...Paul E. Festa Duke University Press 2006 Mahjong Politics in Contemporary China: Civility, Chineseness, and Mass Culture Paul E. Festa The surge of popular nationalism in China following the U.S.-led NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade...

... state claims closely enough to recognize and identify them in classified sources. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 mass line PRC history epistemology post-disillusionment cadres In January 1951 a woman appeared at a People's Courthouse in Hebei Province to file suit against...

... exhausted values paradigm–based approach. The conclusions they lead to are that historical and social scientific explanations of political change in China have become intellectually dependent on the abstraction of mass consciousness, and that this abstraction has been used to obscure the endemic violence...

...Wesley Sasaki-Uemura 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Competing Publics: Citizens’ Groups, Mass Media, and the State in the 1960s Wesley Sasaki-Uemura Prelude on a Phone Booth A virtual museum on the internet about public telephones in Japan carries...

...Li Hsiao-t'i 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Making a Name and a Culture for the Masses in Modern China Li Hsiao-t’i Almost half a century ago, when the late intellectual historian Benjamin Schwartz published his pioneering study on Communist...

... into each individual’s nervous system. The whole pop- ulation became a networked jumpiness, a distributed neuronal network registering en masse quantum shifts in the nation’s global state of discom- fiture in rhythm with leaps between color levels...

... examines Nakai Masakazu's thoughts on technology as it relates to what he perceived as the disciplining of the creative, practical-political energies of the masses by capitalist commodification and specialization. Instead of only defining technology as the instrumental means of production or the technical...

...Jina E. Kim Mass media radio culture and literature occupied an important and large space in the making of 1970s culture under Park Chung Hee’s Yushin regime. Radio technology and the sounds produced by radio broadcasting indelibly came to be used by the state to maneuver and discipline the masses...

... is that the construction of the “new” modern woman in China, as made-to-be-looked-at in these manuals, betrays a fascination with class that responds to the emerging masses who aspire to, or have achieved, middle-class levels of wealth. Such fascination reinscribes women with a sexual ontology (as in nuxing ) as well...

... imperative, a series of new laws, litigation, and regulations has been put into place that criminalizes practically all sex-related publications and video images, more specifically any sex-related information, contact, and even inquiries on the Internet. How are we to understand such sexual mass hysteria...

...Slavoj Žižek The essay analyzes revolutionary terror apropos of two exemplary cases: the Jacobin phase of the French Revolution and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In both cases, terror should be dismissed not as a mass crime but as a failed articulation of the radical emancipatory will. Our task...

... this so-called third world country up to speed with pop trends, Idol reveals the neocolonial processes and the culturalist terms under which global modernity is engendered in late capitalism. The author contends that global mass media — seen as free flowing, immaterial, and unbounded — reinforces...

... and the advent of the mass mobilization policy: the Army Art Association (Rikugun Bijutsu Kyōkai), the Women Artists Service Corps (Jōryū Bijutsuka Hōkōtai), and the Art Unit for Promoting the Munitions Industry (Gunju Seisan Bijutsu Suishintai). Although these three collectives were all created under the banner...

... a dialogical enterprise based upon a foundation of subjective autonomy: subjective autonomy, that is, as an ethical concept propounded by postwar authors such as Sakaguchi Ango, who believed that authenticity and individualism were the only defenses against the mass psychology that enabled the militarism...

.... At the same time, stylistically, the film celebrates, or at least fully appreciates, the arrival of technological modernity by 1930, which enables the spectacles of lights in the form of a new visual medium for a mass-consumer society. Moreover, the motif of hands, which is enhanced by hard lighting...

... stance is in itself intriguing, since their chosen genre of expression is generally viewed in Europe and the United States as being inherently apolitical. Coupled with the fact that it is a musical genre without the same kind of mass public appeal as Mando-pop or Canto-pop makes one ask not only why...

... relatively denigrated or subaltern peripheries, that is, rural China. Many dilemmas and challenges facing the people described in these articles are held in common, and together they allow us to see a broad vision of contemporary China beyond the cities and the dominant mass media. Being rather ethnographic...

... Global South—are marked as problem zones for the global governance of intellectual property. Within these regions, there is a widening chasm between neoliberal elites and the relationally subaltern masses in their adherence to IPR (intellectual property rights) regimes and their attitude toward piratical...

... contribution to this process of narrative rationalization. At the same time, that encounter also released the impulse of pure recording and description, at odds with the narrative propulsion. The article places this logic in relation to the demise of the mass film in contemporary times, and it attempts to read...

... sex worker rights organization. These disparate cases illustrate the hierarchical dimensions through which sex-trafficking interventions operate while entertaining US antitrafficking curiosities in Thailand. The author argues that these US antitrafficking projects illustrate how global markets in mass...