...Yan Hairong Duke University Press 2007 Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Yan Hairong Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is university professor and director of the Cen- ter for Comparative Literature and Society...

...Liu Huiying 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Translated by Yan Hairong Feminism: An Organic or an Extremist Position? On Tien Yee As Represented by He Zhen Liu Huiying It is not strange that the name of He Zhen is little known outside the very...

...Rolando B. Tolentino The article maps out a political place for positions based on the idea of “writing to the future” or a political wager on the future precisely because of the valences of failure in the present. Using Alain Badiou's idea of truth and the state, and citing the conditions...

...Kuan-Hsing Chen Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Roundtable Positioning positions: A New Internationalist Localism of Cultural Studies Kuan-Hsing Chen The following text comes out of a constant search for a position that would...

... Circulations, Cultural Transformations, and Methodological Positions Kimberly Kay Hoang, Jessica Cobb, and Ya-­Wen Lei This issue, “Decentering ‘Globalized’ Asia,” highlights the work of rising schol- ars whose research provides new perspectives...

... and some did not get the airing they deserved, were cut short for some reason. That is to say that if there is an identifiable world that positions projects open up, rooted in thirty years of praxis, for an unknown future, that might be enough to call it a critical tradition. 1 See...

... currently rendered the international critical community all agog. To argue, as I shall, that the Chinese subject maps out its own position as sovereign rather than subaltern is to suggest that the Chinese positionality and local critical agenda...

... “seen to speak.” This fact is then understood in terms of other developments in the global economy, and in reference to the specific history of electoral politics in the era of Thaksin Shinawatra. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Populist Politics in Asian Networks: Positions...

..., instituted, and naturalized by the given fact of distance in geography, cultures, and religious traditions; degree in the development of capitalist modernization; and so forth; between the West and Asia. A discussion about the conceptual distinction of positionality from position elucidates...

...Jesook Song As a response to positions ' twentieth-anniversary workshop that solicited suggestions on the future direction of the journal, this article raises questions on how to study Asia without falling into traps of reproducing capitalist discourse that reduces the significance of Asia to its...

...Lisa Rofel What does it mean to say that positions opened up a space for queer intellectual work? How do we delineate that space? How does this space work in articulation with queering Asian studies more broadly? This essay addresses how the journal positions created the intellectual space...

...Thomas J. Berghuis 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Considering Huanjing: Positioning Experimental Art in China Thomas J. Berghuis The question of modern aesthetics is not “What is beautiful?” but “What is art to be (and what is literature...

...Xiaopei He; Lisa Rofel This essay addresses how and why people in China create an identity out of their medical status of having HIV/AIDS. The essay argues that contrary to the idea that “coming out” as HIV-positive might be liberating, the experience of being “pushed out” by many people who...

... essay “positions and Positionalities: After Two Decades” supplies an explicit retro spective criticism of models of “the political” in the work of both area studies development and of its nemesis, those savage critics of area studies who were...

... and questions raised through this series to understand the powers and position of the second series, Suzuki Norio's 1974 photographs of Onoda Hiroo, the Japanese straggler who stayed for three decades in the jungles of Lubang Island—photographs that were directly responsible for Onoda's repatriation to Japan...

...Jamie Coates Over the past thirty years, moving overseas has been a positively valued aspiration in China. On both a government level, and within popular discourse, migration has been propagated as a means to be better citizens, and a better nation, resonating with families’ desire for a better...

... of government shape one another in contemporary Vietnam. This focus, which considers the material consequences of different discursive positions, reveals a curious paradox. Namely, the dominant regulatory approaches in use today define the primary source of bureaucratic corruption and thus the forms...

... growth into the emblem of the civilized future of the nation, the other about her old-fashioned mother whose symbolic position vacillates between the nation's venerable past and the “uncivilized” who are predisposed to invasion by foreign powers. The split not only places the female characters...

... culture(s). Conversely, the band ChthoniC has used the Wushe Incident to push an overtly political position, that of an independent Taiwan, in their fourth studio album Seediq bale (Chinese: Saideke balai , 2005). The fact that a melodic black-metal band has appropriated this event to convey a political...

... to an alternate ideological position. Through a close reading of two of his works, “Suzuki, Miyakoyama, Yasojima” (1935) and “The Novelist Who Cannot Write a Novel” (“Shôsetsu no kakenu shôsetsuka,” 1936), this article investigates the “position” Nakano turned “to” and the critical potency of his thinking...