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...Kim Puja 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Commentary Global Civil Society Remakes History: “The Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal 2000” Kim Puja In the last month of the final year of the twentieth century “The Women’s International War...

...Andrew Sartori Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Robert Redfield‘s Comparative Civilizations Project and the Political Imagination of Postwar America And rew Sa rto r i I am convinced that there is no other way strategically to put our country’s mind...

... and interviews collected over three years in Beijing, Chengdu, and Shenyang. Duke University Press 2009 Of Quality, Harmony, and Community: Civilization and the Middle Class in Urban China Luigi Tomba The legitimacy of the post-Mao communist regime has relied on the simulta...

...Tessa Morris-Suzuki Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Commentary Rewriting History: Civilization Theory in Contemporary Japan Tessa Morris-Suzuki There was a time when European historians were a confident breed. They cheerfully...

...” and urban practices, and their eradication from the landscape of urban memory. Visual spectacles of demolition thus signify new aesthetic and economic regimes that link capitalist redevelopment and redesign to the formation of modern, prosperous, and “civilized” cities and citizens. Copyright 2012 by Duke...

...Paul E. Festa Duke University Press 2006 Mahjong Politics in Contemporary China: Civility, Chineseness, and Mass Culture Paul E. Festa The surge of popular nationalism in China following the U.S.-led NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade...

...Andre Gunder Frank Duke University Press 2007 No Civilization/s: Unity and Continuity in Diversity; or, Multilateral and Entropic Paradigms for the World Today and Tomorrow Andre Gunder Frank A Holistic Introduction We are living in confusing and dangerous times...

...Susie Jie Young Kim Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 What (Not) to Wear: Refashioning Civilization in Print Media in Turn-of-the-Century Korea Susie Jie Young Kim On the eve of colonization in 1910, Korea was engulfed by a power strug...

...Leo Ching 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Savage Construction and Civility Making: The Musha Incident and Aboriginal Representations in Colonial Taiwan Leo Ching In 1911 Japanese colonial officials led forty-three selected aboriginal leaders from...

... of “civilization and enlightenment” and the colonialist gaze of the author, a well-known pro-Japanese collaborator. The contradictory interplay between nationalism, colonialism, and the idea of “civilization and enlightenment” splits Tears of Blood into two women's stories: one focusing on a young Korean girl's...

... observation is that beautification, sexual styling, and spiritual/cultural cultivation are consistently linked in narratives of “becoming-woman” in a newly successful genre of aspirational literature, which we are calling “manuals of elite civility.” We argue that these narratives may be understood...

... will show, attests to the plural genealogies of NGO-ness. In addition, the article argues that the genealogy of Ciji illustrates the nuanced relationship between society and the Taiwan “state,” and that Ciji embodies the shifting cultural “state” of civil society in Taiwan. The concept of the “regime...

... anarchists’ struggle to redeem a sense of cosmopolitanism while their lives are engulfed by the turmoil of international and civil wars. Against the backdrop of war, the translation further contextualizes Huang’s historical shift from anarchist politics to his focus on developing a unique theory...

... toward a greener future. Underlying this vision is a conception of shengtai yishi 生态意识 (ecological consciousness) that resonates with the government rhetoric of constructing a shengtai wenming 生态文明 (ecological civilization) in China and beyond. [email protected] Copyright 2024...

... the relationships between indigenous peoples and the nation-state, which claims the territory they inhabit, has rarely been subjected to scholarly scrutiny. This article explores how Penan elders and community members have used and adapted their practice of storytelling to engage with the Malaysian state, civil...

... China and challenging the historical hierarchy of the “civilized” Han center and its “uncultured” non‐Han peripheries. By analyzing locally produced scholarly and touristic discourses, ethnocultural writing, and filming efforts in southwest China, the article proposes that “indigeneity” entails...

... in the new Civil Code of 1960. Multiple legal reforms were attempted since the 1970s to promote domestic adoptions, but change was slow. This article argues that the highly restrictive nature of adoption laws in South Korea produced an adoption regime that existed largely outside of the legal realm. Yet...

... over the collective, civil society over the state, diversity over homogeneity, contingency over necessity, and fragmentation over totality has achieved important advances, but it has also foreclosed essential new directions for research. The article then sketches an alternative approach that does...

... for a forced interrogation. As the everydayness of the expression suggests, this type of state interventions in civil society attests, in Foucault's terms, state power's “capillary form of existence, the point where [it] reaches into the very grain of individuals.” This article makes use of an extraordinary...

... their now demonized other, the bound feet, have been eternally banished. As the modern replacement of the stigmatized bound feet, hands now emerge as the female body part associated with civilization, progress, hygienic modernity, and glamour and grace of intelligent and independent women who embody the new...