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... texts such as the Shang shu, Shi ji , and Han shu , I will argue that the foundational narrative for the emergence of coinage in China was inextricable from theories of both sagely and tyrannical sovereignties — an ideological ambivalence that was reflected in the discourse on coinage itself. The coin...

... body, and “stuplime” (coined by Sianne Ngai) farce are among the formal innovations occasioned by the digital maelstrom of informatic capital. Taken together these indicate a transformed terrain of domination and struggle—one that requires an attention to regional specificity as well...

... markers of poverty, which have been coined and widely narrated along with the very scheme. Importantly, however, their action does not just end up with a makeshift delineation of the other poor but also marks the embodiment of what they blame. The author’s ethnography brings to light how precarious...

...John Whittier Treat Pinkwashing and homonationalism are recent terms coined to describe the identification of sexual minorities with the neoliberal state; the former is usually used to critique certain policies within the State of Israel meant to promote its society as tolerant of diversity...

... gradually eliminated private monies while simultaneously adopting new printing technologies to mass produce notes with standardized images. The powers to coin and validate money within a speci cally de ned territory eventually came to be regarded...

..., then, is the text of “Counterfeit Money”: As we were leaving the tobacconist’s, my friend carefully separated his change; in the left pocket of his waistcoat he slipped small gold coins; in the right, small silver coins; in his left trouser pocket...

... even as Zhao redeploys them for his own purposes. In addition to ink stones, Zhao also collects copper coins and bronze mir- rors and at one point tries to give Zhuang a couple of old coins as a gift, but when Zhuang notices...

.... The atypicality or singularity, in Chinese history lies in the ancient coin’s trilateral signification. Not only did “heads” indicate sovereignty and “tails” value but a third element, what Chen calls “the moral ideology of kinship,” set up an agonistic...

... to the ideas and undertakings of the thinkers and actors who supported both a conception of democracy and imperialism as if they were two sides of the same coin.8 Analogously, we could say that one of Avenell’s objectives in the Japan Forum article...

..., 1960. What is so significant about the image of Asanuma's stabbing is the fact that it merges the crucial moment of photography (“the decisive moment,” as coined by Henri Cartier-Bresson [ 1952 ] in Images à la sauvette ) and the instant of killing—the critical moment of death. Although...

... all forms of subversive and creative tactics to fiercely resist the establish- ment. Social commentators coined terms such as new generation, generation i(ndividual), and generation n(et) to describe these young people. Refusing to follow...

... and poetics, responsibility and remembering, imagination as a means of compassion, the poet and her loyal critic ask readers to see in the postmemory of diasporic people a generalizable or universal ethic. Coining a resonant term, “the latter-­day...

... . de Haan Francisca . 2010 . “ Continuing Cold War Paradigms in Western Historiography of Transnational Women’s Organisations: The Case of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) .” Women’s History Review 19 , no. 4 : 547 – 73 . Farley Lin . 2017 . “ I Coined the Term...

..., mosquitoes, malcontents, do hereby defy the Ching emperor. Boarding decrepit ships of foreign name and dubious claim, we scrape, beg, or borrow silver coins, sacks...

...- ble times that leads to this double-sided portrait being purchased and dis- played? Which side of this “Maoist coin” is favored in the act of display, or is the very “double-sidedness” itself a tactic, designed deliberately to capture...

... in succession: for each picture, you select whether you think the person is Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. When I took the test recently, I guessed correctly four out of eighteen times, and I received the score “Hopeless, you might as well toss a coin...

... marriages in one rural locality in Korea or Vietnam is a repetition of a global pattern sweeping across Asia. This worldwide pattern will confirm that the rural is being globally reconstituted with other ruralities, not just the omnipresent “urban.” Fractal is a mathematical concept coined by Benoit...

..., a series of imagined and real stories appeared about newborn babies abandoned by their mothers in coin lockers at pub- lic places such as train stations. (Sixty-eight cases were reported between positions 2:3 Winter 1994...

.... In literary as opposed to ideological terrains, the phenomenon of Sinifica- tion takes a different route. It no longer perceives itself as a mere strategy. The concept of “self-positioning’’ is not resolved in the coining of trendy slo- gans, nor...

..., cloth was a principal source of tax revenue and regularly substituted for corvee labor. The Nara government had ear- lier made efforts to stimulate the circulation of copper coins as a means of payment, but “their use was limited largely...