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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...

... as they service the emergence of a self-identifying middle class. Becoming woman and becoming class is possibly twee in these coffee-table iterations but is never ultimately a cozy story. Performative female narcissism will conflict with the agency of women in Reform China as they go about the business of making...

... collectors, coffee-shop and cafe proprietors, and critics-might be described as a “marginal” subculture, with its own sense of values, fashions, and modes of speaking. But the jazz community’s marginal status can be overstated- to the point...

... were having a coffee and an interview at a coffee bar in a Haidian mall. It is the kind of space that a variety of migrants in Beijing flock to, where their buying power can supplant the problematic worlds their accents or appearances might otherwise index. She was following a WeChat feed on her phone...

.... When the coffee-­table “technology” dis- plays semi-­naked others, she argues, it risks complicity in reproducing the very ideology that it intends to oppose. Gathered together in a beautifully crafted book, Alloula’s collection...

... business resort that will consist of a nineteen-row building with ninety-eight cottage rooms. The Unimat group makes its money from consumer financing, real estate, and coffee services for offices. In 2001, Youji Takahashi, the CEOof Unimat, was one...

... , Cincinnati , June 18 . ———. 2013 . “Coffee ‘Tied with a Pink Ribbon’: Transgender Phenomena and Transnational Feminisms in Twenty-First Century Ethical Consumer Movements.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 13 , no. 2 . www.academia.edu/4414340/Reconstruction_Vol._13_No...

..., students will start with getting a massage at one of the massage parlors for around five dollars. After a massage, they move onto dinner at one of the nicer sit-down restaurants inside the megamall, followed by coffee at a chain coffee shop. After dinner and coffee, students will relocate...

... such as Phuoc, a family man in his late thirties, who has to travel a long way to take his children to school. I met him at the Truc Bach branch of the popular coffee chain Cộng Cà Phê early one morning. Sipping a đen đá (iced black coffee), he explained that he usually either goes home for lunch or takes...

..., and Time In one scene in Fresh Kill, two of the characters have a cup of coffee in a New York café. The scene begins with a high-angle shot of a coffee cup on a Formica tabletop. A hand pours sugar into a cup. In the next shot...

... a coffee shop holding rats by their tails. “Then the men flung the rats, stilling the roomTheanimals tail-whipped through the air, hitting and rebounding off assorted surfaces and skimming tabletops on their backs, momentum-driven, two lurid furballs...

... the most besmirched. Over coffee, a friend named Ya—who identified as a fallen fuerdai —told me she thought the problem with chaierdai was that they had the money of guanerdai and fuerdai but no real respect for it. “We city people all look down on them for the way they act,” she explained. “We also...

... the content of his story. Since his return to Taipei a couple of years before the narrative present, he has been writing stories in coffee shops. He goes there from nine to five every day, pretending he is working in an office somewhere. He does...

...), primitivism (hill-tribe textiles), In- dochine chic (rattan and white linen), functionalist minimalism (aluminum positions 12:2 Fall 2004 410 coffee filters), and kitsch Orientalism (camouflage ao dai). As with other con...

... 450 duce existential meaning for oneself. Cai interweaves three encounters that show the main characters in their most revealing and most compromising positions. Xiangqi overdoses on French coffee and runs into a woman from...

... apparently desirable to speak of the United States as an empire (usually as a sort of “wake-up-and- smell-the-coffee” admonition to Americans to take stock of their status in the world). Whereas only a few years ago, to suggest that America was an em...

.... The community was well known for its popular restaurants, which specialized in a variety of provincial Chinese cuisines, and for its cozy, European-style coffee shops. At noon, employees from nearby offices habitually swarmed onto Yungkang Street to buy...

... practitioner, he still worked with his family cultivating rice, coffee, and cassava. Contrary to narratives of traditional medicine's resistance to biomedical colonization elsewhere (Wahlberg 2006 ), these healers expressed a desire for more government support and recognition. But why this difference...

... and restrictive, liberating and highly exhausting. He described needing to drink coffee to stay awake in school. Waking up early was a commonly mentioned aspect of CBS: My son got up around 6:05. Some people asked me, why your kid gets up at 6:05 a.m. Most of the kids have to get up at 5:30 in the morning...

... in a local factory over the summer to “practice her learned skills” but was repeatedly told that no girl would be employed. Having no way to gain discipline-related work experience, she “reluctantly” took a part-time job in a coffee shop near her home. To her surprise, the summer job “did not involve any...