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...Christopher B. Patterson Abstract This article conceives of a transpacific brownness in relation to other forms of brown to produce a storied manifest for brown theory. By activating “the brown transpacific” as an epistemological paradigm that navigates the disciplinary logics of colonial...

...Rea Amit Imamura Taihei (1911–86) is considered by many to be the first film theorist in Japan, and he is known chiefly for his two grand theories on documentary film and animation. Yet, at the same time, Imamura also developed a third, no less ambitious theory, that of “Cinema and Japanese Art...

...Matthew D. Johnson Abstract This article describes the US origins of the field of PRC history. It argues that research on PRC history is widely derived from an approach to knowledge that predates area studies: the theory that societies can be controlled and changed through the transformation...

...Dennitza Gabrakova This article uses as a starting point the intellectual/creative vision of Japanese contemporary cultural anthropologist Imafuku Ryūta: the vision of the world as archipelago. In order to demonstrate that Imafuku's attempt can be explicated as an instance of the “traveling theory...

...John Lie Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Roundtable Enough Said, Ahmad: Politics and literary Theory John Lie What is to be done with a book that has already generated a special issue of Public Culture and a notice...

...E. L. Cerroni-Long Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Roundtable Theory in Cultural Context E. L. Cerroni-Long Texts, as we know, circulate without their contexts.- Pierre Bourdieu Whose Theory? Although culture (used...

...Ben Xu Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 ”From Modernity to Chineseness“: The Rise of Nativist Cultural Theory in Post-1989 China Ben Xu For quite a long time now, the cultural discussion in China has been in search...

... disciplinary regimes of capital and the state. Duke University Press 2009 Para-existential Forces of Invention: Nakai Masakazu’s Theory of Technology and Critique of Capitalism Aaron Stephen Moore Technology and the Political Technology (gijutsu) was an important lens through...

...Petrus Liu This essay resists a common scholarly tendency to treat “queer theory” and “Chinese political economy” as analytically separate issues by arguing that the emergence of new sexual positions and discourses has transnational and material origins. Long before the “linguistic...

...Gail Hershatter Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Subaltern Talks Back: Reflections on Subaltern Theory and Chinese History Gail Hershatter Introduction: Is the Subaltern Portable? For a feminist historian who writes about labor...

... of Bidding Farewell to All Gods: The ‘Fin-de-siecle’ Confrontation in Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory”. Literature and Art Gazette (Wenyi bao) (Beijing), 16 November, p. 3. Iggers , George G. 1983 . The German Conception of History: The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder...

...Tessa Morris-Suzuki Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Commentary Rewriting History: Civilization Theory in Contemporary Japan Tessa Morris-Suzuki There was a time when European historians were a confident breed. They cheerfully...

...Junichi Isomae 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Richard F. Calichman The Space of Historical Discourse: Ishimoda Sh¯o’s Theory of the Heroic Age Junichi Isomae Postwar Thought and Ishimoda Sh¯o Subjectivity and the Theory of the Heroic Age...

... Management, Probability, and the Theory of Games in Segurista (Dead Sure) and Kubrador (The Bet Collector) Jema Pamintuan Depictions on the self-­regulation of the market mainly tackle the connec- tion between social structures and capital formations. The economic...

...Nicola Spakowski Over the past ten to fifteen years, feminism in China has been marked by three closely related characteristics. The first is the introduction of “Western” feminism with “gender” as the core of theory import. The second is the articulation of the “trouble” this import of Western...

...Ferran de Vargas Abstract Although much has been written about the political theories of several thinkers associated with the Japanese New Left, to gain a better understanding of those theories a perspective that conceives them as a conversation within a unitary ideology is needed. Likewise, we...

...Barry Sautman Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Theories of East Asian Intellectual and Behavioral Superiority and Discourses on ”Race Differences” Barry Sautman In a 1993 interview, Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s longtime strongman...

...Jake Werner Abstract Most recent research on the first three decades of the PRC has avoided theoretical reflection on the period, instead claiming an empiricist fidelity to the heterogeneity of lived experience. Yet the refusal of theory allows unexamined conceptualizations to structure...

... anarchists’ struggle to redeem a sense of cosmopolitanism while their lives are engulfed by the turmoil of international and civil wars. Against the backdrop of war, the translation further contextualizes Huang’s historical shift from anarchist politics to his focus on developing a unique theory...

... region. First, it examines how the critiques of China's role in Darfur mirrored the discursive premises of an international relations theory known as “good international citizenship” that accused China of forsaking its global moral responsibilities in favor of enhancing its private economic concerns...