.... Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 I Speak in the Third Person: Women and Language in Colonial Vietnam Ben Tran The first day — who knows when — that the word “I” (tôi) appeared in Vietnamese poetry, it was truly surprising. It was as if “I...

...David J. Kim On July 13, 1990, a group of shamans innovated and performed a ritual they refer to as the haewŏn chinhon to appease the deceased spirits of Japanese military “comfort women.” Caught unprepared for the large number of spirits who appeared, as well as the accompanying spiritual...

...Jongwoo Jeremy Kim This essay does not concern the history of comfort women per se; rather, it treats disruption and transgression in the discourse of comfort women, as filmmaker Byun Young-Joo sets in motion in The Murmuring (1995). This essay is particularly concerned with Byun's visual language...

...Yingjin Zhang Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Engendering Chinese Filmic Discourse of the 1930s: Configurations of Modern Women in Shanghai in Three Silent Films Yingjin Zhang What the popular wisdom knows...

...Dai Jinhua Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Invisible Women: Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Women‘s Film Dai Jinhua Dai Jinhua is one of the outstanding younger scholars of the new generation of Chinese...

...You-me Park Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 "And They Would Start Again": Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist literature You-me Park I still remember the day in 1972 when I came home from school to find the whole...

...Xiaoqun Xu Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Discourse on Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Post-Mao China: A Reading of the Journalistic Literature on Women Xiaoqun Xu Since the early 1980s a new genre of writing, called journalistic literature...

...Don Mee Choi 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Korean Women—Poetry, Identity, Place: A Conversation with Kim Hye-sun Don Mee Choi Kim Hye-sun (b. 1955) is a prominent contemporary South Korean poet, who is identified as one of the “women poets...

...Xiaobing Tang 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Rural Women and Social Change in New China Cinema: From Li Shuangshuang to Ermo Xiaobing Tang The title of this essay may sound slightly clichéd, since it would be extremely hard to find a film in New...

...Wynn Wilcox 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Women and Mythology in Vietnamese History: ) ) Lê Ngo. c Hân, H`ô Xuân Hu o ng, and the Production of Historical Continuity in Vietnam Wynn Wilcox Three Myths about Two Vietnamese Women Lê...

...Jesook Song Duke University Press 2006 Family Breakdown and Invisible Homeless Women: Neoliberal Governance during the Asian Debt Crisis in South Korea, 1997 – 2001 Jesook Song This article examines the relationship between the South Korean welfare...

...Guo-Juin Hong Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Framing Time: New Women and the Cinematic Representation of Colonial Modernity in 1930s Shanghai Guo-Juin Hong What Is Time? Modern Time The February 1935 issue of Shanghai’s Liangyou huabao...

... nation with burgeoning writings of a new historiography, particularly in the literary field. Writers have re-created scenes and the effects of atrocity in order to fill in the gaps in history as a new Taiwan is being written into existence. In this body of literature, women as victims have clearly been...

...Tani E. Barlow Duke University Press 2007 Asian Women in Reregionalization Tani E. Barlow Scholarship about sex inequality and women in “Asia” is now widely avail- able at precisely a moment when engaged scholars agree that Asia is neither...

...Won Soon Park Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Japanese Reparations Policies and the "Comfort Women" Question Won Soon Park Introduction The Japanese Imperial Army left an indelible mark on the destinies of many Asian...

...Kang Tŏk-kyŏng; Kim Sun-dŏk Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Portfolio Artwork by former comfort women Kang T6k- ky6ng Kim Sun-d6k Artwork by Jupanese artists Tomiyama Taeko Shimada Yoshiko Artwork by Korean American artists Yong Soon Min...

...Hyunah Yang Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Revisiting the Issue of Korean “Military Comfort Women“: The Question of Truth and Positionality Hyunah Yang Obiective Truth and Marginalization of the Women In early 1992, when the issue of Korean...

...Hyun Sook Kim Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 History and Memory: The "Comfort Women" Controversy Hyun Sook Kim For an experienced event is finite . . . confined to one sphere of experience; a remembered event is infinite...

... engaged female artists in conversations to solicit their self-portrayal as artists, or not; the importance of womanhood to their life and art making; and their use of feminism. The exchanges with six artists discussed here reveals the complex positions Hong Kong women occupy in sustaining artistic...

...Julia F. Andrews This article is a reflection on two intersecting themes, the rise of women as artists and as female subjects for art, in the context of the evolving status of women in twentieth-century China. Set in the context of the nascent modern education for women and the emergence...