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positions (2015) 23 (1): 175–180.
Published: 01 February 2015
.... As we come into contact with images online, we expand our awareness but also simultaneously move into realms where we have only a limited grasp of the contexts in which things are made, and the goals to which they aspire. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 social media race war...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 343–368.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Bhaskar Sarkar The criminalization of media piracy, which dates as far back as the seventeenth-century yoking of copyright infringements to more violent forms of looting on the open seas, runs up against the romantic allure of the swash-buckling pirate. Whether the rogue booksellers...
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 255–292.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Hoyt J. Long This article explores the intermedial as a conceptual framework for Asia media critique and history. Although not a new concept in media studies, it proves useful for troubling the divide often imposed on old and new media forms—including technologies of communication...
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 149–183.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Shu-mei Shih Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 The Trope of ”Mainland China” in Taiwan‘s Media
Shu-mei Shih
Most discussions of cultural forms in Taiwan today need to be contextual-
ized in a cultural economy that ineluctably...
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positions (1999) 7 (3): 763–798.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Lydia H. Liu Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Beijing Sojourners in New York: Postsocialism and the Question
of Ideology in Global Media Culture
Lydia H. Liu
The television serial Beijing Sojourners in New York was aired on the CCTV...
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positions (2007) 15 (3): 609–636.
Published: 01 August 2007
...Susie Jie Young Kim What (Not) to Wear: Refashioning Civilization in Print Media
in Turn-of-the-Century Korea
Susie Jie Young Kim
On the eve of colonization in 1910, Korea was engulfed by a power strug-
gle between China and Japan that led...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (2): 489–510.
Published: 01 May 2010
... apparatus had no clear stipulations on sex between men. Duke University Press 2010 Male Same-Sex Relations in Modern China:
Language, Media Representation, and Law, 1900 – 1949
Wenqing Kang
In China during the first half of the twentieth century, the issue of male...
Journal Article
positions (2011) 19 (1): 159–191.
Published: 01 February 2011
... a unique sense of fashion for women clearly distinguished from those of its closest neighbors—the People's Republic of China, the former Soviet Union, and South Korea. This article explores the representation of an ideal female body in North Korea by examining women's fashion as manifested in visual media...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 841–868.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Shaoling Ma The mergers and separations that shaped the decolonizing third world also made media history. Singapore’s separation from Malaysia on August 9, 1965, after two tumultuous years of union was no exception. Radio and television, which broadcasted the seminal moments, embodied the mergers...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 291–317.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Alexander Zahlten Abstract This article explores the popular shift to a media‐ecological understanding in post‐1960s Japan. Bookending its investigation with two actual funerals held for fictional characters in 1970 and 2007, it tracks the trope of death to map the increased interlocking of media...
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positions (2002) 10 (1): 79–110.
Published: 01 February 2002
...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...
Journal Article
positions (2002) 10 (3): 547–573.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Koichi Iwabuchi 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity: Media Consumption of “Asia” in Japan
Koichi Iwabuchi
Over the 1990s Japan’s gradual tilt toward Asia was clearly visible. Follow-
ing a long retreat after...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 853–884.
Published: 01 November 2013
... media in the Hong Kong popular culture, are concerned with new theoretical development in the global media. We take the operational notion of “thingification of media,” as Scott Lash and Celia Lury proposed in their book Global Cultural Industry (2007), in our core analysis of these transformations...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 821–842.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Tri Phuong This article examines a series of media events occurring during General Vo Nguyen Giap's death that shine the spotlight on politics of the body in the public arena. The author's analysis focuses on the general's corpse, its connection to the larger body politic of the Vietnamese nation...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 487–513.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Gabriella Lukacs This essay analyzes how the digital media economy harnesses young people's search for meaningful work to develop new apparatuses and mechanisms of extracting value from activities that are not typically recognized as work. Drawing on interviews with net idols and an analysis...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2021
... contains important clues for understanding modern Chinese literature. This article offers a new reading of that canonical text by focusing on the problem of medium. Synthesizing author biography, media history, and textual analysis, it examines three intermedial references in the preface—the famous lantern...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 397–420.
Published: 01 May 2019
...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...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 589–619.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Fan Yang This article examines three significant moments of the shanzhai discourse in WTO-era China. Literally referring to a “mountain fortress” occupied by antiofficial bandits, shanzhai is a new term for wide-ranging knockoff products and copycat media forms. Often invoking Robin-Hood-like...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 629–659.
Published: 01 August 2008
... how premodern tanka attributed qualities according to seasonal and other (formally and informally) classifiable associations. While the Heian mode forms the template, Tawara's poetics is shown to operate in precisely this ahistorical consumer mode, passively absorbing and reflecting dominant media...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 171–202.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Brett Hack Abstract This article analyzes depictions of work in postmillennial Japanese media, particularly anime and manga, in order to theorize the function of imaginative responses to the social dislocations of neoliberalism. Critical studies of precarity in Japanese popular culture have tended...
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