... and the negotiations of resettlement, and problematizes the notion of “return” that is central to the exilic desire. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Exiled Memory: History, Identity, and Remembering in Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Diaspora Khatharya Um On April...

...Rhacel Salazar Parreñas; Hung Cam Thai; Rachel Silvey The article provides a theoretical overview of the study of the commodification of intimacy in Asia, specifically charting a framework for understanding its institutionalization. It introduces the concept of “intimate industries,” meaning...

...Hyun Sook Kim 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Commentary Korea’s “Vietnam Question”: War Atrocities, National Identity, and Reconciliation in Asia Hyun Sook Kim The “Vietnam Question” A new space for examining the Korean national identity and culture...

... series delves into issues of photography theory, on questions of indexicality and performativity, and the relations between photographic images in specific cultural climate. The author analyzes how these images may indicate the political fluctuations between the Asia-Pacific War, the 1970s, and 2003...

...Yiman Wang Duke University Press 2007 Screening Asia: Passing, Performative Translation, and Reconfiguration Yiman Wang The questions of what is “Asia” and what role it plays in the world system have preoccupied philosophers, historians, social...

...Tobias Hübinette Duke University Press 2007 Asia as a Topos of Fear and Desire for Nazis and Extreme Rightists: The Case of Asian Studies in Sweden Tobias Hübinette Introducing a Delicate Issue The origin of this article comes from having spent a couple of years...

...Gabriella Lukacs The departure point for this introduction is the proposition that youth unemployment and underemployment are not social anomalies, but they are the new faces of labor for youth in East Asia. This introductory essay argues that a global crisis in capitalism that began in the early...

..., across East Asia. From new household forms—including divorcees, single parents, adults living alone or with chosen kin, same-sex couples, and transnational marriages—to shifting ideologies of how families should be organized and kinship ties recognized, families have been at the center of substantial...

...Koichi Iwabuchi 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity: Media Consumption of “Asia” in Japan Koichi Iwabuchi Over the 1990s Japan’s gradual tilt toward Asia was clearly visible. Follow- ing a long retreat after...

...Lee Weng Choy 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Authenticity, Reflexivity, and Spectacle; or, The Rise of New Asia Is Not the End of the World Lee Weng Choy Two Anecdotes about Time 1. Channel NewsAsia (CNA)—the Singapore television station with am...

...Lisa Onaga; Harry Yi-Jui Wu The issue of “the particulate” as an abstraction and as matter plays a crucial role in the histories of development and industrialization in Asia. The particulate functions as an important grain of irritation in our efforts to identify analytically salient commonalities...

...Jordan Sand This essay examines graphic, textual, and material evidence concerning the use of chairs by European colonists in South and Southeast Asia and by Japanese colonists in Taiwan. It focuses particularly on informal furniture made from lightweight tropical fibers such as rattan...

...Etsko Kasai The effects of the Asia-Pacific War (1931–1945) still linger through the region. Among those many factors that prolong the “life” of this war is the Japanese inability to recognize other peoples’ losses. Seventy-three years after the end of this war, these victims’ voices widely resound...

...Boreth Ly This essay considers the significant role that Engaged Buddhism plays in contemporary art of Southeast Asia. It argues that this modern Buddhist intellectual movement, which came about in the 1960s in Southeast Asia as a response to political crisis in the world, merits visibility...

... Asia Juno Salazar Parreñas Introduction The dry season heat baked the heaps of elephant dung. Working as a vol- unteer with nineteen others at Elephant Sanctuary in northern Thailand in April 2010, I was expected to shovel muck from...

...Bill Brugger Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Commentary Marxism, Asia, and the 1990s Bill Brugger Thirty years ago, it would be rare to find within one cover the range of arti- cles presented here. Then, empathetic...

...Yan Hairong; Daniel Vukovich Duke University Press 2007 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Guest Editors’s Introduction: What’s Left of Asia When we began organizing this special issue...

...Heather Bowen-Struyk Duke University Press 2006 Guest Editor’s Introduction: Proletarian Arts in East Asia Proletarian Literature in the World The proletarian arts movement was an international politico-arts movement that flourished in the 1920s...

...Han Sang Kim; Sandeep Ray References Benjamin Walter . 1986 . Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings . New York : Shocken Books . Chen Kuan-Hsing . 2010 . Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Kim Min...