...Ōe Kenzaburō; Kim Chi-ha Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 An Autonomous Subject’s long Waiting, Coexistence be Kenzaburd and Kim Chi-ha This conversation between Japanese novelist and Nobel Laureate Oe Kenzabur6 and South...

... migrating parents. The article explores the unpredictability of the temporality of migration and how parental absence can be indefinite or permanent, especially for parents who follow undocumented channels of migration. The article explores children’s lived experiences of waiting for their parents to return...

... of ethnic minorities and villains, waiting for opportunities to return, seek revenge, and talk back. The disappearance of animals in the mid-1960s marked the start of the Cultural Revolution but also paved the way for its own ideological demise. When the wrathful animals returned to the screen in the late...

... . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Bandak Andreas , and Janeja Manpreet K. . 2018 . “ Introduction: Worth the Wait .” In Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope, and Uncertainty, edited by Bandak Andreas and Janeja Manpreet K. , 1 – 40 . New York : Bloomsbury Academic...

... were an instant firework flowing in a rectangle. Dead male age forty-three. Sorry to have kept you waiting, he said. From deep within the darkness...

.... I stood there waiting until the door opened onto a room that held a few chairs and a grand piano, floral paper cutouts framed under glass hanging at eye level...

... in 2007, I stood nervously waiting on a dark, crowded train platform in a small central Chinese city. The distinctive scent of burning coal permeated the frigid air as several old men rolled past with carts, loudly hawking a mind-­boggling...

..., the dog’s master is shipped off to the battlefield, never to return. The dog, however, obstinately continues to wait for his return. So obstinate is the dog that it eventually dies on the spot in front of the station where he’s supposed...

...Figure 4 Tong Lam, untitled (2017), from the series Where There Is No Room for Fiction . Light box. Villagers waiting for their families to arrive for the Lunar New Year banquet in one of the ancestral halls. Because of the government's divide-and-conquer strategy, a discord emerged among Xian...

... would skip it. No chance. A loud knock on my door by a young cadre told me Secretary Wu was waiting for me, and it was only by practically yelling at the messenger that I gained the time to pee before I was hauled off to the second...

...Figure 3 Ji Yeo, It Will Hurt a Little, 5th Floor Waiting Area , 2014. © Ji Yeo. ...

... ). The child welfare treatise Children Who Wait (Rowe and Lambert 1973 ) describes the ways children in state care exist in an unending state of anticipation, waiting for decisive action from adults that never materializes. In Japan, children may be understood as waiting for engagement from parents whom...

... to following discussions of adoptive parents on the Internet and the issues that arise during the period that starts with referral (when an infant is assigned to waiting parents) and the months immedi- ately following the child’s arrival in her or his...

... vanishes in history’s broken pages but I, worried, caress your waist Once more the row of glossy green broadleaf trees waits for me to lie down and name it slowly Seen from the bell tower...

... for about ten minutes. Then he removes the pota- toes from the pot, buries them in the yard, and waits for them to begin to grow. Returning the cooked potatoes to the soil is analogous to the return of Fen-Ma...

... “It” is pneumonia, and “how” is the bronchitis that has been with me all summer. Now, only two weeks before I go to Tokyo for a year, I can- not wait any longer to see my doctor. Unless I am willing to go to Japanese doctors later...