... 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...

... and their continuing power in postcolonial Korea. Another change made in the 1977 law 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...

... Linda White is associate professor and chair of the Department of Japanese Studies and director of the Global Gender and Sexuality Studies track of International and Global Studies at Middlebury College. She is author of Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power...

... 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...

... for a “clean” registry encourage parents to register adopted children as naturally born (Lim). In Japan, household registration laws work 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...

... 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...

..., and social stigma in the community. In what Constable ( 2005 ) calls the gendered geographies of power, poor and low-educated women who cannot achieve social-economic mobility in their countries marry men from wealthier countries to provide economic support for families back home and to change...

... based on a common place-based surname or lineage. Since decollectivization, these Maoist village committees have been officially converted to land-holding real estate corporations, publicly signaling their new titles as profit-driven entities. The committees are headed by lineage heads who are often...

..., 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 are these pan- ics so easily sparked...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... in the present can change any urban village's outcome, linkages between present and future have become distorted. In other words, the present has been “left out” because it lacks any power over the future. Urban villages cannot preserve rural migrants’ futures because they are temporary. Regardless, rural...