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positions (1998) 6 (2): 345–392.
Published: 01 May 1998
...E. Taylor Atkins Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The War on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to War: Toward a New Cultural Order
in Wartime Japan
E. Taylor Atkins
How funny to listen to jazz music on the night before going out to kill the jazzy...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">War</span> on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to <span class="search-highlight">War</span>: Toward a New Cultural Order in Wartime Japan
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positions (2013) 21 (2): 309–350.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Maki Kaneko This article explores Japanese artists' proactive engagement with wartime politics through the formulation of patriotic art associations during the Asia-Pacific War (1937 – 45). The main foci of this investigation are three artist collectives formed in response to the outbreak of war...
View articletitled, New Art Collectives in the Service of the <span class="search-highlight">War</span>: The Formation of Art Organizations during the Asia-Pacific <span class="search-highlight">War</span>
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 817–845.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Etsko Kasai The effects of the Asia-Pacific War (1931–1945) still linger through the region. Among those many factors that prolong the “life” of this war is the Japanese inability to recognize other peoples’ losses. Seventy-three years after the end of this war, these victims’ voices widely resound...
View articletitled, Responding to Other Voices: <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Criminals’ Testimonies on the Asia-Pacific <span class="search-highlight">War</span>, 1931–1945
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 83–107.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Adhy Kim Abstract This article discusses how the historical experience of Zainichi (the postcolonial Korean diaspora in Japan) is represented through the fictionalized family history, set from the colonial period to the dusk of the Cold War. Looking at two post–Cold War novels across English...
View articletitled, Zainichi Protagonists and the Making of Historical Fiction: Cold <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Security and Economic Insecurity in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yang Sŏk-il's Chi to hone ( Blood and Bones )
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for article titled, Zainichi Protagonists and the Making of Historical Fiction: Cold <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Security and Economic Insecurity in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yang Sŏk-il's Chi to hone ( Blood and Bones )
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 597–622.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Nora Hui-Jung Kim Abstract This article revisits South Korea's mostly forgotten involvement in the Vietnam War and examines lingering effects of the war on South Korea's subimperial nation‐building in general and on its contemporary multicultural policies in particular. The Vietnam War served...
View articletitled, Forgotten Refugees and Erased “Multicultural” Subjects: The Vietnam <span class="search-highlight">War</span> and South Korea's Subimperial Nation-Building
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 839–862.
Published: 01 November 2023
... such as Japanese colonialism and Indigenous Taiwanese in the representational sphere began to appear on the screen. Therefore, the colonial memory that emerged on screen entangles with Cold War politics and the postcolonial geopolitical situation. In Wei's films, he links heroic Indigenous people in the history...
View articletitled, Mnemonic Politics around the Japanese Colonial Era in Post–Cold <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Taiwan: Wei Te-sheng's Colonial Trilogy and Post–New Cinema
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 769–801.
Published: 01 November 2023
[email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Sino‐Indian War Deoli camp propaganda film Films Division independent filmmaking I looked at our neighbors who were watching us carted off like common criminals: a grandmother . . . her thirteen-year-old granddaughter and eight-year...
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in Can the “Comfort Women” Footage Speak? The Afterlives of Camera Images as Document and the Flow of Life
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 5 A captured image from the scene of World War II in China (RG111-ADC-9706) in which researchers assume the images of Korean “comfort women” were recorded. Courtesy of NARA.
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in Animating the Trauma: Colonial Atrocities and the Use of New Media in Contemporary South Korean Museums
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 3 Diorama display of torture scene (“air war”). Courtesy of the Independence Hall of Korea.
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 659–675.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Kozue Akibayashi Japan occupies a unique position in the history of East Asia as the sole non-Western colonial power. Japan’s defeat in the Asia-Pacific War that ended its colonial expansion did not bring justice to its former colonies. The Japanese leadership and people were spared from being held...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 501–516.
Published: 01 August 2020
... . de Haan Francisca . 2010 . “ Continuing Cold War Paradigms in Western Historiography of Transnational Women’s Organisations: The Case of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) .” Women’s History Review 19 , no. 4 : 547 – 73 . Farley Lin . 2017 . “ I Coined the Term...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 603–630.
Published: 01 August 2020
... relations and internationally circulating PRC-produced cultural material that articulated feminist ideals as part of Afro-Asian-Latin American solidarity. This article returns to well-known texts of Maoist China to rethink state-produced Chinese feminism as a Cold War framework and gendered globality...
View articletitled, Gendered Globality as a Cold <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Framework: International Dimensions of Chinese Female Bodies in the 1960s
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 905–933.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Vicente L. Rafael President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines has exacted an enormous toll in human lives and suffering. This essay looks into one of the earliest and most graphic responses to this war: the work of photojournalists and the plurality of responses to their images. How...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 801–851.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Shi-chi Mike Lan This article studies the history and historiography of Taiwanese World War II veterans (commonly known as Taiji Riben bing or Taiwanese-native Japanese soldiers), who served as Japanese paramilitary fighting the Chinese and Allied forces. Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese were...
View articletitled, (Re-)Writing History of the Second World <span class="search-highlight">War</span>: Forgetting and Remembering the Taiwanese-Native Japanese Soldiers in Postwar Taiwan
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kyle Ikeda This article examines two early pieces of literary war fiction by Okinawa's leading contemporary writer, Medoruma Shun, that deal with two kinds of unarticulated memories of the Battle of Okinawa: memory constrained by social consequence and the inexpressible memory of trauma. Both...
View articletitled, Unarticulated Memories of the Battle of Okinawa: The Early Fiction of Second-Generation <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Survivor Medoruma Shun
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Christine Hong As an introduction to the special issue of positions: asia critique on the unending Korean War, this opening essay calls critical attention to the war's temporal contours, shifting focus from the question of the Korean War's origins that bedeviled Korean studies throughout the Cold...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 619–631.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Leonard Rifas US comic books published about the Korean War during that conflict represented the war as an opportunity for US boys to become men through bloody, hand-to-hand combat. Korean War comic book representations of Asian men and women fell into a few basic types. The messages in US war...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 665–694.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Daniel Y. Kim This essay reads the work of Rolando Hinojosa for the ways in which it invites a consideration of the two wars that the United States fought in the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the US-Mexico War and the Korean War, respectively—as part of a continuous history of US...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 695–728.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Monica Kim This article examines the struggle over sovereignty on the Korean peninsula from the US occupation through the Korean War not over the usual stakes of geopolitical territory but, rather, over the politics of recognition surrounding the capacity of the individual postcolonial subject...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 785–806.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Jinsoo An This essay examines Cold War political discourse in South Korea's Manchurian action films. It opens by questioning the interpretive parameters of South Korea's cinematic war narratives, which isolate the military conflict of the Korean War (1950–53, in its conventional periodization...
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