.... But they also do important cultural work. In the context of education reform in late socialist China, the collective interpretation of horror stories provides a moral arena in which truths about how to raise and educate children correctly are produced and naturalized. They constitute negative models, usually...

...Diane Dorfman Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Spirits of Reform: The Power of Belief in Northern China Diane Dorfman When Sun Xiulan’s son began having periodic convulsions (choufeng) she called on a spirit healer...

...Pun Ngai 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Opening a Minor Genre of Resistance in Reform China: Scream, Dream, and Transgression in a Workplace Pun Ngai A scream pitched itself through the darkness of the night. It came, as usual, in the last hours...

...” that was used by both cultural conservatives as well as the pure film movement, which pushed for Hollywood-style reforms. Mukōjima defended heterogeneity as inevitable, given the ongoing process of modernization, and the forms of cultural mixture, conflict, and contradiction it produced. Its kakushin (reform...

... . 2007 . Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Dif‐ference . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Chen Chih-Jou Jay . 1999 . “ Local Institutions and the Transformation of Property Rights in Southern Fujian .” In Property Rights and Economic Reform in China...

... identities (Heller 2011 ). The extensive patronage that Li Yang received from the state and his huge popularity among reform-era citizen-learners indicate that his method resonated with the anxieties over what it meant to be Chinese and what China's place was in the neoliberalizing world, as synthesized...

... into question the practices of imperial statecraft and categories of possible democratic citizenship in pursuit of a new political imaginary. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Deporting Cambodian Refugees: Youth Activism, State Reform, and Imperial Statecraft Soo Ah Kwon...

...” nationalists, reformatories were supposed to bring about, if only in allegorical terms, mass conversion to the sobriety, obedience, hierarchical order, and organic unity that the nation was supposed to entail. Reforming Bodies and Minds: Anticommunism and Transforming Political Enemies in Nationalist China...

... 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...

... alienation, started to call for a simple life insurance for the lower classes. Influenced by European social insurance programs, these reformers advocated for a state-run system that would function as a kind of social policy that would improve the lives of the poor. Advocates argued that the universalizing...

... of a nominally “socialist” project, but rather in a return to a properly capitalist set of concerns and governmental techniques, the first iteration of which can be traced to the 1920s and 1930s. With regard to the broad set of economic reforms launched in the period 1979–81, it is argued that the one-child...

.... In Vietnam, high rates of inflation in the 1980s led the government to implement reforms of the economy under the slogan Ðổi mới (Renovation). These reforms included anti-inflationary measures characteristic of neoliberal policies. By the early 1990s, inflation was reduced to the single digits. After...

... adopted its Reform and Opening policy in 1978. Second, the temporary tent set up annually for worship was replaced by a building, dubbed both “museum” and “temple” by way of creative use of a “double-naming method.” And third, the temple fair was formally identified as a piece of intangible cultural...

... as an evacuated, reformed historicity (as in the exit of funu and the reentry of nuren ). These manuals of elite civility on bookshop shelves hint at the effort of becoming that characterizes contemporary Chinese identity. Place, gender, beauty, consumption, and memory are brought into a relation with one another...

...Erik Harms This article situates localized Vietnamese practices of geomancy within the broader history of land-use right reforms in the postreform era. On the immediate level, geomancy appears to represent individualized attempts to reconstruct private homes and cultivate personal landscapes...

...Melissa J. Pashigian This article concerns the ways in which the enumeration of in vitro fertilization (IVF) births emerges as a practice that is simultaneously associated with a socialist nationalist project and post- Ðổi mới market reform. It explores the brief history of and changes in the ways...

..., the identity was no longer tenable, and the elite resorted to the “communist” abject to create the tentative boundaries of an imaginary, cleansed national entity during rapid industrialization. As Xiaoping Deng's reforms in China reoriented their search for an Asian identity, the elite adopted Confucianism...

... sponsored by the Japanese government. Through the example of the Kokuga Society, we learn how Japanese exhibition collectives functioned at this time to promote art and exhibition reform, to stimulate critical discourse on Nihonga 's modernist potential, and to enhance the professional status...

... magazines and received by fans. The second half of the article focuses on the way that reformers and fans critical of the practice couched their objections in terms that highlighted the undesirable nature of the distinctive feminine sensibility attributed to oyama , their melodramatic vehicles...

... between Mao's era and the reforms after it, especially the recent emergence of “red business” commodifying Mao's image and contributing to the younger generation's amnesia or disinterest in Mao's political history (beyond patriotic kitsch). While Chen and Peng are reverent toward Mao and truly believe...