... of Bidding Farewell to All Gods: The ‘Fin-de-siecle’ Confrontation in Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory”. Literature and Art Gazette (Wenyi bao) (Beijing), 16 November, p. 3. Iggers , George G. 1983 . The German Conception of History: The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder...

...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...

...Boreth Ly This essay considers the significant role that Engaged Buddhism plays in contemporary art of Southeast Asia. It argues that this modern Buddhist intellectual movement, which came about in the 1960s in Southeast Asia as a response to political crisis in the world, merits visibility...

... by Duke University Press 2012 Rusting AIDS poster, Vinh City: “Drug addiction is a path to death.” Photo by Christina Schwenkel From “the People” to “the Human”: HIV/AIDS, Neoliberalism, and the Economy of Virtue in Contemporary Vietnam Alfred Montoya Tri scooted...

... of government shape one another in contemporary Vietnam. This focus, which considers the material consequences of different discursive positions, reveals a curious paradox. Namely, the dominant regulatory approaches in use today define the primary source of bureaucratic corruption and thus the forms...

... Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Traversing Thresholds — A Showcase of Contemporary Art from Across Asia — Curated and Conceptualized by Maya Kóvskaya As positions moves to consider all of “Asia,” the contemporary art world...

...Rossella Ferrari The article examines the trope of the “death of the avant-garde” in the context of contemporary Chinese theatre. It addresses comparable “death discourses” such as the so-called theatre crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s and critiques of “pseudo avant-gardism” that have been...

...Luke Robinson This article addresses the use of the human voice in contemporary Chinese independent documentary in relation to xianchang . Broadly analogous to the Anglophone concept of “liveness,” xianchang is a shooting practice that interrogates questions of immediacy (being “on the scene...

... of the New Economic Human: The Entrepreneurial Biography in Contemporary China Chi-­she Li and Tsung-­yi Michelle Huang In the early phase of economic reform in China during the eighties, the state initiated policies such as establishing state-­owned enterprises...

... University Press 2015 youth labor new generation spec generation education market manager mothers postcapitalist politics South Korea The Spec Generation Who Can’t Say “No”: Overeducated and Underemployed Youth in Contemporary South Korea Cho Hae-joang­ On a cold...

...Michael Fisch This article explores the discourses and realities surrounding life and labor in contemporary Japan through a keitai (smartphone) game entitled Days of Love and Labor (Ai to rōdō no hibi). While promising players a simulated employment experience in order to reflect on the possibility...

... of Cute: Net Idols, Cute Culture, and the Digital Economy in Contemporary Japan Gabriella Lukacs Ebihara Yuri, an uncontested epitome of “cute” in Japan,1 made a thought-­ provoking connection between cute and labor when she claimed, “If some...

...Rosalind C. Morris Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing the Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Thailand Rosalind C. Morris All archetypes are spurious but some...

...Dai Jinhua Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Invisible Women: Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Women‘s Film Dai Jinhua Dai Jinhua is one of the outstanding younger scholars of the new generation of Chinese...

...Sheila Miyoshi Jager Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 A Vision for the Future; or, Making Family History in Contemporary South Korea Sheila Miyoshi Jager In the bright hours of a cool April afternoon, a group of Seoul National...

... Raghavan, or Dibakar Banerjee, extending to innovative independent ventures associated with figures like Ashim Ahluwalia, Pawan Kumar, or Q. On the one hand, such endeavors often flaunt the influence of contemporary world cinema accessed through new cinephilic networks. On the other hand, they claim...

...Lei Guang 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Rural Taste, Urban Fashions: The Cultural Politics of Rural/Urban Difference in Contemporary China Lei Guang Speaking of workers and peasants, the workers have relatively more cultureWe can’t say...

...Reiko Tomii 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Historicizing “Contemporary Art”: Some Discursive Practices in Gendai Bijutsu in Japan Reiko Tomii We now reach a point at which we should not relegate gendai into the generic concept of contemporain...

...Alice Ming Wai Jim 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Urban Mediations in Hong Kong Contemporary Art: Notes on A Very Good City and Local Orientation Alice Ming Wai Jim Over the last decade, contemporary art in Hong Kong, informed by travel- (ing...

...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...