...Christopher Payne This article revolves around the contemporary Taiwanese writer Wuhe and the Taiwanese melodic black-metal band ChthoniC ( Shanling ) and their “political” use of the Wushe Incident that occurred in 1930 in colonial Taiwan. The event, which was brutally repressed by the Japanese...

... pollution in Beijing partly stem from a monopoly by the authorities over land and capital. Story 4. The Story of Disease from Food: how food security is compromised with the excessive use of pesticide, chemical fertilizer, and heavy metal in farming and husbandry. From the four cautionary stories is derived...

... on ethnographic data collected between 2016 and 2018 in Shanghai. Such “snail households” living in removable cargo containers and prefabricated metal shelters represent a submissive coping mechanism in response to demolition and eviction, to reduce living cost and stay put on the urban fringe. This article...

...Figure 5 Metal display cabinet in front of the old wall, Tiantan Xili, May 2018. © Gerda Wielander. ...

... classical Chinese, originally referred to “offerings” of valuable items such as cowrie shells, jade, silk, and precious metals. For example, the Duke of Shao, uncle to King Cheng of the Zhou dynasty (r. 1042 – 1006 BCE), is recorded in the Esteemed...

....” This general issue draws to a close with Christopher Payne’s “Wushe, Literature, and Melodic Black Metal: The ‘Nonpolitics’ of Wuhe and the ‘Political’ ChthoniC.” According to Payne, the 1930 uprising of local Tai- wan inhabitants, apparently against...

... Buddhist philosophy and meditation into his sculptural installations. A case in point is the artist’s attempt to materialize breath and meditation. Boonma’s huge installation, Nature’s Breath: Arokhayasala ( gure comprises a stack of rusty metal...

... answered: “If someone had said: ‘What I played was a metal flute, positions 3:2 Fall 1995 322 so why do you write “jade flute I would have answered: ‘What I wrote...

... the most ironic phenomenon in Hong Kong is the des- tititute and solitary human being who lives in a cube measuring six by three by four feet surrounded by a metal grill, the so-called Hong Kong cage apartment. Under the regime of hegemonic fetishism...

...,. . . There is more to this image of lovers in the process of being transformed from organic to metallic forms than the romantic topos of unrealizable Abbas I The Last Emporium 15 passion (cf...

..., sound, neon sign and metal cage, size variable Malekeh Nayiny Figure...

... body parts coming together, her birth into the world is marked by violence, division, and confusion: then cold metal tongs clamped my forehead and temples, then forceps plucked me from my mother’s body like fruit torn from a tree Kim ∣∣ Suji...

..., it is not surprising that metal, especially iron, appears as the most recurring and prominent motif in Zheng's poetry, vividly and imaginatively evoking the sensations of the human body under the impact—literal or metaphorical—of metal (chopped fingers, crushed limbs, bruised skin, piercing metallic assaults...

... but to its disuni cation.29 Like other territorial states, Vietnam issues a currency, the đồng. The word đồng refers to the metals — usually bronze and copper — used for coinage by Vietnamese kings through the early twentieth century...

... of clothing is of a different shade and nuance. For me the materials, the fabrics I use are very important. It is like when you paint, the choice of the canvas influences the final result. Sometimes I weave metal with silk to create a unique shirt, other...

... reaching its peak in politics, society, and art.”37 positions 21:2  Spring 2013 368 Figure 6  The Future Eve, 1955. Miniature stage set with Figure 7  The Experimental Ballet Theater: The Future Eve plastic and metal wires. Photo by O¯ tsuji Kiyoji...

.... The equation of the wild goose with the helicopter blurs the boundary between the fantastic and the rational, dream and reality, and organic and metallic. This para- dox culminates in the tribute-­offering daydream sequence. These Tibetan...

... exacerbated as the heat of the fierce July sun trapped in the sheet metal roof and ceiling heats the room crammed with naked and half-naked workers, filth, and insects. The suffocating room, according to an older laborer, is a “human garbage-can...

... . Another is the fierce-looking woman invoked by the old man. Ostensibly pinning him down, she lifted the metal placard hanging around his neck and whispered to him words of encouragement that helped the young man to endure. Unlike juror #8’s, we do not learn her name. Unlike juror #8, she...