...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 of...

...Wasana Wongsurawat “Jews of the Orient,” the infamous and highly polemical article penned by King Vajiravudh Rama VI of Siam and first published in one of the nation's leading newspapers in 1914 has long been employed as the fundamental evidence of the innate anti-Chinese nature of Siam's...

...Richard T. Chu For centuries, dominant groups subjected the Chinese in the Philippines to different forms of identifications as a way to localize them. The Chinese in turn found ways to deflect and manipulate such means of control. Focusing on five films on Chinese Filipinos, this essay describes...

...Andrea Louie 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 When You Are Related to the “Other”: (Re)locating the Chinese Homeland in Asian American Politics through Cultural Tourism Andrea Louie In 1972 eleven college-educated, second- through fourth-generation Chi...

...Eric Reinders 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Blessed Are the Meat Eaters: Christian Antivegetarianism and the Missionary Encounter with Chinese Buddhism Eric Reinders Buddhists in China have traditionally held that not eating meat is a re...

...Tonglin Lu 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Fantasy and Ideology in a Chinese Film: A Žižekian Reading of the Cultural Revolution Tonglin Lu The history of the Cultural Revolution, a traumatic event in the collective life of the Chinese people...

...Gao Minglu 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Commentary The Great Wall in Contemporary Chinese Art Gao Minglu Perhaps the most widely recognized visual symbol of China, the Great Wall has functioned within China as a consistently changing sign...

...Haiyan Lee Duke University Press 2006 Governmentality and the Aesthetic State: A Chinese Fantasia Haiyan Lee Since Michel Foucault proposed the concept of “governmental rationality” or “governmentality” in a series of lectures in the late 1970s, it...

...Emma Jinhua Teng Duke University Press 2006 Eurasian Hybridity in Chinese Utopian Visions: From “One World” to “A Society Based on Beauty” and Beyond Emma Jinhua Teng “Can Mixed-Blood Hybrids Really Improve the Chinese Race?” This pro- vocative...

...Xiaobing Tang Duke University Press 2006 Echoes of Roar, China! On Vision and Voice in Modern Chinese Art Xiaobing Tang First published in the December 1935 issue of Modern Prints, journal of the Modern Prints Society based in Guangzhou, the...

...Ta-wei Chi Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Figure 1  The Chinese characters of female impersonation have also fascinated non-Chinese writers. One example is the French writer George Soulié de Morant, author of the 1925 novel Bijou de ceinture (Pei Yu: Boy Actress, trans...

...Petrus Liu; Lisa Rofel In the introduction to the special issue, the guest editors examine the key issues in the current dialogue on Chinese politics and transnational queer formations. The editors explain the origins of the special volume in a transnational queer conference, emphasizing that the...

...Gail Hershatter Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Subaltern Talks Back: Reflections on Subaltern Theory and Chinese History Gail Hershatter Introduction: Is the Subaltern Portable? For a feminist historian who writes about labor and...

...Yang Huilin Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 To Reverse Our Premise with the Perverse Core: A Response to Žižek’s “Theology” in Chinese Context Yang Huilin Translated by Yizhong Gu In recent years, the interaction between Christian theology and the...

...Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Citizenship, Inheritance, and the Indigenizing of “Orang Chinese” in Indonesia Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. The national motto of Indonesia is Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, roughly translat- able as...

...Christian de Pee 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Premodern Chinese Weddings and the Divorce of Past and Present Christian de Pee The following verses from the Satires by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 b.c.e.) appear as the first epigraph in...

... is like international expositions and museums in peculiar ways; the Chinese paintings in it, devoted to the nation, are paradoxically invisible. In the article I explore how and why, establishing the ways in which painting was newly understood to matter in the modern era. Copyright 2011 by Duke...

...Timothy Yun Hui Tsu This paper examines postwar Japanese experiences of kakyō , or “overseas Chinese,” focusing on three “sites”: the black market, Chinatown, and Kabukichō. It argues that Japanese society assigns to the Chinese immigrant community stereotypical meanings that reflect first and...

...Walter Benjamin Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Benjamin Walter . 1938 . “Peintures chinoises à la Bibliothèque nationale” (“Chinese Paintings at the National Library”) . Revue littéraire mensuelle , no. 15 : 104 – 7 ; repr. in Gesammelte Schriften...

...Emily Wilcox Contrary to the common perception that dance in Mao-era China was dominated by the importation and adaptation of Soviet ballet, examination of historical sources in corroboration with Chinese-language dance scholarship suggests that China’s pre–Cultural Revolution socialist period...