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positions (2015) 23 (3): 565–593.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., this article explores the everyday experiences and subjective transformations produced by English-language travel overseas. Drawing upon surveys, interviews, and focus groups, the authors find that temporary sojourns to English-speaking destinations such as Vancouver represent more than rational, instrumental...
Journal Article
positions (1993) 1 (1): 160–193.
Published: 01 February 1993
... favorite slogan in both Chinese and
English: “The free development of the individuals for the Common
Welfare.”49In an attached footnote, he confesses that the Chinese language
is inimical to his modern way of thinking, so he is compelled...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
Published: 01 May 2022
... countries such as the United States and Australia. Pursuing English language studies in Los Angeles or Sydney would not only allow them to gain the type of spec they would need to appeal to employers but also would fulfill their romang as first-time travelers—that is, making real the fantasies of living...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (1): 203–224.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., especially in the form of readers letters. And we must, of course, not leave out the English language, which, although not often making an explicit appearance in the newspaper, was gradually asserting itself in the form of loan words such as railway, duke, bicycle, supreme court, and government schools...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (3): 381–409.
Published: 01 August 2015
... explore the everyday
experiences and subjective transformations produced by overseas English-
language travel. Drawing upon ethnography, surveys, interviews, and focus
groups, they find that temporary sojourns to English-speaking destinations...
Journal Article
positions (1996) 4 (2): 321–341.
Published: 01 May 1996
... these various details come
together. (Tellingly, at a later point in the narrative, Boon replies to the ques-
tion of whether he is half-meaning half Japanese -with the statement,
“I’m whole. I’m English” [207 While the need for descriptive...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (2): 353–375.
Published: 01 May 2022
... experiences of educational mobilities within the household. There are currently an estimated 30,000 so-called CBS children moving in this way, although estimates do vary. While there has been significant media coverage of CBS in both the Chinese and English-language press, fewer academic studies have...
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Journal Article
positions (2005) 13 (1): 55–74.
Published: 01 February 2005
... to their wares.
The professor greeted everyone on the street, pinched the fruit, tasted the
medicinal herbs, asked prices, and chatted about the weather. Juan bought a
copy of the English-language International Herald Tribune at a newsstand...
Journal Article
positions (2006) 14 (1): 165–192.
Published: 01 February 2006
...).
4 The English translation of the essay is in Roland Barthes, The Rustle of Language, trans.
Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1986), 141 – 48.
5 George Levine, The Realistic Imagination (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 7...
Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (3): 643–653.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of the year.”7
She is identified only by place, he by placeand by his ethnicity as Aborigine.
The English-language material continues, “They [Tao] seem to naturally
[my emphasis] carry the spirit of being contented, persistent and sincere.”8...
Journal Article
positions (2004) 12 (3): 733–758.
Published: 01 August 2004
...,givingacriticalsociolinguisticdimen-
sion to the urban environment represented. The key feature of the linguistic
element in A Very Good City is its trilingualism. Heard mostly are Cantonese
(the dominant language in Hong Kong) and sometimes English (the other...
Journal Article
positions (2018) 26 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 February 2018
... there were
reading and talking about Benjamin and that many of his writings have been translated
into Chinese, mostly based on the English versions. Should I really have been surprised? Is
this so amazing when California rolls...
Journal Article
positions (2000) 8 (3): 605–636.
Published: 01 August 2000
... could transcend them because
his exceptional knowledge of English language and culture set him apart
from other Japanese, allowing him to dictate the terms of his interactions
with the West. As he explained to his son, “From my first trip to Europe...
Journal Article
positions (2003) 11 (3): 735–763.
Published: 01 August 2003
...-
nese American youths of Cantonese descent traveled to Hong Kong to study
the Cantonese language.1 All had hoped to serve the Chinatown community
as activists, yet most could not even talk to the newly arriving non-English-
speaking immigrants...
Journal Article
positions (1995) 3 (2): 329–366.
Published: 01 May 1995
...; [Japandiary], in Zaoqi Riben youji wuzhong [Five early diaries of travel to
Japan], ed. Wang Xiaoqiu (Changsha: Hunan renmin chubanshe, 1983), 27-44. Luo’s diary
first appeared in Chinese in the monthly Xia’er guanzhen (English title: “Chinese...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (1): 259–261.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of Women’s Studies at Duke
University and professor in the Department of English, the Literature Program, and the
Women’s Studies Program. Her Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present
was published in 2007...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (1): 143–169.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Anna Iskra Abstract Since the late 1990s, China has experienced an explosion of popular interest in English language study. This nationwide “English fever” reflects how, with the global spread of neoliberal doctrines that were gradually adopted by Chinese governments, English was naturalized...
Journal Article
positions 11306820.
Published: 07 August 2024
... to their low level of English proficiency, most workers had to rely on recruitment agents when finding or changing UNCORRECTED PROOF positions 32:3 November 2024 856 jobs. Said welder HM, Because of our poor English, we can only get jobs through recruitment agencies. They charge very high fees...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., are diverse in composition as they include daily border crossers between China and Hong Kong (Waters and Leung, this issue), primary and secondary students from mainland China in Singapore (Huang and Yeoh 2005 ), and Korean English-language learners in the Philippines (Choi, this issue). Likewise...
Journal Article
positions (2020) 28 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 February 2020
...- political history, discursive negotiation with English- language art criti- cism, spatial navigation across exhibition geographies, and capital circula- tion via the international marketplace. The continuing correspondence between the production of Chinese art and its international recognition cre- ates...
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