Search Results for Taiwan

...Hai Ren Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The Displacement and Museum Representation of Aboriginal Cultures in Taiwan Hai Ren In the neutrality of the object world, space is made contiguous and persons absent in time are made...

...Eika Tai Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan Eika Tai Problematizing “Teaching Japanese” Under Japanese colonial rule, the Taiwanese were compelled to study and to speak Kokugo...

...Kang Chao; Marshall Johnson 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Nationalist Social Sciences and the Fabrication of Subimperial Subjects in Taiwan Kang Chao and Marshall Johnson Nationalist Imagination and Positivist Social Sciences A distinctive feature of imperial...

... recruited into the Japanese forces during the war, serving in Taiwan, mainland China, the Pacific islands, and across Southeast Asia. After the war, however, the experiences of the Taiwanese and Chinese fighting each other were largely repressed and ignored in official and scholarly accounts of the war...

...Pei-Chia Lan This article compares Taiwan's guest worker program and Japan's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) program to examine how intimate labor and affective labor are culturally defined and institutionally regulated in different ways. Facing the similar problems of population aging...

... in Contemporary Taiwan The insoluble ambivalences in Taiwan, which resonate outward from lay- ered political impasses into works of literature, cinema, art, and even the very architecture that no citizen can avoid, often elicit expressions of con...

...Joyce C. H. Liu This essay discusses what I define as the psyche politics employed in the discourse of identity and of subjectivity in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945), and how the use of such politics of psyche recurred in postcolonial Taiwan, especially in the discourse...

...Chao-ju Chen What does the nation mean to women? How does the law draw national borders, and in what way is it gendered? This paper examines the ways in which women are related to the nation in Taiwan by discussing the legal regulation of nationality. Historically and contemporarily, the decisive...

... Duke University Press 2009 Gallery of Taiwan Artists positions 17:2  doi 10.1215/10679847-2009-004 Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press positions 17:2  Fall 2009...

...) Foundation, in the public sphere of Taiwan since the late 1960s, and particularly the controversies surrounding the group's rapid growth during Taiwan's democratization since the late 1980s. The development of the Buddhist group from an unknown grassroots to a global United Nations NGO, as the article...

...Chen Yu-Rong; Wang Ping Two activists identify hate speech and morality as two obstacles to LGBT human rights in Taiwan. Although there is no legal discrimination against homosexuals in Taiwan, the authors argue that their absence in the definition of law constitutes another order of violence...

...Josephine Chuen-juei Ho Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, Taiwan has prided itself on steady progress toward liberal democracy with an ever-broadening understanding of human rights that now allegedly includes the rights of gays and lesbians. Yet at the same time, under the child-protection...

... journalist Izumi Fūrō’s book, which includes the 1925 petition that Japanese philanthropist Inagaki Tōbei wrote on Taiwanese bamboo farmers’ behalf to support their cause. Li's stage play Taiwan ( 1930 ) was born of a densely transnational nexus: a petition by a Japanese philanthropist, a Japanese...

...Howard Chiang In the summer of 1953, the United Daily News (聯合報) in Taiwan announced the sex change surgery of the “first” Chinese transsexual, Xie Jianshun (謝尖順). Xie's story soon triggered an avalanche of media sensationalism in postwar Taiwan. This article adds greater historical depth...

...Leo Ching 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Savage Construction and Civility Making: The Musha Incident and Aboriginal Representations in Colonial Taiwan Leo Ching In 1911 Japanese colonial officials led forty-three selected aboriginal leaders from...

...Henrietta Harrison 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Clothing and Power on the Periphery of Empire: The Costumes of the Indigenous People of Taiwan Henrietta Harrison The indigenous people of Taiwan define themselves in part by wearing what they refer...

... of factories of multinational corporations as employers and their roles in mediating workers’ health. References ADL (Arthur D. Little) . 1989 . Oversight of Environmental Investigations at Taoyuan and Chu Pei, Taiwan, Summary Report for Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. (Reference 64152...

...Marukawa Tetsushi 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Translated by Davinder L. Bhowmik On Kobayashi Yoshinori’s On Taiwan Marukawa Tetsushi Premise Part of manga, or comic, artist Kobayashi Yoshinori’s “New Arrogant-ist Manifesto...

...D. W. Davis 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 A New Taiwan Person? A Conversation with Wu Nien-chen D. W. Davis 8 January 1999. Wu Nien-chen’s sunny, wood-paneled conference room in Taipei. Wu is a major figure in Taiwan’s media:scriptwriter ( City...

...Sara L. Friedman; Yi-Chien Chen Abstract This article analyzes the tension between marriage and family rights in the context of Taiwan's marriage equality movement and the then-pending legalization of same-sex marriage following a 2017 Constitutional Court ruling. It focuses on the efforts...