...Susie Jie Young Kim Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 What (Not) to Wear: Refashioning Civilization in Print Media in Turn-of-the-Century Korea Susie Jie Young Kim On the eve of colonization in 1910, Korea was engulfed by a power strug...

...Sarah Frederick This article analyzes interactions between text and photographic image in works of photographic fiction ( shashin shôsetsu ) printed in Japanese women's magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, including their interaction with cinema and print culture. The essay considers the complex...

.... An image does things that text cannot, but I think it does them best in conjunction with, and close by, words, so that there is the possibility for mutual interruption and dialogue. In print form, images work in specific ways, so part of my thinking concerns the digital future. After considering...

...Jing Jiang Through an intertextual reading of Xiao Hong's short story “Hands” and other examples culled from the broader print culture of the Republican period, this article traces the rise of a kind of “hand fetish” in modern China and examines the array of cultural meanings embedded...

... in this “Social Darwinian” era of scrambling empires out of which the “rise of Japan” and the “fall of China” narratives emerged. Challenging this standard narrative, the article uses Meiji woodblock prints of the war to demonstrate how “optical illusions” were constructed to support a Japanese master-narrative...

...Amjad Majid This article presents the work of Chinese artist and printmaker Chen Haiyan, providing a critical analysis of her lifetime of woodcuts, prints, and ink paintings. The topics explored are the integration of dreams in Chen Haiyan's art and their relation to “the fantastic,” which...

... critiques are downplayed and sometimes do not make their way into print. Araki's recent exhibitions were enthusiastically received in the West. A series of photographs of bound naked women in kimonos dazzles Western eyes. I proceed to analyze orientalist contradictions based on the Western reviewers' double...

... circulation of the poetry of Gu Cheng 顾城, whose verse and biography have circulated widely and been intensively transformed in the past thirty years. The partial and mutated versions of his life and verse that circulate via film, television, print, calligraphy, and especially the Internet produce a shared...

...Ben Whaley This article examines the evolution and impact of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl on postwar manga (print comics) and Japanese visual culture. The author argues that Anne’s enduring legacy in Japan, dating back to 1952, owes much to the ways in which the content of her Diary...

... long after the Indonesian National Revolution had achieved its primary aim, political independence of the Republic of Indonesia, heir of the Dutch Empire; unfinished because they were to be published again and again, every printing and every reading creating other poems. The marble monuments...

... and invokes global audiences' particular visual fantasies about laboring Filipina/o entertainers. The data used here are queer and drawn not only from filmic but also from printed and audio materials. The time period covered is from the 1970s to March 2005, when the Japanese government suddenly tightened...

.... Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 handwriting letters graphology communication print intermedial Japan References Adal Raja . 2009 . “Japan's Bifurcated Modernity: Writing and Calligraphy in Japanese Public Schools, 1872–1943.” Theory, Culture, and Society 26...

... of the observing gaze. In Taisei honz meiso Nominal Differentiations in Western Honz- ­G a k u , 1829), It Keisuke included a woodblock print showing the twenty-­four classes of the Linnaean system (fig. 1). In this chart, we see...

... Roof, Moscow, 1941 (2010) Figure 3 A Camp Near Minsk, 1941 (2010) Angki Purbandono Figure 1 Soldier and Flowers, 2009. Courtesy of Mr. Paulus Sutrisno (print on paper...

...Xiaobing Tang Duke University Press 2006 Echoes of Roar, China! On Vision and Voice in Modern Chinese Art Xiaobing Tang First published in the December 1935 issue of Modern Prints, journal of the Modern Prints Society based in Guangzhou...