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...Donald M. Nonini Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 “Chinese Society,” Coffee-Shop Talk, Possessing Gods: The Politics of Public Space among Diasporic Chinese in Malaysia Donald M. Nonini Public Spaces, Bodies, Powers Recent discussions...

...Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草 [email protected] Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 In late October 2023, five transnational Chinese queer feminists (including two CAO Collective members) based in North Carolina, Chicago, Santa Cruz, Irvine...

...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...

...Eun Ah Cho Abstract This article examines the humanistic relationship between Korean Chinese and North Korean refugees on the Sino–North Korean border in Zhang Lu's film Dooman River (2010) and delineates how the ethical obligation to “our” people, or brethren ( dongpo ), is removed...

...Yun Li; Rong Rong Through the autobiographical poetry of contemporary Chinese female peasant workers, this article studies how Chinese migrant workers are dis-identified by the identifying hukou system and thus become bodies of non-identity drifting in cities. Driven by the urban desire intrigued...

..., this essay examines the significance of China’s engagement in the heart of Africa. A close reading of the spoken-word drama War Drums on the Equator (1965) reveals the importance of mobilizing “subjugated knowledge” in asymmetrical conflict. Chinese Uhuru: Maoism and the Congo Crisis Alexander C. Cook...

...Tao Yongbai; Elise David This article offers a chronological survey of the development of women’s art in China between 1990 and 2010. Outlining the historical circumstances that first resulted in the dearth of a female consciousness in Chinese art until the end of the twentieth century...

...Sasha Su-Ling Welland Lei Yan 雷燕, whose artistic practice was shaped by a decades-long career in the Chinese military, began a period of transition through participation in a 2002 restaging of the Communist Red Army’s 1934 Long March as a multi-sited international art project. Her resulting...

... with the transnational political implications of Afro-Chinese encounters toward a general theory of personhood. Here, demonstrating personhood's contingency on communicative spatiotemporal contextualization in Afro-Chinese interactions necessitates an exploration of personhood as emergent and emerging within both...

...Pun Ngai Abstract This article anticipates a political project that underlines China's infrastructural capitalism and the infrastructural power of labor in the making of the Chinese working class. This project embarks a re‐departure of the left movement after the Jasic struggle, which inspired...

...Ting-Fai Yu Abstract Based on interviews and ethnographic engagement with Malaysian consumers of post-1990s Chinese-language popular media products (television, film, and music), this article argues that overseas Chinese identity formation may be as much a translocal as a transnational phenomenon...

... and interviews, the article explains how their experiences are a product of tensions between two competing Chinese transnationalisms in Hong Kong against a backdrop of China’s rise. Further unpacking the ways in which mainland students negotiate both nationalist and localist politics through their cross-border...

... official culture. Instead, they foreground the complexity of relations between the individual, community, and the state in China today. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Xiao Hai Picun dagong migrant worker culture battler poetry Chinese...

... spirits associated with the various spaces of the house, and witnessed by all guests. Even though in the latter half of the twentieth century Chinese policies condemned as superstitious many other shibi worship and sacrifice rituals, the house-building rituals have been retained and continue...

... of art production as bifurcated from the remaking of everyday social relations and subjectivities, political and cultural possibilities, and the rural Chinese future. Grounded in a contextual analysis of the social turn in Chinese contemporary art and the lingering “rural problem” under post-socialism...

...Renren Yang Abstract The article deploys the material metaphor of “flat surface” to read the unexpected cross-modal affinities between amateurish cover design and professional storytelling in Chinese web novels. Canvassing the ways visual and verbal artifacts put into play metaphoric associations...

... endeavors to analyze the experiences of this cohort through a case study of skilled trade workers who migrated to the state of Western Australia (WA) from China in the early 2000s. The life trajectories of these workers saw them migrate from villages to cities in China and then from Chinese cities to WA...