...Ian Condry Online communication has a tendency to operate without clear contextual cues. What does the Visualizing Cultures controversy say about the contexts in which race, Asians, and history intersect? The website All Look Same offers an intriguing example of the difficulties of combating racism...

...Jing Wang; Winnie Won Yin Wong This special issue reflects upon the student protest and public controversy over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Visualizing Cultures website in 2006 from multiple perspectives. Three sets of questions raised by the incident are addressed...

... of reception, or interconnected interpretive communities. To elaborate this idea, this article focuses on one of these events, the anti-Japanese protest of April 2005, and in conclusion, compares the reception of this event to the reactions to Visualizing Cultures website. Both events followed a familiar...

... 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...

... that the image is not neutral; images have a malleable rhetorical force that defies reduction to a stable meaning. Image/Text::Text/Image James L. Hevia The controversy over the Visualizing Cultures website centered on at least two issues. One had to do with the actual...

... and on websites that assist in netizen archiving efforts. This paper discusses the tactics and constraints that activist archivists operate in while documenting past state violence in Thailand. We argue that these audiovisual archives give resonance and voice to memories that have otherwise been silenced, through...

... for a non-­Japanese audience, much less the MIT website, or our eyes today. After reading English-­language newspaper accounts of the 1894 – 95 war, the class began an exercise to examine these graphically violent Japa- nese woodblock prints...

... agendas in the US and Chinese cyberspheres. The Misplaced “Apology”: Rethinking China’s Internet Patriotism Zhou Kui In April 2006, the OpenCourseWare website called Visualizing Cultures was spotlighted on the main page of the Massachusetts Institute...

... graduate students’ association, which led the campaign, demanded that the website’s offending image be put in the “proper histori- cal context” with “accessible explanations” — or be shut down for good. After apologizing for any emotional distress...

... in the late 1990s and early 2000s by creating personal websites that featured their photos and diaries. According to a veteran net idol, young women embark on this career in search of meaning in their lives; however, they quickly find themselves...

... stay in Beijing as a graduate student between 2010 and 2011, I stumbled upon the Chinese-language website www.hechaji.com . This website collected a variety of testimonies of police interrogations, presented to the public as cautionary tales and guidelines on what to expect from and how to deal...

...-­maintained websites and were widely circulated among Chinese students in and out- side China. These imageries provided a critical catalyst for college students to protest against alleged Indonesian “anti-­Chinese” brutality. Unlike the Qiu ∣∣ Go...

... controversy, but Illustration of the Decapitation of Violent Chi- nese Soldiers itself appears not to have been exhibited in a US public context until its worldwide posting on the MIT website in 2006. The strong reaction that the image provoked among...

... for Porn” with neurologist and coauthor of A Billion Wicked Thoughts (A Book and a Blog) Ogi Ogas who describes how a more realistic number requires nuanced explanation: “In 2010, out of the million most popular (most trafficked) websites...

... can purchase the DVDs from Taiwan or through their website. I have also got a lot of requests from online platforms such as revry. tv, an American website distributing queer films.3 They have bought most of my films. You can watch the full- length version of Mama Rainbow and Papa Rainbow online...

... years of struggle, posted an announcement on China’s second-­largest social-­ networking website Mop.com, claiming that “it was meaningless to live” and that she did not want to “belong to herself” any more. As she liked the Internet and wanted...

... Ethno- graphic research focused on migrant workers’ romantic and sexual relation- ships, pregnancies, and motherhood in Hong Kong, while online research included analysis of two websites dedicated to sex tourism. Below I first Constable...

... for infants and young children with a low likelihood of survival or future adoption. In the decade since the organization was founded, it has experienced incredible growth. According to figures available on its web- site, the group now operates five...

... of New York. His writings have appeared in Comparative Literature, the Journal of the Kafka Society of America, Lana Turner, and on the websites Lacan.com and Jacobinmag.com. He is working on a book about classical music in modernist cinema under...

... responsibility for the lapse — and provided both “context” and warnings about the emo- Barlow ∣∣ How Chinese Are You? 123 tional power of hateful images in their revised version of the website. The CSSA...