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Fantastic Dreams: The Art of Chen Haiyan
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 367–377.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Amjad Majid This article presents the work of Chinese artist and printmaker Chen Haiyan, providing a critical analysis of her lifetime of woodcuts, prints, and ink paintings. The topics explored are the integration of dreams in Chen Haiyan's art and their relation to “the fantastic,” which...
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Chen Xue's Queer Tactics
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Fran Martin Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Chen Xue‘s Queer Tactics
Fran Martin
In recent years, “queer” (e.g., tongzhi, kuter, guaitai, or xie) has become the
focal point for discussions about sexuality in Taiwan, alongside...
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Cinema of Disillusionment: Chen Guofu, Cai Mingliang, and Taiwan's Second New Wave
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 435–454.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Hsiu-Chuang Deppman This essay is a study of Chen Guofu and Cai Mingliang, two prominent Taiwan directors whose work in the 1980s helped shape the Second New Wave movement. More recently, Chen's 1998 The Personals and Cai's 2002 What Time Is It There? broke new ground by developing controlled...
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A New Taiwan Person? A Conversation with Wu Nien-chen
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 717–734.
Published: 01 August 2003
...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...
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Limits of Visibility: Taiwan's Tongzhi Movement in Mickey Chen's Documentaries
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 683–701.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Guo-Juin Hong This article examines Mickey Chen's queer documentaries and their tactics of subversion, especially in his representation of both positive and negative images and in his formal strategies of mimicking mainstream media. Issues of “visibility” permeate the general landscape...
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The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 287–314.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Junnan Chen Abstract This essay probes the understudied relationship between the hypermediated urban environment and the coding of femininity in the late 1960s and 1970s Japan. Through reading Ōshima Nagisa's Man Who Left His Will on Film ( 1970 ), this essay explores the unique gender dynamics...
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One Life for Sale: Youth Culture, Labor Politics, and New Idealism in China
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 515–543.
Published: 01 August 2015
... by engaging in affective labor but also creating a “new idealism”—a sense of hope for their future rooted in commercial activity and conditioned by state supervision that results in the formation of new subjectivities. This article provides a close reading of Chen Xiao's story, a young unemployed college...
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Readymade Mao: Impersonation and Affective Relations
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 789–812.
Published: 01 November 2016
... with the financial support of his wife and family; and Chen Yan, a fifty-one-year-old “housewife” from Sichuan Province who is the only female Mao impersonator in China. Zhang's coverage of her life both onstage and off parallels a television interview with her that reveals the personal struggle she has with her...
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Why Must We Talk About the Environment? A Summary of Nanshan Seminar
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positions (2004) 12 (1): 237–246.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Han Shaogong; Huang Ping; Li Shaojun; Li Tuo; Wang Hongsheng; Wang Xiaoming; Chen Sihe; Chen Yangu 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Translated by Yan Hairong Why Must We Talk about the Environment? A Summary of Nanshan Seminar
Signatories: Han Shaogong, Huang Ping, Li Shaojun, Li...
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Java in Discord: Unofficial History, Vernacular Fiction, and the Discourse of Imperial Identity in Late Ming China (1574–1620)
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 623–652.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and diplomatic exchange enabled the authors to lament and condemn the executed pirates Wang Zhi and Chen Zuyi. The four authors imbue their narratives with personal anxieties and nationalistic sentiments. While the historical narratives tend to moralize and idealize China’s tributary world order, the vernacular...
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Multiethnicity and Multilingualism in the Minor Literature of Manchukuo
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 341–362.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Yue Chen Although claimed as a nation-state, with a government, a territory, and citizenry, Manchukuo (1932–1945) is a colony of the Empire of Japan, appropriated from Northeast China. As such, Manchukuo’s literary identity complicates the relationship between nationalism and literature, inviting...
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In the Realm of the Indigenous: Local, National, and Global Articulations in Fishing Luck
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 643–653.
Published: 01 August 2009
... feature film directed by award-winning Taiwanese woman director Tseng Wen-Chen. While contributing to the slowly growing canon of Taiwanese cinema, an industry historically dwarfed by the Hollywood machine, this essay examines how the film perpetuates notions of primitivism in cinema in its effort...
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Why Does Queer Theory Need China?
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 291–320.
Published: 01 May 2010
...” or “poststructuralist” turn, the historical transformation of the political signifier of “China” already provided an occasion for a critical theory of the subject for queer Chinese writers. Beginning with a close reading of Chen Ruoxi's Paper Marriage , one of the earliest full-length queer novels in Chinese...
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Remade in China: Rule of Law, Democracy, and the Chinese 12 Angry Men
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Thomas Chen Abstract Against the background of the growing effort in the Xi Jinping era to sinicize democracy and rule of law, much critical attention has surrounded Chinese models of governance variously conceived as “humane authority” and “political meritocracy.” What is missing from...
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Metropolis Ecologies: Yin Xiuzhen’s Parallel Cities
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 145–175.
Published: 01 February 2020
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Gendered Globality as a Cold War Framework: International Dimensions of Chinese Female Bodies in the 1960s
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 603–630.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Tina Mai Chen Originally penned by Mao Zedong in 1961 as an inscription on a photograph of female militia, “Bu ai hongzhuang, ai wuzhuang” 不爱红妆爱武 装 (“They love their battle array, not silks and satins”) for many sums up a presumed erasure of femininity in favor of a universalized masculine subject...
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Will Marriage Rights Bring Family Equality? Law, Lesbian Co-Mothers, and Strategies of Recognition in Taiwan
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 551–579.
Published: 01 August 2021
...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...
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The Making of Homo Socialist : The Discursive Analysis of the Ideological Production of Class in China, 1949–1976
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 February 2022
... , translated by Nice Richard . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Chatterjee Partha . 1993 . The Nation and Its Fragments . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Chen Yung-fa . 1986 . Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China,1937–1945...
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Sovereignty, Coinage, and Kinship in Early China
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 637–658.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Jack W. Chen This essay examines the discursive constellation of the concepts of sovereignty, coinage, and kinship from the Warring States Period to the first empires of the Qin and Han dynasties. Drawing upon philosophical texts, including the Lunyu, Mengzi , and Guanzi , as well as historical...
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Positioning positions : A New Internationalist Localism of Cultural Studies
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positions (1994) 2 (3): 680–710.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Kuan-Hsing Chen Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Roundtable
Positioning positions:
A New Internationalist Localism of Cultural Studies
Kuan-Hsing Chen
The following text comes out of a constant search for a position that would...
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