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positions (2014) 22 (1): 263–292.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Jin Liu This essay sets out to examine the emerging trend of Chinese rap songs that are rendered in nonstandard local languages or dialects in mainland China in the age of the Internet. It first disputes the common criticism, based on limited data, of Chinese rap as lacking social and political...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (3): 543–550.
Published: 01 August 2014
... Editor’s Introduction:
The Local Intimacies of China’s Rural-Urban Divide
Lili Lai
Reading through published books, news reports, web logs, and forum dis-
cussions in China, one finds that most of the well-intentioned discourses
that take...
Journal Article
Between Ooru , Area, and Pettai : The Terms of the Local in Tamil Cinema of the Twenty-First Century
positions (2017) 25 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of the local in the age of so-called globalization, and what implications this formation has for an understanding of the relationship between cinema and space in the context of Tamil films produced in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This construct of the pettai is viewed through questions...
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 541–554.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Jamie Morgan 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Words of Warning: Global Networks, Asian Local Resistance,
and the Planetary Vulgate of Neoliberalism
Jamie Morgan
Globalization is the first and last word in the vocabulary of media pundits,
cultural...
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 733–758.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Alice Ming Wai Jim 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Urban Mediations in Hong Kong Contemporary Art:
Notes on A Very Good City and Local Orientation
Alice Ming Wai Jim
Over the last decade, contemporary art in Hong Kong, informed by travel-
(ing...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 643–653.
Published: 01 August 2009
... infrastructure to nurture Aborigine talent in Taiwan's film industry, however vulnerable the industry may be. Duke University Press 2009 In the Realm of the Indigenous:
Local, National, and Global Articulations in Fishing Luck
Anita Wen-Shin Chang
When I first saw Fishing Luck...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 71–96.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Danièle Bélanger Vietnamese immigrant female spouses account for the second largest group of “foreign brides” in Taiwan and South Korea. This essay examines the local industry in Vietnam that facilitates and organizes marriages between local women and foreign men. The analysis focuses on how...
Journal Article
positions (1994) 2 (3): 680–710.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Kuan-Hsing Chen Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Roundtable
Positioning positions:
A New Internationalist Localism of Cultural Studies
Kuan-Hsing Chen
The following text comes out of a constant search for a position that would...
Journal Article
positions (2003) 11 (2): 479–509.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Matthew Chew 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 The Dual Consequences of Cultural Localization: How Exposed Short
Stockings Subvert and Sustain Global Cultural Hierarchy
Matthew Chew
The clothes worn by contemporary urban Chinese should not appear unfa...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
... for industrialization and road building, entailing relocation of villagers, has been understood by local villagers. Rumors of possible relocation (and compensation for existing homes) have often translated into the speedy building of rather absurd house extensions to maximize compensation. In response, village...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 253–277.
Published: 01 February 2010
... as the answer to the second. This essay maintains, however, that local state actors played the central and effectively centralizing role in informatization ( xinxihua ) projects in Nanhai City, Guangdong province. Through local e-government projects and a series of policies regarding land use, financing...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 853–884.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Wai-hung Yiu; Alex Ching-shing Chan The popularity and circulation of Japanese manga bishōjo (“beautiful young girls”) (Japanese teenage girl comics), and its consumptive creations in forms of cosplays (public costume parades in anime characters), toy figures, and animes appropriated by the local...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 171–189.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Fan Zhang Abstract This ethnographic article focuses on the performance of Alce Lhamo ( Sister Goddess ) in Lithang, a Tibetan town on the western tip of Sichuan Province in China. It explores the linkages between local ways of residing in the world, the cosmological universe, and cosmopolitan...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 573–602.
Published: 01 August 2014
... by the socialist state. Intellectuals tend to describe this development in terms of an increased tolerance for “cultural” practices; but the fact is that local cosmology puts the state at the very heart of popular religion. In terms of local cosmology, the state is an ideal cosmic order, an exemplary center...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 691–720.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Zhu Xiaoyang Taking a topographical approach, this article provides an account of social change in the village of Xiaocun in Yunnan since the early twentieth century. For a century, the villagers have dwelled in the local environment, both changing and creating the village landscape. This article...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 31–54.
Published: 01 February 2011
... international feminism and adopt the notion of the “local” to define their place in the world. This essay highlights the “troubling” effects the import of “gender” has on feminist theory building in China and delineates the various and sometimes conflicting efforts Chinese feminists have made to restabilize...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 885–919.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., a tourist area, as an example to show how national cultural policy and global IPR overlap in the local economy. I also demonstrate how this history escapes Aihwa Ong's theorization of “exception,” as the related global and state interests converge not at areas of exception but at the heart of numerous local...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 February 2021
... leads to the formation of hierarchies, categories of containment, and reductionism—and to unearth forms of comparison emerging from local environments and local knowledge; and (2) in thinking of storytelling events or inscriptions as situated testimonies (i.e., identifying the politics of location...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 365–391.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Richard T. Chu For centuries, dominant groups subjected the Chinese in the Philippines to different forms of identifications as a way to localize them. The Chinese in turn found ways to deflect and manipulate such means of control. Focusing on five films on Chinese Filipinos, this essay describes...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 623–648.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and culturally cosmopolitan Cantonese progressive cinema. The social realism represented by Union is not local or passé. The Union artists envisioned from below a humane and cosmopolitan community inhabited by workers and intellectuals, locals and diasporic Chinese subjects, which connects people beyond...
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