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... in the trilogy, follows the traces of a missing girl who was originally matched and prepared for her adoptive family in South Korea. Noh-C­ him (Missing) and In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee use the central motif of their missingness to demonstrate how the artists personal search for adoption truths revealed...

...Bakirathi Mani Duke University Press 2006 Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Modernities at the Miss India USA Pageant Bakirathi Mani At the 1999 Miss India USA pageant, held in San Jose, California, more than six hundred...

..., the earphone was introduced to Shanghai cinema in 1939 to interpret Western sound films for Chinese audiences. The application of earphones gave rise to a new profession, “Miss Earphone,” whose practitioners were exclusively female, thereby precipitating a counteraction to the male-dominated print translation...

...Thomas Chen Abstract Against the background of the growing effort in the Xi Jinping era to sinicize democracy and rule of law, much critical attention has surrounded Chinese models of governance variously conceived as “humane authority” and “political meritocracy.” What is missing from...

... concern over the “missing” girl child have been associated with the spread of antenatal technologies such as ultrasound testing during pregnancy and their surreptitious use for sex determination and the selective abortion of female fetuses, which is banned by Indian law. This essay attempts to set up...

... the world that is implied by this organizational schema itself no longer exists, and therefore the problem of area studies has ceased to be an essential target: it is a “remnant” that is “withering away.” But it is in fact exactly the opposite, that we will miss something crucial in the question of area...

..., much like their bound feet in the past, express an elitist distance from labor and engrave the notion of class within the notion of femininity. But to simply assert that the hand fetish is nothing other than the survival of the old class bias in a new form is to miss the complexity of the picture. What...

.... Uchida's photographs were missing for over seventy years, however, after being used by Jeong Moon-Ki, a representative Korean ichthyologist in the postcolonial era. Uchida's glass plates were discovered by chance and were archived and displayed in 2004 in an exhibition titled The Fish Locked in a Glass...

... cases of Korean transnational adoption, Hosu Kim and Yeong Ran Kim explore the concept of missingness in the works of adoptee artists kate-­hers RHEE and Deann Borshay Liem. Through a careful reading of RHEE s Noh-­Chim (Missing) and Liem s In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee, they argue that these works...

...- ing participant, namely, mandatory social interaction and other interper- sonal experiences that are perceived as threatening, intrusive, and con- straining. As impetuous, autonomous robot he signifies the pursuit of what is missing...

... of the former “national bourgeoisie” (as opposed to colonial or bureaucratic members)to live comfortably off the dividends of their shares in the nationalized enterprises. The only “regrettable” thing is that Miss Zhang looks like “a girl of modest...

...- trated advertisements appeared on the front pages of Shibao and Shishi xin- bao announcing the publication of a book titled Ma Zhenhua nüshi zisha ji (A Record of Miss Ma Zhenhua’s Suicide), selling for 1.5 mao. On March 28, Shibao reported...

.... Alongside the figure of the bandit in Manchuria, there also emerged Miss Earphone as a testament to the uneven symbols of colonial modernity. In “Sound, Gender, and the Thing,” Qilin Cao explores the role of earphones in the film translation industry in Shanghai. He argues that earphones, introduced...

... of “idolatry,” and to be baptized. For vegetarians converting to Protestant Christianity, meat eating and iconoclasm were al- ways linked. A Miss Schneider is told that old Mrs. Wang had “decided to break her fast and would be willing to take down her...

... couldn't live longer than him. I'll figure out something for him when the day comes,” his mother replied. “What do you mean?” “I'll cook his favorite dish and mix in some poison.” Hearing this, I was shocked, unable to utter a word for a long time. Last August, Dumboy suddenly went missing...

... is the Broadway play Miss Saigon, a play which attracted a lot of controversy because of its Oriental- ized adaptation of M. Butterj?y and because of the production’s unfair hir- ing practices. Protests by Asian groups were evident during...

... of Eternal Sorrow” is symptomatic, because it brilliantly merges the stories of a human subject, fading Miss Shanghai, and a historical crystallization of Shanghainese ur- banity itself. Miss Wang Qiyao’s cultural aestheticization and normatization...

... to reveal what is missing in the hegemonic discourse or practice that abandons basic human autonomy and freedom,it recalls the memory of private enjoyment based on the use of the commodity and the related “civil” associations,but also the memory...

... agencies inaugurated the first Miss China pageant, and the nation hosted the Miss World and Miss Tourism beauty competitions in 2003.1 This, after decades of Maoist socialism that officially rejected the pursuit of feminine adornment. Exploring...

... has lost its bronchial raspiness (afterwards, I’ll be free to drink as much as I want), I call Dan in Seattle. I tell him I miss him and that I am fine. (“Oh, that? No, been over it for weeks What point would there be to tell him I am...