... on considering the pornographic efficacy of such a strategy. I ask: What is the effect of injecting stilled historical images into a genre famous instead for its lush color moving ones? What can such a strategy tell us about postwar historical memory, the relationship of politics to pornography and of still...

...Zhou Kui Online patriotism in China evolved into a broad sociopolitical phenomenon from 2003 to 2006. Although this was a period during which Sino-Japanese economic and financial relations deepened and diversified considerably, national sensitivities and historical memory remained at the forefront...

... in opposing nationalist narratives, the article asks how they can be brought back into the classroom, and how the social space of the classroom can serve as an alternative interpretive community for the exploration of both historical memory and the meanings of protest. Copyright 2015 by Duke University...

...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...

... nostalgia as a response to the erasure of historical memory, see Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, and Daphne Berdahl, “(N)ostalgie for the Present: Memory, Longing, and East German Things,” Ethnos no. – ...

...” distancing the subject from the traumatic event, in which the victim is polarized from the perpetrator.23 I believe that the cultural production of Thai historical traumatic memory circulates in antimimetic terms, but its operations are subjective...

... on the battlefields and the neglect of the Vietnamese refugees living at the margins of South Korean society have been effaced from public memory. Through the work of selective memory, the “multicultural” South Korea presents itself yet again as a caring supporter of Vietnamese migrant wives. It is through...

... recapitulation of Southeast Asian history.20 If historical amnesia is a fundamental element of the imperial nation- state, as Ernest Renan asserted long ago, Cambodian American cultural production offers, through memory work and the revelation of US...

... . Suleiman Susan . 2000 . “ Problems of Memory and Factuality in Recent Holocaust Memoirs: Wilkomirski/Wiesel .” Poetics Today 21 , no. 3 : 543 – 59 . Tai Hue-Tam Ho . 2001 . “ Remembered Realms: Pierre Nora and French National Memory .” American Historical Review 106 , no. 3 : 906...

... but an incapability of grasping the situ- ation at its roots. To “reawaken these fragments and memories,” the lines of sensation and material-­historical legacy sedimented in the life practices of the village would be something else: an immanent revolution...

... aware of, and successfully navigates, the pitfalls of historical relativism. Based on a critical reading of the novel s polyphonic oral narrative structure, I argue that, by drawing on postcolonial ways of understanding history, memory, and trauma, The End of August gives voice to those whose stories...

... of these cinematic images as maboroshi (illusory, dreamlike, lost) and historical studies of Manchukuo as an “imagined empire,” I propose to read these films as part of a phantasmagoria that had enchanted various utopian fantasies, that obscured and contributed to harsh realities, and that has recently resurfaced...

... by the nation to its subjects presents the figure of the “citizen” as its teleology, nonnational resources are mobilized to configure the subject of the region. Rather than a historical development, this performative subject, who works with multiple horizons of universality, is foundational to the formation...

... as an evacuated, reformed historicity (as in the exit of funu and the reentry of nuren ). These manuals of elite civility on bookshop shelves hint at the effort of becoming that characterizes contemporary Chinese identity. Place, gender, beauty, consumption, and memory are brought into a relation with one another...

... and a socialist approach to women’s problems have been a reality on Chinese soil that deserves recognition for feminist theory building. Socialism as a historical legacy and memory is indicative of China’s postsocialist situation, which, as the author argues, has a deep impact on the epistemological, theoretical...

... and Sanfoqi during Yuan and early and mid-Ming times. These transgressions that violated Chinese official tributary order became memorable and made Sino-Java relations a definite point of comparison for the late Ming maritime piracy problems. This article argues that the cultural memory of Sino-Java military...

...Gerda Wielander Abstract Built on visual and running/walking ethnography, this article analyzes visual traces left on remnant danwei walls in postsocialist China. The article considers danwei walls as yiji (remnant traces) that serve as loci of political memory and as a medium to host other visual...

... of the proposition which often accompanies it: that nationalism is a radically novel mode of consciousness. I am suspicious (a) because this position ignores the complexity of the nature of historical memory and causality, and (b) because while...

..., and the second is keyed to considering what happens to historical memories when all immediate evidence of the injustice is interdicted. Both Geoffrey White’s patient social history of the Pearl Harbor monument and Gerald Figal’s consideration...

... the form and mate- rials involved in these works varied, they all attempted to create a kind of ceremonial or ritual environment for mourning the memory of the wall, where ritual attempted to bridge the gap between grand historical memory...