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The Importance of Being Chinese: Orientalism Reconfigured in the Age of Global Modernity
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Chu Yiu-Wai © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Importance of Being Chinese:
Orientalism Reconfigured in the Age of Global Modernity
Chu Yiu-Wai
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity...
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Orientalism on the Threshold: Reorienting Heroism in Late Imperial Russia
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 161–180.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Leah Feldman This article seeks to dislocate Orientalism from its Anglo-French origin by investigating the problem of its theorization in the context of the Russian Empire. I frame Russian Orientalism through the representation of the Caucasus in the Russian imagination as a border space between...
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Different and Familiar: Les enfances Renier and the Question of Medieval Orientalism
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 189–209.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Anne Le Abstract Some medievalists use “medieval Orientalism” to address critiques of Edward Said's engagement with the Middle Ages in Orientalism. However, the author of this article argues that “medieval Orientalism” entrenches a divide between the Middle Ages and other time periods, which...
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French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Arab Nahda
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 143–160.
Published: 01 May 2012
... as performative speech acts. At the site where language, race, and religion–the positive symptoms of decadence–are knotted together, Renan describes a political theology of the color line. The supposed “truths” about Oriental decadence became distributed among the objects of its study (“Orientals”) within...
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Dialectics of Sovereignty, Compromise, and Equality in the Discourse on the “Tibetan Question”
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 153–179.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of “liberating” Tibet. Wang Hui’s article “The ‘Tibetan Question’ East and West: Orientalism, Regional Ethnic Autonomy, and the Politics of Dignity” analyzes the March 2008 “riots” in and around Lhasa in order to understand the impediments to a real solution to the crisis in Tibet. This piece suggests...
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Philology from the Point of View of Its Victims
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 177–206.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Marc Nichanian; Narine Jallatyan This essay examines Orientalism within the context of Edward Said’s works and the contemporary critical debates around them. Inspired by Erich Auerbach, Said strove to conceive of humanism as overcoming the European imperialist legacy. Yet not only does Said fail...
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Constantine Cavafy in the Colony: Hellenism at the Margins of Empire
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 177–203.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Aamir R. Mufti C. P. Cavafy was a writer of the British Empire whose situation resembles that of other colonial writers and should be examined in that context, as well as in the light of the contradictory logic of Orientalism-Anglicism. In the modern West's interest in the late Hellenistic era...
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Gamification and Other Forms of Play
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 113–144.
Published: 01 May 2013
... behavioral economics and refers to the use of game mechanics in traditionally nongame activities—as a form that economic, social, and cultural life increasingly takes in the present. After exploring how the gamified world of the early twenty-first century departs dramatically from a society oriented around...
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The Media and the Public Sphere in Contemporary China
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 101–134.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Qing Liu; Barrett McCormick This paper examines how market-oriented reforms to media are changing the public sphere in contemporary China with particular concern for how the commercialization of media may impact the prospects for democracy. While the authors find “public sphere” a problematic...
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The Soviet Invention of Postcolonial Studies
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of resistance or nationalist anti‐eurocentrism. Though their work is little known except to scholars in Slavic Studies, in the years following the Russian Revolution of 1917 Soviet Orientologists laid the foundations for the critique of Western Orientalism that would be introduced to the West many years later...
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Cavafy's Levant: Commerce, Culture, and Mimicry in the Early Life of the Poet
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 7–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Peter Jeffreys The bombing of Alexandria by the British in 1882 forced C. P. Cavafy and his family into temporary exile. Traumatic for the young poet, this displacement produced a set of epistolary exchanges between friends and family that sheds much light on his Western orientation, connecting him...
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A Potential Intelligence: The Case of the Disappearing Poets
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 165–195.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Jed Rasula This essay considers the disappearance from the historical record of hundreds of American poets who published regularly in the first half of the twentieth century. Since a pedagogically oriented canon emerged in 1950, scholars have assumed that a small number of established figures were...
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Kafkan Study
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 87–109.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of advancement, the importance of demonstrative failure in study, and the orientation of study by exceptions and extremes. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Walter Benjamin Franz Kafka study failure exception References Agamben Giorgio . 1995 . Idea of Prose . Translated...
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Sign, Affect, and Musicking before the Human
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (1): 143–172.
Published: 01 February 2016
..., brought to bear on recent affect theory, show it to be often inadequate in its use of key concepts. This biosemiotic analysis, then, indicates three directions forward: first, toward an adjustment of certain claims of object-oriented philosophers sometimes allied to the affect theorists; second, toward...
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Red Jihad: Translating Communism in the Muslim Caucasus
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 221–249.
Published: 01 August 2016
... the language and art of Russian orientalism as it generated a vision of Soviet modernity in the former imperial territories. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Muslim communism Russian orientalism Soviet propaganda translating communism postcolonial Red Jihad: Translating Communism...
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Introduction
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (2): 189–191.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Christopher Connery As a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Wang Hui’s proposals give indications of the practical, policy-oriented side of this important contemporary intellectual. One proposal addresses deficiencies in rural education, a major obstacle to social...
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New Workers’ Culture: An Interview with Xu Duo
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (2): 255–262.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Christopher Connery Contemporary Chinese rock musician Xu Duo discusses his evolution as an artist and the genesis of his commitment to socially engaged, worker-oriented art and music. He discusses his role in the New Worker Art Troupe, including activities in and around the Migrant Workers Home...
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The Strange Case of China: History, Class, and Chinese Postsocialism
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (2): 139–162.
Published: 01 May 2019
... capitalist-oriented developments in China today depends crucially on the ways in which we understand the contradictory historical trajectories that characterized the country’s socialist past. References Andreas Joel . 2006 . “ Institutionalized Rebellion: Governing Tsinghua University during...
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Asia: A Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 23–45.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Stefan Tanaka This essay operates from a challenge that is evident in Miyoshi’s life and career, a humility of our knowledge system and the quest to exceed it. I suggest that Asia is trapped within a historical framing (as the Orient) that prevents people and places within Asia from extracting...
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After Criticism: Mahmoud Darwish’s Mural for Enlightenment
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 February 2020
... with an ethical striving, guided by a principle Darwish calls “evanescence.” I contingently identify evanescence as an “ethics of oneness” oriented to composite unity, which Darwish practices on a series of dualities inhabiting his life in death’s company. In contrast to enacting sovereignty, this ethos solders...
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