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War as Business in South Korea's Manchurian Action Films
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 785–806.
Published: 01 November 2015
... University Press 2015 Korean film war film Manchurian action film colonial representation Cold War culture money War as Business in South Korea’s Manchurian Action Films
Jinsoo An
Toward a Typology of South Korea’s Korean War Films
From the 1950s to the present, more...
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Gendered Globality as a Cold War Framework: International Dimensions of Chinese Female Bodies in the 1960s
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 603–630.
Published: 01 August 2020
... relations and internationally circulating PRC-produced cultural material that articulated feminist ideals as part of Afro-Asian-Latin American solidarity. This article returns to well-known texts of Maoist China to rethink state-produced Chinese feminism as a Cold War framework and gendered globality...
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Zainichi Protagonists and the Making of Historical Fiction: Cold War Security and Economic Insecurity in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yang Sŏk-il's Chi to hone ( Blood and Bones )
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 83–107.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Adhy Kim Abstract This article discusses how the historical experience of Zainichi (the postcolonial Korean diaspora in Japan) is represented through the fictionalized family history, set from the colonial period to the dusk of the Cold War. Looking at two post–Cold War novels across English...
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The Postcolonial Blind Spot:: Chinese Dance in the Era of Third Worldism, 1949–1965
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 781–815.
Published: 01 November 2018
... culture is what I call “the postcolonial blind spot.” By examining key works of the pre-1964 Chinese dance repertoire, as well as transnational exchange between China and third world dance during the period of 1949–65, this article challenges the Cold War perception of Maoist dance history...
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Between Koenji and Brooklyn: Tokyo, New York, and the Circulations of Experimental Musics in a Global World
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 259–285.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... Thus this article gives readers a view of how US‐based Japanese music scholarship is moving away from such Cold War paradigms and contributes to this shift in studies of Japanese music and culture. My approach to these issues is ethnographic as well as personal; it is based on fieldwork in New...
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Sovereignty, Surveillance, and Spectacle in South Vietnamese Spy Fiction
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 111–150.
Published: 01 February 2018
... military intervention in South Vietnamese cities. In the novel, the character of the Vietnamese superspy appears as a figure for the ambivalent political situation of the Republic of Vietnam within the geopolitics of the Cold War. Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Vietnam war spy fiction...
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Cosmopolitanism from Below: Union Film's Adaptation of World Classics
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 623–648.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., Situ Huimin司徒慧敏) and supported by Cantonese film leaders Ng Cho‐fan 吳楚帆 and Lo Duen 盧敦. The study interrogates the predicaments and vicissitudes of Union's cosmopolitan stances as it wrestled with the cultural politics of Chinese cinema during the Cold War. It elucidates the ethnically rooted...
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Liquid Area Studies: Northeast Asia in Motion as Viewed from Mount Geumgang
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 209–239.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Tessa Morris-Suzuki Area studies has always been controversial. Over the decades, the field has been criticized for lacking theoretical rigor and accused of complicity with the political agendas of the Cold War. More recently, controversy has tended to focus on the notion of “area” itself...
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The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 287–314.
Published: 01 May 2024
... during Japan's Cold War restructuring. This essay reads cinema as a contentious site where articulations of sociopolitical sentiments and concerns with film's medium specificity find catalytic convergence with the continuous coding of gender. Rather than simply viewing female bodies as representations...
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A Utopia of Self-Reliance: Dazhai and the Mutation of Global Capitalism in Maoist China
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 756–788.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Young Ji Lee This essay examines Maoist China and its deep engagement with local/global capitalism during the Cold War period. It analyzes how the socialist realist utopian images of self-reliant Dazhai, a model village in Shanxi, contributed to the domestic and international image of Maoist China...
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Žižek's China, China's Žižek
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 723–737.
Published: 01 August 2011
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plexity and nuances of the capitalist imaginary in the post-cold war era of
globalization. They are both sorts of global commodities piercing the limits
of culture and history to announce themselves in the West. In this respect I
have always felt...
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Oriental Purity: Postcolonial Discomfort and Asian Values
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1041–1066.
Published: 01 November 2012
... as their personal junzi identity and as a public discourse for citizen morality. But political opposition to the regime led to the revival of the communist abject in the “Marxist conspiracy” crackdowns, which failed in the liberalizing post – Cold War context. The elite subsequently privatized their Confucianism...
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Contributors
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 291–293.
Published: 01 February 2005
..., L’Université de Montréal,
is the author of Parables of the Virtual (2002).
Anne McKnight, an assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University, specializes
in film noir and Cold War cultural studies in Japan...
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Coda: A Conversation with Kim Dong-Choon
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 837–849.
Published: 01 November 2015
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forward because of political reasons?
KDC: Many children of victims know little to nothing about their parents’ (or
parent’s) past. For those families victimized by the anticommunism of South
Korea’s Cold War culture, the removal of the label...
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Contributors
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 943–946.
Published: 01 August 2012
...,
Not Coming to Terms: Viet Nam, Post- Trauma and Cultural Politics (forthcoming, Duke
University Press), and essays on postcolonial Indochinese lm, Southeast Asian transna-
tional and diasporic culture, and post- Cold War cultural redevelopment...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 671–684.
Published: 01 August 2012
... and postcolonial studies, hopes
to render more unstable those theoretical grounds and more clear (or to be
precise, more complex) their genealogies in Cold War cultural and politi-
cal knowledges.4 In this same vein, each of these essays can also be read...
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The Cultural Politics of Asian Life in Carl Mydans's Photojournalism of Tule Lake and Yosu-Sunchon
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positions 11626825.
Published: 27 February 2025
... comparison of the two Cold War hot wars through war photography touches on a question many students of Cold War culture grapple with.1 Her hypothetical scenario simultaneously registers regret for a lost opportunity for photographic intervention and skepticism regarding the extent to which photographs can...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 501–516.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., as proven by the continuing struggles to overcome the legacies of Japanese imperialism in the region (Akibayashi, this issue). Seen through the global circulation of cultures and networks of social movements, this issue presents the possibilities imagined before, during, and after the conventional Cold War...
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Epilogue
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 677–688.
Published: 01 August 2020
...) in China dur- ing the Cultural Revolution also plastered the first world and its outposts with fashion photos, art nudes like the hundreds that M. L. Toy Xoomsai took in his thirty- year career in the same Thai photography movement.1 Do we really need to know how a color image of a movie star in Cold War...
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Yellow Mythologies: The East Asian Miracle and Post-Cold War Capitalism
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positions (1996) 4 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 February 1996
... in a multitude of social and cultural contexts.
Conclusion: The East Asian Miracle and Post-Cold War Capitalism
Throughout the Cold War the most influential interpretations of what has
come to be regarded as the East Asian Miracle flowed from the dominant...
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