...Tani E. Barlow 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 What Kind of Knowledge Do We Need? An Interview with Kin Chi Lau Tani E. Barlow Kin Chi Lau is an activist-intellectual who works with the China Social Services and Development Research Centre...

...Matthew Lau Walter Benjamin and filmmaker Jia Zhangke both use the trope of silence to register a critique of the effects of capitalist development on their respective societies that is fundamentally romantic. For Benjamin and Jia, the strength of the romantic sensibility is its break with more...

...Dorothy Wai Sim Lau Internet fan participation has demonstrated the emergent potency of meaning making for transnational stardom. With the ease of searching, poaching, editing, posting, tagging, and annotating texts aided by cyber technology, fans can rework the filmic and publicity materials about...

...Sit Tsui; Lau Kin Chi In an era of vacillations between threats of a nuclear war and promises of peace breakthroughs in East Asia, this article takes examples from public campaigns of women’s peace groups—such as Women’s Peace Walk, Women Cross DMZ (the Demilitarized Zone), Women’s Active Museum...

... effective. Whatever it is that we are doing, Shigeki Takeo, Kin Chi Lau, and Gayatri Spivak repeat, it is chaotic. Sometimes it feels futile, given the magnitude of the crisis. Also, in Shigeki Takeo’s words, “It takes a lot of time.” The time...

... the intrusion of other forces into the polity, the boundary of which is almost coterminous with the bureaucracy’s own boundary.10 Chiu I Politics and the Body Social in Colonial Hong Kong 189 S. K. Lau and K. F...

..., Old Leung, Uncle Lau, and others have all been attacked by him in the past. In one particularly savage assault, Old Chan used a cleaver concealed in a rag to cut open Uncle Yip’s stomach after knocking him unconscious. Although Old Chan has...

... of Violence Songs of Experience The Virtues of Mendacity Essays from the Edge Kracauer l’exilé and Reason after Its Eclipse Matthew Lau is assistant professor of English at Queensborough Community College of the City University...

... studies at the University of Arizona. He is currently completing a manu- script on student politics and urban space in the May Fourth era. Lau Kin Chi teaches cultural studies in Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Former board chair...

... the University of Oregon. Lau Kin Chi is an associate professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. She is a member of the International Board of PeaceWomen Across the Globe, vice presi- positions 28:2 doi 10.1215/10679847-8112517 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press positions 28:2 May...

... is rural reconstruction, and this story, derived from the four cautionary stories I narrated, may be termed “rural reconstruction and environmental protection.” Thank you. Translated by Lau...

... of it is the most apparent marker, and a historically specific legacy, of uneven transnational cultural flows across the country. Yet despite the Sinophone s potentials as an ethnolinguistic concept, many studies of Sinophone cultures, with a few exceptions (e.g., Hee 2019; Lu 2007; Lau 2021), have been more...

... and honor. The term “utilitarianistic familialism” has been applied to the nor- mative and practical tendencies whereby Hong Kong Chinese place family interests above all other individual and social concerns (Lau 1983,72). Eco- nomic...

.... Lau’s The Unbroken Chain: An Anthology of Taiwan Fiction since 1926, although the volume includes at least three U.S. resident-contributors and one piece focused exclusively on overseas Taiwanese Chinese, the book title, nonethe...

... and created a scene; and as part of her examination prior to a threatened arrest, she is forced by Leo (Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau), an accomplished swordsman and the chief of police for the state, to make answer through dance. Caught in a web...

... that means is eccentric. I am in solidarity until I am not. These are constantly negotiated terms. But more importantly, my solidarity with a movement, take the Peace Women Around the Globe group that Kin Chi Lau and Dai Jinhua have fostered for years, involves me going to the PRC and interacting...

... , and Asia Europe Journal . She is the author of China's Citizenship Challenge: Labour NGOs and the Struggle for Migrant Workers’ Rights (2021). Jane Hayward is currently lecturer in China and global affairs at the Lau China Institute, King's College London. She has a PhD from the East Asian Studies...

... on your own work as an intellectual and political worker? I am finding in these interviews that there is a contradictory pull between intellectual work and organizational work. This becomes most apparent in Kin Chi Lau’s interview, in which she talks...

... .” PhD diss. , City University of New York . Lau Raymond . 1997 . “ China: Labour Reform and the Challenge Facing the Working Class .” Capital and Class 21 , no. 1 : 45 – 80 . Li Deming Xu Changdong eds. 2009 . Zhuanxing: Xidu gejiu kexue fazhan shixian. (Transformation...

... ; Everett and Lau 2004 : xvi). Meanwhile, in the postwar period, Japanese popular music, especially enka , continues to be popular in Korea and Taiwan, showing the colonial period's continuing reverberations (Pilzer 2012 ). Though Japanese music is often thought of and taught as unchanged classical...