... recognized by the empire — but as daughter of the empire. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Dying as a Daughter of the Empire Helen J. S. Lee Between the Metropole and the Colony The kminka era (1937 – 45) is commonly described as a period of total mobi...

... in a position to conflict with each other but also shows the recurring themes of domestic women's conflicts in new fiction. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Enlightened Daughter, Benighted Mother: Yi Injik’s Tears of Blood and Early Twentieth-­Century Korean Domestic Fiction Yoon Sun Yang...

... marriage but to resolve the tension between the demands of “Indian tradition” on middle-class young women and their desire for a selfhood inflected by neoliberal discourses of autonomy. This dichotomy is symbolized in the novels in the tension between mothers and daughters and plays out primarily across...

... gaige, which aims to cultivate well-rounded individuals with a spirit of innovation. The first story I will analyze concerns a teenager, an achieving student, who murdered his own mother. The second concerns a father, a factory worker, who transformed his disabled daughter into a genius child. While...

... needs children have been placed in foreign homes. This article highlights the efforts that take place in China to transform unwanted disabled and ill children into internationally desirable daughters and sons. I draw upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork in four medical foster homes in China run...

... husband and daughter who do not approve of her impersonating Mao and refuse to support her. Zhang's documentary raises several important questions about the continuing “cult of personality” of Mao Zedong as a cultural icon, and the mixed feelings he stirs up in different generations of common people when...

... murderous impulses from his mother and kills to reclaim the jewels he makes. The jeweler forbids his Japanese apprentice from marrying his daughter, fearing her blood is contaminated as well. After the apprentice takes the blame for his master’s crimes, a painter attempts to understand his motivations...

... appropriately represents Soon Hyo and her daughter, Beccah, as Princess Pari in order to remember the victims of Japanese military sexslavery and to guidethespiritsofcomfortwomentothenextworld.Kellernotonlyportrays her protagonists as Princess Pari...

... talked about their case, she will clamp down and refuse to let him see their daughter every few months. It is tense, and he feels like he is walking on thin ice, so he has to be careful to hide anything that might jeopardize the fragile informal agreement he has built. Anne is a white American...

... release in 1935, for example, compares and contrasts what the central women characters represent: Zhang Xiuzhen is a college graduate (undoubtedly the daughter of a capitalist family), but she...

... to provide a substantial sum for her brother's marriage. As an affectionate father, on the other hand, Mr. Zhang is keen to see his daughter in a respectable and financially solid alliance that may lead to conventional and proper motherhood. To him, marriage is the only possible shelter from the “leftover...

..., as well as with materialistic rationalities of profit making. The wedding organizer who marries his or her cousin to a South Korean man is both a businessperson and a cousin; the com- mune cadre with a daughter who marries a Taiwanese man is both...

... couldn't help her either. A married daughter was like spilled water. Her parents couldn't take her back home because they themselves were growing old and needed other people's care. They preferred to keep her out of sight, out of mind. When will Mumi, like a little boat floating in an ocean of people, find...

... Evelyn “Baby” Guzman who is young enough to be his daughter.26 Two years later, her father marries his mistress in an illegal ceremony because Milagros refuses to grant him a divorce. With the help of her sister Fely, Milagros struggles to raise...

... household was formed-economic dependence, inferior status, political weakness-he specified how much was given, but not who-servant or natural or adopted son or daughter-received it.10 Unconcerned with kin- ship issues, Smith did...

... was the sole legal basis for validating all personal status. Notably, the requirements for heirs were more restrictive in South Korea than in Japan, where the system originated; daughters could not inherit the position of the household head in Korea. The pressure to acquire male heirs was only exacerbated...

... (subway, taxi, or ferry) to do the work of unveiling the city in motion. Every arrival is also a departure, and the film's soundtrack negotiates the relationship between Belgium and New York. It consists entirely of excerpts of letters her mother, Nelly, sent Akerman during her daughter's first summer...

... she takes leave of her parents At sunset she camps beside the Yellow River She does not hear them calling for their daughter But rather only the river’s crashing current At dawn she leaves the Yellow River...