... does photojournalism become a kind of witnessing linked to the work of mourning? How are trauma and grieving braided together in the experience of photographers covering war? What is the role of the camera, and what are the ambivalent effects of the technical and aesthetic imaging of the dead...

... in Beijing and I Graduated! serve both to construct the documentary subject as an “internal witness” to the events of 1989 and also — by suggesting the uncontrolled and contingent nature of filming “in the present” — to validate this act of witnessing as unofficial, and therefore truthful. While this form...

..., a constant reminder that justice is yet to be achieved. This essay will explore, through ethnographic and textual analysis, these insistent but vanishing voices as they are evoked by former war criminals from Japan. These uncommon witnesses say that by testifying with the self-consciousness of former...

...Horng-luen Wang Using the English verb shanghai as a pun, this essay analyzes the ways in which Taiwanese were induced into an undesirable situation during the course of Taiwan's recent interactions with China. As Shanghai (re)emerges as a global city, we have witnessed a “Shanghai fever” in Taiwan...

...Sylvia Li-chun Lin This essay examines the current state of Taiwanese culture through the project of restoration of history, focusing on a corpus of literary works that represent Taiwan's 2/28 Incident and its aftermath, the White Terror. Post-martial law Taiwan witnessed the birthing of a new...

... and narrative, and the visual rhetoric of compulsory witnessing. Reflecting on the historical continuities between the two incidents, this article shows how the 2006 MIT controversy anticipated the authorial and participatory challenges faced by present-day digital online pedagogy platforms. Copyright 2015...

... empire. It examines the array of cross-racial identifications operant in his Korean War trilogy— Korean Love Songs, Rites and Witnesses , and The Useless Servants —which attach variously to Japanese and Korean civilians as well as to North Korean and Chinese soldiers. In so doing, this article shows how...

... they are faced with him “alive” again through his impersonators. The film also provokes questions about whether impersonation and cross-dressing is ironic/sincere, parodic/respectful, or willed/unconscious. Zhang intends his documentary to act as a “witness of history,” specifically, the historical shifts...

... that renders cityscapes as symbolic witness to cultural ruin while dispensing with the technique of melodramatic italicization as expressive device. The author's discussion mobilizes an analytical category called “new junk aesthetics” to characterize these disparate urban fables whose narratorial logic seeks...

... (1949–65) witnessed Chinese dance artists’ widespread efforts to create Chinese dance styles that would serve as alternatives to foreign dance forms. This Mao-era dance repertoire has been obscured in scholarship on Chinese dance history, as part of a larger pattern of Cold War knowledge production...

... witness to the physical violence and psychological trauma of the Holocaust. When Anne Frank Met Astro Boy: Drawing the Holocaust through Manga Ben Whaley We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or representatives of any country for that matter, we will always remain Jews, but we want...

... uses the Marxist‐tainted term shaoshu minzu (ethnic minorities) as the official designation for the non‐Han people, the concept of indigeneity is irrelevant to understanding China and its ethnic diversity. This article investigates how reform‐era China has witnessed the emergence of an indigenous...

... nature of spectatorship, as practiced both by “direct” witnesses and by “con- sumers” of images, exploring not only vision’s problematic ethics but also its suspect epistemology. That is to say, his texts assume a compulsive and con- flicted...

... 1977 ; Nora 1989 ). On the other hand, Jacques Derrida's evocation of “responsible witnessing” calls attention to how to listen to silence “found” in that which cannot be said (Sandomirskaja 2011 ). These three premises (reading against the grain, generating memory, and listening to what cannot...

... is the role of public silencing acts (censorship, collective repression, strategic exhibition)? What limits and possibilities of bearing witness are embedded in a politics of the present by various artists? Musikawong ❘❘ Thai Trauma Art...

... begets more trauma. Chronologically, the oldest trauma belongs to Wu-jin, who displaces his guilt over his sister’s suicide onto Dae-su, the witness to their incestuous love. Until the very end then, the film seems completely at ease...

...—interpretations and decipherings—produced at the time by Akasegawa and other parties immediately involved (such as the police, the judicial system, and the witnesses) and not involved (fellow artists and critics, the general press, the interested public...

.... We are unsure exactly where we are and what we are witnessing in these wordless sequences: there is no dialogue, only the disorienting din of traf c, blaring engines, and shrill motorbike horns. A black Mercedes incongruously ashes...

... the structural problems of gender inequality. Next, I turn to image-based advertisements crowding the urban public spaces that are part and parcel of the loud visibility politics of the plastic surgery industry. The 2000s witnessed a large number of plastic surgery advertisements explode...

.... But while watching City of Sadness, we not only “hear” the voice of Chen Yi but “see” everything that Wen Qing witnesses. What we “see” proves that what we “hear” is all lies, that is to say, a narration-a narrative ver- Li I Cinematography of Hou Xiaoxian...