...Steven J. Venturino Duke University Press 2006 Inquiring After Theory in China Steven J. Venturino How can one take Edward Said’s advice and speak truth to power when power refuses to listen, when it actively suppresses...

...Carlos A. Aguilera Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Marta Hernández 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 17 of 265 Trip to China Carlos A. Aguilera...

... undergone tremendous changes over the last three decades which are tracked here in broad outline, these changes have confirmed the prognostication of thirty years ago. The People's Republic of China has emerged since the 1990s as one of the cores of the global capitalist economy, and divisions in society...

...Jiwei Ci In three decades of reform China has become a society that is radically different both from what it used to be in Mao's time and from a liberal society. This new China poses especially interesting questions about freedom—interesting not only in the Chinese context but also more generally...

...Kam Louie In the last century, scholars and politicians in China have attempted both in theory and in practice to advocate and carry out radically different social policies and political reforms, often in the name of Confucius. With China's rise and her increasing international power and status...

...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...

...-century style literary realism, it proposes to consider Lu Xun as a modernist writer and uses a comparative perspective to underscore his commonalities with European modernism. Comparing “The True story of Ah Q” with Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan and Kafka's “Building the Great Wall of China...

..., Revolutionary Legacy, and Politics in China Wang Ban Observers of China’s human rights situation tend to view the rise of rights conversation as a result of China’s economic liberalization and mar- ket reform. The issue of rights...

... examine the rising importance of the individual in family life and how it in turn transforms the family as an institution. In the last section, I discuss the new challenges that the more individualized family faces in the larger context of China's transition toward a more open, mobile, and modern society...

...Rob Wilson This essay focuses on US/China interactions, uncanny temporalities, and Pacific Rim discrepancies resonating through popular culture and belief systems as embodied in Bob Dylan’s conversion-drenched poetics (aligned to social beatitude) and protest politics (aligned to critique...

...Q. S. Tong; Xiaoyi Zhou Duke University Press 2002 Criticism and Society: The Birth of the Modern Critical Subject in China Q. S. Tong and Xiaoyi Zhou Over the past ten years or so, there have been repeated calls in China...

...Laikwan Pang Duke University Press 2004 Piracy/Privacy: The Despair of Cinema and Collectivity in China Laikwan Pang China’s ‘‘barbarous’’ copyright offenses are generally considered one of the manifestations...

...Rebecca E. Karl Duke University Press 2005 On Comparability and Continuity: China, circa 1930s and 1990s Rebecca E. Karl Commenting on François Furet’s book on the French Revolution, Jacques Rancière notes that Furet’s...

... 2010 I am grateful to M. E. Davies and Geremie R. Barmé for their valuable insights and comments. The essay has also benefited from the important suggestions of three anonymous readers. Draft versions were presented at the symposium Human Rights in China, Claremont McKenna College, March 2008...

...Yiching Wu What are the lessons to be drawn from post-Mao China’s transition toward capitalism, and from the historical experience of the country’s revolutionary past? In contrast to the view advocated by many critics on the left that opposes post-Mao China’s “reform and opening up” to Mao’s...

...Arif Dirlik Around the turn of the twentieth century, late Qing (1644–1911) thinkers settled on an ancient term, Zhongguo , as an appropriate name for the nation-form to supplant the empire that had run its course. The renaming was directly inspired by the “Western” idea of “China,” which had...

...Arif Dirlik Duke University Press 2006 Global Modernity, Spatial Reconfigurations, and Global Health: Perspectives from the People’s Republic of China Arif Dirlik The recent tsunami disaster in South...

...Wang Shaoguang © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Unless otherwise indicated, all data presented in this essay come from the author's research. The Great Transformation: The Double Movement in China Wang Shaoguang...

..., my own. Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are my own. The End of the Peasant? New Rural Reconstruction in China Alexander Day “The peasants’ lot is really bitter, the countryside is really poor...