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The Child as History in Republican China: A Discourse on Development
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positions (2002) 10 (3): 695–727.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Andrew F. Jones 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 The Child As History in Republican China: A Discourse on Development
Andrew F. Jones
Development is a hard imperative. —Deng Xiaoping
Something of the semicolonial predicament faced by scholars...
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Parental Rights and the Temporality of Attachment: Law, Kinship, and Child Welfare in Japan
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 469–493.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Kathryn E. Goldfarb Abstract This article explores the legal norms and regulatory mechanisms in Japan that structure child welfare placement decisions, focusing specifically on the legal category of “parental rights.” It is suggested that the ways child welfare officers and caregivers understand...
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From the Law of Value Debate to the One-Child Policy in China: On Accounting and Biopolitics
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 9–34.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Malcolm Thompson Abstract This article argues that the origins of the one-child policy beginning in 1980 in China, and its development into the current system of “comprehensive population management,” are to be found not in any unfolding of a statist or authoritarian logic, or within the parameters...
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“Between Mother and Child” (n.d.), caricature by unknown author. Courtesy o...
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in Jiang Qing, the Iconic Anti-icon: Visual Dissection of Female Political Power in Post-Mao People's Republic of China
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Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 9 “Between Mother and Child” (n.d.), caricature by unknown author. Courtesy of The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library's Digital Repository, https://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1291111 (accessed March 1, 2022).
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Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 3 Mother and child with Dakko-chan doll. Courtesy of LIFE Photo Collection.
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Race, Nation, and the Production of Intimacy: Transnational Ova Donation in India
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 303–332.
Published: 01 February 2016
... the ways in which commissioning parents construct relations with the anonymous egg donor—the genetic parent of the child—as well as with the child conceived through egg donation, in-vitro fertilization, and gestational surrogacy, focusing especially on how doctors and commissioning parents understand...
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Rendering Infant Abandonment Technical and Moral: Expertise, Neoliberal Logics, and Class Differentiation in Ho Chi Minh City
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 497–526.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the transnational movement of children reflect both broader neoliberal ideologies of family and selfhood and late socialist anxieties about class differentiation. Child welfare professionals, the media, and casual observers in Ho Chi Minh City explain rising adoption rates as due to the desperation, ignorance...
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Unarticulated Memories of the Battle of Okinawa: The Early Fiction of Second-Generation War Survivor Medoruma Shun
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the frame of second-generation survivorship in order to better reveal the ways in which his narratives contribute to understandings of the Battle of Okinawa and its ongoing effects on survivors. It is Medoruma's experience as the child, grandchild, and relative of numerous survivors of the Battle of Okinawa...
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Producing Global Adoptability of Special Needs Children in China
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 129–154.
Published: 01 February 2016
... industry's presence in China has allowed government authorities to outsource intimate labor to highly resourced foreign groups that are motivated by their own child-saving agendas. This case study illustrates the ethical and material complexities that link commodified processes of global capitalism...
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Queer Existence under Global Governance: A Taiwan Exemplar
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 537–554.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Josephine Chuen-juei Ho Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, Taiwan has prided itself on steady progress toward liberal democracy with an ever-broadening understanding of human rights that now allegedly includes the rights of gays and lesbians. Yet at the same time, under the child-protection...
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The Horrific and the Exemplary: Public Stories and Education Reform in Late Socialist China
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1095–1125.
Published: 01 November 2012
... gaige, which aims to cultivate well-rounded individuals with a spirit of innovation. The first story I will analyze concerns a teenager, an achieving student, who murdered his own mother. The second concerns a father, a factory worker, who transformed his disabled daughter into a genius child. While...
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Mismatched: Intensive Mothering in China's Urban Villages
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 821–846.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of mothers, supported by the state’ s emphasis on scientific child-rearing and the social media boom. Euro-American middle-class mothers, depicted as ideal mothers who abide by expert knowledge and cultivate their children’ s talent accordingly, are represented as counterexamples to traditional Chinese...
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The Time of Poverty and the Image of Refusal
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 307–334.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and tableaux that composes the film's narrative, a spatio-temporal “world” of stories, ideas, and subjects capable of giving rise to the idea of a collectivity whose existence is built upon nothing less than fighting against what the homeless child subjects of the film face daily: the punishing dialectics...
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Sexing the Fetus: Feminist Politics and Method across Cultures
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 7–29.
Published: 01 February 2011
... concern over the “missing” girl child have been associated with the spread of antenatal technologies such as ultrasound testing during pregnancy and their surreptitious use for sex determination and the selective abortion of female fetuses, which is banned by Indian law. This essay attempts to set up...
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“I Can't Do Anything but Wait”: The Lived Experiences of Children of Transnational Migrants in Lombok, Indonesia
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 277–300.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Harriot Beazley; Jessica Ball Abstract This article contributes to debates about the temporal and affective implications of migration in Southeast Asia by presenting child-focused research concerned with children in rural Lombok, Indonesia, who have been “left behind” by their transnational...
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Deportable to Nowhere: Stateless Children as Challenges to State Logics of Immigration Control
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 245–275.
Published: 01 May 2022
... that the figure of the stateless child challenges state logics of immigration control in two ways. First, born in Malaysia but without proper identity documentation or legal status from any nation, stateless youth in the study were “deportable to nowhere.” Second, Malaysian immigration control inadvertently...
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Native Soil of Postmemory and Affective Archives in Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 793–814.
Published: 01 November 2022
... generation's trauma is received by the generation after in the form of family tales, journals, recordings, strained parent‐child relationships, invested sentiments in family bicycles, and even supernatural experiences, the article discusses the way the historical past is invoked as “affective archives...
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Chang-ho's falling body fills the right window, whereas the police and chie...
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in Familiar Strangers: North Koreans as “Dangerous Refugees” and the Crisis of Korean Chinese Community in Zhang Lu's Dooman River (2010)
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1 Chang-ho's falling body fills the right window, whereas the police and chief are included in the left window. Child X is sitting inside the building between two windows, closing his eyes firmly. Courtesy of INDIESTORY Inc.
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Scenes of Misrecognition: Maternal Citizenship in the Age of Transnational Adoption
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positions (2000) 8 (2): 389–421.
Published: 01 May 2000
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race and class must always be constructed for the child,even when they
go unmarked. In constructing a race identity for a child who may not be
racially identified with the parent,this process is made much more explicit.
The object...
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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
... . 2017b . “ Cong ‘xian shen’ dao ‘guanxi’: Taiwan xingbie shehui bianqian yu nv tongzhi qinzi xieshang ” 從「現身」到「關係」:台灣性別社會變遷與女同志親子協商 (“From ‘Visibility’ to ‘Relationality’: Changing Socio-Gender Structure and Lesbian Parent-Child Negotiation in Contemporary Taiwan”). Nvxue xuezhi 女學學誌 ( Journal...
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