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positions (2015) 23 (2): 231–257.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Danchi space Gotô Meisei chronotype high-speed growth urbanization seisansei dailiness nichijôsei Concrete Abstractions: Gotô Meisei’s Hapless Danchi Dwellers and Japan’s Economic Miracle Peter Tillack Perhaps the most...
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positions (1996) 4 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 February 1996
...Mark T. Berger Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Yellow Mythologies: The East Asian Miracle and Post-Cold War Capitalism Mark T. Berger Introduction: The Rise of East Asia and the End of the Cold War The end of the Cold War and the ensuing...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
... that the Pearl River Delta (PRD) metropolitan region, including its special economic zones (SEZs), has played a vital role in postsocialist China's “economic miracle,” urban villages have constituted the single most significant housing infrastructure for rural migrant workers who flocked to the region...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 335–345.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Patrick D. Flores The article explores the ways in which the discourse and affect of miracle is performed in Philippine cinema, with the view of understanding how it exploits and inevitably corrupts mysticism and spiritual belief. Central to this project is the woman miracle worker, the visionary...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 193–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Jini Kim Watson This article examines literature from Korea and Singapore during the decades of rapid industrial and urban expansion following World War II. Using the concept of the “New Asian City,” the author argues that the growth of the cities behind these apparent “miracle economies” needs...
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positions (2007) 15 (2): 251–284.
Published: 01 May 2007
... unfolded through a snowballing process of connected economic “miracles” in a succession of East Asian states, starting in Japan in the 1950s and 1960s, rolling on in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singa- pore, and some ASEAN (Association...
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 197–200.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Abstractions: Gotô Meisei’s Hapless Danchi Dwellers and Japan’s Economic Miracle,” and Vladimir Tikhonov’s “The Images of Russia and Russians in Colonial-­Era Korean Literature: The 1930s,” present dystopic, even catastrophic scenarios that have...
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positions (2002) 10 (3): 525–546.
Published: 01 August 2002
... their victimization and their faith with the narrative’s central point of view. The novella abounds with miracles and revelations that the writer uses not, as might be expected in a conventional fiction, to illuminate his characters’ psyches but, rather...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 1–51.
Published: 01 February 1997
... marked a rupture. In relation to the past, a new horizon of national truth was established when he, as head of state, acknowledged what had been bluster- ingly denied through decades of celebrating (and dying for) the economic miracle...
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positions (2008) 16 (1): 131–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... economic miracle of real-life Japan: the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.) Beneath the dome, scientists and soldiers are at work analyzing the force of the child Akira. The concave dome (reconstruction) serves as a mirror image of the convex bomb...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 145–175.
Published: 01 February 2020
... Chinese Time-Based Art . London : Seagull Books . Drengson Alan . 1999 . “ Ecophilosophy, Ecosophy, and the Deep Ecology Movement: An Overview .” Ecospheric Texts . www.ecospherics.net/pages/DrengEcophil.html (accessed October 1, 2019 ). Hou Hanru . 2007 . “ Everyday Miracles...
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positions (1999) 7 (2): 277–306.
Published: 01 May 1999
... generally, to globalization. In East Asia’s Confucian- based “miracle” economies, hypermasculinity adopts the traditional rhetoric of the state taking manly revenge against the West’s (and later Japan’s) positions 7:2 Fall 1999...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 121–139.
Published: 01 February 2021
.... Is positions 29:1 February 2021 134 the past made up of a series of accidents that, in hindsight, could have been avoided, or is everything a matter of fate, whereby events necessarily happen for a reason? Is the tragedy that brings death also the miracle foretold that gives birth to love and new life? Can...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to argue that the country’s eco- nomic miracle was due in part to the export of its most precious natural resource — its children. The South Korean child, legally produced as an orphan and geo-­economically positioned...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 633–644.
Published: 01 November 2017
...). In recent decades, Asia has been increasingly central to processes of globalization, expanding the “hori- zon” of inter-­Asian analysis. Contemporary East Asia’s economic “miracle” coincided with the opening of geopolitical borders and finance...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 516–546.
Published: 01 August 2018
... . “ Export Led Industrialization and Growth: Korea’s Economic Miracle 1962 – 89 .” Department of Economics, University of Wollongong . ro.uow.edu.au/commwkpapers/67 . Hoffman Lisa . 2010 . Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent . Philadelphia : Temple University Press...
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positions (2008) 16 (1): 189–219.
Published: 01 February 2008
... 200 determination is the necessary condition for black consciousness to regain its self-mastery and health. Miracle and Crash: The Power of Global Financialization in Asia The fact that Fanon analyzes colonial racist violence in terms...
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 541–554.
Published: 01 August 2003
... of 1997 the “East Asian economic miracle” was something of an embar- rassment to the major global neoliberal organizations: the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). The protectionist, export-oriented, and state-guided development...
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 177–249.
Published: 01 May 1994
... testify to the legitimacy of the state. In another Taiwan Miracle, nature is mobilized to enforce Taiwan’s incorporation into the Chinese nation-state, even before there were Chinese. Even before there were people- here paleontology dissolves...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 331–367.
Published: 01 May 2001
... createsisanurbanmiracleofnolessmagnitudethantheoneheportraysinhis other masterpiece, Himala [Miracle] (1982)—a quasi-religious cleansing that approaches joy. The duration of the scene and the uncalled-for ecstasy of the shots of fire and light portray and produce a transcendence of reality through...