...Jordan Sand This essay examines graphic, textual, and material evidence concerning the use of chairs by European colonists in South and Southeast Asia and by Japanese colonists in Taiwan. It focuses particularly on informal furniture made from lightweight tropical fibers such as rattan...

... a shift from Vietnamese collectivism to individualism during this period. However, through a reading of Khái Hưng's novel Nửa chừng xuân ( In the Midst of Spring ), this article argues that although male Vietnamese writers adapted the European first-person grammatical category to express individual...

...” of sorts. They perceived Russia as 1) a European country that in many ways looked most similar to Asia, and particularly Korea; 2) a mighty modern nation-state that simultaneously seemed to be hopelessly backward, even in comparison to colonial Korea; and 3) a country with a racially white population...

... for the last few decades has been the so-called Cambridge School. It is the contention of this article that while the focus of the Cambridge School on the importance of contextual readings should open up the history of political thought to extra-European contexts, in fact its method serves to close down...

... to be mediated—or, more plainly, subjugated—by the putative “nothingness” of Japanese culture. However, by denying a positive essence to Japanese culture, Miki merely inverts the Hegelian narrative of European cultural development as arising out of “being,” or “Spirit.” This article shows that a logical slippage...

... of Qing “backwardness,” which influenced not only Europeans and US citizens but also modern Chinese reformers and revolutionaries in their efforts to fashion a “new” China that would one day catch up with and surpass Japan. This 1895 reversal of narratives lies in the background of the 2006 MIT...

... fundamental defiance of European history and epistemology. Since this history as rationalizing modernity was expanding and encompassed the very formation of the self, Takeuchi argued that resistance implied self-realization through self-negation and that Lu Xun embodied this paradoxical practice. In the mid...

... alienation, started to call for a simple life insurance for the lower classes. Influenced by European social insurance programs, these reformers advocated for a state-run system that would function as a kind of social policy that would improve the lives of the poor. Advocates argued that the universalizing...

... by racism in the production of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences? Above all else, racism must be apprehended as a structure of the modern world, and it is necessary to understand how it serves to repeatedly confirm the anthropological difference between European humanity and the rest...

... construction of the “tropics” as a space in opposition to European and North American temperate environments. Reading the material space of the massive eco-development Gardens by the Bay and a series of contemporary literary texts by Kevin Kwan, Sandi Tan, and Ng Yi-Sheng, the author argues that these texts...

... attached to them, formed in the milieu of overlapping and competing European, US, and Southeast Asian empires and diasporas. By investigating the forms and politics of storytelling in the island South and Southeast Asia, along with parallel and intersecting formations in the Caribbean and diasporic Asian...

... to interactions and engagements with the ruling Europeans and suggests that storytelling practices illuminate greater nuance and complexity in how people lived their lives while inhabiting different spaces, temporalities, and relationships simultaneously. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021...

...Jay Hetrick Abstract This article discusses the significance of Gilles Deleuze's almost passing references to East Asian thought. Even though Deleuze comes to these ideas through the work of other European thinkers—most notably Friedrich Nietzsche, Sergei Eisenstein, François Jullien, and Alan...

... relocates to semiperipheral European destinations like Hungary, they seek refuge from the pressures of a society they see as polluted, competitive, and overly materialistic. Counterintuitively, some of these aspirations chime in with nativist ideologies espoused by the populists in their chosen homes...

.... They began to have currency in the middle of the nineteenth century, and they are still alive and kicking. An illustration is the archetypal The European Miracle by Eric Jones and the recent publication and worldwide success in many translations...

... Europe and European theory have long dominated discussions of the origins, definitions, and manifestations of modernity. In opposition to this European hegemony, notions of alternative modernity have been proposed to critique Western modernity and globalism. Among such discussions of alternative...

... historians was still dominated by European wars and problems — came to be written in a longer perspective, no single theme would prove of greater importance than “the revolt against the West.”1 In a similar vein, we may today contend...

... of fetishism to the problem of sexual difference displaces the recognition of ethnic (and other) differences as constitutive of the epistemo- logical and affective development of the (male European) subject. Yet he betrays his own...

..., including West- ern imperialist policy. As European international relations entered a phase positions 15:2  doi 10.1215/10679847-2006-033 Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press positions 15:2  Fall 2007...

... around in territo- rial Europe,17 Husserl de ned Europe as a historical unity of peoples who shared a certain modality of being human — a European humanity — that distinguished them from the rest of humanity. It is impossible to conceive Sakai...