...Giovanni Vitiello Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Fantastic Journey of an Ugly Boy: Homosexuality and Salvation in late Ming Pornography Giova n n i Viti el lo (Dreams) frequently have more than one or even several meanings...

... Frank’s life and legacy inspires a hybridized narrative and visual style in manga that blends the emotionality and interiority of shōjo with the more graphic depictions of violence common to shōnen manga for young boys. In so doing, it encourages a reevaluation of the shōjo mode and its ability to bear...

...Bill V. Mullen 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Du Bois, Dark Princess, and the Afro-Asian International Bill V. Mullen At last India is rising again to that great and fateful moral leadership of the world which she exhibited so often...

...Ian Condry Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Yellow B-Boys, Black Culture, and Hip-Hop in Japan: Toward a Transnational Cultural Politics of Race Ian Condry My name is Yellow B-Boy ore no namae wa kiiroi B-Boy I’m all that, and number...

...Hans Tao-Ming Huang This article proposes a historically and movement-wise contextualized reading of Pai Hsien-yung's Crystal Boys , known as the first “gay” novel in Taiwan. As the novel was taken up as a signifier in the new tongzhi politics in 1990s Taiwan, the article shows, its legacy...

...Lisa Rofel This essay addresses the anxiety that many urban gay men in China express about “money boys”—a term used in English to refer to male sex workers who have sex with other men for money. The essay argues that money boys are a pressing issue for Chinese gay men because homophobia...

...Alan Cole Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Homestyle Vinaya and Docile Boys in Chinese Buddhism Alan Cole Filial piety can be called vinaya.-Zong Mi (780-841) At first glance, filial piety and vinaya would appear to have...

...Viet Le In contemporary Viet Nam, China, and Korea (among other Asian countries), popular cultural production has opened up new modes of transnational subjectivity, questioning the boundaries of community, identity, and identification. How are national and consumer desires linked? Boy bands...

... of Korean Chinese to South Korea—offer clues to the causes of the crisis of community, in which collective ethics and responsibility to others have been eroded. This article answers questions about the death of a Korean Chinese boy, who voluntarily becomes a stranger by entering into the zone of “nonlife...

...Jennifer Hubbert The Olympic games have long served as a platform for political debate and ideological expression, and the 2008 Beijing games were no exception. The United States Olympic team selection of “Lost Boy of Sudan” and Team Darfur spokesperson Lopez Lomong as its flag bearer made...

...Leonard Rifas US comic books published about the Korean War during that conflict represented the war as an opportunity for US boys to become men through bloody, hand-to-hand combat. Korean War comic book representations of Asian men and women fell into a few basic types. The messages in US war...

... new spectatorial relations could be maneuvered. This article takes up for discussion two Malayalam films from the mid-1950s— Newspaper Boy (dir. P. Ramadas, 1955) and Rarichan enna powran ( Citizen Rarichan , dir. P. Bhaskaran, 1956)—as cinematic experiments in conceiving the urban space from two...

... Four, led the way from the U.S. military base to the Korean audience in 1964, along with their rivals, the Key Boys. Other Korean rock bands, then known as the “group sounds,” followed suit. Group-sound rok flourished in the live music salons, outdoor festivals, and go-go dance clubs, captivating...

...Mary E. John Countries like India and China have become well known locally and internationally for their skewed girl-boy sex ratios, which have declined sharply in the very years marked by these countries' emergence as potential global economic giants. In India, these declines and the concomitant...

... the larger structural, political, economic, and cultural forces shape the girls’ and boys’ educational and occupational decisions. To understand the subject making of young Chinese workers, the concept of “clashing gender” is used to illustrate how gender plays a central yet conflicted role, torn between...

... the boy’s work. To forestall it, the mother offers to become her son’s lover and thereby satisfy his pressing need. The boy complies and the two commence an affair. The sexual relationship, found deeply pleasurable by both partners...

... person’s anus in licentious play.” Even though the language is not the same, it refers to only one thing. In Fujian there are several places where the boys of the common people, if they are endowed with clear and striking looks, have...

... déclassé characters in Khoo’s lm. The central protagonist, a school dropout helping out with his family’s home- based catering business, is known only as “Boy.” He is particularly close to Ah Gu in the group, a trouble- prone “motor- mouth” who...

... examples include Enter the Clowns (Choujue dengchang, 2002), Feeding Boys, Ayaya (Aiyaya, qu buru, 2002), The Narrow Path (Wu yü, 2003), Night Scene (2004), The Old Testament (Jiuyue, 2002), Refrain (Fuge, 2005), Star Appeal (Xingxing xiang xi xi...

...Gayatri Gopinath Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion Gayatri Gopinath In Funny Boy, Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 novel in six stories, the upper...