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positions (2021) 29 (4): 869–894.
Published: 01 November 2021
... everyday life during the Mao period. Everyday life is historical, produced in different ways under different material conditions, structured and shaped by social forms in motion. Thus, it is not an analytical frame through which historians can view the real content of the Mao period underneath the thin...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 229–254.
Published: 01 February 2023
... the father of her confidante Ch'oe Sun-sil. Citing a 2011 WikiLeaks release of a 2007 US embassy cable on Park Geun-hye, the press emphasized suggestively that following the assassination of her mother, the pastor Ch'oe T'ae-min “had complete control over Park's body and soul during her formative years” (Bae...
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in Paris in Korean Cinema: Fraudulence and the Female Form in Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Kim Ki-duk's Wild Animals
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 February 2023
Figure 2 Sŏng-nam contemplates perspectival line and the female form. Still from Night and Day (2007).
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in Rewriting the Heart Sutra : Buddhism and the (Geo)Politics of Symbols in Qiu Zhijie's Art
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 8 Qiu Zhijie, Calli-Pho-Tography: Heart Sutra No. 8, Form Itself Is Emptiness (2006 – 18). Chromogenic print, 133 × 100 cm. Courtesy of Qiu Zhijie.
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 693–716.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Sujin Eom Moving beyond the actual and theoretical terminus of bounded cities, this article tracks routes by which particular urban forms and ideas have traveled through cities and intersected with the shifting dynamics of the political economy in the Asia Pacific region. It provides a comparative...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 145–158.
Published: 01 February 2019
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 841–868.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and separations of media forms—this is a fact overlooked in both national histories and regional media scholarship. Reconfigured with the complex, shifting intersections of radio and television, the otherwise familiar account of merger and separation in the “Singapore Story” emerges anew with static noises...
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 599–631.
Published: 01 August 2010
... monuments and surrounding urban spaces serve not only to “document” these buildings as signifiers of civilizational difference but also to transform them into a form of currency (both real and symbolic) in the unequal economy of colonial exchange. At the same time that these buildings begin to circulate...
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in Continuity and Disjuncture: The Translocal-Transnational Experiences of Chinese Skilled Trade Workers in Western Australia
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 2 The three forms of social network maintained by Chinese skilled trade workers.
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in Rewriting the Heart Sutra : Buddhism and the (Geo)Politics of Symbols in Qiu Zhijie's Art
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 9 Qiu Zhijie, Calli-Pho-Tography: Heart Sutra No. 9, Emptiness Itself Is Form (2006 – 18). Chromogenic print, 133 × 100 cm. Courtesy of Qiu Zhijie.
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 595–629.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Nandini Bhattacharya In this essay the author traces the mobilization of vocabularies of risk, uncertainty, and insurance within private and public affective worlds in contemporary India, and their aesthetic forms as found in Indian film and literature today. Rituparno Ghosh's film Noukadubi (2011...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 109–131.
Published: 01 February 2011
... with a history of (ethnonationalist, classed, pan-Asian) identifications produced in the Japanese colonial period (1910–45). If the task of the south Korean developmental state in the 1960s and 1970s was to legitimize its project via the ethnonationalization of the commodity form and to set the course...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 February 2021
... 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...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 469–493.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., and forms of documentation (such as the Japanese family registry) produce particular forms of kinship that prioritize a child's possible future relationship with an absent parent, above and beyond the day-to-day relationships children might develop with alternative caregivers such as foster parents. Despite...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 865–893.
Published: 01 November 2022
...–whether in the form of factory/detention complexes in the Xinjiang region, face–recognition technology, or the Great Firewall–cannot help but convey the impression of a faceless authority acting upon statistics and data. Yet data and statistics refer to individuals and communities, whose interactions...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Yurou Zhong Abstract Since its inception in 2002, the Beijing New Worker Band has become a representative art group formed by and dedicated to migrant workers. Changing its name three times in twenty years, the band has demonstrated a strong capacity to adapt to uncertain political tides...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 595–625.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of government shape one another in contemporary Vietnam. This focus, which considers the material consequences of different discursive positions, reveals a curious paradox. Namely, the dominant regulatory approaches in use today define the primary source of bureaucratic corruption and thus the forms...
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positions (2013) 21 (2): 309–350.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Maki Kaneko This article explores Japanese artists' proactive engagement with wartime politics through the formulation of patriotic art associations during the Asia-Pacific War (1937 – 45). The main foci of this investigation are three artist collectives formed in response to the outbreak of war...
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 907–930.
Published: 01 November 2014
... flashbacks from a repressed traumatic memory. It is also a recasting of the Oedipus narrative, which to one degree or another is also about memory. In all of Matsumoto's feature films, a character suffers from some form of delusion and/or trauma that materializes in a surging pulse—the spectral return...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 743–784.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Christine Hong Reading North Korean defector memoirs and Korean American “roots” narratives as forms of “second culture” relative to North Korea, namely, an alternative US-oriented culture whose representational authority is held as exceeding that of the socialist state of origin, this essay...
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