...Maranatha Ivanova Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Commentary Ambiguity, Absurdity, and Self-Creation in the Art of Ma Liuming Mara natha Ivanova A match rends the curtain of pitch black. A pair of slightly parted, rouged...

... related to self-management and governmentality that may be at play? This article will explore the shifting idea of beauty and how the Vietnamese state has been using it historically to hegemonize the nation. It will also examine Vietnamese subject formation and subjectivities in the southern urban center...

... for identities. A Middle-Class Misidentification: Self- Identification in the Autobiographical Poetry of Chinese Female Peasant Workers Yun Li Rong Rong Introduction In 2014 when scholars were wondering if Chinese peasant workers could be proletarianized and bring any new voice to the working class (see Pun...

... . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Yurchak Alexei . 2006 . Everything Was Forever until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Saint, Celebrity, and the Self(ie): Body Politics in Late Socialist Vietnam Tri Phuong...

...Suh Kyung-sik Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 A Letter to Mr. Kim Chi-ha; or, The Pain of the Split Self Suh Kyung-sik I. You have asserted in a recent article, with reference to student deaths by self-immolation, that “whatever...

...Jing Wang Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Mirage of ”Chinese Postmodernism”: Ge Fei, Self-Positioning, and the Avant-Garde Showcase Jing Wang The 1980s was undoubtedly an epoch of “progress” in every sphere of Chi- nese life...

...Yingjin Zhang Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Commentary Re-envisioning the Institution of Modern Chinese literature Studies: Strategies of Positionality and Self-Reflexivity Yingjin Zhang The journal Modern China recently carried a debate over...

...Shuqin Cui Taking Liu Manwen’s self-portraiture series, especially her Ordinary Life and Monologue , as examples, this article argues that the self-subject via self-portraiture comes to terms through social-cultural constitution and visual articulation. With face masked and body wrapped, Liu...

...Young Ji Lee This essay examines Maoist China and its deep engagement with local/global capitalism during the Cold War period. It analyzes how the socialist realist utopian images of self-reliant Dazhai, a model village in Shanxi, contributed to the domestic and international image of Maoist China...

...Charles Shiro Inouye Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 In the Scopic Regime of Discovery: lshikawa Takuboku’s Diary in Roman Script and the Gendered Premise of Self-Identity Charles Shire lnouye This reading begins with the desire to see. Upon...

...Judith Farquhar 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 For Your Reading Pleasure: Self-Health (Ziwo Baojian) Information in 1990s Beijing Judith Farquhar One rainy Sunday in Beijing, in 1997, I went to a shopping mall bookstore in search of popular works...

...Kwai-Cheung Lo This essay attempts to connect China with Žižek's theoretical ideas by discussing the multiple meanings of sinicization that brings forth self-negating contradictions. Arguing that contemporary postsocialist China's rapid and ruthless capitalization urgently calls for the realization...

... fundamental defiance of European history and epistemology. Since this history as rationalizing modernity was expanding and encompassed the very formation of the self, Takeuchi argued that resistance implied self-realization through self-negation and that Lu Xun embodied this paradoxical practice. In the mid...

...John G. Russell Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Consuming Passions: Spectacle, Self-Transformation, and the Commodification of Blackness in Japan John G. Russell The security of identity as Japanese may be contaminated, even guaranteed...

... event triggered by Yoshinori Kobayashi's graphic history On Taiwan , (Shin G manism Sengen Supesharu—Taiwan Ron) which appeared in 2001, and the discourse of self-effacement and self-abjection present in many literary texts, cultural policies, and public opinions during the Japanese colonial period, I...