... Press 2015 Sino-Japanese relations protest movements reception Shanghai urban studies nationalism The Multiple Contexts of Protest: Reflections on the Reception of the MIT Visualizing Cultures Project and the Anti-­Right Japanese Demonstration in Shanghai James Farrer...

... by Duke University Press 2011 The “Right Dissident”: Liu Xiaobo and the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong The [Nobel Peace Prize] judges had gradually come to believe they had to “address the China question.” . . . We’ve studied...

...Alain Badiou Duke University Press 2005 Translated by Alberto Toscano An Essential Philosophical Thesis: “It Is Right to Rebel against the Reactionaries” Alain Badiou We are familiar with Mao Zedong’s formula: “Marxism comprises many...

..., this article reveals unsettling allegations about Jarring’s activities during a shadowy, little-known period in his life — a dark period in Sweden’s history, during which academic and political elites were in thrall to a far-right zeitgeist that dovetailed with Germany’s Nazi movement. The article concludes...

...Laikwan Pang In this article I first relate and analyze the overall development of cultural policy and the intellectual property rights (IPR) legal structure in China, in order to show how China's policy and its legal environment increasingly adapt to global conditions. I then use Lijiang...

...Chen Yu-Rong; Wang Ping Two activists identify hate speech and morality as two obstacles to LGBT human rights in Taiwan. Although there is no legal discrimination against homosexuals in Taiwan, the authors argue that their absence in the definition of law constitutes another order of violence...

... Uncapturability in Burkinabe Performers Labor Rights Struggle in South Korea Soo Ryon Yoon Introduction A Burkinabe performer starts tapping lightly on a green glass soju bottle with a chopstick and is soon joined by another who makes similar clacking sounds by hitting his chopstick on a brown plastic beer...

...Kathryn E. Goldfarb Abstract This article explores the legal norms and regulatory mechanisms in Japan that structure child welfare placement decisions, focusing specifically on the legal category of “parental rights.” It is suggested that the ways child welfare officers and caregivers understand...

...Sara L. Friedman; Yi-Chien Chen Abstract This article analyzes the tension between marriage and family rights in the context of Taiwan's marriage equality movement and the then-pending legalization of same-sex marriage following a 2017 Constitutional Court ruling. It focuses on the efforts...

..., South Asia, and the former Soviet Union. I ask first, what were the ways that migrant advocacy groups that emerged in the aftermath of the Myongdong protest translated the problem of the human rights of the foreign worker? Second, what can those narratives that became dominant in Korea say about...

... examines the ongoing Korean War as the backdrop for the neoconservative emergence of human rights critique of North Korea. Examining the transnational funding matrix behind the publication and international circulation of the North Korean defector memoir, specifically the National Endowment for Democracy's...

...Josephine Chuen-juei Ho Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, Taiwan has prided itself on steady progress toward liberal democracy with an ever-broadening understanding of human rights that now allegedly includes the rights of gays and lesbians. Yet at the same time, under the child-protection...

... to their collective possession of use rights to village land. By remaining suspended between the spatial and subjective designations of the rural and the urban, village members find themselves strategically stalling negotiations with the municipal government in the selling of their use rights via the corporate...

... sex worker rights organization. These disparate cases illustrate the hierarchical dimensions through which sex-trafficking interventions operate while entertaining US antitrafficking curiosities in Thailand. The author argues that these US antitrafficking projects illustrate how global markets in mass...

...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...

... has provided the philosophical underpinning for the quasi-autonomous, middle-class movement that formed the consensus for Japan's prewar empire, or Osaka Ishi No Kai (Association for Osaka Restoration), that is making a loud noise in Japan right now. On the other hand, however, as the article argues...

... of authenticity and beauty free from social alienation. This search for aestheticized spaces outside capitalism, in combination with a rejection of fundamental social changes, put the Guomindang in ideological league with radical right-wing movements active around the world between the two world wars. My...