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...Nicholas de Villiers; Yongan Wu Zhang Bingjian's documentary Readymade (2008) focuses on the lives of two Mao Zedong impersonators in the People's Republic of China: Mr. Peng Tian, a forty-six-year-old farmer from Hunan Province enrolled in the performance art program of Beijing Film Academy...

...Ta-wei Chi Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Figure 1  The Chinese characters of female impersonation have also fascinated non-Chinese writers. One example is the French writer George Soulié de Morant, author of the 1925 novel Bijou de ceinture (Pei Yu: Boy Actress, trans...

... “independence” as an ontopolitical premise of archipelagic lives. Archipelagic optics indexes a form of decolonial sensing by refuting the impersonal, monocular eye of military cameras used by multiple empires to surveil Pacific islands. As this article will demonstrate, the decolonial goes beyond...

... around these female impersonators. Taking a cue from the work of feminist film historian Miriam Hansen, my study devotes particular attention to how opponents of the oyama often linked their criticism of the practice with disapproving commentary on the troublesome impact that the female fans...

... comical essay, “Readymade Mao: Impersonation and Affective Relations,” Nicholas de Villiers and Yongan Wu focus on the Barlow ∣∣ Editor’s Introduction 725 filmmaker Zhang Bingjian’s documentary Readymade. The film...

... the long pan-­Asian debate over the female impersonator’s feminine performance in film, as ana- tomically correct female actresses supplanted the oyama or onnagata figure. Some media viewers and critics voiced concern that impersonation created...

...: Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique , edited by Kang Liu and Tang Xiaobin , 174 – 87 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Wang David Der-wei . 2003 . “ Impersonating China .” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews , no. 25 : 133 – 63 . Wang Hongchao...

... is abjected by the uneasy present. “Performers of the Paternal Past: History, Female Impersonators, and Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction” focuses on history and on biological men who cross-dress as women. Chi’s object is twofold: to illustrate how...

... difference, being a female impersonator, and an icon of the liberalization and commercializa- tion of public sexuality. But, Goldstein argues, what Mei’s popularity attested to was a logic of gender that hypostatized a purely Chinese...

...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...

... a coaching sequence in which Wu Yonggang/his Hong Kong impersonator speaks to Ruan/Cheung in Mandarin: “You know you have no way to escape. But you want to resist. You walk to the table, sit on it and puff. . . . The way you sit and puff should all...

.... One story shows a Korean communist impersonating a woman to try to seduce a US citizen into signing a false confession. Stories about South Korean soldiers were vanishingly rare. Figure 8  Collage...

... of completion. The mass of the dead and the repetition of the scenes instead suggest that the dead in these videos stand in for still something else. If the loss in Araya’s performances is an impersonal one, it would seem that her...

... that his female impersonation was halfhearted, intended to achieve a parodic effect. The text’s humorous comments with erotic innuendoes or sarcastic critiques of corruption in the world are thought to reflect masculine sensibilities...

..., to be political is to assume a public persona or mask and act out the inspiring principles of honor, glory, love of equality, distinction, and excellence.32 The political must necessarily be impersonal and should make no reference to the private self...

... or plainly misleading, but it is also redirective. Sociolinguists have explored the possibility of “impersonal” or “semiotic” multilingualism, referring to language practices that are produced not in the interest of communicability but for symbolic purposes, such as those indexing a “foreign” identity like...

.... But there was never truly a dichotomy between the individual and the social; the individual was always in the process, to a varying extent, of realizing the social. In this sense, we can understand that the individual is impersonal. But what is more important...

... to material things which became salient with the generaliza- tion of impersonal market relations as a principle of social order. That is to say, Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism was to some extent already implicit in the discussions...

.... Conceptions of desire as different from one another as the centrifugal from the centripetal, as an aesthetic of impersonality from a politics of identity, share a conviction that the shape of our passions, no less than the place of our...

... of facts, is an education specially fitted to promote sound citizenship.” As Porter points out, this evo- cation of citizenship assumes deference to educated elites and impersonal, positions 11:3 Winter 2003 774...