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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 2 Square dance at Migrant Workers Home, June 2019. Photograph by Jiahe Mei.
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 109–131.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Theodore Hughes Beginning with The Square ( Kwangjang , 1960) and the linked novel Voice of the Governor-General ( Ch'ongdok ŭi sori , 1967, 1968, 1976) and moving through two early 1970s works, A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist ( Sosŏlga Kubossi ŭi iril , 1970–72) and The Tempest ( T'aep'ung...
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 633–670.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Yomi Braester The essay examines photography at Tiananmen from 1949 to the present. Personal mementos are placed within personal narratives and used as scaffolding for memory work. Documentary films juxtapose photography with other social practices at the square. Photography both conveys and shapes...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1009–1039.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., it also teaches us how to criticize it and, more important, how to extend and intensify the kind of autonomy that has recently emerged everywhere from Tahrir Square in Cairo to the streets around the Diet building in Tokyo. Investigating the several concepts found in his text, such as “feeling,” “desire...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 111–150.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Duy Lap Nguyen This essay develops a reading of Bùi Anh Tuấn’s Ian Fleming–inspired Specter over Red Square ( Bóng Ma trên Công Trường Đỏ ). Published during the war in Vietnam, the novel was one of the most successful examples of the new forms of mass culture that emerged in the context of the US...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 February 2019
... politics? Reading select Sinophone literary texts as allegories of area studies, in this case the Sinitic script as the fetish object, further illuminates the imperative to defetishize the area and bring race squarely into area studies. References Ashcroft Bill Griffiths Gareth Tiffin...
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positions (1999) 7 (3): 827–850.
Published: 01 August 1999
... Gordon’s documentary on the 1989 student protests in China.’
To recall, the student occupation of Tiananmen Square began when stu-
dents, intellectuals, and some urban residents used Hu Yaobang’s death and
Mikhail Gorbachev’s historic visit...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 761–768.
Published: 01 August 2008
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ately comes to mind when looking at how Western sources interpret move-
ments in other countries is the way the “goddess of liberty” has been por-
trayed since the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. In the latter days of
the protests in May, art...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 501–521.
Published: 01 August 2022
... District. His daily responsibilities include visiting households about to be relocated and communicating compensation policies to residents in the rural-urban fringe. Echoing stories aired in the TV series Anju , he stated that the difficulty of his job is to “make the arrangement fair and square...
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positions (2003) 11 (2): 261–269.
Published: 01 May 2003
...,
were scheduled to hold a fashion show in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square—the
first time the square had staged such an event.The fashion show, which
opened the “2002 Moda Beijing” series of events, was held in the east part
of the square, with more than...
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positions (2003) 11 (2): 331–360.
Published: 01 May 2003
... in the 1990s sit squarely, legs apart, hands on
their knees, in a posture familiar from the iconography of dominant Chinese
males. Their attention is focused not on the photographer but on the ritual
Harrison Clothing and Power on the Periphery...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
... kín) were designed to
accommodate families averaging ve to seven members, with a ration of
approximately four square meters of living space per person — higher than
the average of two to three square meters in areas of Hanoi that experi...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 735–762.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and essays—themselves a kind of “endless confrontation”—each of these points is repeatedly articulated, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly, as recurrent images, motifs, and arguments. This begins as early as his first published work, fifteen years earlier. In “Shikakui sora” 四角い空 (“Square Sky...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 459–487.
Published: 01 May 2010
... on the square,” Daning informs him, “tell
them to pull out now. . . . They’re clearing the square tonight. Young peo-
ple who want a future better stay home.” As he heads out the door, Dan-
ing turns to Handong with a last bit of crucial...
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positions (1993) 1 (1): 268–279.
Published: 01 February 1993
... China’s future must face squarely, as well as the
central concern of Chinese scholars and the field of China studies.
Xiaojiang I Open Letter 275
Political attitudes are often a moral...
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positions (1993) 1 (1): 18–23.
Published: 01 February 1993
... Square
After days of Spring rains we awakened
in a shabby parlor jammed with beat-up furniture
and no place left for the waking to really live,
between ourselves and the piles of old bedding...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 481–512.
Published: 01 May 2016
... taller and wider than the
human body, row upon row of circles within squares form ever-widening
concentric curves, akin to waves rippling off a shoreline just beyond the
positions 24:2 doi 10.1215/10679847-3458697...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 691–720.
Published: 01 August 2014
... a new village. This land has been divided among
the households into equal pieces of 96 square meters (503 pieces in total),
and Xiaocun is now using this land to build a “New Village.” The retention
land, its rent, and the development land...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 659–681.
Published: 01 August 2013
... Square, and where, simultaneously, women in rural areas still
follow rules of inequality — for instance, they have to put on a sadder per-
formance as the crying mourners (in comparison to the male relatives) at a
funeral yet are forbidden to go...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
... precisely because it had “not developed
yet.” By 2005, things had already begun to change. A new people’s square
was created, surrounded by shop units that, at the time, remained empty.
By 2006, many of these shop units had filled, and unattractive...
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