...Pei-Chia Lan This article compares Taiwan's guest worker program and Japan's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) program to examine how intimate labor and affective labor are culturally defined and institutionally regulated in different ways. Facing the similar problems of population aging...

... on the evening in question. That night, Ah Zhuang arrived at my room with a young man named Ah Pei. Ah Zhuang introduced him as his former boyfriend. I was immediately confused. I thought he had said he would introduce me to a money boy...

... novels at home, one after another, and finally I came across a story written by Jiang Zilong. It was a biography of an actress named Pei Yanling who specialized in play- ing the male warrior role in the opera Zhong Kui.1...

... a book manuscript on sexual politics, law, and citizenship in India. Pei-Chia­ Lan is professor of sociology at National Taiwan University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley, a Fulbright scholar at New York University...

... Wallerstein Immanuel Lewontin Richard C. Ohmann Richard , 195 – 232 . New York : New Press . Wright Logan . 2006 . Review of Northeast Asia’s Stunted Regionalism, by Gilbert Rozman . Yale Journal of International Affairs 1 , no. 2 : 172 – 75 . Wu Pei-Yi . 1992...

... in Indonesian, in which new types of social stratification and language use also emerged; in both communities, modernist bourgeois nov- els are “situated at the crossroads of all the transformations,” which for Pey- cam start with the fact that Saigon...

... that organize, enable, or delimit the trade in domestic labor (Nicole Constable, Pei-­Chia Lan), marriage migration (Danièle Bélanger), companionship and romance (Hae Yeon Choo), sex work (Constable), pornographic performance (Celine Parreñas Shimizu...

..., and searching belongings—reflect anxieties about their proximity to the family. Nicole Constable ( 1997 : 540) traces these anxieties back to something citywide, as a turning of the domestic moral order “inside out.” Similarly, in Taiwan, Pei-Chia Lan ( 2006 ) describes the unexpected, gendered tensions...

... of the entitlement of naturalization. They are, in sociologist Pei-chia Lan’s words, “recruited as desired labor within the geographic territory but are rejected as citizens and excluded from the symbolic boundary of the nation.”47 The reform...

... of factories of multinational corporations as employers and their roles in mediating workers’ health. References ADL (Arthur D. Little) . 1989 . Oversight of Environmental Investigations at Taoyuan and Chu Pei, Taiwan, Summary Report for Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. (Reference 64152...

... it was still happening. The police broke up our “trafficking pipeline.” We did not give up. Four years later, in April this year [2005] we made a second attempt. This time we officially invited a total of twelve movies from Tai- pei, Hong Kong, Jinan...

... in modern China and Japan] (Peking: Pei- ching T’u-shu-kuan, 1996). Charlotte Furth (A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China’s Medical Hzstory, 960-1665 [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, forthcoming...

... . Malaysian Cinema in a Bottle: A Century (and a Bit More) of Wayang . Petaling Jaya, Malaysia : Merpati Jingga . Ng Paulina Ting Pei . 1996 . History of Radio Broadcasting in Singapore: Its Formative Years . Singapore : National University of Singapore . Nolan Ginger . 2018...

...). Moreover, the KMT government did not want to remind Taiwanese of the colonial history since the KMT itself was in some respects another invader on the island of Taiwan. 7 As a result, as Pei-yin Lin and Su Yun Kim ( 2019 : 6) note in the case of Taiwan literature, unlike South Korea, where authors...

... surgery. For exam- ple, Pei-­Chia Lan investigates the ways labor control is exercised through requirements that workers display products on their bodies. Bodies become models for customer emulation, vehicles of display, and vessels of communi...

... memories, the scheme aimed to displace the authori- tarian ambience of the central government administration district shaped under martial law, thus embodying Chen’s populist slogan to transform Tai- pei into a “happy, hopeful city for the citizens...

... to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, which generously provided the funding for much of my research in Tainan, as well as to Wang Shan Shan, Chung Tin Yi, Huang Chien Ming, and Lu Pei Pei...

... American architect I. M. Pei; in this small way, Singapore is even physically connected with that urban arch-representative of modernity, New York City, through Pei’s World Trade Center there. Out of an older, English-inspired commer- Wee I...

..., Pekinese Rhymes (Peking: Pei-t’ang Press, 1896), and Vitale, Chinese Merry Tales (Peking: Pei-t’ang Press, 1901). 52 Vitale, Pekinese Rhymes, ix–x. 53 For a detailed account of the company and the industry at large see Christopher Alexander...

... Gaze, Direct Involvement, and Everyday Life .” In Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming , edited by Chang Bi-yu Lin Pei-yin , 161 – 77 . Abingdon, UK : Routledge . Zhen Zhang . 2001 . “ Mediating Time: The ‘Rice Bowl of Youth’ in Fin de Siècle Urban China...