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Breaking with the Family Form: Historical Categories, Social Reproduction, and Everyday Life in Late 1950s Rural China
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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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Spectral Times: The Ghost Film As Historical Allegory
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 287–329.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Bliss Cua Lim 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Spectral Times: The Ghost Film As Historical Allegory
Bliss Cua Lim
Ghosts call our calendars into question. The temporality of haunting,
through which events and people return from the limits of time...
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The Ones Who Struck Out:: Entrepreneurialism, Heroin Addiction, and Historical Obsolescence in Reform Era China
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 423–449.
Published: 01 August 2018
... types of workers. Recovery, according to these long-time users, is not conceived of as an attempt to return to an earlier way of drug-free living; rather, to recover is to adapt to the economic and social demands of a different historical moment. The conclusion considers how understanding this cohort...
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The Space of Historical Discourse: Ishimoda Shō's Theory of the Heroic Age
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positions (2002) 10 (3): 631–668.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Junichi Isomae 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Richard F. Calichman The Space of Historical Discourse: Ishimoda Sh¯o’s Theory of the Heroic Age
Junichi Isomae
Postwar Thought and Ishimoda Sh¯o
Subjectivity and the Theory of the Heroic Age...
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The Year 1989 and the Historical Roots of Neoliberalism in China
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positions (2004) 12 (1): 7–69.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Wang Hui 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Translated by Rebecca E. Karl The Year 1989 and the Historical Roots of Neoliberalism in China
Wang Hui
One could almost say that the twentieth century was summed up a bit early,
in 1989, even...
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The Topology of Post-1990s Historical Revisionism
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 507–538.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Minoru Iwasaki; Steffi Richter This essay aims to reconsider the logic and nature of Japanese historical revisionism, with reference to similar instances in Germany. Attention is paid to the written texts and statements of the Study Group for a Liberal View of History, with particular emphasis...
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Gendered Borders: The Historical Formation of Women's Nationality under Law in Taiwan
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Chao-ju Chen What does the nation mean to women? How does the law draw national borders, and in what way is it gendered? This paper examines the ways in which women are related to the nation in Taiwan by discussing the legal regulation of nationality. Historically and contemporarily, the decisive...
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Women and Mythology in Vietnamese History: Lê Ngọc Hân, H`ô Xuân Hương, and the Production of Historical Continuity in Vietnam
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positions (2005) 13 (2): 411–439.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Wynn Wilcox 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Women and Mythology in Vietnamese History:
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Lê Ngo. c Hân, H`ô Xuân Hu o ng, and the Production of
Historical Continuity in Vietnam
Wynn Wilcox
Three Myths about Two Vietnamese Women
Lê...
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Historical Sense and Commemorative Sensibility at Okinawa's Cornerstone of Peace
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 745–778.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Gerald Figal Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Historical Sense and Commemorative Sensibility at Okinawa’s Cornerstone of Peace
Gerald Figal
The irony of the assertion “the atomic bomb saved lives” has recently been
matched...
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Zainichi Protagonists and the Making of Historical Fiction: Cold War Security and Economic Insecurity in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yang Sŏk-il's Chi to hone ( Blood and Bones )
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 83–107.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Adhy Kim Abstract This article discusses how the historical experience of Zainichi (the postcolonial Korean diaspora in Japan) is represented through the fictionalized family history, set from the colonial period to the dusk of the Cold War. Looking at two post–Cold War novels across English...
View articletitled, Zainichi Protagonists and the Making of <span class="search-highlight">Historical</span> Fiction: Cold War Security and Economic Insecurity in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yang Sŏk-il's Chi to hone ( Blood and Bones )
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The Gender of Onnagata as the Imitating Imitated: Its Historicity, Performativity, and Involvement in the Circulation of Femininity
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positions (2002) 10 (2): 245–284.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Maki Morinaga 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 The Gender of Onnagata As the Imitating Imitated: Its Historicity,
Performativity, and Involvement in the Circulation of Femininity
Maki Morinaga
Beyond the studies of Japanese theater, onnagata, “female impersonators...
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Making Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 177–249.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Marshall Johnson Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Making Time:
Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality
Marshall Johnson
1. Islands of Meaning
Jean-Yves Guiomar’s contribution to Les Zieux de mkmoire takes us back...
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National History and Generational Memory: Taiwanese Comic Books as Lieux de Mémoire
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 389–420.
Published: 01 May 2020
...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...
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The Caribbean House of Mirrors: Constructing Regions in Area Studies
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva This article introduces the house of mirrors as an analytical device with the aim of cracking open binary comparative work. It offers close readings of debates regarding US colonialism among Puerto Rican intellectuals and politicians at two distinct historical moments...
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Native Soil of Postmemory and Affective Archives in Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 793–814.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Chialan Sharon Wang Abstract This article focuses on Wu Ming‐Yi's 2015 novel, The Stolen Bicycle , and examines the way individuals’ storytelling is interwoven with scientific and historical facts to construct cultural memory and reinscribe the meaning of native soil. The novel unfolds...
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The Advertising Museum in Seoul: Dream-Images and the Freedom to Advertise
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 763–792.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Olga Fedorenko Abstract This article examines how the Korea Advertising Museum in Seoul participates in constructing narratives of past and present in postmillennial South Korea, and how historical advertisements create ambiguities within those narratives. The analysis is inspired by Benjaminian...
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Writing Sǒkkuram: An Archaeology of Inscription Around 1911
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 547–577.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Robert Oppenheim This article makes a case, in the study of Korea's colonial modern transition, for supplementing the examination of writings with attention to historical modalities of writing itself considered as a material inscriptive practice, and thus also for the interdisciplinary engagement...
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Animating the Trauma: Colonial Atrocities and the Use of New Media in Contemporary South Korean Museums
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 863–892.
Published: 01 November 2023
... feature within the museological production of national and local discourses of remembrance. In the three decades since the establishment of the Independence Hall, South Korean national, local, and private museums have been developing increasingly technically advanced ways to “animate” historically...
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Broken Narratives, Multiple Truths: Writing “History” in Yū Miri’s The End of August
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 815–840.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Hachigatsu no hate ( The End of August , 2004), a family saga written by a female author of Korean descent, the article explores how the novel emerged from, participates in, and critically positions itself with respect to the ongoing ideological battles over war histor(iograph)y. Set mostly in colonial Korea...
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Tu Er Dai Peasant Landlords and the Infrastructures of Accumulation in Guangzhou's Urban Villages
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 479–499.
Published: 01 August 2022
... text, The Making of the English Working Class (1963), demonstrates the formation of class consciousness as historically embedded within cultural meanings, qualitative conditions of industrialization, and agency of the working people. The case of the tu er dai , however, lays bare how the historical...
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