...Matthew Chew 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 The Dual Consequences of Cultural Localization: How Exposed Short Stockings Subvert and Sustain Global Cultural Hierarchy Matthew Chew The clothes worn by contemporary urban Chinese should not appear unfa...

...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...

... 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...

...Ackbar Abbas Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Last Emporium: Verse and Cultural Space Ackbar Abbas 1 Living in interesting times, as the old Chinese adage tells us, is a dubious advamage. Interesting times are periods...

...Laikwan Pang In this article I first relate and analyze the overall development of cultural policy and the intellectual property rights (IPR) legal structure in China, in order to show how China's policy and its legal environment increasingly adapt to global conditions. I then use Lijiang...

...Harry Harootunian; Naoki Sakai Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Dialogue Japan Studies and Cultural Studies Harry Harootunian and Naoki Sakai The Crisis of Japan Studies in the United States Naoki Sakai: For the last decade or so we have seen...

...Peter Nickerson 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 A Poetics and Politics of Possession: Taiwanese Spirit-Medium Cults and Autonomous Popular Cultural Space Peter Nickerson My intent in this essay is to discuss cults of spirit possession and healing...

...Alessandro Russo Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The Probable Defeat: Preliminary Notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution Alessandro Russo What makes it so difficult to discover any rational content in the Chinese Cultural...

...Shuyu Kong Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 ?39 Commentary Swan and Spider Eater in Problematic Memoirs of Cultural Revolution Shuyu Kong In the last fifteen...

...Tim Oakes Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Bathing in the Far Village: Globalization, Transnational Capital, and the Cultural Politics of Modernity in China Tim Oakes Bathing in the Far Village In the summer of 1996 I was browsing through a chic...

...Wenqing Kang Abstract This article is part of a larger research project that traces the history of male same‐sex relations in China during the Mao era, a topic on which virtually no scholarship is currently available. The Chinese government named the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) “ten years...

...Tonglin Lu 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Fantasy and Ideology in a Chinese Film: A Žižekian Reading of the Cultural Revolution Tonglin Lu The history of the Cultural Revolution, a traumatic event in the collective life of the Chinese people...

...Mary Ann O'Donnell Duke University Press 2006 Attracting the World’s Attention: The Cultural Supplement in Shenzhen Municipality Mary Ann O’Donnell The Cultural Supplement Consider the following comments made by two Shenzhen cultural workers...

...Weihua Wu; Xiying Wang Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Cultural Performance and the Ethnography of Ku in China Weihua Wu and Xiying Wang In the summer of 2005, we returned to Beijing, a city where we had studied and lived for nearly...

...Zhang Huiyu; Federico Picerni Abstract Over the past few years, China's cultural landscape has seen the emergence of several authors from among its migrant laborers, or “new workers.” Fan Yusu and Xu Lizhi are the most representative. Their literary production, which draws on their personal...

... Saigon . Oakland : University of California Press . Harvey David . 1989 . The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell . Hoang Kimberly Kay . 2014 . “Flirting with Capital: Negotiating Perceptions of Pan-Asian...

...” that was used by both cultural conservatives as well as the pure film movement, which pushed for Hollywood-style reforms. Mukōjima defended heterogeneity as inevitable, given the ongoing process of modernization, and the forms of cultural mixture, conflict, and contradiction it produced. Its kakushin (reform...

...Jeffrey Santa Ana Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions Jeffrey Santa Ana The current era of war, militarism, and neocolonialism in the Pacific...

..., and between the United States and Japan. Especially in the long postwar period, these songs have invoked memories of the past and dreams for the future in making politically significant present-day claims. Duke University Press 2009 Memory and Music in Okinawa: The Cultural Politics of War and Peace...

... writing as emerging queer cultural production by framing it within progressive discourses of inclusion, but find that the explicit content of Hung's stories at best only rests uneasily within such a framework and therefore propose limited but significant reservations about Hung's queer, feminist...