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...Yiman Wang Duke University Press 2007 Screening Asia: Passing, Performative Translation, and Reconfiguration Yiman Wang The questions of what is “Asia” and what role it plays in the world system have preoccupied philosophers, historians, social...

.... In passing, he remarked that “extermination passed over this land.” Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 North Korea air war apocalypse napalm Coréennes Chris Marker Violet Ashes: A Tribute to Chris Marker Bruce Cumings Why do they hate us? Americans began...

...Barbara Grossman-Thompson; Dannah Dennis In 2006, the Nepali government made it feasible for women to pass citizenship onto their children. In 2015, a new constitution overrode these gains and again made it impossible to grant citizenship through the maternal line alone. Nepal's current gender...

...Maki Isaka In 2012, legendary “actress” Yamada Isuzu (b. 1917) passed away in Japan. Yamada has been internationally known because of her acting in films such as Mizoguchi Kenji's Osaka Elegy (1936), Naruse Mikio's Flowing (1956), and Kurosawa Akira's Throne of Blood (1957). Overshadowed by her...

... the nation through passing down her nationality, and how the law has been changed to reshape gendered borders. I begin with a discussion on various forms of gender inequality in nationality laws that existed during the Japanese colonial period, which reveals the gendered process of “becoming Japanese...

... and culturally cosmopolitan Cantonese progressive cinema. The social realism represented by Union is not local or passé. The Union artists envisioned from below a humane and cosmopolitan community inhabited by workers and intellectuals, locals and diasporic Chinese subjects, which connects people beyond...

... and popular culture, as both a reappropriated territory of self‐expression and an alienated object of consumption and surveillance. To do so, it discusses body art by Yang Zhichao 杨志超 (b. 1962), focusing in particular on a performance artwork titled Jiayuguan 嘉峪关 ( Jiayu Pass , 1999 – 2000) and its...

... biographies lend legitimacy to the incumbent political order pass away, new figures come to the forefront of public consciousness manifesting as the “people-as-many.” Late socialism is thus seen as a cultural battlefield in which traditional media comes into friction with new media with regard to state...

...,” a stigmatic marker of poverty, with an eye to the neoliberal production of a “culture of poverty.” The author argues that a “culture of poverty,” which is invoked in Seotap, is neither a subculture that is passed down from generation to generation among a particular group of the poor, nor a disposition...

... of Whistling (circa eighth century), uncovers the act of whistling as a gap: it is not yet a voice, not quite a kind of music, and it is beyond the realm of language. The whistler does not produce the whistling; it is his breath—passing through a bodily gap—that activates his body as a musical instrument...

...Jay Hetrick Abstract This article discusses the significance of Gilles Deleuze's almost passing references to East Asian thought. Even though Deleuze comes to these ideas through the work of other European thinkers—most notably Friedrich Nietzsche, Sergei Eisenstein, François Jullien, and Alan...

...Briankle G. Chang Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Agamben Giorgio . 2009 . “What Is an Apparatus?” and Other Essays . Redwood City, CA : Stanford University Press . Agancinski Sylviane . 2003 . Time Passing: Modernity and Nostalgia . Translated...

... workers, who are expected to continue employment and residency in Japan after passing the national exams to become formally reg- istered nurses or certified care workers.33 A nurse candidate may take the exam three times within three years...

... during the ritual. He passes it on to us, his readers, as something that was once passed on from one generation to the next. But the experience of the story as a kind of gift that circulates and that no one owns had been brutally shattered. World War II rained bombs on the city, bringing with it a magic...

... will support your work financially. Of course, to pass scrutiny some people cater end- lessly to the officials, as the censors are only screening political ideas, not artistry. If there are no political problems, it passes though it may well...

...). Andre Gunder Frank, who passed away in April 2005, was one of this era’s great radical intellectuals and inimitable voices. One of the founders of “dependency theory” and world systems analysis, he published voluminously from 1955 until 2004, including...

... intimidationItisanascent social state that occurs whenever we pass from one society to another. —Gabriel Tarde The future will be better tomorrow. —attributed to George W. Bush In March 2002, with much pomp, the Bush administration’s new Depart...

... process has taken on various formats. From Google Docs over Zoom to passing along A4-size papers in in-person workshops, to writing/drawing on eight-by-four-foot Chinese rice papers, these poems have carried our community's joy, love, grief, and longing for new modes of intimate relationalities rooted...

... Stadium The first song of love and forty cries of despair The first pure woman passing fair The sweet smell of success The first erection and the first Resurrection The first darling buds of May...

... to spread its shadow over the earth. A sentry post appeared ahead, and a soldier with a rifle inspected our vehicle’s license plate and our border pass. Machine guns stood on tripods on sandbags in the nearby embankment. The road in the opposite...