..., this essay examines the significance of China’s engagement in the heart of Africa. A close reading of the spoken-word drama War Drums on the Equator (1965) reveals the importance of mobilizing “subjugated knowledge” in asymmetrical conflict. Chinese Uhuru: Maoism and the Congo Crisis Alexander C. Cook...

... coeval, the time of war as experi- enced on the receiving end of asymmetrical warfare, often in the finality of death, suffering, and ruin or in the limbo of perpetual siege, rarely intersects with the time of war on the interventionist end.11...

.... These shanghai(ed) experiences added up to a bizarre and paradoxical mixture of romanticized business ventures, pursuits of better personal lives, ambiguous citizenships, and conflicting nation-building projects, all imbued with a somewhat nostalgic projection of, along with deep anxieties about, Taiwan's future...

... and effects generate new modes of subjec- tivity and political activity in the contemporary world. As the articles in this volume reveal, such asymmetrical exchanges are reconfiguring not only migrant subjectivities but also gendered national...

...- band inside the home both exacerbates conjugal conflict and devastates any possible female bonding between two women of different classes and ethnic backgrounds. It also reveals that the wife’s resistance to and complicity with her...

... to reorganize and expand the canon, recourse to “geographical differ- ence” seems to be emulating the prior territory of “sexual difference.” In this happy pluralism, the conflicts and dependencies that structure a multi- positions 2:2 0...

... strength from some fun- positions 6:1 Spring 1998 206 damental conception of clash, conflict, and antagonism. An ideology of antag- onism provides the state with tremendous capacity to enlist...

... These divergent and even conflicting reviews suggest that the play itself was haunted by ambivalence, allowing viewers to read various sub- texts into it. Both critical intellectuals and government officials surely saw the play, with its exotic...

... Figure 2  Impossible spaces: disparate places/disconnected Figure 3  Impossible spaces: disappearance and lovers, Lan Yu emergence, Lan Yu We might say that the asymmetrical composition of this screen image — ­ dividing yet bringing...

... (the intervention of the United States) that found the countries in conflict. The major problem of this Cold War system is that the management of the colonial problem was frozen in order to avoid internal opposition, as a member of the West. It is precisely...

... Established in 1960, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) would build over 600,000 units in the next three decades, enough to house around 90 percent of the population.22 Although implemented with less social conflict than that following the mass...

... of the most famous tourist spots in the island: a couple of shots show student tourists enjoying its landscape set off by an intertitle referring to “the place where many citizens were killed.” From a political perspective, it turns out that ideological and geopolitical conflicts still affect the present...

... not only asymmetrical power relations but discriminatory grades in value, or even in moral, terms. To a Han-centered configuration, Han out- or Han down-flow was recognized and articulated, but never the reverse. Such a truncated, overarching...

... which the North Korean can be heard at all.4 Literature of Intervention This essay inquires into the contemporaneity of Korean War literature, in light of the fact that the war, the Cold War’s first hot conflict, has yet to be concluded long...

... of the classic “Muslim social” described by Bhaskar and Allen, because it is set in “a Muslim milieu and with Muslim charac- ters as protagonists,” and it displays the conflict between feudal traditions and social change (Bhaskar and Allen 2009: 65...

... Sau-ling Wong, like Dirlik, sees a conflict between two contradictory ways of defining community—one de- riving from a pan-Asian coalition based in the United States and the other focusing on connections between Asians of various ethnic...

... jingyan and experiment also justified a highly asymmetric social division of intellectual labor be- tween the two medical parties within this research program. In section 5 I argue that, in the struggle against Chinese doctors, Yu Yan not only appro...

... that the asymmetrical patterns of reception of the two films evince such similar effects is their common ideological ground: the pre- sumption of a “natural” heterosexuality. Because of the heterosexual pre- sumption, the sexual dynamic in Hiroshima...

... of the world, culture became an object of intellectual contemplation, fur- thering a process of self-definition through contrast with characteristics imputed to colonized others. Today it is commonplace to refer to conflicts in the era of European...

... no intention of continuing the relationship long-­term. In particular, feminist scholarship on military sexual commerce has emphasized asymmetric power relations Choo ∣∣ Selling Fantasies of Rescue 181 between...