... their surname by refusing to register their marriages to their “husbands.” Claiming themselves “married” but not legally registering their marriages, this growing group of name-change resisters defines their nonregistered marriages as jijitsukon 事実婚 (common-law or real marriage). Drawing on ethnographic...

... was to enable adoptees to change their surnames. Before this law, if their surname was already recorded in a family registry, the adoptee could not change it to match the surname of their adoptive father. With this reform, an adoptee who did not have any known birth parents and was registered in a household...

... and gender studies at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. She is the author of Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan (2019). Her current research follows queer and trans individuals and couples as they navigate family-based immigration to the United States and Taiwan. Yi-Chien Chen is professor...

... with the American Baptist mission, whereas the senior segment of the same lineage joined the Catholic church.1 These diverse patterns of religious identification, of the ongoing conflicts between the rival lineage segments, and of the changing power...

... in conjunction with civil family laws to require women to change their surname and enter their husband's registry to marry legally, thereby prompting the feminist strategy of common-law marriage (White). Before May 2019, household registration policies in Taiwan provided no options for recognizing same-sex...

... and the decoration of Tamasaburô illustrate recent changes in how femininity is performed, constructed, and perceived in a Japanese cultural context. In fact, the sheer contrast between them as of 2012 reveal how complexly their art changed thinking about...

... of access in which entry “is constituted as access to data rather than a change in physical location.”14 Besides addressing my own unease in entering this space,I point this out to raise the question of how we are to approach the Internet...

..., the language utilized just like land resources or human labor. However, what is notable about the passage is the suggestion that both Korea and Japan will change from their interactions with each other. Hayashi projects the ultimate linguistic result...

...-economic mobility in their countries marry men from wealthier countries to provide economic support for families back home and to change their own lives in the host countries (Constable 2005 : 5–7; Yang and Lu 2010 : 20–21). The most visible cases of these marriages are between Southeast Asian women...

... of government, though many people speculated that officials would eventually collect higher percentages through stricter tax codes and enforcement practices. Village leaders and members are organized among committees, which consist of former Maoist production brigades based on a common place-based surname...

... their larger responsibility, that is, mitigating hate speech? In their case, how could their political expression line up so predictably with racial phenotype (note the overwhelming absence of Chinese-­language surnames among the signatories)? Why...

... reference indicates the given name before the surname (e.g., Mariko Mori, Toshiya Ueno), all Japanese and Korean names have been enumerated by surname first, followed by the given name. 1 The exhibition traveled to different venues...

... 1995 story “Searching for the Lost Wings of the Angel.” Central to the traditional Chinese patrilinear family model, whose primary work is the transmission of the paternal surname through the production of male heirs, is the virtue...

... the eminent economic historian Thomas C. Smith discussed the early modern Japanese peasant “family.” However, his principal interest was rural economic history- the changes wrought by the rise of market pro- duction on rural households...

... during the organizing process. Both reflect recent drastic changes in Asian affairs. The first was the joint prosecution prepared by the North and South Korean prosecution teams. With the momentum of the North-South summit meeting in June...

... with an orientalist enthusiasm for local color as a footnote to the successful expansion of U.S. naval power, scientific knowledge, and commercial interests. Further references to this Chinese individual, including a surname, “Lo...

... the most common: as recent Filipino-­American films make apparent, Filipino Americans continue to triangulate themselves between whites and blacks. Still, the dilemma remains of other Americans’ being perplexed by Spanish- ­surnamed, English...

... is a stunning achievement in the history of contemporary cinema.23 My concern here departs from a textual apprecia- positions 2: 1 Spring 1994 142 tion, focusing instead on the changing screen-spectator...

... family repre- sents the newly revamped face of China, set in a rapidly changing domestic and global environment. Huang ❘❘ Locating Family Portraits: Everyday Images from 1970s China 679 Figure 5  A nuclear family in Tian’anmen Square...

... of time.” Eventually, urban villages will be subject to eminent domain and redeveloped into shopping malls, high-tech centers, pet beauty salons, and so forth. Because the future is imminent and no effort in the present can change any urban village's outcome, linkages between present and future have...