..., 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...

... could resort to bicultural interplay to convey transnational critique, and it contends that such deliberate filtering and revisioning of cultural legacies is in fact one of the hallmarks of Chinese American writing. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Slanted Allusions: Transnational...

... they sought to save. In Korea, this dynamic is profiled through the history of a missionary resort at Sorai beach. Initially believed to have contributed to the suicide of an evangelical worker in 1895, within a few years the Sorai area rapidly transformed. In step with the broader culture of summer...

... of developers by the name of Unimat, Inc., is constructing an extremely large four-story building of iron and concrete in the northwestern region of Iri- omote Island. This group, which has the goal of developing the largest business resort in Okinawa...

...), reported that the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) had added four historicsites in greater China to its World Heritage list. 1 These included the Potala at Lhasa and the Mountain Resort and Its Outlying...

... of a local crisis. This also holds true for Karen’s husband. The husband stays at home tending to his roosters for cockfighting, again, hopeful of winning the “magic money” to compensate for their family’s loss, resorting to a possible get-­rich...

... Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press positions 28:4 November 2020 870 slate for city planners and politicians. This land is zoned and demarcated by urban planners: part of it will play host to the island s rst casino and integrated resort, while the rest will be given over to an ambitious horticul...

... are less important than the difference that has been worked in them by history.” Virtually all of the essays here either tacitly presume or directly assert that the court of last resort for pop culture studies ought to be history. Since...

... decades around the world, someone like Nelson Mandela is the exception. There are many instances in which the use of violence has gone astray, and a great many groups resort to suicide as a consequence. Then, too, even in struggles...

...” status, the Taiwanese people have learned to be suspicious about totalizing national historical narratives of past regimes, and many resort to personal histories to tell the “truth” they know. Yet, though personal and official histories can...

... resorted to carpet bombing, a form of warfare that knowingly exposed an allied civilian population to mass killing. During my tenure as a standing commissioner, the TRCK investigated more than twenty separate incidents involving the US military...

... they had in the new media age as well as increased sensitivity and responsibility associated with it. Obviously, it’s never a good thing to have people resorting to threats and other non-­constructive means. However, they should not overshadow...

... of being a mere copy, Yumeno (and later Matsuyama and Tanaka) resorted to the interrelated dyads of Japan/the West and premodern/modern. In these dyads, Rampo is relegated to the categories of Japan and the premodern. Thus Rampo’s literary merit...

.../indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf . Wenchuanxian renmin zhengfu 汶川县人民政府 (Wenchuan County People's Government) . 2017 . “ Wenchuan dayu lvyou wenhuajie ji kangyang minsu zhuanchang tuijiehui kaimu” 大禹旅游文化节暨康养民宿专场推介会开幕 ( “Wenchuan Tourism Cultural Festival and Healthy Resort...

...-health books, the state promotion of a leisure weekend, cultural discourses that seek to negate the West as the agent of modernity, and the figure of Tibet in the mountain resort of Chengde. Some of these essays attempt to render visible...

... their relations and adjust them. For example, the father and son have to resort to an incestual relationship for them to understand the issues. Of course it took place in the dark and they did not know who the other person was. But it was precisely...

... with no other means of livelihood but to cut trees and slash and farm in the remote jungles. While they are forced to resort to a primitive mode of life resembling their ancestors, they also need cash to meet medical, educational, and other expenses...

... into a new state power equals its betrayal, but unable to invent and impose on social reality a truly alternative social order, the revolution- ary movement engages in a desperate strategy of protecting its purity by the “ultra- leftist” resort...

... at a chain coffee shop. After dinner and coffee, students will relocate to the entertainment district for a night of dancing, karaoking, and drinking. Students will also get together to do day trips at hotel resorts nearby where they can use the pool for a small fee. At least once or twice during their stay...

... by resorting to swish pans that ricochet back and forth between the two sides of the comical debate. This is may be a parody of the endless and still long takes, in which “nothing happens,” that have become fashionable among independent filmmakers...