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positions (2024) 32 (4): 847–872.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Qian Gong; Huan Wu Abstract Research on transnational migration from China since the 1990s has focused on stories about highly educated, skilled migrants. Little research has been done about the transnational migration of skilled trade workers who moved from China to Western countries. This article...
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Published: 01 August 2023
Figure 1 Yinghuayuan South Street, western end, May 2018. © Gerda Wielander.
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positions (1996) 4 (3): 569–594.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Kathleen Uno Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Questioning Patrilineality: On Western Studies of the Japanese le
Kathleen Uno
Much has been written about the ie, a fundamental unit of early modern
(1600- 1867) and modern (1868...
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positions (1993) 1 (1): 24–76.
Published: 01 February 1993
... overtly ruthless, but even more powerful
psychic forms of denial of responsibility. How will contemporary Japanese
commentators reconcile the need to publicize now-popular Western aca-
demic concerns with “historical memory...
View articletitled, Remembering Pearl Harbor, Forgetting Charlie Chaplin, and the Case of the Disappearing <span class="search-highlight">Western</span> Woman: A Picture Story
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 31–54.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Nicola Spakowski Over the past ten to fifteen years, feminism in China has been marked by three closely related characteristics. The first is the introduction of “Western” feminism with “gender” as the core of theory import. The second is the articulation of the “trouble” this import of Western...
View articletitled, “Gender” Trouble: Feminism in China under the Impact of <span class="search-highlight">Western</span> Theory and the Spatialization of Identity
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 89–143.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Barry Sautman In May 2008 Time magazine's annual “ Time 100” list of influential people in the world put the Dalai Lama at the top. This outcome was related to the preceding six weeks of protests in Tibet and attendant Western criticisms of China's Tibet policies, but it also reflected the two...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 231–251.
Published: 01 February 2010
... critiques are downplayed and sometimes do not make their way into print. Araki's recent exhibitions were enthusiastically received in the West. A series of photographs of bound naked women in kimonos dazzles Western eyes. I proceed to analyze orientalist contradictions based on the Western reviewers' double...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 581–613.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Barry Sautman; Yan Hairong Since garnering the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been lionized, particularly by Western politicians and media, who now promote him as the leader of the “democratic forces” in China. Meanwhile, Liu's politics and those of the award...
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 259–285.
Published: 01 May 2015
... in “Gan” to suggest its benefits as a model for contemporary ethical criticism in Western academia. Ōgai's reflexive experimentation in this work shuttles readers between absorption in novelistic pathos and reflection on its ethos, exploring both the possibilities and limitations of immanent ethical self...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 199–230.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Pil Ho Kim; Hyunjoon Shin Like any other genre of Western popular music in the postwar period, rock was introduced to South Korea via the U.S. Armed Forces, a powerful symbol of postwar American hegemony. Until the late 1960s the U.S. military camp shows, clubs, and radio broadcast remained...
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 627–651.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Liu Kang Slavoj Žižek has recently written quite extensively on Mao and China. This article is a commentary on his writings. Tracing the genealogy of Western Marxism from Gramsci, Athusser, and Badiou to Žižek, I argue that Žižek's misreading of the Chinese Revolution, especially Mao's theory...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1191–1213.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and the West, especially the United States. This review essay attempts to understand Barney vis-à-vis a lineage of Western artists and scholars who have interpreted Japan in diverse ways. It asks whether and how Barney is echoing the Orientalist tendencies of earlier artists and whether and how globalization...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 561–592.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... Differing from its Western counterpart, Chinese socialist feminism derives its profile not from theoretical debates on the relation between class and gender or capitalism and patriarchy and their empirical manifestations in Western industrialized societies, but from the very fact that socialism...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 241–279.
Published: 01 February 2019
... of humanity. The separation of the West (often synonymous with Europe) from the Rest of the world originates in the modern international world, whose internationality was initially confined to Western Europe. In the western promontory of the Eurasian continent, interstate equilibrium was sought after...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 65–86.
Published: 01 February 2020
..., this article touches on the divergent roots of the women’s liberation movement and western feminism, the Maoist era’s negation of femininity, and the lingering patriarchal structure of art institutions. It was only after a series of groundbreaking exhibitions exploring the female psyche in the 1990s that women...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 171–189.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Fan Zhang Abstract This ethnographic article focuses on the performance of Alce Lhamo ( Sister Goddess ) in Lithang, a Tibetan town on the western tip of Sichuan Province in China. It explores the linkages between local ways of residing in the world, the cosmological universe, and cosmopolitan...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 917–941.
Published: 01 November 2024
... government policies attempting to engage with a rising China. In the process, however, these new mobilities have generated anxieties about “locals” being left behind. These anxieties reflect larger-scale concerns about the shifting world order, with the Chinese ascension threatening the dominance of Western...
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 135–159.
Published: 01 February 2025
...-discourse to the hegemonic Western queer scholarship, based on the liberal notion of the “free” individual. [email protected] Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Korea jjimjilbang gay bathhouse public sex East Asia Lying awake in a jjimjilbang, I would sometimes feel...
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 55–82.
Published: 01 February 2025
..., the earphone was introduced to Shanghai cinema in 1939 to interpret Western sound films for Chinese audiences. The application of earphones gave rise to a new profession, “Miss Earphone,” whose practitioners were exclusively female, thereby precipitating a counteraction to the male-dominated print translation...
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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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