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Bruce Lee and the Anti-imperialism of Kung Fu: A Polycultural Adventure
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positions (2003) 11 (1): 51–90.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Vijay Prashad 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Bruce Lee and the Anti-imperialism of Kung Fu: A Polycultural Adventure
Vijay Prashad
Kung fu is back. Jackie Chan enlivens it on the big screen, Sammo Hung on
the small. Children abandon soccer practice...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 10 . Mr. Lee being interviewed. Still from An Unavoidable Internment (1963).
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Published: 01 May 2025
Figure 2 Bovey Lee 李寶怡, Return ( Hui 回) (2021). Cut paper. Courtesy of the artist.
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Published: 01 May 2025
Figure 3 Bovey Lee 李寶怡, Roots-Dandelion ( Gen-pugongying 根-蒲公英) (2016). Cut paper. Courtesy of the artist.
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Published: 01 May 2025
Figure 4 Bovey Lee 李寶怡, Bunny Ears Cactus ( Outdoor ) ( Tuerduo xianrenzhang 兔耳朵仙人掌) (2021). Cut paper. Courtesy of the artist.
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Zainichi Protagonists and the Making of Historical Fiction: Cold War Security and Economic Insecurity in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yang Sŏk-il's Chi to hone ( Blood and Bones )
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 83–107.
Published: 01 February 2025
... and Japanese languages, Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and Yang Sŏk-il’s Chi to hone 血と骨 ( Blood and Bones ), this article contextualizes the Zainichi intergenerational historical novel within a transpacific memory culture on Japanese-US imperiality and Korean diaspora. Built from firsthand or secondhand Zainichi...
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Translational Nation: Politics and Re-presentation at the Independence Hall of Korea
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 85–110.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Chungjae Lee; Jerry Won Lee Abstract This article develops a theory of nation form as translational, referring to the praxis of re-presenting and thus rendering sensible the nation through an examination of the Tongnip Kinyŏmkwan (Independence Hall of Korea), a national museum designed...
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Between Plastic Surgery and the Photographic Representation: Ji Yeo Undoes the Elusive Narrative of Transformation
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 705–733.
Published: 01 November 2022
...So-Rim Lee Abstract This essay looks at New York–based South Korean photographer Ji Yeo's two photographic series Beauty Recovery Room and It Will Hurt a Little . Tracing the social rhetoric on plastic surgery in South Korea after the 1997 IMF Crisis, it takes Yeo's photographs as counterexamples...
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Ideology of the Image: Wu Guanzhong's Abstract Expression, 1979–1983
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 315–340.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Jennifer Dorothy Lee Abstract This article examines the discourse of abstraction among Beijing intellectuals in response to the artist Wu Guanzhong's 吴冠中 (1919–2010) published essays on formal and abstract beauty from 1979 and 1980. By introducing Wu through a new critical lens that emphasizes his...
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A Utopia of Self-Reliance: Dazhai and the Mutation of Global Capitalism in Maoist China
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 756–788.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Young Ji Lee This essay examines Maoist China and its deep engagement with local/global capitalism during the Cold War period. It analyzes how the socialist realist utopian images of self-reliant Dazhai, a model village in Shanxi, contributed to the domestic and international image of Maoist China...
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Artwork by Korean American Artists
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 282–284.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Yong Soon Min; Sasha Y. Lee Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Portfolio
Artwork by former comfort women
Kang T6k- ky6ng
Kim Sun-d6k
Artwork by Jupanese artists
Tomiyama Taeko
Shimada Yoshiko
Artwork by Korean American artists
Yong Soon Min...
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The Lord of Heaven versus Jesus Christ: Christian Sectarian Violence in Late-Nineteenth-Century South China
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positions (2000) 8 (1): 77–99.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Joseph Tse-Hei Lee 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 The Lord of Heaven versus Jesus Christ: Christian Sectarian Violence in
Late-Nineteenth-Century South China
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
This article draws on a case study of communal conflicts between the Bap...
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Writing Colonial Relations of Everyday Life in Senryu
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 601–628.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Helen J. S. Lee This article uses the comic poetic genre senryu as a source through which to explore the dynamics of lived experience of working-class Japanese immigrants to Korea. Challenging the dominant paradigm by which we view colonial reality, as a neatly divided portrait of colonial society...
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Surrogate Military, Subimperialism, and Masculinity: South Korea in the Vietnam War, 1965-73
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 655–682.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Jin-kyung Lee In reconsidering South Korean military involvement in the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1973, this essay focuses on the multivalent relationship between military labor and masculine sexuality in the overlapping contexts of class stratification, nationalist economic development under...
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Dying as a Daughter of the Empire
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 73–93.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Helen J. S. Lee During wartime Japan (late 1930s – 1945), the Japanese women in colonial Korea were pounded by ideological injunctions and practical imperatives demanding better service to the empire. This article explores the negotiations and struggles of Asano Shigeko (1922 – 42), a Keijō-born...
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Between Indeterminacy and Radical Critique: Madang-gŭk , Ritual, and Protest
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 555–584.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Namhee Lee 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Between Indeterminacy and Radical Critique:
Madang-g˘uk, Ritual, and Protest
Namhee Lee
The French Revolution is sometimes said to have really begun with the
opening night of Beaumarchais’s Marriage...
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Princess Pari in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman
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positions (2004) 12 (2): 431–456.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Kun Jong Lee 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Princess Pari in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman
Kun Jong Lee
When she attended a human rights symposium in 1993, Nora Okja Keller
listened to the testimony of Keum Ju Hwang and learned the truth...
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Governmentality and the Aesthetic State: A Chinese Fantasia
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positions (2006) 14 (1): 99–130.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Haiyan Lee Duke University Press 2006 Governmentality and the Aesthetic State: A Chinese Fantasia
Haiyan Lee
Since Michel Foucault proposed the concept of “governmental rationality”
or “governmentality” in a series of lectures in the late 1970s...
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positions (2008) 16 (2): 263–278.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Haiyan Lee Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Guest Editor’s Introduction
In the 1920s, Agnes Smedley (1892 – 1950), a radical American journalist,
wrote a story about a Chinese man named Kwei Chu in her book Chinese...
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Monstrosity and Humanity in Bong Joon-ho’s The Host
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 719–747.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Meera Lee In an early essay on the implicit relationship between anthropocentrism and violence in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida centers his analysis on the meaning of “monstrosity,” which bears a signifying relation to the French term montre , meaning “to show, to demonstrate...
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