... 5, 2003, the park hosted an event that was even more incongruous with the Shibuya streetscape: the fourth set of political rave demonstrations focused on the occasion of George W. Bush’s October 17–18 visit to Japan and his more desultory...

... the hybrid “protest raves” that have become a regu- lar feature of Japan’s urban spaces. Hirai has also been involved in estab- lishing the Koenji neighborhood (next to Nakano) in Tokyo as the matrix for both the new protest politics and experiments...

..., family values, or oedipal dramas, as per the raving of conser- vative obscurantists.) The catachresis Russo uses as his way into the crisis is one suggested in Mao Zedong thought, the “probable, imminent defeat of the revolution...

... for appraising flowers], an imitation of Dream of the Red Chamber that substitutes ten dan actors for the classic’s key female characters, opens by sketching this character type: “[In Beijing] among the jostling crowds, people gossip and rave...

... levels of psychic structure are ultimately unrecognizable, since Mo Yan’s style itself is actually no more sober than Li Yidou’s and eventually, at the end of the novel, turns into an entropy of drunken ravings. Therefore, the primary...

... theory an easier target than postcolonial the- ory. Zhang Dexiang, for instance, describes the forced grafting of Western postmodern theory onto the Chinese reality as “theoretical magic shows and cultural ravings.” He writes angrily, “So...

... the authorities have allowed those Sodom-­and-­Gomorrah-­sinful-­despicable-­ depraved places to thrive is — they want raving homos to spend their pink-­ dollars here now.”13 But customers were eager to do so, and the international press obligingly...

... and the customers rave about how much they like the new look of the place. Capitalism endures pollution and the poisoning of consumers; style over- takes substance to perpetuate the system. Perhaps the figure that best il- lustrates...

... by the West to preserve its own identity in its imagination of the future. Ueno, “Techno-Orientalism and Media Tribalism: On Japanese Animation and Rave Culture,” Third Text 47 (1999): 95–106. 21 “A Real Virtual Pop Star: Two Minute...

... to mostly used these cafes to down- load various kinds of video games. The rave among male college students in the fall of 1998, for instance, was a World Cup soccer game, narrated in English by one of England’s most famous soccer announcers...

... “‘deliciousandfans rave over the ‘beautiful’ female manager’s ‘dazzling smile However, “voyeurs warn that the space is so small you can ‘overhear all the dramas going on at other tables57 Notably, these are all restaurants run by Vietnamese-Japanese.58 While...

... in the year 2000). The ranting and raving in the Parliament and the Legislative Yuan not only provided CNN with frequent scenes of rambunctious lawmaking, but also, along with other social pressures, culminated in the 1992 election of national...

... “Saundodemo shikô: Hito wa donchan sawagi no naka ni shakai henkaku no yume o miru ka” (“Reflections on the History of Sound Demonstrations: Do People Dream of Social Change in the Midst of a Rave Anakizumu (Anarchism) 12 (August...

.... Similarly, once Dong Lei uploaded the song “A Mooched Meal” onto several Hangzhou-­ based campus networks in 2002, local young fans enthusiastically raved about it.40 Chen Xu’s “The Northeast Specialty Is Not Underworld” also...