAN has been put on Indonesia's bebas dan aktif (independent and active) foreign policy stamp through Indonesia's deference to self-constructed obligations to ASEAN solidarity and consensus. ASEAN's political incoherence on regional security matters suggests that, for Indonesia, strategic independence from the immobilism of ASEAN decision making would put bebas dan aktif back into play Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE Contribu tors 1 CoMMON LINES AND CITY SPACES Introduction 2 The Transformation of Objects into Things in Arthur Yap’s Poetry 3 “the same tableau, intrinsically still” Arthur Yap, Poet-Painter 4 “go to bedok, you bodoh” Arthur Yap’s Mapping of Singaporean Space 5 On Places and Spaces The Possibilities of Teaching Arthur Yap 6 Arthur Yap’s Ecological Poetics of the Daily 7 “except for a word” Arthur Yap’s Unspoken Homoeroticism 8 “a long way from what?” Folkways and Social Commentary in Arthur Yap’s Short Stories Index