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positions (2007) 15 (1): 65–90.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Steve Choe Duke University Press 2007 Kim Ki-duk’s Cinema of Cruelty: Ethics and Spectatorship in the Global Economy
Steve Choe
The Ethical Question
I first saw Kim Ki-duk’s sixth feature film, Address Unknown (Suchwiin
bulmyeong; 2001...
Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (2): 347–374.
Published: 01 May 2009
...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...
Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (3): 643–653.
Published: 01 August 2009
... infrastructure to nurture Aborigine talent in Taiwan's film industry, however vulnerable the industry may be. Duke University Press 2009 In the Realm of the Indigenous:
Local, National, and Global Articulations in Fishing Luck
Anita Wen-Shin Chang
When I first saw Fishing Luck...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (3): 689–710.
Published: 01 August 2008
... think, these identities can change and are stratified less by the ethnocentrism in our concepts than our institutional situatedness. Duke University Press 2008 The Postcolonial Alien in Us All: Identity in the Global Division of Intellectual Labor
Allen Chun
This essay...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 537–554.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to that of law. The emergence of this new form of power deployment works not only in collusion with the populist government's urgent desire to consolidate its legitimacy and power, but also in collaboration with expanding global governance through which Taiwan's nation-state status bid hopes to find a promising...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (1): 173–182.
Published: 01 February 2012
... economic value. By contextualizing ways in which Asia is commodified as a promise to the global future at the same time it is chastised as yet to be civilized for the market economy, the article urges the investigation of the history of financialization in Asia as a window of rethinking “global” history...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 529–558.
Published: 01 May 2012
... children to raise them well.” Photo by Christina Schwenkel
Counting One’s Way onto the Global Stage:
Enumeration, Accountability, and Reproductive Success in Vietnam
Melissa J. Pashigian
When in vitro fertilization (IVF) was introduced in August exclu...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (1): 203–236.
Published: 01 February 2014
... this eminently visible. This article explores the links between the Olympics and global citizenship through examining how the 2008 Beijing games became an international platform for critiques of China's political and economic relationships with Sudan, in light of the continued civil war ravaging the Darfur...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (3): 565–593.
Published: 01 August 2015
... co-op program South Korea Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Language Travels and Global Aspirations of Korean Youth
Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han
Every year, countless young Koreans travel overseas in combined pursuit...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 129–154.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Leslie Wang Since the Chinese government first began allowing international adoption in 1992, over 130,000 children have migrated to a wide range of countries in the global North. Although most scholarly attention has focused on healthy female adoptees, in recent years a growing number of special...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 179–203.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Hae Yeon Choo Based on ethnographic research in an US military camp town in South Korea, this article examines camp town sexual commerce as a manifestation of shifting global hierarchies amid Asia's economic ascendance and the decline of US hegemony. Challenging the dichotomous constructions of US...
Journal Article
positions (2019) 27 (1): 145–158.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Sandro Mezzadra Global capitalism seems to have swept away all spatial limits to its expansion, making a simple definition of terms such as inside and outside problematic, to say the least. One of the fundamental problems we face today is that critical thought needs to forge concepts that are able...
Journal Article
positions (2020) 28 (2): 481–495.
Published: 01 May 2020
... on War and Peace, and PeaceWomen Across the Globe—and argues for feminist scholarship to take an interdisciplinary approach and, in particular, to fuse peace studies with cultural studies, political economy, and global geopolitics. Doing so requires an examination of the history and the scope...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 756–788.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Young Ji Lee This essay examines Maoist China and its deep engagement with local/global capitalism during the Cold War period. It analyzes how the socialist realist utopian images of self-reliant Dazhai, a model village in Shanxi, contributed to the domestic and international image of Maoist China...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (1): 15–40.
Published: 01 February 2023
... reconceptualization and demonstrates that, similar to the urban, the rural too can be global, heterogeneous, and transformative. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Vietnam transnational marriages translocal marriages global rural fractals In 2013, Người đưa...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (4): 771–796.
Published: 01 November 2024
... that the global China concept helps us attend to the significant impacts of China’s economic and geopolitical rise on earlier patterns of transborder cultural flows, hence to the ways that new patterns can be interpreted. The article considers the continuities and tensions the seven articles in this issue...
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 259–285.
Published: 01 May 2024
... monocultural and mono‐ethnic mythologies have influenced the study and production of Japanese music. Ethnomusicology and area studies are Cold War enterprises, designed to create research that would help maintain that world order, educate Americans as global leaders, and change hearts and minds in foreign...
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positions (1999) 7 (2): 277–306.
Published: 01 May 1999
...L. H. M. Ling Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Sex Machine: Global Hypermasculinity
and Images of the Asian Woman in Modernity
L. H. M. Ling
Three visions of globalization currently dominate the popular imagination...
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positions (1999) 7 (3): 763–798.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Lydia H. Liu Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Beijing Sojourners in New York: Postsocialism and the Question
of Ideology in Global Media Culture
Lydia H. Liu
The television serial Beijing Sojourners in New York was aired on the CCTV...
Journal Article
positions (2001) 9 (1): 161–186.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Dai Jinhua 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Translated by Jonathan Noble Behind Global Spectacle and National Image Making
Dai Jinhua
The Tide of Nationalism
In the spring and summer of 1996, the “popular political” best-seller China...
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