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...Rea Amit Imamura Taihei (1911–86) is considered by many to be the first film theorist in Japan, and he is known chiefly for his two grand theories on documentary film and animation. Yet, at the same time, Imamura also developed a third, no less ambitious theory, that of “Cinema and Japanese Art...

...Cherie Wendelken 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Commentary Pan-Asianism and the Pure Japanese Thing: Japanese Identity and Architecture in the Late 1930s Cherie Wendelken The formation of the architectural profession in Japan in the late nineteenth...

...Ferran de Vargas Abstract Although much has been written about the political theories of several thinkers associated with the Japanese New Left, to gain a better understanding of those theories a perspective that conceives them as a conversation within a unitary ideology is needed. Likewise, we...

...Gennifer Weisenfeld 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Touring Japan-as-Museum: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues Gennifer Weisenfeld JAPAN is indeed a “Land of Color, Culture and Charm.” It is the land where East and West...

...Juyeon Bae Abstract This article examines mnemonic politics after 1987’s democratization in Taiwan by discussing the cinematic representation of colonial memory, mainly focusing on Wei Te‐Sheng's films set in the Japanese colonial era. After the end of martial law in 1987, prohibited issues...

...Brian Hurley Abstract This article examines the aesthetic and economic forms of judgment that guided the Japanese literature translation program at the American publisher Alfred A. Knopf Inc. in the 1950s—1970s. During these years, the editor Harold Strauss coordinated Knopf’s ambitious translation...

... to Manchukuo, a puppet state of the Japanese Empire. What followed was the expropriation of local Chinese peasants and the grabbing of their land by Japan to facilitate the distribution of land to Japanese immigrants. This resulted in the phenomenon of dispossessed Chinese peasants, which further entailed...

...; considering the prevailing “common knowledge,” however, Yamada's accomplishment of Kabuki acting as well as what it can tell us will probably be subdued in historiography soon. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 What Could Have Happened to “Femininity” in Japanese Stagecraft: A Memorial...

...Shi-chi Mike Lan This article studies the history and historiography of Taiwanese World War II veterans (commonly known as Taiji Riben bing or Taiwanese-native Japanese soldiers), who served as Japanese paramilitary fighting the Chinese and Allied forces. Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese were...

... to not only open up new forms of participation for subaltern groups but also to present itself as untainted by older forms of radicalism, thus contributing to the revival of protest activism. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Let Us Live! Empowerment and the Rhetoric of Life in the Japanese...

...James Reichert “ Oyama and Anxieties about the Feminization of Japanese Film” offers an alternative perspective on the gender politics behind the switch from oyama , or male actors specializing in female roles, to actresses in early Japanese film. To date, most treatments of this issue have...

...James Farrer The MIT Visualizing Cultures controversy is linked to a series of anti-Japanese street protests in China during the previous year. As a comparative analysis of these two very different types of protests, this article produces a reading of protest through a series of linked contexts...

...Inhye Kang Visual technologies were significant tools in the field of anthropology throughout the late nineteenth century, when they were frequently used for studying and exploring other ethnicities. This article argues that visual technologies played an active role for Japanese anthropologists...

...Sidney Xu Lu This article examines campaigns aimed at abolishing Japanese overseas prostitution in Manchuria and North America during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, focusing on the ideologies and practices of Japanese middle-class abolitionists. It argues that campaigns...

...Anne Allison Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 463 Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture Anne Allison...

...Irena Hayter This essay focuses on perception and the senses in Japanese literary modernism and specifically in the so-called new sensationist ( shinkankakuha ) writers, especially Kawabata Yasunari (1899–1972) and Yokomitsu Riichi (1898–1947). The critical debates that unfolded around...

...Mariko Asano Tamanoi Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Gender, Nationalism, and Japanese Native Ethnology Mariko Asano Tamanoi Introduction In a recently published essay, Uri Linke reveals the origin of folklore studies...

...Kären Wigen Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Politics and Piety in Japanese Native-Place Studies: The Rhetoric of Solidarity in Shinano Karen Wigen The Literature of the Local in the "Age of the Provinces" Alongside the strongly unified...

...Kathleen Uno Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Questioning Patrilineality: On Western Studies of the Japanese le Kathleen Uno Much has been written about the ie, a fundamental unit of early modern (1600- 1867) and modern (1868...