...Arif Dirlik The essay critically engages two recent works on the Confucian revival in the People’s Republic of China published by Princeton University Press, the one advocating a Confucian monarchy for the PRC, the other arguing for the universal relevance of Confucianism as a “world religion...

...Nergis Ertürk “Socialism,” Régis Debray has written, “was born with a printers’ docket around its neck. . . . Book, school, newspaper: for the party militant, the greatest emphasis lay on the third.” This essay addresses the imagination of an underground press in the Turkish communist Nâzım...

...Hsiao-pei Yen This essay explores the connections between colonialism, nationalism, and anthropology in China's southwestern frontier. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the pressing problem of national survival encouraged the Nationalist state and anthropologists to collaborate in an effort...

... and yet pressing questions offering initial answers based on structured interviews and participant observation of community members in forty-six self-managed communities of practice in Spain. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Culture of the Commons self-managed communities...

...Jonathan Arac Abstract In light of Oxford University Press issuing two volumes in The Critical Works of William Empson ( Some Versions of Pastoral [1935] and The Structure of Complex Words [1951]), this essay thinks over Empson's career and major works to consider what his value may be nearly...

... classical Greece, precisely because of its presumption that among the most pressing challenges confronting the novel as literary form is to adequately represent the conditions and possibilities of human life these days. In other words, the question is whether the novel is so inherently a bourgeoisie form...

...Allen Chun Abstract In 2022 and 2023, Duke University Press published three major works as part of its Sinotheory series. Ban Wang's book explored the political ethos of tianxia underlying the advent of the new rise of China. Pheng Cheah and Caroline S. Hau's volume of essays presented critical...

... 2001 Books Received Aguiar, Sarah Appleton. The Bitch Is Back: Wicked Women in Literature. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. Andermahr, Sonya, Terry Lovell, and Carol Wolkowitz, eds. A Glossary of Feminist Theory. Oxford and New York: Oxford...

... © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Books Received Agamben, Giorgio. Nudities. Trans. David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. Alaimo, Stacy. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloom- ington: Indiana University...

... 2004 Books Received Agustini, Delmira. Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros.Trans.Ale- jandro Cáceres. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. Augst, Thomas. The Clerk’s Tale. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Bird, Stephanie. Women Writers...

... © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Books Received Acland, Charles R., and Haidee Wasson, eds. Useful Cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Anderson, Warwick, Deborah Jenson, and Richard C. Keller, eds. Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma...

... 2002 Books Received Adorno, Theodor W. Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason.’ Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. Armbruster, Karla, and Kathleen R. Wallace, eds. Beyond Nature Writing: Expand- ing the Boundaries of Ecocriticism...

... 2001 Books Received Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, eds. The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. Barr, Marleen S. Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000...

... © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Books Received Abdur-Rahman,­ Aliyyah I. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Akcan, Esra. Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House. Durham, NC...

... Books Received Abeysekara, Ananda. The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures. Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Cultures. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Alaimo, Stacy, and Susan Hekman, eds. Material Feminisms...

... 2002 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 257 of 265 Books Received Abbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002...

... © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Books Received Aghacy, Samira. Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East Since 1967. Gen- der, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2009. Ahmad, Irfan. Islamism and Democracy in India...

... 2000 Books Received Acocella, Joan. Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. Lincoln: University of Ne- braska Press, 2000. Adorno, Theodor W. Problems of Moral Philosophy. Ed. Thomas Schröder. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. Agamben...