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“America” in Colonial Korea: A Vantage Point for Capitalist Modernity

Hanmee Na Kim

positions: asia critique (1 November 2018) 26 (4): 647–685.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7050517

Published: 01 November 2018

...Hanmee Na Kim Discussions of “America”—as both a physical and imagined site—flourished in the Korean press during the 1920s and 1930s. What was perhaps most intriguing about these discussions was that they were greatly contradictory. On the one hand, America was upheld as the model for new skills...

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The Traffic in Money Boys

Lisa Rofel

positions: asia critique (1 May 2010) 18 (2): 425–458.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2010-009

Published: 01 May 2010

...Lisa Rofel This essay addresses the anxiety that many urban gay men in China express about “money boys”—a term used in English to refer to male sex workers who have sex with other men for money. The essay argues that money boys are a pressing issue for Chinese gay men because homophobia and...

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Gender Transformations in Sinophone Taiwan

Howard Chiang

positions: asia critique (1 August 2017) 25 (3): 527–563.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4149363

Published: 01 August 2017

... episode of trans -culturation by examining other accounts of unusual bodily condition that the press brought to light in response to Xie's story. The author focuses on examples of “trans” formation that made explicit reference to Xie, especially during moments when Xie and her doctors intentionally...

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Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music

Jin Liu

positions: asia critique (1 February 2014) 22 (1): 263–292.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2383840

Published: 01 February 2014

... identity for urban youth, by mobilizing the generic convention of hip-hop in representing one's hood. In most studies of globalization and localization, the local appears to be interchangeable with the national. Yet this study presses the issue of localization further, examining local communities that are...

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Optical and Cognitive Illusions: The MIT Visualizing Cultures Controversy in Spring 2006

Benjamin A. Elman

positions: asia critique (1 February 2015) 23 (1): 15–39.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2870450

Published: 01 February 2015

... Dynasty (1644–1911) reforms since the 1860s into “failures” and contemporary Meiji (1868–1912) reforms into “successes.” To grasp this dramatic reversal, we need new interpretations of the 1894–95 Sino-Japanese War that will unravel the Japanese and global propaganda that engulfed the world press in this...

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