... is just such an attempt. I argue here that developmentalism in its contemporary form positions 10:3 Winter 2002 702 must be traced back to discourses of development in the Republican era...

.... Social activism has to begin by taking stock of the workings of language and morality. Translated by Petrus Liu Duke University Press 2010 Commentaries Obstacles to LGBT Human Rights Development in Taiwan Chen Yu-­Rong and Wang Ping In Taiwan, homosexuality has...

... operations. The discursive process often has a transnational reach and tends to follow a political logic that usually only makes sense against the backdrop of the local history. Duke University Press 2010 A City of Ten Years: Public/Private Internet Development in Nanhai Jack Linchuan Qiu...

...Chin Sung Chung Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The Origin and Development of the Military Sexual Slavery Problem in Imperial Japan Chin Sung Chung Introduction It has been nearly fifty years since the end of the Second World War...

... of the Cold War influenced Chinese development. This way of writing the history of the Mao period also overlooks similarities between China and other developmental states in Cold War East Asia. This article calls on historians to adopt a different approach to the study of Chinese development and scour...

...Anuradha G. Advani Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 509 The Development of a South Asian American Labor Organization: An Examination of Identity-Based Organizing Anuradha G...

... shenghuo’ and the Development of Revolutionary Culture in Shanghai in the 1930s”). Wenxue pinglun , no. 4 : 106 – 14 . Guo Fulai 郭福来 . 2015 . “ Xiegei haizi ” 写给孩子 (“To My Son”). In Picun wenxue: Gongyou zhi jia wenxue xiaozu zuopinji (2014–2015) , 140 . Beijing : Gongyou zhi jia...

...Sylvia Nam Foregrounding the interconnections that fuel speculation in Phnom Penh, this article examines experiments by developers and investors who not only seek to bring built projects to the real estate market but also work to build markets by reconfiguring space. The staggering changes to Phnom...

...Hun Kim As the references of the world-class city pivot from traditional centers of finance in the West to include an ascendant Asia, cities dependent on foreign investment must modulate their governance to capture these flows of capital and urban development expertise. This article examines how...

.... However, their perspectives on urbanization, development, and displacement are complex. This article provides some ethnographic context for the widely discussed related topics of land disputes and compensation. Based on fieldwork in rural Sichuan, it examines how the selection of agricultural areas...

... invested in their initiatives out of concern for future economic development. By the late 2000s, however, a new neoliberal youth subject came to dominate South Korea. Having internalized the ruthless competition on the labor market, these young people centered their lives on building “specs...

...Wen Tiejun Within China, evaluating the experiences of the reform since 1978 is a hot topic among intellectuals. However, the economic theories in today's China are almost all imported from abroad and cannot adequately explain China's economic development. The author, having been long engaged...

...Rosalind C. Morris This article examines the history of populist politics in Asia, and particularly in Thailand, in relation to two major developments: the rise of culturalism on the one hand, and the emergence of technologically mediated forms of protest politics on the other. Against a backdrop...

..., instituted, and naturalized by the given fact of distance in geography, cultures, and religious traditions; degree in the development of capitalist modernization; and so forth; between the West and Asia. A discussion about the conceptual distinction of positionality from position elucidates...

... filled with decontextualized buildings designed by famous foreign architects. While this uniformly high-rise environment and urban development is common among the high-economic-growth East and Southeast Asia countries since the 1980s, one difference in Singapore's urbanism is a utopian belief that once...

... in the context of modern colonial urbanism was an essential condition for the development of this culture of political diversity. This article describes the new forces brought about by the colonial regime — the imposition of a modern state apparatus, the introduction of French education, the opening of society...

... with the game's developers to explore the way in which the game's salaryman employment paradigm intersects with current discourses surrounding youth and employment in contemporary Japan. In this context, the author argues that the game valorizes a certain information labor ideal within a neoliberal schema...

...Gabriella Lukacs This essay analyzes how the digital media economy harnesses young people's search for meaningful work to develop new apparatuses and mechanisms of extracting value from activities that are not typically recognized as work. Drawing on interviews with net idols and an analysis...

... Takeuchi and Wang each drew on Lu Xun to develop a new vision of politics at times when narratives and processes associated with the nation-state and capitalism eclipsed critical political practice. Intellectuals in both interwar Japan and post-Mao China stressed an evolutionary vision of modernity...

...C. Julia Huang Is the concept of the NGO, or nongovernmental organization, a global catchall? This article tries to respond to the globalization of the concept of NGO by tracing the historical and local development of a Taiwanese grassroots Buddhist organization, the Buddhist Tzu Chi (Ciji...