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From Violated Girl to Revolutionary Woman: The Politics of Sexual Difference from China to North Korea
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 631–657.
Published: 01 August 2020
...-down, often paternalistic measures, such policies were carried out ostensibly to elevate women’s status as a form of state feminism professing equality for the sexes. Comparing North Korea with China, this article explores how communist feminisms attempted to tackle the dilemma of sexual difference...
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A Utopia of Self-Reliance: Dazhai and the Mutation of Global Capitalism in Maoist China
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 756–788.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Young Ji Lee This essay examines Maoist China and its deep engagement with local/global capitalism during the Cold War period. It analyzes how the socialist realist utopian images of self-reliant Dazhai, a model village in Shanxi, contributed to the domestic and international image of Maoist China...
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Reforming Bodies and Minds: Anticommunism and Transforming Political Enemies in Nationalist China
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 789–814.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Brian Tsui This article revisits reformatories set up under Nationalist China from 1928–37 to transform former Communists into loyal nationalist subjects. By examining confessions attributed to inmates and scandalous tales of Communists published by reformatories, it argues that these institutions...
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Entrepreneurs of the National Past: The Discourse of Ethnic Indigeneity and Indigenous Cultural Writing in China
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 423–450.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Yanshuo Zhang Abstract This article probes a long‐overlooked concept in modern China—ethnic indigeneity—to propose new ways of looking at the relationship between the Chinese nation and its multiethnic minority groups. The Western scholarly community has long held that because the Chinese state...
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To Confront the Totality: A Critique of Empiricism in the Historiography of the People's Republic of China
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 719–758.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and essence, would not displace careful empirical investigation but deepen it by revealing the full complexity of the sources. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 People's Republic of China social theory mass society neoliberalism cultural turn When a discovery occasions...
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Rethinking the Political Economy of Development in Mao's China
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 809–834.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Covell F. Meyskens Abstract This article examines two theoretical frameworks used to evaluate Maoist development. The first is based on neoclassical economic theory, and the second is rooted in the idea that the Chinese Communist Party made China into a state capitalist regime. Both...
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Breaking with the Family Form: Historical Categories, Social Reproduction, and Everyday Life in Late 1950s Rural China
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 869–894.
Published: 01 November 2021
... to investigate the emergence of categories and social forms from the real material limits and tendencies of a rapidly changing PRC society. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 production social reproduction everyday life rural China theory/history Historians have crossed over the 1949...
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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
...Xiuying Cheng Abstract Based on a critique of the history project titled “Oral History of Peasants’ Ordinary Life in the Revolutionary Era of China,” this article provides an analysis of class ideology production from Land Reform Movement to the Cultural Revolution in China. Thirty years...
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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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Shanzhai: Creative Imitation of China in Highland Myanmar
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 895–921.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Hans Steinmüller Abstract The Wa State of Myanmar is often called “shanzhai China,” that is, a lesser imitation of China. This essay unpacks the material and symbolic implications of creative imitation at the Chinese periphery, embodied in shanzhai 山寨 practices. Literally “mountain fortress...
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Semantics of Tea Drinking: Online Writing and the Shaping of Counter-public Spheres in Xi Jinping's China
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 865–893.
Published: 01 November 2022
... corpus of online texts presenting firsthand accounts of bei hecha experiences to explore questions of everyday governance and governmentality in contemporary China. Adopting a text–based approach to matters conventionally pertaining to the realm of political science, it argues for an understanding...
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Crazy English: Nation Strengthening and the Changing Politics of Neoliberal Selfhood in Reform-Era China
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 143–169.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Anna Iskra Abstract Since the late 1990s, China has experienced an explosion of popular interest in English language study. This nationwide “English fever” reflects how, with the global spread of neoliberal doctrines that were gradually adopted by Chinese governments, English was naturalized...
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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
... and starring Henry Fonda. As there is no jury system in China, 12 Citizens instead presents the scenario as a law school mock trial on Anglo-American law, with crucial elements indigenized to the local setting. In one masterly maneuver after another, the remake overturns the democratic tenor of the original...
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The Production of Everyday Space for Workers: The New Village Movement in China, 1919–1936
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Qian Zhu Abstract The idea of a “new village” first emerged in the years 1919–20 and was widely discussed by Chinese intellectuals, who advocated for its humanitarian and social justice purposes and its goal of constructing a new society. This article focuses on the new village movement in China...
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Proletarian White and Working Bodies in Mao's China
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positions (2003) 11 (2): 361–393.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Tina Mai Chen 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Proletarian White and Working Bodies in Mao’s China
Tina Mai Chen
Infused with the spirit of May Fourth critique of the enfeebled Chinese
body politic of the past, a young Mao Zedong joined the chorus...
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“Gender” Trouble: Feminism in China under the Impact of Western Theory and the Spatialization of Identity
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 31–54.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Nicola Spakowski Over the past ten to fifteen years, feminism in China has been marked by three closely related characteristics. The first is the introduction of “Western” feminism with “gender” as the core of theory import. The second is the articulation of the “trouble” this import of Western...
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Benjamin, Studying, China: Toward a Universal “Universism”
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Peter Fenves The essay begins by showing that Benjamin had a diffuse yet intense interest in Chinese thought and literature during his student years, when he read and discussed a range of Chinese texts, from Laozi’s to Gu Hongming’s. The culmination of his youthful studies of China occurs with his...
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“Living Capital” (Shengming Ziben), Vital Statistics, and National Economics in China, 1912 – 1937
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 351–387.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Malcolm Thompson This article tracks how China’s population came to be practically measurable, not just in terms of its size and distribution but in terms of its dynamics, and how the determination of these dynamics inscribed the population into a broad reorganization of economic governmentality...
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The Ones Who Struck Out:: Entrepreneurialism, Heroin Addiction, and Historical Obsolescence in Reform Era China
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 423–449.
Published: 01 August 2018
... as entrepreneurs from the country’s recent past contributes to broader discussions of experiences of marginalization among workers in China and beyond. Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 China heroin reform hysteresis entrepreneurialism References Anagnost Ann . 1997 . National...
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The Neoliberal Production of a “Culture of Poverty” in a Korean Migrant Enclave in Northeast China
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 516–546.
Published: 01 August 2018
... migrants in Northeast China, whose labor is no longer demanded in Korea’s neoliberal restructuring processes and who try their luck in China’s uncertain but fast-growing economy. In Seotap, a Korean migrant enclave in Shenyang, South Korean sojourners, who mostly engage in the unstable service sector, have...
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