...Ryan Moran This article analyzes debates surrounding the creation of the post office–run kan’i seimei hoken (basic life insurance), or kanpo . Beginning in the 1890s and early 1900s, intellectuals concerned with the new discourse of the social problem, which referred to the problem of worker...

..., and miniatures in a new “Multi-Type Layer Animation.” Funded by the Korean government and Samsung's post–Asian financial crisis venture capital fund, the film also promised a new government-corporate Korean economic model in which creative labor and free-flowing finance capital would replace heavy industries...

...Laura Pozzi; Damian Mandzunowski Abstract This article examines how, in the years following the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), Jiang Qing 江青 (1914–91) became a negative icon of a liberated woman in high office in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). During the Cultural Revolution, Jiang...

..., Peasant Workers by Shengge Li (2015), or Sunday, We Assemble in the Post Office by Xiangnan Xie (2015), the home villages are always close to the hearts of the personas. The affinity counteracts, in a way, the loneliness, Li and Rong Middleclass Misidentification 787 tiredness, and callousness...

... the post office’s cash mailers (genkin f¯ut¯o). Having been preoccupied with cutting up and collaging photo images of human bodies to “create a blueprint of the anti-human, anti-being,” he was struck by the “intensity he saw in the actualized...

... calls to the proper law enforcement agency.”20 The post office declined to participate, congressmen protested, and Operation TIPS quietly closed its Web site and disappeared. But Operation TIPS was the formalization of a system already in place...

...Dorothy Wai Sim Lau Internet fan participation has demonstrated the emergent potency of meaning making for transnational stardom. With the ease of searching, poaching, editing, posting, tagging, and annotating texts aided by cyber technology, fans can rework the filmic and publicity materials about...

... by post offices just twelve years prior, increasing from a yearly average of twelve items per person to twenty-­nine items, and going as high as several hundred items per person in Tokyo’s central wards.10 The act of mailing a letter or postcard...

..., there are factories, dor- mitories, banks, hospitals, a post office, a fire brigade with two fire engines, an exclusive television network, an educational institute, book stores, soc- cer fields, basketball courts, a track and field stadium, swimming pools...

.... Upon arriving at the assigned post near Musha, Tazawa is attracted to two “savage women” who are sisters of the wife of Ino, the head of the police office. While being teased and warned of the aborigine women’s single-mindedness in pursuing Japa...

... memories are negotiated in the post–Cold War Taiwanese cinema to reformulate the contentious idea of “nation” and “nationalism” in Taiwan. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Wei Te‐sheng Taiwan post–New Cinema colonial memory Taiwan New Cinema and post...

... long out- lived it. In the 1980s, Tabe promoted global mail art exchange through her “Earth Art Post Office.” At age fifty-­five, she decisively “retired from housewife-­hood” and has since concentrated on art making and exhibiting...

... in Cambodia: An Analysis of Transfers and Transaction Records.” Working Paper 22 . Phnom Penh : Cambodia Development Resource Institute . Chun Sophal Hor Hab . 2009 . “Government Assesses Foreign Property Law.” Phnom Penh Post , April 24 . Cock Andrew Robert . 2010...

... on the parking apron of Tel Aviv International Airport. We took a shuttle to the entrance to the border inspection area and crowded together in line. An official from the Israeli foreign affairs office unexpectedly burst in, collected our passports...

.... In the post-disillusionment era, that realization became a methodology; generations of students were trained to look for sources that exposed the truths the Party ostensibly sought to hide. For archival historians this method has produced strange results, because many of the sources used to tell the untold...

... for ¥105. Compared to some of the elaborate action-­based shooter games I had played, at first Days of Love and Labor did not seem particularly complex. The game always begins in an office in which I (Blue Bear) stand before...

.... Scholars have come to describe contemporary Korea in terms of “posts” —  postauthoritarian, post−Cold War, postideological, post-­minjung—the pre- fix indicating a historical passage.2 Accordingly, Korea is said to have arrived at the obsolescence...

... performing unpaid work in the digital economy. To identify their strengths, net idols need an audience that the random postings of photos and irregular updates of diaries do not earn them. In the net idol universe, building a fan base is a matter...

... June 30, 1950, he “posted street posters welcoming the North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) and denouncing the American Far Eastern policy.” He joined the NKPA and later returned to Masan to help establish the G2 Office.62...

...- tionship of such a state to its colonial predecessor, and to the modern West in general? The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), China, and (North) Vietnam are unique as revolutionary nationalist regimes founded in a post...