...Lydia H. Liu Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Translingual Practice: The Discourse of Individualism between China and the West Lydia H. Liu The meaning of a word is its use in the language.-Wittgenstein The concept...

...Tani E. Barlow Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 cdeddsm‘s Career in Postwar China Studies Tani E. Barlow Robert Hall wrote in 1948, musing over plans for postwar regional studies: “a national obligation [exists] which must...

...Judith B. Farquhar; James L. Hevia Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 References Alexander , Jeffrey , and Steven Seidman, eds. 1990 . Culture and Society . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Barlow , Tani E. 1993 . “Colonialism's Career in Postwar China...

...Prasenjit Duara Bifurcating linear History: Nation and Histories in China and India Prasenjit Duara In a certain astonishing way, the practice and pedagogy of history remain fundamentally rooted in the ideology of the nation-state. History, simply...

...Norman A. Spencer “Ten Years of Queer Cinema in China” is a photo memoir with twenty photographs and commentary that documents two important cultural events rarely mentioned in US discussions of Chinese underground cinema. They are the First Chinese Gay and Lesbian Film Festival held at Beijing...

.... But they also do important cultural work. In the context of education reform in late socialist China, the collective interpretation of horror stories provides a moral arena in which truths about how to raise and educate children correctly are produced and naturalized. They constitute negative models, usually...

... texts such as the Shang shu, Shi ji , and Han shu , I will argue that the foundational narrative for the emergence of coinage in China was inextricable from theories of both sagely and tyrannical sovereignties — an ideological ambivalence that was reflected in the discourse on coinage itself. The coin...

...Gao Bingzhong This article narrates how a temple fair worshipping a dragon god, the object of superstition for about sixty years, became an official piece of intangible cultural heritage. This story takes place in three chapters: First, the temple fair as a local tradition was revived after China...

...Mikkel Bunkenborg Classical descriptions of popular religion in China have noted how the pantheon of deities constitutes a celestial administration organized and approached much like a bureaucratic state. While the view of popular religion as a mere reflection of imperial rule seems inadequate...

... Lawyers in the Villages of China Ying Xing Introduction In 1985, the Central Committee and the State Council published the Cen- tral Propaganda Department and Ministry of Justice’s report, Five-Year­ Plan Regarding Disseminating Basic...

... of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to pursue profit. These popular materials invite the public to reconceptualize the relationship between individuals and society and in this sense constitute a significant cultural strategy for governing the population. Tracing the Chinese variations of the global logic...

...Xia Zhang In recent years, China's labor market deregulation and increasing unemployment and underemployment have hit Chinese youth particularly hard. How are Chinese urban youth responding to these new labor conditions? This article argues that they are not only creating new forms of work...

...Fan Yang This article examines three significant moments of the shanzhai discourse in WTO-era China. Literally referring to a “mountain fortress” occupied by antiofficial bandits, shanzhai is a new term for wide-ranging knockoff products and copycat media forms. Often invoking Robin-Hood-like...

...Stephen Uhalley, Jr. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 “Greater China”: The Contest of a Term Stephen Uhalley Jr. What does one call these days the fascinating China-Hong Kong (Macau)- Taiwan Triangle area? Including two of Asia’s...

...Lung-kee Sun Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Review Essay Historians’ Warp: Problems in Textualizing the Intellectual History of Modern China Lung-kee Sun The Autopsy of a Rhetoric American social sciences thinking predating 1975 abounded...

...Wang Hui Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 The Fate of "Mr. Science" in China: The Concept of Science and Its Application in Modern Chinese Thought Wang Hui The wide-ranging application of the concept of science in twentieth-cen...

...Shu-mei Shih Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 The Trope of ”Mainland China” in Taiwan‘s Media Shu-mei Shih Most discussions of cultural forms in Taiwan today need to be contextual- ized in a cultural economy that ineluctably...

...Michael Dutton Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Dreaming of Better Times: ”Repetition with a Difference“ and Community Policing in China Michael Dutton Introduction Zi Zhang asks: “Can one know what the future will hold in ten dynas...

...Diane Dorfman Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Spirits of Reform: The Power of Belief in Northern China Diane Dorfman When Sun Xiulan’s son began having periodic convulsions (choufeng) she called on a spirit healer...

...Xiaoqun Xu Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Discourse on Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Post-Mao China: A Reading of the Journalistic Literature on Women Xiaoqun Xu Since the early 1980s a new genre of writing, called journalistic literature...