...Yoshikuni Igarashi 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Edogawa Rampo and the Excess of Vision: An Ocular Critique of Modernity in 1920s Japan Yoshikuni Igarashi In recent years, the works and life of the mystery writer Edogawa Rampo (1894–1965) have...

... for Daily Life . London: Routledge, 1991. The Nationscape: Movement in the Field of Vision Ann Anagnost On a day trip to Shenzhen, the showplace of China’s economic reforms, one need not forgo an encounter with five thousand years of Chinese history...

...Susan J. Napier 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Confronting Master Narratives: History As Vision in Miyazaki Hayao’s Cinema of De-assurance Susan J. Napier There is somethingtimeless about the concept of global culture. Widely diffused...

...Sheila Miyoshi Jager Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 A Vision for the Future; or, Making Family History in Contemporary South Korea Sheila Miyoshi Jager In the bright hours of a cool April afternoon, a group of Seoul National...

...Xiaobing Tang Duke University Press 2006 Echoes of Roar, China! On Vision and Voice in Modern Chinese Art Xiaobing Tang First published in the December 1935 issue of Modern Prints, journal of the Modern Prints Society based in Guangzhou...

...: Ethical Criticism, Novel Alterity, and Mori O¯ gai’s “Stereoscopic Vision” Christopher Weinberger I. Introduction Since the turn of the twenty-­first century, theories of cognition and ethics have come into the foreground of Anglophone novel studies. Many...

..., 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 and Liem's experimental engagement with the search—the search for the missing—uncovers intercalated dimensions...

...Emma Jinhua Teng Duke University Press 2006 Eurasian Hybridity in Chinese Utopian Visions: From “One World” to “A Society Based on Beauty” and Beyond Emma Jinhua Teng “Can Mixed-Blood Hybrids Really Improve the Chinese Race?” This pro- vocative...

... of the intimately embodied vision, haptic camera, reflexive performances, as well as subjectivized editing strategies manifest in their works, I demonstrate that Shi and Cui not only present alternative perspectives on identity issues from inside the queer communities but, more significantly, they practice a boldly...

...Boreth Ly Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Of Performance and the Persistent Temporality of Trauma: Memory, Art, and Visions Boreth Ly Physical pain has no voice, but when it at last finds a voice, it begins to tell a story.  — Elaine...

...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...

... Takeuchi and Wang each drew on Lu Xun to develop a new vision of politics at times when narratives and processes associated with the nation-state and capitalism eclipsed critical political practice. Intellectuals in both interwar Japan and post-Mao China stressed an evolutionary vision of modernity...

... “urban cancers,” enclaves of the “low-end population,” and obstacles to their visions of the city as embodiment of global modernity. An opposing set of scholars and policy makers view these villages as essential to city life, channels for low-cost labor to service urban elites, and gateways to modernity...

... and reduced to vision, that most decorporealized of the senses. Indeed, the fragmented style, the distorted temporalities, and the deinteriorized subjects of Kawabata and Yokomitsu owe a lot to the visual, and especially to the technologized visuality of film. Paradoxically, however, this fractured cinematic...

... with the contradictions of late socialism to realize their vision of a good life. We underscore four domains of action in which people articulate and act out their vision: comfort and pleasure, caring and being cared for, cosmology and nature, and freedom and autonomy. Their practices reveal how the paradoxical value...

... “seen” as ephemeral and contingent, whereas vision and reading are linked to fidelity and truth. References Biewen John . 2010 . Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Chion Michel . 1994 . Audiovision: Sound on Screen...

.... This article explores how Takiguchi fostered independent art movements despite his conflicting engagement with the establishment. In Takiguchi's mind, artistic collectivism had to be rooted in the public domain so that art and society would inform each other. His utopian vision paralleled many objectives...

... relatively denigrated or subaltern peripheries, that is, rural China. Many dilemmas and challenges facing the people described in these articles are held in common, and together they allow us to see a broad vision of contemporary China beyond the cities and the dominant mass media. Being rather ethnographic...

..., the state, and the market in their vision of the good life, and how aspirations to the good life extend beyond the local and the social to include the cosmopolitan and cosmological scales. May the earth without disasters. Look! The male voice is sonorous as a long golden horn, Look! The female voice...