...Pheng Cheah Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Crises of Money Pheng Cheah In their 2000 academic blockbuster, Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri made the polemical argument that postcolonial theory leads...

...Lisa Rofel This essay addresses the anxiety that many urban gay men in China express about “money boys”—a term used in English to refer to male sex workers who have sex with other men for money. The essay argues that money boys are a pressing issue for Chinese gay men because homophobia...

... on cash transactions, thus the quality of money encompasses more than its relationship to price. While the demand among Vietnamese citizens for a reliable currency resonates with contemporary neoliberalism, it cannot be reduced to it. By way of addressing the divergent concerns with the quality of money...

... . Aoki Yūji no zeni to shihonshugi (Aoki Yūji's Money and Capitalism) . Tokyo : Daiwa Shobō . ———. 1999 . Naniwa kin'yūdō zeni no maryoku: Yononaka no karakuri ga wakaru Marukusu no keizaigaku (Naniwa Way of Finance: Understanding the Money Trap through Marxist Economics) . Tokyo : Kōdansha...

..., and Financial Production.” Public Culture 21 , no. 2 : 243 – 66 . risk neoliberalism financialization affect marriage South Asian cultural production Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Risk, Incorporated: Dr. Love and Mr. Money Nandini Bhattacharya...

... mobilization. In particular, the essay brings close attention to the subject of money, specifically, war funds procurement, as a recurring and governing thematic preoccupation of Manchurian action films as a genre of war film. By exploring the trappings of “money,” as it is configured in such films...

...” on the part of barefoot lawyers not only serves to fill gaps in the legal services system in the countryside, it also reestablishes the very concept of “legal services” in village society. That is, barefoot lawyers offer legal services based more on long-term human relationships than on money. Therefore...

...: I. Counterfeit Money . The Incognito Richard A. Rand for M. D. Introduction About the writing of “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire,” Walter Benjamin remarks, in his letter to Theodor Adorno of December 9, 1938...

..., for example, money capital. Herein lies the link—in China, but also more generally in this period—between biopolitics and economic (bourgeois) nationalism, one that is not incidental or accidental, but immanent and formal. References Anon . 1904 . “Lun Zhongguo zhiluan youyu renkou zhi zhonggua...

...Teri Silvio This article analyzes the structure of feeling embodied in a ritual of theater-going in which women fans of Taiwanese Opera would weep along with actresses singing “crying songs” and rush to the stage to hand them money and other gifts. The ritual was popular only during the opera's...

.... Nevertheless, throughout the history of political thought, coinage has been closely associated with the idea of sovereignty. Jean Bodin, the sixteenth-­century theorist of absolutism, considered the right to coin money one of the defining marks...

... (1963), as cut to size and inserted in Keish¯o, no. 8. The string visible above Akasegawa’s money is Takamatsu Jir¯o’s work. Collection of the artist; photo courtesy of Nagoya City Art Museum of law. In 1970 the supreme court...

... that the other group was more oppressed. It was really encouraging that people could see each other s oppression. Another thing I remember was that a woman with HIV said she had no money for medicine, while she could not speak at all it s not that she didn t want to share her stories, but that she was just too...

... estranged wife, who left him sixteen years prior. He is faintly discernible among the crowd of people, always part of a group shot, never leaving a strong impression. From here we quickly move to a circus scene in the ship’s hold. Money...

... coupling, innovative occult practices and money magic, pyramid schemes and prosperity gospels . . . a capitalism that presents itself a gospel of salvation; capitalism in its messianic, salvific, even magical manifestations.”3 One of the three...

... their sexual “hobby,” and couples who adopt children, and despite the active and thoughtful choices made by migrant women that can yield certain ben- efits (including money, pleasure, hope, and freedom), these examples none- theless reveal a fundamental...

... Jun also reflects the village's social differences. If Uncle Liu represents the migrants who work hard for a better future, Li Jun represents the local villagers who became landlords in the 1990s. To many informal workers, landlords are lazy. Unlike the money the workers earn with their sweat...

... scenarios (e.g., Yang Yang follows his father and slaps his father’s lover; Yang Yang becomes attracted to a young man called Haobin and hangs out with him at school), “statements” of various young male prostitutes called “money boys,” opinions...