...We Jung Yi This article examines Cold War icons transfigured in new media ecology by looking at the South Korean webtoon (web cartoon) Secretly, Greatly . In featuring the superfluous existence of kanch’ŏp (North Korean spies) dispatched to the South, the graphic narrative interweaves the legacy...

...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...

...Takehiro Watanabe In late 1980s Japan, loan sharks surfaced as heroes in graphic novels set in the world of predatory moneylending. A genre of manga about usury gained popularity as monthlies began to run serialized stories that parody class inequality through gratuitous, chauvinistic depictions...

... event triggered by Yoshinori Kobayashi's graphic history On Taiwan , (Shin G manism Sengen Supesharu—Taiwan Ron) which appeared in 2001, and the discourse of self-effacement and self-abjection present in many literary texts, cultural policies, and public opinions during the Japanese colonial period, I...

...Andrew F. Jones The prominent architectural historian Liang Sicheng devoted much of his career to the photographic, graphic, and textual documentation of old Chinese buildings. This project was grounded in his efforts to (re)construct a Chinese architectural “Order,” and in so doing to posit...

... Frank’s life and legacy inspires a hybridized narrative and visual style in manga that blends the emotionality and interiority of shōjo with the more graphic depictions of violence common to shōnen manga for young boys. In so doing, it encourages a reevaluation of the shōjo mode and its ability to bear...

...Vicente L. Rafael President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines has exacted an enormous toll in human lives and suffering. This essay looks into one of the earliest and most graphic responses to this war: the work of photojournalists and the plurality of responses to their images. How...

...Adina Zemanek This article explores a recent stage of the national project in Taiwan as reflected in comic books. It compares historical comics and graphic memoirs as lieux de mémoire (according to Pierre Nora) and as stories that define Taiwan, situated between the historical apparatus...

... of the magazine Fujin gah¯o, or the Ladies’ Graphic, published in 1906. The Ladies’ Graphic began publication in 1905, at the height of the Russo- Japanese War. A special issue on interior decorating appeared the follow- ing year. The images in this issue...

... they do not identify themselves as otaku, it has been the highly fragmented and largely nonsectarian groups of freelance workers— music writers, graphic artists, computer geeks—who have organized and launched these protests, acknowledging...

... category of the epistémè: being. This is the meaning of the work of Fenollosa whose influence upon Ezra Pound and his poetics is well-known: this irreducibly graphic po- etics was, with that of Mallarmé, the first break in the most entrenched...

... grounded in an expansive graphic cosmology, the universal graphism of wen (text, texture, pattern, figure) which subsumed not only writing per se but also ritual and institutional patterning of bodies and societies as well as the forms...

... discourages sustained attention on any one object; this is very much an acquired habit that entails certain distinctive tactics.43 Both Jogaku sekai and Fujin sekai exhibit an increase in textual/graphic fragmentation over the course...

... term early medieval China leads Nakatani to question historiography, reading methods, and ways of de-encoding rank and power. He shows how the graphic regime of the Chinese Han state gave way to a “loquacious network of sociability...

..., these free-­floating images are separated from any context that would help us to understand their meaning — except as a provocation for the raw hatred of foreigners as devils. On the military website, these graphic pictures have only short captions...

... and memory in Korean cinema. positions 15:3  Winter 2007 674 Shu Kuge is a cartoonist/illustrator who works in San Francisco and Tokyo. He is currently working on three graphic novels...

... a surface — a sec­ tion of infinite space, an extensive infinity, graphically demarcated. Color, in contrast, is more of an intensive infinity, one that expresses an infinite number of potential contrasts with other colors, a fluid, indeterminate...

... and disasters, government censorship, as well as notions of national mission, propriety, and taste, had kept the most graphic images out of mainstream publications.11 But in Vietnam, freed from structural impediments and driven by growing...

... weisheng qu shiwusuo diqi nian nianbao (First District Health Office, Seventh Annual Report) . Beiping : Beiping Shi Gong’an Ju . Brain Robert M . 1996 . “ The Graphical Method: Inscription, Visualization, and Measurement in Nineteenth-Century Science .” PhD diss. , University of California...

..., the graphic image and inscription on the woodblock Wong ∣∣ Lantern Slide Moments and the Taught Subject 99 print demonstrate how text and image can work together to produce a wholly different effect than what might be presumed to be carried out...