.../anti-Japanese movement. More recently, however, the novelist Wuhe has highlighted its ambiguous nature in his award-winning novel The Remains of Life ( Yusheng , 2000). For Wuhe, the incident is an entangled web of conflicting impulses: a violent confluence between modern politics and traditional...

... of poverty but suggests the grievous entanglement of structural, political economic violence and affective burden on the daily web of individual lives. Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Abelmann Nancy Lie John . 1995 . Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles...

... the normal macrolevel focus on the definition of areas. By focusing instead on microlevel studies of the shifting webs of connection that link a particular locus to the wider world it is possible to shed some new light on the social and cultural meaning of area in historical perspective. This article...

... differ substantially in Japan as opposed to its former colonies. The controversy also points to the explosion in publications and on the Web of visual imagery from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The ability to publish photographs at low cost means that those who do so should recognize...

...Jing Wang This think piece returns the MIT controversy to an analytical frame that was largely ignored in 2006—the digital. Online reading habits have changed the ways of how we navigate the Web. Surfing through hyperlinks gave rise to decontextualization and the decoupling of images from...

...We Jung Yi This article examines Cold War icons transfigured in new media ecology by looking at the South Korean webtoon (web cartoon) Secretly, Greatly . In featuring the superfluous existence of kanch’ŏp (North Korean spies) dispatched to the South, the graphic narrative interweaves the legacy...

... Visualizing Cultures website at the center of the controversy was entitled “Throwing Off Asia,” and the two web pages upon which stu- dents centered their protest were entitled “Throwing Off Asia” and “Old China, New Japan.” Internet Archive’s Wayback...

... received critical acclaim for its masterfully designed page on the World Wide Web. With one click of the mouse, the visitor can read reviews of the film, tour Tiananmen Square, and acquire bibliographic information on student protest...

... like I was doing some type of service work. It was just an awful lot of work.13 Correspondingly, observers have highlighted the demanding nature of mas- tering the writing styles characteristic of web-­based diaries and the photo...

... captures. The video loop defines time, and narrative causality is replaced by leaps of logic closer to hypertext. Not only is Fresh Kill designed to be at home on cinema screens as well as television monitors, it has a Web-based incar- nation as well...

..., such a visual rhetoric is primarily active for the viewer liter- ate in Japanese language, those who make up the print buyers to whom the image was initially marketed, and certainly as well, many web users who might today see the image digitized online...

... that echoes the sounds of the spoken word in the islands. Epeli Hau ofa, 1984 Although we do not choose the webs [of interlocution] in whose nets we are initially caught or select those with whom we wish to converse, our agency consists in our capacity to weave out of those narratives and fragments...

... Internet forums hosted by two mainland-based commercial portal Web sites, NetEase (www.163.com) and Yahoo! China (cn.yahoo.com), where people across the Strait have actively participated in reproducing the friend-enemy relationship.11...

... of the hateful visual images — could only fall flat in a world where digitalization makes representation fundamentally contextless. In a situa- tion in which haptic commitment to content is as fleeting as a kinesthetic click to the next web page...

... is to be sen- tenced to a fixed-­term imprisonment of up to five years, which may carry an attendant fine of up to NT$1,000,000 dollars.”13 Significantly, whether the Web message “actually caused” any real transaction to take place...

... itself, as a historically contingent process irreducibly imbricated with the mate- riality of communication and how this may be transforming in the age of “web-based modes of knowing.”1 I have organized this essay around a set...

..., was a well-known syndrome in nineteenth- century western medicine but has since fallen completely into desuetude (though it should be noted that when I looked up the term on Google, sev- eral Web sites referred me to chronic fatigue syndrome...

... storm of unfortunate circumstances. The goal of the MIT OpenCourseWare project was to make the teaching materials used in the MIT classroom available on the web, free of charge to global audiences. But as Jing Wang argues in this volume...

..., to the point of fantasy and fetish. The opening Web page for Fishing Luck reads in English: “A city girl from Taipei, an Aboriginal man from Orchid Island, the two encounter on beautiful Orchid Island, the most romantic Mandarin film...