...Paul E. Festa Duke University Press 2006 Mahjong Politics in Contemporary China: Civility, Chineseness, and Mass Culture Paul E. Festa The surge of popular nationalism in China following the U.S.-led NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade...

... Duke University Press 2006 Important Dates in China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan in Proletarian Arts positions 14:2  doi 10.1215/10679847-2006-001 Copyright 2006 by Duke University Press...

...Hajime Nakatani Duke University Press 2006 The Empire of Fame: Writing and the Voice in Early Medieval China Hajime Nakatani Jacques Derrida’s assault on phonocentrism has altered the very ground on which one addresses the question of orality...

...Larissa Heinrich Duke University Press 2007 How China Became the “Cradle of Smallpox”: Transformations in Discourse, 1726 – 2002 Larissa Heinrich We often distinguish between the knowledge of the past and that of the modern world . . . We could...

...Haiqing Yu Duke University Press 2007 Talking, Linking, Clicking: The Politics of AIDS and SARS in Urban China Haiqing Yu The spring of 2003 has been vividly described as the “spring of masks” in China.1 Soon after the nation staged the largest ever...

...Howard Y. F. Choy Duke University Press 2006 “To Construct an Unknown China”: Ethnoreligious Historiography in Zhang Chengzhi’s Islamic Fiction Howard Y. F. Choy China is a polyethnic country with the Han as the dominant majority...

...Ping Liu Duke University Press 2006 Translated by Krista Van Fleit Hang The Left-Wing Drama Movement in China and Its Relationship to Japan Ping Liu The View of 1930s Left-Wing Literature in the Field of Chinese Literature Studies After the end...

...Xiaobing Tang Duke University Press 2006 Echoes of Roar, China! On Vision and Voice in Modern Chinese Art Xiaobing Tang First published in the December 1935 issue of Modern Prints, journal of the Modern Prints Society based in Guangzhou...

...Weihua Wu; Xiying Wang Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Cultural Performance and the Ethnography of Ku in China Weihua Wu and Xiying Wang In the summer of 2005, we returned to Beijing, a city where we had studied and lived for nearly...

...Wen Tiejun Within China, evaluating the experiences of the reform since 1978 is a hot topic among intellectuals. However, the economic theories in today's China are almost all imported from abroad and cannot adequately explain China's economic development. The author, having been long engaged...

... intrinsically linked, not merely through tabloid exposure but through the exploration of the philosophical import of the everyday as a problem of social value. Duke University Press 2008 Journalism, Social Value, and a Philosophy of the Everyday in 1920s China Rebecca E. Karl Modern...

...Gary Sigley This essay examines how the human body has been variously imagined and acted upon in twentieth-century China. It does so by focusing on one particularly prominent feature of Chinese discourse concerned with the calculation, measurement, and shaping of the human body and human conduct...

...Luigi Tomba This article discusses the rhetoric and practices of China's middle-class “community building” ( shequ jianshe , as the campaign to reorganize urban residential communities that started in the late 1990s is called), and the role of suzhi (quality) in building models of “harmonious...

...” or “poststructuralist” turn, the historical transformation of the political signifier of “China” already provided an occasion for a critical theory of the subject for queer Chinese writers. Beginning with a close reading of Chen Ruoxi's Paper Marriage , one of the earliest full-length queer novels in Chinese...

... technologies these two men employed (wet-collodion photography and stereography, respectively) is crucial to decoding not only how these images look to us now but also the way they suggested and perpetuated imperial ways of seeing, evaluating, and profiting from technologically reproduced visions of “China...

... before the Cultural Revolution had drawn to an end. Duke University Press 2010 Locating Family Portraits: Everyday Images from 1970s China Nicole Huang Contemporary Chinese artists have used family portraits from the 1960s and 1970s to create experimental...

...David L. Eng This essay examines the contemporary emergence of gay and lesbian life in the People's Republic of China through an analysis of Stanley Kwan's 2001 film Lan Yu and in relation to liberal distinctions between public space and private desires. Following anthropologist Lisa Rofel's recent...

... China because it was similar to the local understanding of male same-sex relations. The essay demonstrates how new meanings were produced in the process of epistemological encounters under the historical context of semicolonial China. It also answers the question of why the Republican state legal...

...Xiaopei He; Lisa Rofel This essay addresses how and why people in China create an identity out of their medical status of having HIV/AIDS. The essay argues that contrary to the idea that “coming out” as HIV-positive might be liberating, the experience of being “pushed out” by many people who...

...Liu Kang Slavoj Žižek has recently written quite extensively on Mao and China. This article is a commentary on his writings. Tracing the genealogy of Western Marxism from Gramsci, Athusser, and Badiou to Žižek, I argue that Žižek's misreading of the Chinese Revolution, especially Mao's theory...