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positions (2012) 20 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 February 2012
... an appropriate anniversary issue for renewing this journal. Essays consequently focus on the maturation of lines of research and on what, in light of the passage of a full generation of scholarship, might be issues just arising on the historical horizon. The first set of essays introduces the reader...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 345–372.
Published: 01 February 2012
..., Cold War scholarship, and the struggle over so-called area studies. Topics raised and considered include the history of the journal's founding, critical reminiscence of the project's early years of publications and intellectual politics, historical trends in knowledge production and ways...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 781–815.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Emily Wilcox Contrary to the common perception that dance in Mao-era China was dominated by the importation and adaptation of Soviet ballet, examination of historical sources in corroboration with Chinese-language dance scholarship suggests that China’s pre–Cultural Revolution socialist period...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 921–945.
Published: 01 November 2013
... exposition of the Guomindang's ideological import serves as a critique of recent scholarship that tends to subsume the Guomindang and its peculiar approach to capitalism under a blanket denunciation of modern political movements. Adopting a poststructuralist suspicion of post-Enlightenment rationality, some...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 987–1018.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Minh-Ha T. Pham This article draws together communications and media studies with feminist theory and refugee scholarship to closely consider Vietnamese-American subject and community formations from the reference point of sound and audition. Specifically, it examines the ways in which...
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 May 2014
... since the war without telling anyone about their most haunting war experiences, in large part, I argue, because of the possible social consequences of disclosure. Drawing from Bessel A. van der Kolk and Onno van der Hart's, as well as Oka Mari's, scholarship on the nature of traumatic memory, I...
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 907–930.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., writing among things Eizo no hakken ( Discovery of the Image , 1963/2005), Hyogen no sekai ( World of Expression , 1967), and Genshi no bigaku ( Aesthetics of Illusion , 1976). Despite these many accomplishments, Matsumoto has gone largely unrecognized in US scholarship. The conception and representation...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of scholarship, pedagogy, and student interaction evolve in response to the digital turn, to the globalization of the student body, and to the appropriation of visual technology in the classroom? Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 693–719.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Ratheesh Radhakrishnan The “region”—understood in terms of the linguistically organized states—has been one of the central categories around which debates about cultural politics in India have been organized in the last two decades. This article argues that within this scholarship, the “region” has...
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positions (2009) 17 (1): 159–205.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Naoki Sakai The transpacific relationship between the United States and Japan has been analyzed, discussed, and diagnosed ever since the U.S. occupation of Japan. Despite the variety and wealth of scholarship on this topic, however, the dearth of comparative studies with respect to fascistic...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 459–487.
Published: 01 May 2010
... scholarship on expressive desire, I investigate the ways certain self-identified Chinese gays and lesbians are positioning themselves as individuals who are uniquely capable of embracing their private desires and thus at the vanguard of a new modernity in China. Lan Yu complicates this developmental narrative...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 481–495.
Published: 01 May 2020
... on War and Peace, and PeaceWomen Across the Globe—and argues for feminist scholarship to take an interdisciplinary approach and, in particular, to fuse peace studies with cultural studies, political economy, and global geopolitics. Doing so requires an examination of the history and the scope...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 517–546.
Published: 01 August 2020
...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...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 841–868.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and separations of media forms—this is a fact overlooked in both national histories and regional media scholarship. Reconfigured with the complex, shifting intersections of radio and television, the otherwise familiar account of merger and separation in the “Singapore Story” emerges anew with static noises...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 783–807.
Published: 01 November 2021
... analyses that result when scholars attempt to turn state sources against the state. It further argues that much of the “damning” evidence against the Party actually appeared in official, published sources—but because archival historians often dismiss propaganda as fiction, the scholarship has not traced...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 719–758.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the findings—conceptualizations whose plausibility arises not from the archive but from the historian's own historically situated sensibilities. This article identifies a deep orientation at work in an otherwise highly diverse set of scholarship on the early PRC. A research paradigm privileging the individual...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 61–84.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Wenqing Kang Abstract This article is part of a larger research project that traces the history of male same‐sex relations in China during the Mao era, a topic on which virtually no scholarship is currently available. The Chinese government named the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) “ten years...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 763–792.
Published: 01 November 2022
... scholarship on collective dreamworlds and on advertisements as dream‐images, while the curatorial choices are situated against, first, the historical‐cultural specificity of advertising in South Korea and, second, the social‐political imaginaries of the mid‐2000s, when the museum was developed and opened...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 541–570.
Published: 01 August 2023
... attention on its own terms in the scholarship of either Lu Xun or Chinese visual culture. Lu Xun's essay includes a folklore account of “foreign devils” plucking out locals’ eyes and pickling them in a jar. Bracketing the magic lantern incident held by many as the primal scene of modern Chinese literature...
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positions (2019) 27 (3): 469–497.
Published: 01 August 2019
... life. However, there are consequences for those who move, in terms of belonging and how they imagine their life projects. This article extends the established scholarship on mobility out of China by comparing the rhetorical construction of mobility with the experiences of Chinese migrants in Japan...
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