Jie Lu is Professor of Chinese Studies & Film Studies at the University of the Pacific, USA.

Martin Camps is Professor of Spanish at the University of the Pacific, USA.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Constructing A New Field of Inquiry: Latin America in Asian Literary and Cultural Studies

Part I Latin America and the Philippines in the Transpacific Connections

2 A peripheral, South-South Literary Exchange: Balmori and the Reception of Latin American Modernismo in the Philippines

3 Filipino Poet Jesús Balmori: Chronicles of His Travel to Mexico Passing Through Japan (1932-1934)

4 Transpacific: The Queering of Philippine and Hispanic American Literatures

5 Disrupted Nationalisms in Times of War: Young Ha-Kim, and José Revueltas

6 Common Ground: Shared Textuality and Visuality in China and Latin America

7 Korean Reality Television-Travel Shows in Constructing Latin American Cultural Identities (2010-Present)

Part III Magical Realism in Its Asian Turn

8 Beauty is a Wound: Retelling Modern Indonesian History Through Magical Realism

9 Representing History, Trauma and Marginality in Chinese Magical Realist Films

10 Transcontinental Journey of Magical Realism: A Study of Indian Literatures' Response