Search Results for study

... between the manner in which the state seeks to govern village society and the spontaneous ways in which local interests are expressed, legally and otherwise. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Dissemination of Law and Access to Justice at the Village Level: A Case Study of Barefoot...

...Ken Yoshida This is a study of Hanada Kiyoteru, a communist literary and art critic whose position in the world of postwar art criticism has gone relatively unexamined in Japanese studies and art history in English. One of the more aggressive critical figures during the immediate postwar era, he...

... Asia .” Comparative Studies in Society and History 54 , no. 1 : 93 – 113 . Becker Howard Saul . 1982 . Art Worlds . Berkeley : University of California Press . Bourdieu Pierre . 1976 . “Le champ scientifique” (“The Scientific Field”) . Actes de la recherché en sciences...

...Carolyn Areum Choi Abstract The pursuit of overseas English language education by South Korean youth has resulted in a hierarchy of educational destinations, with migrants studying English in the Global North attaining higher cultural capital compared to those learning English in the Global South...

...Harry Harootunian; Naoki Sakai Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Dialogue Japan Studies and Cultural Studies Harry Harootunian and Naoki Sakai The Crisis of Japan Studies in the United States Naoki Sakai: For the last decade or so we have seen...

...Kären Wigen Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Politics and Piety in Japanese Native-Place Studies: The Rhetoric of Solidarity in Shinano Karen Wigen The Literature of the Local in the "Age of the Provinces" Alongside the strongly unified...

...Kathleen Uno Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Questioning Patrilineality: On Western Studies of the Japanese le Kathleen Uno Much has been written about the ie, a fundamental unit of early modern (1600- 1867) and modern (1868...

...Oscar V. Campomanes Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 New Formations of Asian American Studies and the Question of U.S. Imperialism Oscar V. Campomanes There may be no better way for a country to know itself than to examine the myths...

...Peter Nien-chu Kiang Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Pedagogies of life and Death: Transforming Immigrant/Refugee Students and Asian American Studies Peter Nien-chu Kiang Changing Landscapes Nearly three decades have passed since Third World...

...Wang Hui Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Commenta ry PRC Cultural Studies and Cultural Criticism in the 1990s Wang Hui In September of 1994, under the sponsorship of Dushu IReading] magazine, a conference was held in Beijing...

... production that thematizes and identifies intangible cultural heritage has been born of these dialogues. This analysis, based on the author's village-studies experiences, seeks to reveal the existence of a general knowledge-production mechanism and to improve understanding of the interaction between...

...Caren Kaplan; Inderpal Grewal Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Roundtable Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructura(/sm/FeminismDivides Caren Kaplan and lnderpal Grewal Transnational feminism is neither...

...Kuan-Hsing Chen Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Roundtable Positioning positions: A New Internationalist Localism of Cultural Studies Kuan-Hsing Chen The following text comes out of a constant search for a position that would...

... University Press. Brooks , Timothy . 1989 . “Funerary Ritual and the Building of Lineages in Late Imperial China”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 49 ( 2 ): 465 -499. Bruneau , Marie Florine . 1992 . “Learned and Literary Women in Late Imperial China and Early Modern Europe”. Late...

...Tani E. Barlow Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 cdeddsm‘s Career in Postwar China Studies Tani E. Barlow Robert Hall wrote in 1948, musing over plans for postwar regional studies: “a national obligation [exists] which must...

...Harry Harootunian The purpose of this article is to examine how the construction of a desire called area studies was founded on the privilege accorded to fixed spatial units such as the geographical area, culture region, and the directional localities west, east, south, and so forth. The model...

...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...

...Lisa Rofel What does it mean to say that positions opened up a space for queer intellectual work? How do we delineate that space? How does this space work in articulation with queering Asian studies more broadly? This essay addresses how the journal positions created the intellectual space...

...Fiona I. B. Ngô; Mimi Thi Nguyen; Mariam B. Lam In the introduction to the special issue, Ngô, Nguyen, and Lam argue that Southeast Asian American studies can model both epistemological and ontological inquiries about the circulation of, the negotiation with, or challenges to the knowledge regimes...

...Peter Fenves The essay begins by showing that Benjamin had a diffuse yet intense interest in Chinese thought and literature during his student years, when he read and discussed a range of Chinese texts, from Laozi’s to Gu Hongming’s. The culmination of his youthful studies of China occurs with his...