...Tim Oakes Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Bathing in the Far Village: Globalization, Transnational Capital, and the Cultural Politics of Modernity in China Tim Oakes Bathing in the Far Village In the summer of 1996 I was browsing through a chic...

...Long Bui Using the television program Vietnam Idol as a case study, the author demonstrates that even though shows like this aim to bring Viet Nam into the fold of global culture, it reconfigures dominant notions of “culture” and reinforces certain mappings of power. At the very moment it brings...

...Nayna J. Jhaveri 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Globalization and Graduate Students: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum with Dr. Vandana Shiva Nayna J. Jhaveri The expressed aspirations of numerous departments at the University of Washington...

...Sheldon Lu 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Commentary Beautiful Violence: War, Peace, Globalization Sheldon Lu Qin Yufen and Beautiful Violence Qin Yufen (b. 1954), a Chinese woman artist based in Berlin, Germany, cre- ated a gigantic...

...Weigang Chen 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Peripheral Justice: The Marxist Tradition of Public Hegemony and Its Implications in the Age of Globalization Weigang Chen The Issue: Culture and Peripheral Justice How do we explain the intriguing fact that precisely...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Kim Puja 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Commentary Global Civil Society Remakes History: “The Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal 2000” Kim Puja In the last month of the final year of the twentieth century “The Women’s International War...

...Matthew Chew 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 The Dual Consequences of Cultural Localization: How Exposed Short Stockings Subvert and Sustain Global Cultural Hierarchy Matthew Chew The clothes worn by contemporary urban Chinese should not appear unfa...

...Jonathan L. Beller 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Third Cinema in a Global Frame: Curacha, Yahoo!, and Manila by Night Jonathan L. Beller “Could be the Fila-peeensThat’s definitely the Fila-peeensMax California offering expert commentary...

... the feminization of migrant labor in global capitalism. The invaginated visual economy inserts itself in the womb of the global economy through the production of transnational imaginaries, which in turn contradict not only the actual experience of warm-body export but also the worldwide solidarity movement among...

... reconceptualization and demonstrates that, similar to the urban, the rural too can be global, heterogeneous, and transformative. linhknguyen@fullerton.edu Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Vietnam transnational marriages translocal marriages global rural fractals In 2013, Người đưa...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...