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“I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films”: An Interview with He Xiaopei
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 811–823.
Published: 01 November 2019
...He Xiaopei; Séagh Kehoe; Bao Hongwei I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films: An Interview with He Xiaopei He Xiaopei, Séagh Kehoe, and Bao Hongwei, with an introduction by Séagh Kehoe and Bao Hongwei Introduction Despite decriminalization in 1997 and partial depathologization in 2001...
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What Is Wanting?
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positions (2001) 9 (1): 267–275.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Tani E. Barlow 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Commentary
What Is Wanting?
Tani E. Barlow
Certainly the essays here represent a collective argument about what it means
to shrug off the tyranny of “theory.” We are invited to bypass the popular...
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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
...Amie Parry; Liu Jen-peng Both avant-garde and popular, Lucifer Hung's writing has attracted a significant amount of critical attention in Chinese academic circles for its explicit sexual and violent content. This article identifies an ethical conundrum faced by critics who want to support Hung's...
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Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) and the Apocalypse of Ecological Visibility
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to the pattern at the macro level? What if our media are found wanting for this task? These are the conundrums that Zhao Liang unpacks in Behemoth (2015) through its figuration of imbalanced ecology and the quest to interrogate the limit of medial visibility. The minimal discernibility of dust demands the film...
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Rethinking the Political Economy of Development in Mao's China
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 809–834.
Published: 01 November 2021
... these theoretical frameworks presume to know what economic practices the CCP should have engaged in and fault the Party for not conforming to their standards of judgment. This article finds this normative approach to analyzing Maoist development to be wanting for four reasons. In its drive to depict China as acting...
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From Foot Fetish to Hand Fetish: Hygiene, Class, and the New Woman
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 131–159.
Published: 01 February 2014
... racialization” in both elite and popular imaginations of modern femininity. While those who want to project an image of being modern are eager to conform to a white ideal of beauty, they fixate their contrastive other in a fragmentary image of blackness. The realization of this logic is partly achieved through...
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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
... with ethnic studies scholar Jodi Kim, “What does it mean to want to represent or ‘remember’ a war that has been ‘forgotten’ and erased in the U.S. popular imaginary, but has been transgenerationally seared into the memories of Koreans and Korean Americans, and experienced anew every day in a still-divided...
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Suzhi on the Move: Body, Place, and Power
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 617–642.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Wanning Sun Work on migration and gendered mobility has shown us that places are constituted not only by their location and physical features, but also by the specific, often regulated forms of bodies that inhabit them. In this essay, I want to call into question the process by which the connection...
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Interview with Christine Choy and Nancy Tong, Filmmakers (In the Name of the Emperor)
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 811–834.
Published: 01 August 1997
... some
shooting. But the word came down that the emperor of Japan was visiting
China in September. We were there in August, so they didn’t want us to stir
any kind of controversy. That was their official word. But in a way...
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Making Fashion Work: Interview with Sophie Hong
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positions (2003) 11 (2): 511–520.
Published: 01 May 2003
... Hong 513
Hong Lifen: No, because for me clothes are worn by people. I want my
clothes to speak and to do so with and to everybody. I have been doing this
work since 1977, the time I graduated from design school...
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A Conversation with Huang Shuqing
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positions (1995) 3 (3): 790–805.
Published: 01 August 1995
... was shooting Huahun, it was very clear to me that there was only
one issue I wanted to focus on, and that was to resolve the problem of nude
painting. I decided not to deal with other issues such as painting and sex. I
knew that it was simply...
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Village Songs and the Building of Community Culture: A Talk
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 485–506.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and urges us to think about questions of history, critique, and resistance in more localized and nuanced ways. Sun Heng and I have written three village songs this year. But before I discuss the creation process, I want to talk about the origins of the Village Song Project and why I decided to do...
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Searching for the Lost Wings of the Angel
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 51–69.
Published: 01 February 1999
... for you. What sort of secret is hid-
ing inside your body? I want to know you, taste you, enter you. . . .”
A’Su’s deep murmuring voice filtered into my ears; I was overcome with
dizziness. She began undoing my buttons one by one, took my...
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Korean War Comic Books and the Militarization of US Masculinity
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 619–631.
Published: 01 November 2015
... 621
Figure 3 “Operation
Killer” (artist tentatively
identifi ed as Reed
Crandall at comics.org),
G.I. Combat 1, no. 7
(June 1953).
Boy readers wanted well-drawn action- adventure fantasies in which generic
masculine heroes fi ght bad guys, using...
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It Takes a Lot of Time: An Interview with Shigeki Takeo
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positions (2004) 12 (1): 113–134.
Published: 01 February 2004
... personality. I tried to analyze this
phenomenon in my paper, and although it was not a rich analysis, I wanted
to know how such a defender of romanticism had experienced the great
transformation in Japan in the sixties and seventies. This was my...
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“Love Your Films and Love Your Life”: An Interview with Fan Popo
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 799–809.
Published: 01 November 2019
... was small and it could only cover some basic costs though. I barely make any money from making films, so I have to do some part- time jobs to make a living. Bao: Such as? positions 27:4 November 2019 802 Fan: Recently I have been doing script translation for some foreign film- makers who want to work...
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An Interview with Shi Tou
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 409–416.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in different social relations.
I dedicated the “Female Friends” series to my female friends. These
paintings portray different female figures that a woman meets in her forma-
tive years. I want to depict the friendship, love, wisdom...
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Children's Experience and Practice of Belonging: The Realities of Integration among De Facto Stateless Vietnamese Children in Cambodia
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 323–352.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of the Vietnamese as less confrontational. For example, in discussing Huong's future I asked her what she wanted her husband to be like. She replied that she wanted him to be “a good man, so we can live and love each other and not argue.” I asked her where her husband would be from. She answered, “From Vietnam...
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Race, Nation, and the Production of Intimacy: Transnational Ova Donation in India
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 303–332.
Published: 01 February 2016
... a white egg donor to India. As Jan explained,
“I really wanted a child that looked like me: tall, blond, blue-eyed, that
kind of thing. . . . I was really concerned — because I’ve never had a baby
before — that I wouldn’t love a baby as much...
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“I Am AIDS”: Living with HIV/AIDS in China
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 511–536.
Published: 01 May 2010
... care. Care becomes to be exposed.
Chun joined us later for the group discussion. She did not know what
Du had said about care in his hometown, and I wanted to know if Chun
also considered care to mean to be exposed. So I asked Chun if she...
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