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positions (2022) 30 (4): 895–921.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Hans Steinmüller Abstract The Wa State of Myanmar is often called “shanzhai China,” that is, a lesser imitation of China. This essay unpacks the material and symbolic implications of creative imitation at the Chinese periphery, embodied in shanzhai 山寨 practices. Literally “mountain fortress...
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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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positions (2014) 22 (1): 263–292.
Published: 01 February 2014
... constructed through copying and imitation. The eager desire to compete with each other in asserting a local identity might belie a rising anxiety of placelessness in this dramatically globalized world. Therefore, these constructed local identities within nation-state may turn out to be what Stuart Hall calls...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 515–543.
Published: 01 August 2015
... graduate who started to sell her “remaining life time” online in 2008. For a small fee, Chen would do whatever her clients requested within reason, and she blogged about her daily activities. Her services, especially her charitable activities, aroused much public attention and inspired imitators nationwide...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 February 2018
... to imitate the perceived colors of the real world and its identification with mere surface appearance. Among Kandinsky’s greatest enthusiasts was Walter Benjamin, whose fragmentary writings on color celebrated its spiritual powers and resistance to the conceptual abstractions of language. Although he...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 645–652.
Published: 01 November 2022
... offers a tool for the reconstitution of surveilled voices into a “counter-public sphere” or “oppositional community” (Felski 1989 : 168) through its shared articulation of oppression, harassment, and fear. Hans Steinmüller's “Shanzhai: Creative Imitation of China in Highland Myanmar” looks at the Wa...
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positions (1996) 4 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 February 1996
... identity, which is to say, we are all requested to be Taiwanese, or more accurately, pseudo (simulated) Taiwanese. The Third Meaning of ”Pseudo”: Parody Parody is imitation that causes people to laugh. Occasionally the imitator does...
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positions (2007) 15 (3): 637–671.
Published: 01 August 2007
... one hanpa naku, number one  — Rhymester, “B-Boyism” A Japanese rapper who calls himself Banana Ice released a song in 1995 called “Imitation + Imitation = Imitation,” in which he ridicules young hip-hop fans...
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positions (2002) 10 (1): 141–172.
Published: 01 February 2002
... the imitation of currency and bond certificates.” Enacted in 1895 (Meiji 28), it categorically criminalizes moz¯o, or “imitations,” as in “imitation diamond.” As defined in Article 1, “One may not produce or sell that which has an appearance that could...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 481–512.
Published: 01 May 2016
... as pale imitations of the color field paintings of Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, or rather, as the “Asiatic” version of their works. Kim, however, considered these final paintings the culmination of an artistic...
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positions (2002) 10 (2): 239–243.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of thinking. This is explicit in Maki Morinaga’s “The Gender of Onnagata As the Imitating Imitated: Its Historicity, Performativity, and In- volvement in the Circulation of Femininity,” where the complex argument is rooted in questions about...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 589–619.
Published: 01 August 2016
... downstairs and came back in a hurry for the latest episode of the popu- lar sitcom Ugly Wudi. No spelling mistakes above. Products imitating positions 24:3  doi 10.1215/10679847-3618141 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press positions 24:3...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1067–1093.
Published: 01 November 2012
... 1071 decorates the new home with pictures of famous actresses and encourages her to imitate them: Apparently she studied the actresses’ movements when we went to the movies because she was very good at imitating them...
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 356–381.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of “tension” descending from Levenson, through Schneider and Schwarcz, based on affinity and conscious imitation. All these texts flirt with bipolar tension and delight in the frzsson of its retention-and-resolving. Significantly, Lin’s imitation...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 31–48.
Published: 01 February 2005
.... Across the geographical and social differentials dividing them, the population fell into affective at- tunement. That the shifts registered en masse did not necessarily mean that people began to act similarly, as in social imitation of each other...
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positions (1998) 6 (1): 113–177.
Published: 01 February 1998
..., as if there is something inherently unnat- positions 6:1 Spring 1998 120 ural or absurd about Orientals imitating those forms, although it finds nothing odd in urging African Americans to imitate Asian values...
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positions (2001) 9 (3): 497–499.
Published: 01 August 2001
... in Ann Hui’s Song of the Exile. These works are not mere imitation or repetition of the West, but new possibilities in another place, another time. Yau agrees with Deleuze that nationality, authorship, genres, canons, and stylistics...
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positions (2005) 13 (3): 659–662.
Published: 01 August 2005
... émigrés, wants to signal his restoration with a great “trial,” where history will be made to appear before a handful of obedient judges. Like the Moscow trials, of which they represent the farcical imitation that follows...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 55–82.
Published: 01 February 2011
.... The products of the five continents and ten thousand states, even if they are not natural products, are all ranked in a series, to allow people to imitate them.30 Hakurankai in Huang’s view are commercial venues, expressly linked...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 February 2018
... by Angleichung (“similarity,” “becoming like”) and Nachahmung (“imitation,” “mimesis Readers of Universism need look no further than its table of contents to discover something worth knowing in this regard, for the title of a subsection of its chapter 2...