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positions (2004) 12 (2): 299–327.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Laikwan Pang 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Magic and Modernity in China
Laikwan Pang
Magic violates the rules of nature and society. Its inherent foreignness and
eccentricity mean that magic resists historical periodization and cultural...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 297–332.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and the male Indian manual laborer are respectively the subject of imaginative narration in No Day Off (2006) and My Magic (2008), both directed by Chinese Singaporean auteur Eric Khoo. In these films, Khoo allegorizes these three relations to construct the inter-Asian hinterland as a counter-discursive space...
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 367–377.
Published: 01 May 2015
... is analyzed from a theoretical and comparative standpoint through various works of literature and literary theory. The article considers the role of magical realism, fantastic literary devices, and Chen Haiyan's personal folklore as part of her art-making process that intersects her dreams with her reality...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 41–66.
Published: 01 February 2023
...” Singaporean self‐imagining, a porosity that calls for magical and magico‐bureaucratic interventions to set right. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Southeast Asia Singapore magic migration domestic work race horror In the late spring and summer...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 541–570.
Published: 01 August 2023
... attention on its own terms in the scholarship of either Lu Xun or Chinese visual culture. Lu Xun's essay includes a folklore account of “foreign devils” plucking out locals’ eyes and pickling them in a jar. Bracketing the magic lantern incident held by many as the primal scene of modern Chinese literature...
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positions (2004) 12 (2): 291–297.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Tani E. Barlow 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Editor’s Introduction
In “Magic and Modernity in China,” Laikwan Pang argues that a transna-
tional magical imagination and the uncanniness of modernity per se are vis-
ible in late...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2021
... environment, in which diverse media practices intersected. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Lu Xun media magic lantern the periodical orality References A Lun'na 阿伦娜 . 2010 . “ Dianhua jiaoyu de yunyu yu dansheng” 电化教育的孕育与诞生 ( “The Incubation and Inception of Audio...
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 149–183.
Published: 01 February 1995
...
magical abilities is her refusal to use mass-produced Chinese medicine or to
charge money for her services, both of which mark her as the consummate
positions 3:1 Spring 1995 164
embodiment...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 623–652.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the late Ming Empire s positionality in the maritime world. The Empire of Cannibalism: Military Conquest, Magical Barbarians, and the Vernacular World in Voyages The vernacular novel Voyages offers a fictional account of the history of Zheng He s voyages on the Indian Ocean. It narrates that Emperor Yongle...
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positions (2001) 9 (1): 187–217.
Published: 01 February 2001
....) In his Magic of the State,
Taussig describes a kind of symbiosis between the state and popular reli-
gion, in which the same force that animates the bodies of the possessed is the
history, and the historical figures and stereotypes, on which...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 217–228.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of an eye, the red bridge is ablaze
with lights, and its shape bears an eerie resemblance to the Rainbow Bridge
that collapsed in Qijiang, Chongqing. This scene echoes the magic perfor-
mance scene near the beginning of the film...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 531–539.
Published: 01 August 2023
... ) too, as detailed in his essay “The Uncanny,” where he psychoanalyzes E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story “The Sandman.” Instead of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about magic sand bringing sweet dreams to children, Hoffmann, whom Freud described as the unrivalled literary master of the uncanny...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 869–904.
Published: 01 November 2020
... have taken up its constructed tropicalities and their potential complica- tions and subversions. A contrapuntal reading of the material spaces of the Gardens by the Bay with excerpts from Kevin Kwan s bestseller Crazy Rich Asians (2013), Sandi Tan s magical realist novel The Black Isle (2012), and Ng...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 229–233.
Published: 01 May 2021
... which version is more accurate since the whole episode was likely to have been fictional. So what dianying actually meant is not only unclear but also irrelevant since from the 1890s to the 1920s Chinese film publications often considered film and magic lantern as different stages of the same medium...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 473–493.
Published: 01 May 2012
.... Whether or not the
photographer fully believed in such “sympathetic magic,” in this case, a bit
of skillful photo doctoring held at least the potential of generating happiness
that could extend beyond an ordinary portrait.
One...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 191–208.
Published: 01 February 2024
... by conferring magical powers of invincibility rather than Buddhist moral purity, even if these cannot be neatly separated (see Holt 2009 ). As Geoffrey Gunn ( 2003 : 142) argues, the Phu Mi Bun revolt was revolutionary only in the sense that it sought to “restore a pre-capitalist past by way of the magical...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 781–815.
Published: 01 November 2018
... . Bao liandeng (Magic Lotus Lantern) . 1959 . Dir. Ye Ming . Shanghai : Tianma Film Studio . Barlow Tani E. 1993 . “ Colonialism’s Career in Postwar China Studies ,” positions 1 , no. 1 : 224 – 68 . Bao liandeng (Magic Lotus Lantern) . 1997 . Formations of Colonial Modernity...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., where the maid hides her lovers under her bed while seducing the employer's children with delicious foreign food. This fieldwork shows that in fact “the violation of boundaries becomes magical warfare.” Projections and microaggressions hover uncomfortably in the intimate relation that Singapore itself...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 435–479.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of golden earrings, which turn into
two golden keys. With the keys the boy opens a cave full of treasures, but
he just picks up an ordinary stone mill and an iron hoe, which can produce
grains magically. A greedy landlord tries to seize...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 November 2019
... forms of knowledge (Foucault 1980: 81) as percep- tion of friendship, proficiency with African talking drums, and awareness of folk magic. In this way the Maoist aesthetic of insurgency emphasized a culturally- inflected approach to asymmetrical conflict: the translation of universal theory into local...
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