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.... Through an intertextual reading of two of the most popular revolutionary operas in 1970s communist East Asia— The Flower Girl from North Korea and The White-Haired Girl from China—it attends to the diverse strategies in addressing the “woman question” and the possibilities as well as limits opened up...

...Anonymous Duke University Press 2005 Translated by Bruno Bosteels The Dialectical Mode: With Regard to Mao Zedong and Problems of Strategy in China’s Revolutionary War Anonymous Mao Zedong has occupied us a lot; let us come back to this. Or, rather, let...

...Slavoj Žižek The essay analyzes revolutionary terror apropos of two exemplary cases: the Jacobin phase of the French Revolution and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In both cases, terror should be dismissed not as a mass crime but as a failed articulation of the radical emancipatory will. Our task...

...Brian Bergstrom Duke University Press 2006 Revolutionary Flesh: Nakamoto Takako’s Early Fiction and the Representation of the Body in Japanese Modernist and Proletarian Literature Brian Bergstrom Introductions: Nakamoto Takako as Modernist Writer, Proletarian Writer, and Woman...

...Sanjay Seth Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: The Naxalite Movement in India, 1967-1 971 Sanjay Seth Marxism and liberalism are not only products of the modern age but also champions...

... has continuously explored and expressed various degrees of femininity that seemingly contradict a stringent revolutionary spirit. The varying visual representations of traditional femininity and state-organized socialist ideals, which often equal masculinity, collide in North Korea so as to mark...

...Sangmi Bae Abstract This article introduces the 1933 novel After the Doll’s House by Ch’ae Mansik as an example of how revolutionary messages were presented through melodramatic narratives in colonial Korean proletarian literature. Between 1928 and 1930, several members of the Korea Artista Proleta...

...John M. Knight Woman was a category in flux during China’s revolutionary 1920s. Alongside commercial magazines that celebrated the arrival of the modern girl ( xiandai nüzi ) were political currents that prioritized class and nation as sites for women’s liberation. Scholarship has criticized...

...Xiuying Cheng Abstract Based on a critique of the history project titled “Oral History of Peasants’ Ordinary Life in the Revolutionary Era of China,” this article provides an analysis of class ideology production from Land Reform Movement to the Cultural Revolution in China. Thirty years...

... and the postcolonial blind spot that is perpetuated by a focus on the image of the revolutionary ballet as the only representative of Maoist dance culture. References Askew Kelly M. 2002 . Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...

... such a methodological comparison? Reading Marx’s Capital alongside Foucault’s lectures on biopolitics clears a path for analyzing this question, revealing more clearly the revolutionary stakes of thinking Marx after Foucault and vice versa. The essay has three sections. The first section outlines this area between...

... as both artist and woman. She works from within a national representational corpus, subjecting it to various experiments to reveal the fields of violence it has enacted from the Sino-Vietnamese War to the Great Sichuan earthquake. Lei Yan’s meditation through photography upon national, revolutionary...

... of Qing “backwardness,” which influenced not only Europeans and US citizens but also modern Chinese reformers and revolutionaries in their efforts to fashion a “new” China that would one day catch up with and surpass Japan. This 1895 reversal of narratives lies in the background of the 2006 MIT...

... of approach is presence-centered by drawing attention to the most visible scenarios under the revolutionary limelight at that time. In contrast, this article calls attention to what was invisible in the much-discussed cultural scene: how animals were represented and underrepresented in animation...

... for organizing and evaluating not just the contemporary emergence of nonnormative sexualities and desires in (post)socialist China but also, and more urgently, historical continuities and ruptures among China's (semi)colonial past, its revolutionary aspirations for a socialist modernity, and its contemporary...

... and practice, as well as his comments on contemporary China reveal his Eurocentric biases and a habit of aestheticizing or poeticizing revolutionary practice. Žižek's misreading of Mao and China is largely based on abstract theorization, divorced from concrete specificity and historicity. His ultimate...

...Kenneth Paul Tan Forum theater is an interactive practice whose “third-world” revolutionary origins have been transposed into techniques for dealing with “oppressions” within bourgeois societies. By constructing an analytical framework that articulates a Marcusean “one-dimensional society” approach...

... the violent sociopolitical order as much as they might take the forms of revolutionary activity, resistance, or survival. These novels retrospectively narrate the experience of economic and geopolitical uncertainty within the frames of accepted historical knowledge. While Yang’s novel includes flashbacks...

... there, I am still there.” In the untiring inven- tiveness of the Chinese revolutionaries, all sorts of subjective and practi- cal trajectories have found their name. Already, to change subjectivity, to live otherwise, to think otherwise...

... the theme: What is Maoist politics? This meeting has been a great success. We have proof that there exists a revolutionary Maoist current of public opinion. I. In Europe the Question of the Revolution is the Order of the Day Our aim...