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Children and Law in the Shadows: Legal Ideologies and Personal Strategies in Response to Parental Abductions in Japan
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 523–549.
Published: 01 August 2021
... reveals that some measure of success is more likely to come to people who are willing and able to negotiate in less formal situations, outside what seems like the “real” legal system. Such a decision to move outside the legal system, to informal contexts, reflects personal preferences and skills, cultural...
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Asian Boundaries, Documentary Regimes, and the Political Economy of the Personal
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 211–239.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Tina Mai Chen This article inquires into how “the personal” assumes specific positions relative to truth claims constitutive of twentieth-century national and international documentary systems. It analyzes migration of those identified as Chinese in and out of Burma during the late 1930s and 1940s...
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Retheorizing the Personal: Identity, Writing, and Gender in Yu Luojin's Autobiographical Act
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positions (1998) 6 (2): 394–438.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Lingzhen Wang Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998
Retheorizing the Personal: Identity, Writing, and Gender
in Yu Luojin’s Autobiographical Act
Lingzhen Wang
Yu Luojin was widely regarded as China’s most controversial woman...
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A Changing Representation: “Personal Writing” in Artistic Intervention in Chinese Rural Communities
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 713–744.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., designers going to the countryside, and industrial empowerment to construct “good cultural governance” or “good cultural taste,” the term personal writing as used here describes a type of avant-garde intervention that has sparked interest in vernacular communities. It provides a socially minded critique...
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Claiming Personality: Reassessing the Dangers of the “New Woman” in Early Taishō Japan
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 83–107.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of personalism. Moreover, as both the good wife/wise mother and the new woman were moral ideals grounded in ontological claims about women, I suggest that the woman problem be approached as both an ontological and a moral problem. Whoever controlled the ontological terrain so as to speak for what a woman...
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A New Taiwan Person? A Conversation with Wu Nien-chen
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 717–734.
Published: 01 August 2003
...D. W. Davis 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 A New Taiwan Person? A Conversation with Wu Nien-chen
D. W. Davis
8 January 1999. Wu Nien-chen’s sunny, wood-paneled conference room
in Taipei. Wu is a major figure in Taiwan’s media:scriptwriter ( City...
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I Speak in the Third Person: Women and Language in Colonial Vietnam
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 579–605.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Ben Tran This essay examines the cultural translation of the Western first-person grammatical category into Vietnamese literature during French colonial rule. In the 1930s, Vietnamese writers began to assimilate the first-person pronoun “ tôi ” into their writing. The prevalence of tôi suggests...
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Returning migrant children with temporary registration in the Vị Thắng comm...
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in Barriers Faced by Returning Migrant Children in Vietnam: The Case of the Mekong Delta Region
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1 Returning migrant children with temporary registration in the Vị Thắng commune. Unit: person. Source Created by the author with data from UBND xã Vị Thắng 2017 .
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The Making of Homo Socialist : The Discursive Analysis of the Ideological Production of Class in China, 1949–1976
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of socialist construction in China was based on the craft of making the Homo Socialist . The focus here is on how personal experiences were transformed into state-endorsed conduct via the discourse of class and class struggle. Over the course of the sociopolitical transformations leading to the Cultural...
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Readymade Mao: Impersonation and Affective Relations
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 789–812.
Published: 01 November 2016
... with the financial support of his wife and family; and Chen Yan, a fifty-one-year-old “housewife” from Sichuan Province who is the only female Mao impersonator in China. Zhang's coverage of her life both onstage and off parallels a television interview with her that reveals the personal struggle she has with her...
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Protecting the Body, Living the Good Life: Negotiating Health in Rural Lowland Laos
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 151–170.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Elizabeth M. Elliott Abstract In rural lowland Laos, aspirations to a good life and visions of well-being are defined and impacted by the process of negotiating health. The state of sabai (well-being) situates the person in relation to their family, social, and spiritual worlds, and the associated...
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In the Haze: On Narrativization and Air Pollution in Shanghai
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 447–479.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to translate troubling, and often socially unacceptable, emotions into more presentable and tolerable forms. Through narrativization, namely acts of authorship and inscription, persons implicated in this article attempt to relieve, figuratively write over , or otherwise repress anxieties. While...
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Kawase Naomi’s Introspective Style: Aesthetic Surfaces of World Cinema
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 361–396.
Published: 01 May 2019
...). The subjective is inseparable from (indeed, identical with) the non-dual object and its surface qualities. Third, despite this embodied quality of her quotidian consciousness, these surface images undermine the actuality of the first person’s social experiences. Fourth, as a result, the mirror reflections retain...
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Cinema of Disillusionment: Chen Guofu, Cai Mingliang, and Taiwan's Second New Wave
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 435–454.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Hsiu-Chuang Deppman This essay is a study of Chen Guofu and Cai Mingliang, two prominent Taiwan directors whose work in the 1980s helped shape the Second New Wave movement. More recently, Chen's 1998 The Personals and Cai's 2002 What Time Is It There? broke new ground by developing controlled...
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Sustaining Jouissance : Commercial and Heian Modes of Intertextuality in Tanka by Tawara Machi
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 629–659.
Published: 01 August 2008
... , in Žižek's Lacanian usage, is used to understand the mechanism by which Tawara personally and socially excuses herself from having to engage her material in a more critical way that would alter rather than simply reflect her media- and advertising-defined environment. Jouissance is the key to her...
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Photography at Tiananmen: Pictorial Frames, Spatial Borders, and Ideological Matrixes
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 633–670.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Yomi Braester The essay examines photography at Tiananmen from 1949 to the present. Personal mementos are placed within personal narratives and used as scaffolding for memory work. Documentary films juxtapose photography with other social practices at the square. Photography both conveys and shapes...
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Locating Family Portraits: Everyday Images from 1970s China
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 671–693.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of personal histories, to locate and reinvent a “past” that was still very much the present. While recent studies of visual culture in postsocialist or post-Holocaust societies focus on “postmemory,” this article examines the mechanisms of materializing and restructuring personal memory that were in place...
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Broken Narratives, Multiple Truths: Writing “History” in Yū Miri’s The End of August
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 815–840.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., The End of August presents a challenge to historical revisionism’s desire for a single, document-based narrative, for Yū incorporates a multitude of oral accounts of personally experienced history into a nonlinear, highly fragmented narration. Zooming in on an episode in which a young Korean girl...
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Bounded Communities: Dialectical Ethics and Questions of Narrative in Macario Pineda’s Stories
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 21–45.
Published: 01 February 2021
... are produced, concentrated, and accumulated as well as how persons and communities might negotiate the imperial field. As such, these works engage the question of dialectical ethics in narrative. Reading Pineda, we see how individual experience may yield, through a specifically utopian impulse in narratives...
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The Audiovisual Turn of Recent Korean Documentary Cinema: The Time-Image, Place, and Landscape
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 189–216.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Jihoon Kim Abstract This article discusses several documentary films since the 2010s that portray the place and the landscape related to Korea's social reality or a personal or collective memory of its past, classifying their common trope as the “audiovisual turn.” The trope refers to the uses...
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