Search Results for state

...Zawawi Ibrahim; Lin Hongxuan The Penan of Sarawak, East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo, are an indigenous community who have adapted to survive under the strictures and expectations of the Malaysian nation-state while proudly holding on to their traditions and identities. One such tradition...

..., and assemblies in the 1900s to the policing of individuals ostensibly harboring “dangerous ideas” that were deemed threatening to state and capital—what the police came to categorize as “thought crime” by the late 1920s. Once “thought” was identified as an object for policing, Japanese police agencies began...

...Amanda R. Cheong Abstract This study draws on ethnographic fieldwork with undocumented and stateless families in Sabah, Malaysia to examine how deportability shapes children's relationships with the Malaysian state. By centering the perspectives of children and their families, the author argues...

...David S. G. Goodman 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Commentary Contending the Popular: Party-State and Culture David S. G. Goodman Consideration of the “popular” in the contemporary People’s Republic of China (PRC) immediately confronts...

...Ralph A. Litzinger 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Commentary Government from Below: The State, the Popular, and the Illusion of Autonomy Ralph A. Litzinger To write a history of the culture of the popular classes exclusively from inside those...

...Wesley Sasaki-Uemura 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Competing Publics: Citizens’ Groups, Mass Media, and the State in the 1960s Wesley Sasaki-Uemura Prelude on a Phone Booth A virtual museum on the internet about public telephones in Japan carries...

...Reiko Tomii 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 State v. (Anti-)Art: Model 1,000-Yen Note Incident by Akasegawa Genpei and Company Reiko Tomii All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact...

...Mikkel Bunkenborg Classical descriptions of popular religion in China have noted how the pantheon of deities constitutes a celestial administration organized and approached much like a bureaucratic state. While the view of popular religion as a mere reflection of imperial rule seems inadequate...

...Ou-Byung Chae This article examines the genealogy of postcolonial state culture in South Korea in the context of the changing imperial order in East Asia. First, we reveal an uneasy, uncomfortable, and antagonistically complicit relationship between colonial culture, anticolonial culture...

..., expressed their absolute and undivided loyalty toward the crown. The lower-/working-class Chinese either assimilated with the majority or faced persecution for sedition of all sorts—from republicanism and Bolshevism in Vajiravudh's reign to communism during the Cold War years. In reality, the Thai state's...

...Ken C. Kawashima This article reconsiders the concept of the state apparatus by looking at the micropolitics and history surrounding the largest “Korean welfare organization” in interwar Japan, the Sôaikai ( ), or Mutual Love Association. As a welfare organization of Korean workers in Japan...

... on public discourse, historical chronologies, monuments, and music, the body of visual art about Thai state violence during the 1970s Cold War period raises some of the most relevant questions. Before the public articulation about the October 6, 1976, massacre was made possible by the twentieth anniversary...

...Anh Thang Dao Focusing on the idea of the homeland as a central aspect of exile and using Linda Lê's novel Slander as an entry point, this essay argues that exile often functions as a continuation of the original place, which remains under the control of a nation-state that is necessarily exclusive...

...Soo Ah Kwon This article interrogates the shortfalls of neoliberal democracy and its political practices for citizen (and noncitizen) subjects in the United States by drawing on ethnographic research of a diverse group of second-generation Asian and Pacific Islander youth's attempt to challenge...

...Haiyan Lee Duke University Press 2006 Governmentality and the Aesthetic State: A Chinese Fantasia Haiyan Lee Since Michel Foucault proposed the concept of “governmental rationality” or “governmentality” in a series of lectures in the late 1970s...

..., for prostitution to be licensed it must be administered by the state in one way or another. We should note, however, that licensed prostitution sometimes takes other forms as well. For instance, in 1882, Gumma Prefec- ture in Japan used its Public...

...Kuan-Hsing Chen 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Translated by Yiman Wang The Imperialist Eye: The Cultural Imaginary of a Subempire and a Nation-State Kuan-Hsing Chen I look hard for The origin of blood. Some say...

...Fred Yen Liang Chiu 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Suborientalism and the Subimperialist Predicament: Aboriginal Discourse and the Poverty of State-Nation Imagery Fred Yen Liang Chiu 1. The Suboriental/Subimperial/Subcolonial Triad in East Asian Context It has...

... journalist's monograph, Korean authorship, a Korean‐Chinese actor's translation, and the Chinese‐language socialist magazine Pioneer . This study analyzes how Li's Taiwan reconfigures the 1925 petition and transcends the seemingly invincible nation‐state‐capital trinity. Although the petition pleads...

...Giovanni Arrighi Duke University Press 2007 States, Markets, and Capitalism, East and West Giovanni Arrighi Writing in the mid-1960s, Geoffrey Barraclough contended that when the history of the first half of the twentieth century — which for most...