...Tamara Jacka In contemporary China, concerns about the suzhi , or “quality,” of individuals, groups, and populations pervade the social imagination and inform a wide spectrum of discourses and debates. Suzhi is of critical importance to contemporary China's booming, globally oriented market economy...

...Chua Beng-Huat Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Commentary ”Asian-Values“ Discourse and the Resurrection of the Social Chua Beng-Huat The so-called Asian-values discourse emerged into global attention out of the rise...

...Fred Yen Liang Chiu 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Suborientalism and the Subimperialist Predicament: Aboriginal Discourse and the Poverty of State-Nation Imagery Fred Yen Liang Chiu 1. The Suboriental/Subimperial/Subcolonial Triad in East Asian Context It has...

...Lydia H. Liu Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Translingual Practice: The Discourse of Individualism between China and the West Lydia H. Liu The meaning of a word is its use in the language.-Wittgenstein The concept...

...Chungmoo Choi Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Discourse of Decolonization and Popular Memory: South Korea Chungmoo Choi The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born...

...Sophie Volpp Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 The Discourse on Male Marriage: Li Yu's 'A Male Mencius's Mother" Sophie Volpp Difference is an effect of inventive syncretism.- James Clifford, "On Ethno- graphic Authority...

...Yingjin Zhang Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Engendering Chinese Filmic Discourse of the 1930s: Configurations of Modern Women in Shanghai in Three Silent Films Yingjin Zhang What the popular wisdom knows...

...Andrew Kipnis Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 ”Face“: An Adaptable Discourse of Social Surfaces Andrew Kipnis I come to the study of “the Chinese conception of face” with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I hesitate to focus...

...Gi-Wook Shin Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse Gi-Wook Shin Our movements of transformation aim to obtain a national liberation...

...Xiaoqun Xu Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Discourse on Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Post-Mao China: A Reading of the Journalistic Literature on Women Xiaoqun Xu Since the early 1980s a new genre of writing, called journalistic literature...

..., and their divergent and even self-conflicted views toward maritime commerce, immigrants, and people of different races. Java in Discord: Unofficial History, Vernacular Fiction, and the Discourse of Imperial Identity in Late Ming China (1574 1620) Yuanfei Wang Introduction In Shuihu quanzhuan (Water Margin), a late...

... China and challenging the historical hierarchy of the “civilized” Han center and its “uncultured” non‐Han peripheries. By analyzing locally produced scholarly and touristic discourses, ethnocultural writing, and filming efforts in southwest China, the article proposes that “indigeneity” entails...

...Junichi Isomae 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Richard F. Calichman The Space of Historical Discourse: Ishimoda Sh¯o’s Theory of the Heroic Age Junichi Isomae Postwar Thought and Ishimoda Sh¯o Subjectivity and the Theory of the Heroic Age...

...Andrew F. Jones 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 The Child As History in Republican China: A Discourse on Development Andrew F. Jones Development is a hard imperative. —Deng Xiaoping Something of the semicolonial predicament faced by scholars...

...Hiroko Sakamoto Translated by Rebecca Jennison 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 The Cult of “Love and Eugenics” in May Fourth Movement Discourse Hiroko Sakamoto “Great Teacher, Democracy! Great Teacher, Science!” This was indeed...

...Larissa Heinrich Duke University Press 2007 How China Became the “Cradle of Smallpox”: Transformations in Discourse, 1726 – 2002 Larissa Heinrich We often distinguish between the knowledge of the past and that of the modern world . . . We could...

...Harriet M. Phinney Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Objects of Affection: Vietnamese Discourses on Love and Emancipation Harriet M. Phinney Scholarship on the politics of love and romance and on the link between the construction...

...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...

...Rajeswari Mohan Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Commentary Reflections on Migratory Discourses in the Age of Transnational Capital Rajeswari Mohan Yet it is gratifying that the bales of calico of the English bourgeoisie have in eight...

...Barry Sautman Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Theories of East Asian Intellectual and Behavioral Superiority and Discourses on ”Race Differences” Barry Sautman In a 1993 interview, Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s longtime strongman...