...Kären Wigen Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Politics and Piety in Japanese Native-Place Studies: The Rhetoric of Solidarity in Shinano Karen Wigen The Literature of the Local in the "Age of the Provinces" Alongside the strongly unified...

...Ya-Chung Chuang 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Place, Identity, and Social Movements: Shequ and Neighborhood Organizing in Taipei City Ya-Chung Chuang Introduction: An Urban Legend One summer afternoon in June 1995, a college student on the way home after...

...Wanning Sun Work on migration and gendered mobility has shown us that places are constituted not only by their location and physical features, but also by the specific, often regulated forms of bodies that inhabit them. In this essay, I want to call into question the process by which the connection...

.... Inspired by Marc Augé’s theory of non-place, this essay critically examines the policy to create an eco-friendly image of the DMZ that became prevalent among public art projects such as Dreaming of Earth , proposed by sculptor Jaeeun Choi and renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, and the construction...

...Michael Berman Abstract In Kamaishi, a city in the Tōhoku region of Japan, the aging of the population and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami changed people's relationships to time and place. For many people, “time stopped” when disaster struck. That stoppage compounded a weakening of the appeal...

...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...

... (non-Mandarin) languages. The unrelenting presence of Singaporean media has enabled a distinctive Johorean identity and a spatial reconfiguration of home. To place all of this in a broader theoretical context, this article engages the Sinophone concept alongside scholarship on “global China” (e.g...

...-political differences between space and place (Douglas 1991 ; Gupta and Ferguson 1992 ; Low and Lawrence-Zuniga 2003 ), propose home to be regarded as an experience/place imbued with social and cultural values (Barrios 2011 , 2014; Brun and Lund 2008 ; Hoffman 2016 ). This article explores what...

...Don Mee Choi 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Korean Women—Poetry, Identity, Place: A Conversation with Kim Hye-sun Don Mee Choi Kim Hye-sun (b. 1955) is a prominent contemporary South Korean poet, who is identified as one of the “women poets...

...William Schaefer Duke University Press 2010 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Guest Editor’s Introduction Photography’s Places How does one place a photograph like the one...

... of the enlightenment project. Rethinking responsibility was paramount. Where a ground was once provided by the reason of a detached observer, this individual had vanished, undermining the dominant assumptions of aesthetics. Because it corresponded with this unmoored world, cinema offered a place to think this crisis...

... of perennial problems in the present. On the other hand, there are those whose real interest is in trying to understand what the ideas meant at the time they were written—they seek to reconstruct the place of the ideas within a given historical context and how those ideas functioned to address political...

... as images in the global marketplace, in other words, they also serve to reify and fix in place the lived spaces and historical processes that they pictorially represent. This reification takes place in collusion with the distinctive characteristics and constraints of nineteenth-century photographic...

... space, given that 80 percent of the population lives in public housing. The films inscribe city space by depicting the ordinary and the potentially tragic cultural meanings that are emitted from this place. They represent an interest in depictions of class, though not in class-based politics. Such films...

... in place of the unabashed gender hierarchy of Chosŏn Korea; how to perceive women as belonging not to a class-divided family but to a nation where each one is supposedly given an equal standing to one another. In “Tears of Blood,” the homogenizing project conflictingly intersects with the ideology...

...Gao Bingzhong This article narrates how a temple fair worshipping a dragon god, the object of superstition for about sixty years, became an official piece of intangible cultural heritage. This story takes place in three chapters: First, the temple fair as a local tradition was revived after China...

... needs children have been placed in foreign homes. This article highlights the efforts that take place in China to transform unwanted disabled and ill children into internationally desirable daughters and sons. I draw upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork in four medical foster homes in China run...

... placed them within a hierarchical frame; then, secondly, it investigates how they visualized the multiethnicity of the Japanese empire by bringing all the other ethnicities to one place. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Tsuboi Shōgorō multiethnic Japanese empire Japanese...

... golden age as Taiwan's most popular genre of commercial theater and temple festival performance, from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, and the author places the ritual within the context of the decommodification of women's bodies and commodification of gendered performance taking place at the time...