...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...

... a fake notion, “capitalist vitality,” in his “Media Piracy and the Terrorist Boogeyman: Speculative Potentiations.” Sarkar exposes how, rhetorically, copyright piracy has been fused to create a fake war-­on-­terror figure, as familiar acronyms...

..., for broadcast- Pang ❘ Depoliticization through Cultural Policy 889 ing and cinema. The CCP’s Central Propaganda Department (Zhongyang xuanchuan bu, controls media reportage and discussion of “delicate” political issues...

... at Knox College. He received his PhD in film and media studies and East Asian languages and literatures from Yale Univer- sity in 2016. He has published in Philosophy East and West, as well as online in New Ideas in East Asian Studies, and Participations: International Journal of Audience Research. Bao...

... Writing and Pictures, 1683 – 1895 (2004). Shujen Wang is an associate professor of visual and media arts at Emerson College and a research associate in the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. She...

..., 1997) on filmic miracle work through the rise of media-­encouraged religiosity, and examines particular counter-­takes in filmic representation that fore- grounds a divergent reading on the production of spectacle amidst massive...

... would consequently say that I am not qualified to discuss the problems that Understanding Taiwan: The Society presents. Nonetheless I heard some media criticism of this textbook that positions 8:1 © 2000 by Duke University Press positions...

..., for instance, intimates traces of relationships among floating forms, details, motifs, and iconographies. Salient in this imagined escape of meaning is the media, through which culture is made popular in multiple ways, from state-sponsored...

.... Western media have paid scant attention to current African-Asian flows and connections. (There was, for instance, not one long article published on the aforementioned Sino-African Forum.) Though research has been done on Indian and Chinese diasporas...

... illustra- tion in the extant issues of the newspaper is that of a ship. Perhaps this was an echo of the centrality of sea travel, oceanic trade, and piracy in the broader Malay culture of Southeast Asia, reflected in a literature pervaded with stories of sailors, harbor masters, raids, ships, and storms...

... growing tired of Taiwanese films back to the theater, the film sparked an audience movement to watch it over and over (T. Lin 2018 ). Viewing the film became “a national pastime for web citizens,” and audiences voluntarily adopted a “piracy ban” movement (Chang 2010 : 81). After the film's success, Wei...

...” Knowledge can only widen horizons by abiding so insistently in the particular that its isolation is dispelled. This admittedly presupposes a relation to the general, though not one of subsumption, but rather almost the reverse. Dialectical media...