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positions (2010) 18 (2): 281–289.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Petrus Liu; Lisa Rofel In the introduction to the special issue, the guest editors examine the key issues in the current dialogue on Chinese politics and transnational queer formations. The editors explain the origins of the special volume in a transnational queer conference, emphasizing...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 291–320.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Petrus Liu This essay resists a common scholarly tendency to treat “queer theory” and “Chinese political economy” as analytically separate issues by arguing that the emergence of new sexual positions and discourses has transnational and material origins. Long before the “linguistic...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 May 2010
... writing as emerging queer cultural production by framing it within progressive discourses of inclusion, but find that the explicit content of Hung's stories at best only rests uneasily within such a framework and therefore propose limited but significant reservations about Hung's queer, feminist...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 417–423.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Cui Zi'en This conference speech given by a famous queer Chinese filmmaker provocatively proposes that the vibrant culture of underground queer film festivals in China is the true Communist International. Chinese viewers of queer films gain insight into global trends, while these festivals also...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 459–487.
Published: 01 May 2010
... by presenting us with a queer space and time dissonant to conventional protocols of Western visual and political representation. The film explores what happens when neoliberal ideals and global gayness “fail” to translate. Ultimately, Kwan's discrepant modernity comes to function as a critical tool...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 537–554.
Published: 01 May 2010
... future at the expense of civil liberties for marginalized sexualities. Duke University Press 2010 Queer Existence under Global Governance: A Taiwan Exemplar
Josephine Chuen-juei Ho
On October 31, 2009, the seventh annual Gay Pride March trailed through...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 183–193.
Published: 01 February 2012
...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...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 373–383.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Norman A. Spencer “Ten Years of Queer Cinema in China” is a photo memoir with twenty photographs and commentary that documents two important cultural events rarely mentioned in US discussions of Chinese underground cinema. They are the First Chinese Gay and Lesbian Film Festival held at Beijing...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 659–681.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Qi Wang This article explores the visual representation of minority (especially queer) identities in the highly stylized and experimental documentaries of independent filmmakers Shi Tou and Cui Zi'en, two of the most prominent cultural figures in the Chinese queer community. My analysis focuses...
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 727–759.
Published: 01 November 2016
... attention to Fuentes as a postcolonial visual archivist and his film as a postcolonial archive. Fuentes produces queer composite bodies as embodied archives that reconfigure modes of knowledge production that visualizes Filipino bodies in the film as sites of nonnormative, counterarchival knowledge...
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positions (1996) 4 (3): 459–489.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Yukiko Hanawa Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 inciting sites of political interventions: queer 'n' asian
Yukiko Hanawa
It has always been an unstable identity, psychically, culturally, and politically. It, too...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 811–823.
Published: 01 November 2019
...He Xiaopei; Séagh Kehoe; Bao Hongwei I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films: An Interview with He Xiaopei He Xiaopei, Séagh Kehoe, and Bao Hongwei, with an introduction by Séagh Kehoe and Bao Hongwei Introduction Despite decriminalization in 1997 and partial depathologization in 2001...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 633–656.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Amy Brainer Abstract This article analyzes ways that legal and social understandings of kinship intersect for Taiwanese queer parents and prospective parents. Parents in this research experience varying degrees of legal and cultural intelligibility within the existing household registration system...
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in “Flat Surface” as Material Metaphor: “Bad” Cover Design, “Good” Storytelling, and Post-Fordist Sensibility in Chinese Web Novels
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 6 A compilation of eight cover images for Lai huli's queer web novels published at Doufu yuedu, https://m.doufuyuedu.com/author?author_id=4820787 (accessed December 31, 2023).
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Fran Martin Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Chen Xue‘s Queer Tactics
Fran Martin
In recent years, “queer” (e.g., tongzhi, kuter, guaitai, or xie) has become the
focal point for discussions about sexuality in Taiwan, alongside...
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in The Limits of Family: Military Law and Sex Panics in Contemporary South Korea
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2021
Figure 1 A sign carried by anti-LGBT protesters at the 2015 Korean Queer Culture Festival. The sign clearly illustrates the central concern and point of contention for anti-LGBT protesters, namely, that all gay men have AIDS because they have sex. Photo by Timothy Gitzen.
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in The Limits of Family: Military Law and Sex Panics in Contemporary South Korea
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2021
Figure 2 A sign held by an anti-LGBT protester at the 2015 Korean Queer Culture Festival. The wording roughly translates to “AIDS treatment financed with 100 percent tax money is destroying the national medical finances. Teens from our next generation are dying because of homosexuality
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., but something that might be associated with the queer, a form of defiance aiming to “undo restrictively normative conceptions” of sexuality and gender. After considering Byun as an icon of transgressive gender and sexuality, this essay delves into her queer camera work and visual narrative structure...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 409–416.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Petrus Liu; Lisa Rofel In this interview, Shi Tou recounts her experience as a queer artist and activist in Beijing. She explains her view of the relationship between queer politics and art, how Chinese critics have received her works, and how globalization has shaped her art. Duke University...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 763–792.
Published: 01 August 2012
... cultural production and critique as racial struggle which entails a queer response that would go beyond exclusively textual readings of alternative masculinity to refigure racial engagements beyond conventional binaries of hyposexual versus hyperviolent, and beyond queer as antimasculine. Copyright 2012...
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