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...Lisa Claypool This paper explores the uneasy position of painting in an early twentieth-century Shanghai publication, the National Essence Journal ( Guocui xuebao , 1905–11), published by the prominent and influential Society for Preservation of National Learning (Guoxue baocunhui). The publication...

...Rebecca E. Karl This essay takes a 1920s scandalous case—the Ma-Wang Incident—as a study of the relationship established in Chinese journalism between events and everyday life. It argues that journalism, as a commodity form, and the emergence of everyday life as a problem of sociality were...

...Angela Zito In autumn 2010, I reread the fifty-four issue-books of positions for its use of images. This essay demonstrates that where the image's gestures animate, supplement, and haunt the written text, we find the edge of our critical practice. Journals, like framed shots, have their limitations...

...Tani Barlow Issue 20.1 introduces changes in the positions project which widen the “Asia” or “Asias” that contributors can expect to reference in their work. The journal's name change from positions: east asia cultures critique to positions: asia critique signals several changes. The cultures...

...Wang Hui This short commemorative piece notes the twenty-year relationship of editors Wang Hui and Tani Barlow and Wang's strong commitment to the international world of journal publication. Wang's long career as a journal founder and editor and his utopian hopes for continuing development...

... to have provided some of the intellectual foundation for the ideology of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. A brief intellectual biography of Miki and an examination of the founding and organization of the Shōwa Kenkyūkai are included, in addition to a close reading of some of Miki's journalism...

...Lisa Rofel What does it mean to say that positions opened up a space for queer intellectual work? How do we delineate that space? How does this space work in articulation with queering Asian studies more broadly? This essay addresses how the journal positions created the intellectual space...

... generation's trauma is received by the generation after in the form of family tales, journals, recordings, strained parent‐child relationships, invested sentiments in family bicycles, and even supernatural experiences, the article discusses the way the historical past is invoked as “affective archives...

...Kevin Michael Smith Abstract This article examines Korean surrealism—the avant‐garde movement most explicitly preoccupied with questions of the psyche and subjectification within an historical context of colonial unfreedom—through attention to the short‐lived journal Samsa munhak 三四文學 ( 34...

...Vanessa B. Ward The journal Shisō no kagaku ( Science of Thought ) and the Institute for the Science of Thought have received relatively little attention in the English-language literature on Japanese intellectual life after the Second World War. Among scholars writing in English, Shisō no kagaku...

... but as objects of sex. They are feminized by the hands of the indifferent narrators of the images, and the workers' entirety as humans is reduced to those who are only good at making a living in bed. To analyze, Suzuki takes “Philippine cinema,” the theme of this journal, to mean a site that both veils...

... than ritualized failure to misread or disavow the ideological positioning that instigates recrimination. Barlow argues that this journal issue is an important opportunity to rethink automatic response and to seek better, more clear and compelling alternatives to repetitive, racialized, nationalist...

...Jesook Song As a response to positions ' twentieth-anniversary workshop that solicited suggestions on the future direction of the journal, this article raises questions on how to study Asia without falling into traps of reproducing capitalist discourse that reduces the significance of Asia to its...

..., Cold War scholarship, and the struggle over so-called area studies. Topics raised and considered include the history of the journal's founding, critical reminiscence of the project's early years of publications and intellectual politics, historical trends in knowledge production and ways...

... their modernist journal Bungei jidai ( Literary Age ) (1924–27) were preoccupied with attempts to explain and philosophically anchor notions of sensation and perception. This did not mean an overwhelming concern with the body and its senses: on the contrary, in these texts perception emerges as somehow purified...

... and the ethnography of global supply chains, her work addresses the intersecting topics of transnational capitalism, fast fashion, migration (transnational and domestic), counterfeit culture, gendered labor, industrialization, and urbanization. She has published single-authored articles in international journals...

... . “ Japanese Seismicity and the Limits of Prediction .” Journal of Asian Studies 71 , no. 2 : 333 – 44 . Clarke Roger Valentin Jack 2005 . “ A History of the International Commission on Radiological Protection .” Health Physics 88 , no. 6 : 717 – 32 . Comfort Nathaniel . 2012...

...Tani Barlow; Suzy Kim Kim: Self-critical scholarship has always been at the core of the journal's mission and method, and among the points you made in the interview twenty years ago, I gravitate to the following: “The assumption that scholarly thinking is a kind of praxis, for instance...

.... Among his publications is Apu and After, Revisiting Ray’s Cinema (2005). He edits the Journal of the Moving Image and has recently written and codirected the award-­ winning Bengali feature film Sthaniya Sambaad (Spring in the Colony, 2010...