... in which culturalism came to displace the more agonistic framework of class analysis, the essay explores transformations in the concept of political subjectivity, and the degree to which theatricalized expressions of discontent came to stand in for other kinds of politicization. I suggest...

...Norma Field Beyond Envy, Boredom, and Suffering: Toward an Emancipatory Politics for Resident Koreans and Other Japanese Norma Field On Writing about People Not One's Own Born to a Japanese mother and an American father stationed with the occu...

... to be analyzed historically as well as opened up through a continuous rethinking of Asia and the racialized relationship among nationality, state, and international orders. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Asian Boundaries, Documentary Regimes, and the Political Economy of the Personal Tina...

... on the modern Chinese intellectuality. The article also examines the political and intellectual circumstances in which Wang Hui's work was conceived and developed, focusing on the passage from the 1960s to the 1990s and the exhaustion of the network of previous historical-political categories structuring...

...Chih-ming Wang Intrigued by the question of diasporic return, this article is concerned with the cultural politics of what I call “homecoming stories” of the Vietnamese diaspora. In order not to be confused with the imaginary returns that have been practiced in many Vietnamese-US writings...

...Philippe Peycam A public political sphere, to exist, requires the convergence of phenomena primarily of socioeconomic and cultural nature. In early twentieth-century southern Vietnam, the emergence of new socially, economically, and culturally determined categories among the indigenous population...

...Christopher Payne This article revolves around the contemporary Taiwanese writer Wuhe and the Taiwanese melodic black-metal band ChthoniC ( Shanling ) and their “political” use of the Wushe Incident that occurred in 1930 in colonial Taiwan. The event, which was brutally repressed by the Japanese...

... a desire to envision difference out of this repetition, to imagine a way out of the endless everyday of the present. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Fantasies of the End of the World: The Politics of Repetition in the Films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi Baryon Tensor Posadas Kurosawa...

... Poetics and Politics of Marilyn Chin and Russell Leong King-­Kok Cheung Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —  — Emily Dickinson Within Asian American literary discourse, the use of Asian material, par- ticularly Chinese...

.... For the defense at trial, the refusal to include politicized content and context in the original story was an adamant rejection of political participation by Kaf. Kumashiro implies it was also a necessary response to escalating state censorship...

... 868 between femininity and politics. Chunmiao, and the Cultural Revolution, politicized the woman by pulling her into the public arena, but the original “policy” messages she had been made to bear were emptied out. In other...

..., Japan, and South Korea gamble with the future of their younger population in order to secure their country's place in neoliberal globalization. Further, the introduction reviews pertinent literature on the developmental state, neoliberalism, affective/emotional labor, and postcapitalist politics...

..., as it fails to directly address structural inequalities and fails to acknowledge the fact that youths' novelty has become the new engine of future capitalist accumulation in postreform China. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 new media youth culture labor politics subjectivity...

...Viren Murthy Lu Xun is perhaps the most studied figure in modern Chinese literature and there has been a great deal of debate about interpreting his work. However, scholars have paid insufficient attention to the way in which readings of Lu Xun serve as a lens from which to examine political...

...John Lie Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Roundtable Enough Said, Ahmad: Politics and literary Theory John Lie What is to be done with a book that has already generated a special issue of Public Culture and a notice...

...Fred Y. L. Chiu Preamble In 1966, a year before riots broke out in Hong Kong protesting British colonial rule, an official government inquiry sought to explain the political behavior of the Hong Kong Chinese. According to the authors of the Report of the Working Party on Local Administration...

...Yukiko Hanawa Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 inciting sites of political interventions: queer 'n' asian Yukiko Hanawa It has always been an unstable identity, psychically, culturally, and politically. It, too...

...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...

...Ann Sherif 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 The Politics of Loss: On Et¯o Jun Ann Sherif As part of a larger critical reexamination of the relationship between public social space, private subjects, and the state in the period of high economic...

... of polite pluralism, national civility, and reasoned public exchange, in a fundamental “politicizing of the public sphere.”27 This commitment to securing the conditions of public reasoning was very much the ideal animating Habermas’s 1962 book...