...Pun Ngai; Anita Koo The fact that in 2010 eighteen young workers attempted suicide at Foxconn production facilities in China has attracted worldwide attention. Drawing on research conducted in Foxconn factories in three regions of China—the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, and West China...

... and the 2006 Suicide Prevention Act. Furthermore, Seishin represents an anthropological (techno-ontological) standpoint similar to that of Gilbert Simondon, Miki Kiyoshi, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. This article investigates the film’s ontology, externalism, and political critique of neoliberalism in the late...

... they sought to save. In Korea, this dynamic is profiled through the history of a missionary resort at Sorai beach. Initially believed to have contributed to the suicide of an evangelical worker in 1895, within a few years the Sorai area rapidly transformed. In step with the broader culture of summer...

... of turmoil” in its aftermath. Stories circulate widely about men who were labeled as sodomites, humiliated and tortured in public, and sentenced to hard labor; some reportedly were beaten to death or committed suicide during this period. Using oral history and archival cases collected by the author...

... stockings, and red shoes. On her right hand, she wore a ring composed of a fake green jewel in a gold setting and in her handbag, retrieved with her body, were the 120 love letters. Wang learned of the suicide from reporters who tracked him down...

..., “discover the truth about the mass suicides that took place during the war in Okinawa.” Conducting their performance-like investigation on the islands of Kerama, Tokashiki, and Zamami, this group claimed that there were no facts proving...

... project, “Scripting Suicide,” looks at how suicide has been scripted in modern Japan through a variety of iconic representations. Tsung-­yi Michelle Huang is currently an associate professor in the Department of Cultural...

... of the puppet theater, and that the artificial, or what Chikamatsu calls simply art (gei), can often move the audience more effectively than the strictly realistic. For example, the subgenre of love suicide plays that includes some of Chikamatsu’s most...

... been crushed by illegal force, Iraq will inevitably continue to suffer from violence, chaos, and terrorist attacks. Islamic terrorists and their suicide bombs burst like roses blooming in summer, becoming a frightening spectacle of the new...

..., hijackings in which the time until the desired effect approached zero, suicide attacks with airplanes. September 11 should be understood in light of this history of tactical struggle. In other words, in the history of military struggles over the past...

... dimensions had been created by a commodified print culture. Despite the ambivalence that Soseki seems to have shared with his countrymen at the time regarding Nogi’s anachronistic suicide, Kokoro ultimately appropriates an image...

... . Hadfield Peter . 2000 . “Japan Struggles with Soaring Death Toll in Suicide Forest.” Telegraph , November 5 , www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/1373287/Japan-struggles-with-soaring-death-toll-in-Suicide-Forest.html . Harvey John . 2007 . Photography and Spirit . London...

... with the white protagonist and adopts his attitude and truths, the black child develops the same self-destructive and suicidal consciousness found in the systemic trauma of the black adult. Here, as in the case of the collective unconscious...

... (as in the case of Zhang I Engendering Chinese Filmic Discourse 605 Ruan Lingyu’s suicide, discussed later in the concluding section). Cinematic configurations of women- and in particular modern women -constitute...

... of the 1937 Nanjing atrocities and 1945 compulsory mass suicides in Oki- nawa, are right-wing strategies in the struggle to fill the political vacuum the Cold War’s end left in Japanese civil society. Skilled historians must contest...

... with a scene in which the youth, now a fanatical political assassin, commits suicide in a frenzy of masturbatory jouissance. The treatment of masturbation in this text is remarkable mainly for three reasons: (a) perhaps for the first...

... of resistance like suicide by immolation. That said, however, why did you not first criticize the violence of a government that drove so many young people to choose such an extreme form of resistance? You simply decided that the student movement...

... begets more trauma. Chronologically, the oldest trauma belongs to Wu-jin, who displaces his guilt over his sister’s suicide onto Dae-su, the witness to their incestuous love. Until the very end then, the film seems completely at ease...

...- place forced a prostitute to run away with him. Prostitutes also committed suicide, sometimes in so-called love suicide arrangments with a man. It is notable that partners in such love suicides were seldom of different ethnici- ties...

... envisioned the wall as an enormous living body that could breathe like a human being. This prompted them to perform a ritual that recalled suicide. Wrapping the wall’s surface with red curtains, the artists then lit fires in the watchtowers...