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positions (2009) 17 (3): 523–535.
Published: 01 August 2009
... to it. It then introduces each of the subsequent essays in this special issue on suzhi and explains the connections between them. Duke University Press 2009 Quality and Citizenship in China
Cultivating Citizens: Suzhi (Quality) Discourse in the PRC
Tamara Jacka
In contemporary China...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 783–807.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Aminda Smith Abstract The first rule of PRC history might be “Never take the Chinese Communists at their word.” Early observers praised the CCP, but by the 1990s there was broad disillusionment among China scholars who increasingly believed that observable realities contradicted official claims...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 895–906.
Published: 01 November 2021
... will be globally less prominent than it is today. The complexity with which we are coming to think of the early history of the PRC is not a minor matter, even if it is not itself a revolution. Debates will continue about the privileging of the details of our empirical work set against the meaning making...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 835–868.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Matthew D. Johnson Abstract This article describes the US origins of the field of PRC history. It argues that research on PRC history is widely derived from an approach to knowledge that predates area studies: the theory that societies can be controlled and changed through the transformation...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 689–718.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Jeremy Brown Abstract The history of the People's Republic of China is now an established discipline, with a built-in theoretical framework—aspirational socialism—and a first draft written by social scientists. The growth of the field of PRC history has been aided by an avalanche of unique...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 659–674.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and discarded shards of local experience, which once mattered a great deal (at least discursively) to the PRC state, is crucial to the correct interpretation of that state's written traces and, to a certain extent, the traces of the people it sought to govern. Microhistories are thus central to the mapping...
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positions (1998) 6 (1): 239–251.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Wang Hui Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Commenta ry
PRC Cultural Studies and Cultural Criticism in the 1990s
Wang Hui
In September of 1994, under the sponsorship of Dushu IReading] magazine,
a conference was held in Beijing...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 869–894.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Alexander F. Day Abstract This article explores the way PRC historians use analytical categories by looking at the emergence of a divide between production and the social reproduction of labor (all the work that goes into producing and raising laborers) that transformed and structured rural...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 719–758.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Jake Werner Abstract Most recent research on the first three decades of the PRC has avoided theoretical reflection on the period, instead claiming an empiricist fidelity to the heterogeneity of lived experience. Yet the refusal of theory allows unexamined conceptualizations to structure...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 571–594.
Published: 01 August 2022
... new economic, social, and aesthetic forms; (2) that neglect in the PRC is marked by a historically informed temporality that presumes the state's continued interference; (3) that an expectation of neglect reifies the government as that which neglects. For years, Zhengzhou's urban villages were...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 943–964.
Published: 01 November 2024
...’ present consumption of non-PRC Chinese-language media exemplifies a Sinophone logic of cultural and affective mobilities that resists the homogenization of PRC media in Southeast Asia. As an attempt to engage theorizations of translocality and transnationality in productive tension with each other...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 539–572.
Published: 01 August 2024
...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...
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 877–906.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to pursue profit. These popular materials invite the public to reconceptualize the relationship between individuals and society and in this sense constitute a significant cultural strategy for governing the population. Tracing the Chinese variations of the global logic...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 131–144.
Published: 01 February 2015
... by putting it in the context of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) patriotic education policy that securitizes culture by focusing on identity as difference in a zero-sum game that distinguishes civilization from barbarism, and China from the rest of the world. It critically analyzes the professors...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 739–771.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the PRC’s sixtieth anniversary. It asks who is included and excluded in these visions of China’s rise? How does China domestically refract insecurity from experiences of a colonial world order that constructs it as inferior? The event tells a story of the history and future of a powerful rising state...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 603–630.
Published: 01 August 2020
... relations and internationally circulating PRC-produced cultural material that articulated feminist ideals as part of Afro-Asian-Latin American solidarity. This article returns to well-known texts of Maoist China to rethink state-produced Chinese feminism as a Cold War framework and gendered globality...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 771–796.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the PRC, investigating how these intensified transborder flows are reconfiguring social identities this century. Three core themes emerge: the often unpredictable responses to state initiatives by Chinese people living transnational lives; the transnationalization of class reproduction for both working...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 821–846.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Shuheng Jin; Haijing Dai Abstract As the PRC is woven ever more tightly into transnational circuits of culture and capital, Chinese working-class subjectivities—like middle-class ones, but also distinctively—become (re)produced through increasingly transnational processes. This includes the new...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 675–688.
Published: 01 November 2021
... 1 , no. 4 : 6 – 41 . Lanza Fabio . 2017 . The End of Concern: Maoism, Activism, and Asian Studies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Perry Elizabeth . 2016 . “ The Promise of PRC History .” Journal of Modern Chinese History 10 , no. 1 : 113 – 17 . Schmalzer...
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 321–346.
Published: 01 May 2009
... in this fever are significantly differ-
ent. In the past, people who went to the PRC were mostly businessmen —
namely, male owners and supervisors of Taiwanese small or medium enter-
prises (SMEs) who, to put it in Pierre Bourdieu’s terms, are rich...
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