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The Lord of Heaven versus Jesus Christ: Christian Sectarian Violence in Late-Nineteenth-Century South China
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positions (2000) 8 (1): 77–99.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Joseph Tse-Hei Lee 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 The Lord of Heaven versus Jesus Christ: Christian Sectarian Violence in
Late-Nineteenth-Century South China
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
This article draws on a case study of communal conflicts between the Bap...
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The Violence of the Text: Reading Yu Hua and Shi Zhicun
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positions (1994) 2 (3): 570–602.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Andrew F. Jones Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 The Violence of the Text: Reading Yu Hua and Shi Zhicun
Andrew F. Jones
From its very inception, modern Chinese fiction has been rife with depic-
tions of mayhem, murder...
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Art for October: Thai Cold War State Violence in Trauma Art
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 19–50.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Sudarat Musikawong The visual artwork produced about Thai contemporary political trauma constitutes a “trauma art” expressing a politics of loss—loss of life, loss of history, and loss of leftist memory. While much of the literature on 1970s violence and traumatic memory in Thailand has focused...
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“Vegetarian between Meals”: The Dalai Lama, War, and Violence
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 89–143.
Published: 01 February 2010
... are allowed to become part of the international discourse of Tibet. Duke University Press 2010 “Vegetarian between Meals”: The Dalai Lama, War, and Violence
Barry Sautman
Q. You always stress that it’s important to put everything to the test of reason...
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The Politics of Schadenfreude: Violence and Queer Cultural Critique in Lucifer Hung's Science Fiction
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 May 2010
... category for difference that wants to make itself heard. Duke University Press 2010 The Politics of Schadenfreude:
Violence and Queer Cultural Critique in Lucifer Hung’s Science Fiction
Amie Parry and Liu Jen-peng
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Beautiful Violence : War, Peace, Globalization
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 759–771.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Sheldon Lu 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Commentary
Beautiful Violence: War, Peace, Globalization
Sheldon Lu
Qin Yufen and Beautiful Violence
Qin Yufen (b. 1954), a Chinese woman artist based in Berlin, Germany, cre-
ated a gigantic...
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 733–740.
Published: 01 November 2023
... scholarship generated in Asia and foregrounds the imaginative and sensory specificities of such encounters with violence, which have long been regarded subservient to the reading of formal and written records. All the articles in this issue encounter the depictions of violence in Asia through varied critiques...
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Animating the Trauma: Colonial Atrocities and the Use of New Media in Contemporary South Korean Museums
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 863–892.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Chung-kang Kim Abstract When Tongnip kinyŏmgwan 독립기념관 (the Independence Hall of Korea) opened in 1987 to commemorate independence from Japanese colonial rule, the sensational depiction of violence within its technologically innovative diorama display drew substantial public attention. These diorama...
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The Cultural Politics of Asian Life in Carl Mydans's Photojournalism of Tule Lake and Yosu-Sunchon
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positions (2025) 33 (2): 203–229.
Published: 01 May 2025
...‐occupied Korea, the article explores the visual representations of military violence in these photographs with an eye to how US military violence was rendered civilized in comparison to the savage violence of Koreans. The visual repertoire of Asian lives in the photographs ranges from what the article...
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Coda: A Conversation with Kim Dong-Choon
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 837–849.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Henry Em; Christine Hong; Kim Dong-Choon For over two decades, Kim Dong-Choon has written about the history of violence leveled at the population since Korea was liberated from Japanese colonial rule and partitioned by Soviet and US forces in 1945. His research and theoretical reflections on state...
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When Anne Frank Met Astro Boy: Drawing the Holocaust through Manga
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 729–755.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Frank’s life and legacy inspires a hybridized narrative and visual style in manga that blends the emotionality and interiority of shōjo with the more graphic depictions of violence common to shōnen manga for young boys. In so doing, it encourages a reevaluation of the shōjo mode and its ability to bear...
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Archiving Facts and Documentary Films: Sites of Memorial Struggle for the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Thailand
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 893–918.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Sudarat Musikawong; Malinee Khumsupa Abstract None of the perpetrators involved in the October 6, 1976, massacre in Thailand have been brought to justice. It has been this “culture of impunity” that limits the possibility of truth projects. Past state violence has been protected by the country's...
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Archive of the Missing: Speculative Visions and the Terms of Social Repair in Transnational Adoption
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positions (2025) 33 (2): 231–256.
Published: 01 May 2025
..., the article sees the missing as both a method and framework with which to imagine a vision of repair amid the debris of violence in the transnational adoption practice and archives. Both RHEE's and Liem's experimental engagement with the search — the search for the missing — uncovers intercalated dimensions...
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Urban/the City: An Experiment Called the “Kochi Film”
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 173–194.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Ratheesh Radhakrishnan This article, organized around three films— Stop Violence (dir. A. K. Sajan, 2002), Big B (dir. Amal Neerad, 2007), and Annayum Rassolum (dir. Rajeev Ravi, 2013)—attempts to account for a moment in the history of Malayalam cinema when an attempt to spatially imagine, through...
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Filming the Queerness of Comfort Women: Byun Young-Joo's The Murmuring , 1995
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 February 2014
... it confronts the difficult but fundamental issue concerning comfort women: the heteronormative desire that sanctioned the violence of wartime sexual slavery. The history of the comfort women has often been written as an indictment of Japan's military imperial ideology, with the goal of recuperating its victims...
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Suji Kwock Kim's “Generation” and the Ethics of Diasporic Postmemory
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 653–667.
Published: 01 August 2016
... Korea?” Notes from the Divided Country in many ways grapples with this very question and can be seen as an effort to remember the “Forgotten War” through vivid, chilling, moving poems that depict the enduring trauma of wartime violence from the perspective of diasporic postmemory. Taking Hirsch's work...
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Miki Kiyoshi and the Shōwa Kenkyūkai: The Failure of World History
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positions (2009) 17 (1): 43–72.
Published: 01 February 2009
... violence throughout East Asia. Duke University Press 2009 Miki Kiyoshi and the Sho¯wa Kenkyu¯kai:
The Failure of World History
Lewis E. Harrington
This essay examines the relation between the journalistic writings of Jap-
anese philosopher Miki Kiyoshi...
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On the Brink of Universality: German Cosmopolitanism in Japanese Imperialism
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positions (2009) 17 (1): 73–95.
Published: 01 February 2009
... arises in his argument in which Japan, as ostensibly the most mediated modern culture, becomes the site for all cultural mediation without undergoing further mediation by its East Asian colonies. This logic of mediation masks Japanese colonial violence in the form of a transhistorical philosophical...
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Obstacles to LGBT Human Rights Development in Taiwan
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 399–407.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Chen Yu-Rong; Wang Ping Two activists identify hate speech and morality as two obstacles to LGBT human rights in Taiwan. Although there is no legal discrimination against homosexuals in Taiwan, the authors argue that their absence in the definition of law constitutes another order of violence...
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Deporting Cambodian Refugees: Youth Activism, State Reform, and Imperial Statecraft
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 737–762.
Published: 01 August 2012
... the deportation of Cambodian refugees. In following the young people's campaign to put an end to deportation, I examine the convergence of youth's failed recognition by the state as a nonvoting youth constituency with their realization of the state's exercise of “illegitimate” violence. Their activism calls...
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