... Dynasty (1644–1911) reforms since the 1860s into “failures” and contemporary Meiji (1868–1912) reforms into “successes.” To grasp this dramatic reversal, we need new interpretations of the 1894–95 Sino-Japanese War that will unravel the Japanese and global propaganda that engulfed the world press...

... relations and internationally circulating PRC-produced cultural material that articulated feminist ideals as part of Afro-Asian-Latin American solidarity. This article returns to well-known texts of Maoist China to rethink state-produced Chinese feminism as a Cold War framework and gendered globality...

... to improve the group, either physically (through eugenics) or mentally (through education, opinion leadership, or propaganda). Almost any attempt to make sense of the infinitely complex web of hu- man relationships requires...

..., have seen renewed interest in “taking Jiang Qing seriously” as advocated by Tani Barlow ( 2017 ) by studying her influence on Chinese arts and cinema (Inouye 2020 ; Zhu 2022 ), the global dimensions of her various biographies (Salino 2021 ), and the construction of female subjectivity in one...

...: States, Civil Societies, and Globalization , edited by Janoski Thomas , Alford Robert R. , Hicks Alexander M. , and Schwartz Mildred A. , 566 – 86 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Houn Franklin S. 1961 . To Change a Nation: Propaganda and Indoctrination...

..., or civilization over another. Early critics of cultural imperialism pointed fingers at the global media industries in particular for ideologically manipulating local popu- laces and extracting profits from them. Thanks to the global reach...

... and chair of East Asian studies at Occidental College. He is the author of The Peasant in Postsocialist China: History, Politics, and Capitalism (2013). Matthew D. Johnson is an associate professor of the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center. He recently edited Redefining Propaganda...

... is the need to identify our historical subjects as true political subjects, to understand their experience as one intimately enmeshed in a set of complex political ideas and practices that goes under the name of “Maoism,” and finally to consider the global and long-term consequences of that experience...

... of photography in East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present. East Asia’s relationships to the world and its own past have become increasingly mediated by the global cir- culation of visual images,as photography has enabled the collection of visual documentation of the world from within Asia...

... as the Communist insurgency, previously trained and allied with Anglo‐American forces against the Japanese occupation from 1942 to 1945. Key British figures associated with propaganda tactics during World War II, such as Hugh Carelton Greene, were instrumental in developing a new array of techniques for postwar...

... in engendering conflict and violence. Is this sufficient to merit a case for looking at violence and its relationship with the media in Asia, as different from how its manifests in the Global North? The editors argue that it might help us understand the relationship between violence and modern political systems...

... are an important part of Chinese popular dis- course.5 There are numerous examples of Chinese war propaganda that celebrate Chinese violence against Japan during...

...Sigrid Schmalzer Abstract Scholars of Mao-era history adopt a wide range of approaches to the selection and treatment of source material. Some scholars regard published sources as propaganda, and therefore as biased and unreliable. For many, archival sources are the gold standard; others question...

... Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Juyeon Bae is a research associate professor at the Critical Global Studies Institutes, Sogang University, South Korea. She is also an executive committee member at Seoul International Women's Film Festival. She earned her doctoral degree from...

...Laikwan Pang In this article I first relate and analyze the overall development of cultural policy and the intellectual property rights (IPR) legal structure in China, in order to show how China's policy and its legal environment increasingly adapt to global conditions. I then use Lijiang...

... of global and regional news from an Asian standpoint, we enable viewers to form their own perspectives and obtain a deeper understanding of current developments, and the impact on their lives.”2 This Asian-news-by-Asian- reporters-for-Asian-viewers...

... role in sponsoring such “human rights” writings, this essay reads the latter as weaponized forms of expression, defined by their instrumentality within an uneven global landscape of power and rendered lethal by the state of unresolved hostilities between the United States and North Korea. Positing...

...Tani E. Barlow Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Ed itor’s In t rodu c t ion Each of this issue’s first four essays considers how gender differentials work geopolitically. In her polemic “Sex Machine: Global Hypermasculinity...

... and analyze them as “cultural” phenomena: consumer- ism, mass media, mass culture, print culture, art and architecture, the eco- nomic activity and cultural dialogues of global capitalism, the market and politics. While some of these issues...

... for global city construction is unrealistic Internet projects. Nanhai not only reflected the widespread obsession with informatization but also served as a model to be emulated.6 Second, the political and economic structure behind Nanhai’s ICT devel...