..., and their divergent and even self-conflicted views toward maritime commerce, immigrants, and people of different races. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 imperial identity pirates Sino-Java diplomatic history cultural memory genre References Abramson Marc S. 2008 . Ethnic...

... of this discursive absence on their identities and com- munities. I attribute the emergence of invisibility narratives to the culture of U.S. imperialism and, specifically, the exclusion of Filipino Americans from racial discourse. Historical legacies...

... and group identity. The significance of the goemul portrayed in Bong’s film may be that this monstrous creature is a “sign that shows, demonstrates, and warns.” It is through the creation of this sign that The Host brings to light the ambivalent and conflicted coexistence of tradition and modernity, family...

... reinterpretations of Chinese works of the imperial era that represented idealized female figures from a male perspective. Ladies’ Room , a video that shows behind-the-scenes images of sex workers in a nightclub washroom, brings to mind earlier paintings that depict women in feminine space. Ladies’ Room , however...

...- tors and writers were able to represent Korea as an organic part of Japan and yet also apart from it by rendering Korean ethnicity subordinate to, and contained by, the identity of the imperial subject. Meanwhile, Korean writers could wield...

... Identical Twins (2003), a series of staged photographs of two young men dressed alternately in Japan's imperial military uniform and modern casual dress, posing in a jungle setting, coinciding with the public debates on Japan's possible involvement in the Iraq war in 2003. The author utilizes the ideas...

... of Georgia. She received her PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, Writing the Piracy War: Unofficial History, Vernacular Fiction, and the Problem of Imperial Identity in Late Ming China, is forthcoming. ...

.... In Java in Discord: Unofficial History, Vernacular Fiction, and the Barlow Editor s Introduction 563 Discourse of Imperial Identity in Late Ming China (1574 1620) Yuanfei Wang approaches a comparable history question, which is how sixteenth- century material and social conditions resulted in a low...

... identity of self-regard. What follows is a step toward compilation of the inventory that Gramsci saw as necessary, if a consciousness of myself and my colleagues as a product of the historical process to date is to be produced. The dates, deeds...

... nation- and empire-building enterprises when their imperial aspect is centrally acknowledged at all.42 Nations and national identities, whether Campomanes I New Formations of Asian American Studies 535 cultural...

...Yue Chen Although claimed as a nation-state, with a government, a territory, and citizenry, Manchukuo (1932–1945) is a colony of the Empire of Japan, appropriated from Northeast China. As such, Manchukuo’s literary identity complicates the relationship between nationalism and literature, inviting...

... imperialism.110 At the same time, it is within this framework that we can properly understand the predicament of the Taiwanese doctors during the wartime period. While their struggle for a coherent identity between eth- nicity and the profession...

... the other gender, the other race, and the other class. It is also in this structure that the class, race, and gender identity and positioning of the imperial sub- ject is projected outward. The desire formation implied in the southward- advancing...

... can say that the Japanese modern imperialist enterprise was itself a reaction to imperialism. To borrow a phrase from John and Jean Comaroff, it was the result of a “colonization of consciousness,” clearly man- ifested in the Japanese...

... extent ethnic and national identities were themselves conflated in Imperial Japan. As the statement by the official from the Ministry of Home Affairs above suggests, initial expectations for the dissemination of “standard Japanese...

... without the distinction between the same and other ( ji-ta no betsu).20 National identity is always logically poste- Sakai | Imperial Nationalism and the Comparative Perspective 177 rior to such national distinction, whereby the foreigner is marked...

... space that the authors of Ethnic Relations and National Identity contend takes positivism largely at face value as a consequence of imperial origin, the production of nationalist knowledge also has the largely unintended effect of strengthening...

... in the policies and ideologies of imperialism, and even in marketing to colonial tourists.8 Leo Ching’s wide-­ranging study of colonial identities and postcolonial discourses of identity in Taiwan brought new depth to understandings of the politics...

... in the need to reconceptualize national identity on the basis of a more expansive imperial identity2 — such that, in dialecti- cal fashion, a putatively original and positive Japanese identity comes to be negated by non-Japanese elements the better...

... of power . . . [or submitted] to the power exerted from another?” I find myself impressed at his inventive staging of the question: the proper words for what he calls excess or submission, that is, “colonialism” and “imperial- ism...