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... as a neoliberal technology of the self, with the Chinese nation‐state. It examines the understudied phenomenon of Crazy English, a language‐teaching enterprise that received unprecedented state patronage among such edu‐businesses in the decade of 1998–2008. Conceptualizing Crazy English as a self‐cultivation...

...Chi-she Li; Tsung-yi Michelle Huang In this essay we argue that stories of rich merchants enable us to see new forms of neoliberal subject imaginary. They serve to teach the public about how to become a profit-seeking person, given that previously formal education did not prepare citizens...

... in historical studies of Korean workers in Japan. My thesis is that the history of the Sôaikai teaches us that the concept of the state apparatus must be considered in terms of its internal splitting , between a publicly avowed appearance and its publicly disavowed, spectral, or supplemental forms...

..., this article frames suzhi jiaoyu as a form of governmentality, dedicated to teaching children the “conduct of conduct” in postsocialist Beijing. Based on ethnographic research conducted in elementary schools, among families, and in public spaces in Beijing, the article focuses on how attempts to define...

..., it also teaches us how to criticize it and, more important, how to extend and intensify the kind of autonomy that has recently emerged everywhere from Tahrir Square in Cairo to the streets around the Diet building in Tokyo. Investigating the several concepts found in his text, such as “feeling,” “desire...

... Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Contributors Ackbar Abbas teaches comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Hong Kong and is the author of On Fascination (forthcoming...

.... Judith B. Farquhar teaches anthropology at the University of North Carolina. Her book Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine is forthcoming. James 1. Hevia teaches history at North Carolina A&T State University. He...

... in contemporary Chinese fiction. Nina Comyetz teaches East Asian languages and cultures at Rutgers University and is com- pleting a book about the demoness-enchantress in modern Japanese literature...

... 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Contributors Kim Brandt teaches history at Amherst College and is working on a book on the mingei movement in Japan. Leo Ching teaches Japanese literature at Duke University. His...

... University. His most recent publication is The Struggle between History and Memory (in Japanese, Rebecca Karl teaches history at New York University. Her latest book is Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Contributors Charles K. Armstrong wrote his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Chicago on the origins of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. He teaches Korean...

... Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Contributors hnhagnost teaches anthropology at the University of Washington. Her article “The Politicized Body” is published in Body, Subject, and Power in China, ed. A. Zit0 and T. Bar...

... Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Contributors Carole Cavanough teaches Japanese literature and film at Middlebury College. She is cur- rently editing a book on narrative and Japanese cinema. Yukiko...

...Kuan-Hsing Chen Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Contributors Anne Allison teaches anthropology at Duke University and is the author of Nightwork: Sexu- ality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994...

... 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Contributors Christopher A. Bolton teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages at the University of California, Riverside, and is the author of “The Dialogue...

.... S. Yvonne Chang is associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan (1993). Dai Jinhua teaches film studies at Beijing University. She...

.... Russell is a professor in the faculty of regional studies at <;ifu University. Hc is cur- rently writing a book on discourses of race and blackness in contemporary Japan. Alerrandm Russo teaches sociology at the University of Bologna. He...

..., and elsewhere. Shih-Diing Liu teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macau. His present research looks at the political and cultural scenario of post-handover Macau. Corrado Neri received his PhD...

...Eika Tai Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan Eika Tai Problematizing “Teaching Japanese” Under Japanese colonial rule, the Taiwanese were compelled to study and to speak Kokugo...

... teaches history at the University of California, San Diego, and is the author of Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (1996). Yorhikuni lgarashi teaches history at Vanderbilt University and is currently completing...