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Published: 01 May 2023
...Gerda Wielander Abstract Built on visual and running/walking ethnography, this article analyzes visual traces left on remnant danwei walls in post-socialist China. The article considers danwei walls as yiji (remnant traces) that serve as loci of political memory and as a medium to host other visual...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 229–254.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Youngmin Choe Abstract This article explores how and why fraudulence and deception get coded as feminine in Korean politics and popular culture. Focusing on the processes whereby deception gets conflated with the female body, it examines filmic articulations of physical and rhetorical attacks...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2023
... publication. Linh Khanh Nguyen's “Geometries of Fractals and Power: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia's Global Ruralities” kicks off a set of studies all focused on global labor migration. In the article, Nguyen lays out a relatively familiar spatial configuration—the urban and the rural...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2017
... Introduction
Ratheesh Radhakrishnan
The present special issue on the Aesthetics of Space in India Cinema brings
together selected articles presented at the CinemaSpace conference organized
by the Chao Center for Asian Studies (Rice University...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva; Laurie J. Sears This article highlights the overall aims of the special issue, which reconceptualizes island worlds as situated historical places, that is, islands and their networks as spaces that come to life through the multiple and contested meanings constantly...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 447–479.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Alex Cockain This article explores psychic experiences of air pollution and the ways these experiences have become narrated in various texts, especially but not exclusively those responding to one weekend in December 2013 when Shanghai purportedly experienced the highest levels of fine-particle...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 161–187.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Chih-ming Wang Intrigued by the question of diasporic return, this article is concerned with the cultural politics of what I call “homecoming stories” of the Vietnamese diaspora. In order not to be confused with the imaginary returns that have been practiced in many Vietnamese-US writings...
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 489–515.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Luke Robinson This article addresses the use of the human voice in contemporary Chinese independent documentary in relation to xianchang . Broadly analogous to the Anglophone concept of “liveness,” xianchang is a shooting practice that interrogates questions of immediacy (being “on the scene...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 311–339.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Soo Ryon Yoon This article traces eight performers from Burkina Faso, who in 2014 protested unfair labor practices at the Africa Museum of Original Art in South Korea, where they had been hired to perform. In the process, they demonstrated political and artistic endeavors in live concerts and dance...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 411–435.
Published: 01 August 2015
.... This article analyzes the emerging labor regime, specifically, the use of student labor in the process of Foxconn's expansion in China. First, the article discusses the ways in which the state contributes to the rise of monopoly capital by supplying workers who are both cheaper and younger. Second, the article...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 291–317.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Alexander Zahlten Abstract This article explores the popular shift to a media‐ecological understanding in post‐1960s Japan. Bookending its investigation with two actual funerals held for fictional characters in 1970 and 2007, it tracks the trope of death to map the increased interlocking of media...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 423–450.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Yanshuo Zhang Abstract This article probes a long‐overlooked concept in modern China—ethnic indigeneity—to propose new ways of looking at the relationship between the Chinese nation and its multiethnic minority groups. The Western scholarly community has long held that because the Chinese state...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 495–521.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Sungyun Lim Abstract This article examines false registration as a method of domestic adoption in South Korea. The article argues that the practice of falsely registering adoptees as natural births in the family registry emerged in response to the highly restrictive adoption laws in South Korea...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 117–142.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Jay Hetrick Abstract This article discusses the significance of Gilles Deleuze's almost passing references to East Asian thought. Even though Deleuze comes to these ideas through the work of other European thinkers—most notably Friedrich Nietzsche, Sergei Eisenstein, François Jullien, and Alan...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 February 2015
...James Farrer The MIT Visualizing Cultures controversy is linked to a series of anti-Japanese street protests in China during the previous year. As a comparative analysis of these two very different types of protests, this article produces a reading of protest through a series of linked contexts...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
... such knowledge is important, since these domains, though intimate and private, are crucial sites of socioeconomic exchange. In light of such challenges, how can ethnographers “get at” the emotional experiences of rural migrants outside standard frameworks? This article engages with this question through...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 543–550.
Published: 01 August 2014
... be understood as socially and culturally heterogeneous. On the other hand, there is much resonance in the details among all these articles, reminding us that ethnography in contemporary China can accumulate to give us an anthropology or sociology of the state as it is seen from the point of view of its...
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 613–646.
Published: 01 August 2003
... The clash was over a scornful article
positions 11:3 © 2003 by Duke University Press
positions 11:3 Winter 2003 614
published in the Shanghai press on 27 July on the bad fashion taste of country...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 453–468.
Published: 01 August 2021
... social and political change across the region. This special issue examines the intersections and tensions between how families are lived on the ground and the family laws and institutional mechanisms that create the scaffolding for recognizable kinship relationships. The articles use the rubric...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
... these stories work. In so doing, this special issue foregrounds that storytelling itself is a form of labor, and as such equally subjected to the inequities, constraints, and expropriations that come with other types of labor. In addition to articles by scholars based in South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore...
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