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Beyond Bias: Critical Analysis and Layered Reading of Mao-Era Sources
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 759–782.
Published: 01 November 2021
... is more important than which they keep and which they throw away. She advocates for a layered approach that accounts for contexts of production and circulation, and further emphasizes the need to make this process of reading sources visible in our writing. A critical, layered reading of three unlikely...
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Between History and Phantasmagoria: Critical Nostalgic Lyricism in Alai's Poetry and Short Fiction
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 601–621.
Published: 01 August 2024
... and construct a symbolic Tibetan ethnicity. This article proposes that Alai's nostalgic lyricism critically reflects on the inversion of loss and the compensation of lack, thus articulating alternatives against the discontent of the present. In so doing, Alai formulates a minority position against the forces...
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Critical Mediations: Haewŏn Chinhon Kut , a Shamanic Ritual for Korean “Comfort Women”
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 725–754.
Published: 01 August 2013
... 2013 Critical Mediations:
Haewo˘n Chinhon Kut, a Shamanic Ritual for Korean “Comfort Women”
David J. Kim
A Promise
Oh you restless and wronged spirits, who even before the blossoming of youth were
dragged to a far away country by soft lies...
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Critical Warps: Facticity, Transformative Knowledge, and Postnationalist Criticism in the Smithsonian Controversy
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 779–809.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Lisa Yoneyama Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Critical Warps: Facticity, Transformative Knowledge, and Postnationalist Criticism in
the Smithsonian Controversy
Lisa Yoneyama
The exhibition by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum...
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The Avant-Garde Is Dead, Long Live the (Pop) Avant-Garde! Critical Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Theatre
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1127–1157.
Published: 01 November 2012
... to the condition of Chinese society in times of market economy and cultural commoditization. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Avant-Garde Is Dead, Long Live the (Pop) Avant-Garde!
Critical Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Theatre
Rossella Ferrari
The Avant-Garde...
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Spirits with Morality: Social Criticism and Notions of a Good Life in Laos through the Bangbot Imaginary
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 191–208.
Published: 01 February 2024
... precepts of Lao Buddhism deep in the jungle, far from human settlements, tying morality to undisturbed, remote forests. The article argues that this connection of morality with deep forest enables criticism and narratives about the good life at a time when “turning land into capital” is materializing...
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Triangulating an Ethos: Ethical Criticism, Novel Alterity, and Mori Ōgai's “Stereoscopic Vision”
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 259–285.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and ethical problems of perspective raised by the act of narration itself, that also epitomized the strengths of the genre for Ōgai. His work throughout his career engages readers in moving stories of ethically complex interactions, while at the same time demanding a reflexive critical consciousness...
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PRC Cultural Studies and Cultural Criticism in the 1990s
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positions (1998) 6 (1): 239–251.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Wang Hui Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Commenta ry
PRC Cultural Studies and Cultural Criticism in the 1990s
Wang Hui
In September of 1994, under the sponsorship of Dushu IReading] magazine,
a conference was held in Beijing...
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Oyama and Anxieties About the Feminization of Japanese Film
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 371–402.
Published: 01 May 2014
... a sense that their performance was deficiently feminine. Although not denying the relevance of this consensus view, my article explores the issue from a different angle. I consider how criticism of the oyama was often expressed in terms that highlighted the excess of femininity that was thought to accrue...
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Interstitial Movements in the Works of Hanada Kiyoteru: A Preliminary Study
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 781–808.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Ken Yoshida This is a study of Hanada Kiyoteru, a communist literary and art critic whose position in the world of postwar art criticism has gone relatively unexamined in Japanese studies and art history in English. One of the more aggressive critical figures during the immediate postwar era, he...
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A Collective Fantasia of the Financial Age in Early 1990s China: Erotic-Speculative Sensation, Neoliberal Labor Heroine, and Presentist Worldly Wisdom
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 573–600.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Yu Zhang Abstract When the notion of “finance” reentered ordinary Chinese people's lives since the “Reform and Opening Up,” how were “finance and economics” ( caijing ) perceived and felt? This essay focuses on the mainland critics’ reviews of the “finance-themed” novels by the Hong Kong...
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Rethinking Feminism in Colonial Korea: Kang Kyǒngae and 1930s Socialist Women's Literature
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 947–985.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Sunyoung Park In the early 1930s, a new group of women writers with a leftist inclination emerged on the Korean literary scene. Some critics have questioned the feminist commitment of these writers, suggesting that their works may have subordinated the cause of women's liberation...
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Voice, Liveness, Digital Video: The Talking Head in Contemporary Independent Chinese Documentary
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 489–515.
Published: 01 May 2014
...”) and mediated distance (the reflexive consideration of such a practice). It is critical to any genealogy of independent documentary in the People's Republic of China. In turn, sound practice, and particularly direct sound, is critical to xianchang . Analyzing the use of talking heads in early independent...
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American Academic Freedom and Chinese Nationalism: An H-Asia Debate
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 41–48.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of the posts, critical of the MIT students, quickly framed the debate as Chinese nationalism vs. US academic freedom. They implied that the MIT Chinese students were motivated by Chinese nationalism because of the Chinese Communist Party's indoctrination. According to those critics, the MIT Chinese students...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Christine Hong As an introduction to the special issue of positions: asia critique on the unending Korean War, this opening essay calls critical attention to the war's temporal contours, shifting focus from the question of the Korean War's origins that bedeviled Korean studies throughout the Cold...
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Reproductive Labor at the Intersection of Three Intimate Industries: Domestic Work, Sex Tourism, and Adoption
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 45–69.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Nicole Constable This article explores, ethnographically and critically, migrant women's contributions to three intersecting sectors of “intimate industries” in Asia: domestic work, sex tourism, and adoption. These three sectors are normally understood as separate and distinct, and in the cases...
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Antinomies of Total War
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positions (2009) 17 (1): 97–125.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Takeshi Kimoto At a critical time in the Asia-Pacific war, the second generation of the Kyoto School of philosophy engaged in a discourse of war represented as Sekaishi-teki tachiba to Nihon ( The World Historical Position and Japan ) (1943). This book consists of three roundtable discussions...
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Sustaining Jouissance : Commercial and Heian Modes of Intertextuality in Tanka by Tawara Machi
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 629–659.
Published: 01 August 2008
.... Roland Barthes's analysis of fashion discourse provides a specific critical apparatus for situating Heian poetics and consumer discourse on common ground. I borrow his insights on how classes of commodities and language concerning their uses enter into creative cross-referencing, in a way that resembles...
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The Double Scission of Mishima Yukio: Limits and Anxieties in the Autofictional Machine
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 145–169.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Gavin Walker As an author, a figure, and as an author who relied on figurations of himself as a primary device, Mishima Yukio (1925–1970) has existed in a complex relationship to criticism and literary history. Criticism of Mishima's work and life has often taken for granted the network...
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Liquid Area Studies: Northeast Asia in Motion as Viewed from Mount Geumgang
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 209–239.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Tessa Morris-Suzuki Area studies has always been controversial. Over the decades, the field has been criticized for lacking theoretical rigor and accused of complicity with the political agendas of the Cold War. More recently, controversy has tended to focus on the notion of “area” itself...
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