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positions (2003) 11 (2): 361–393.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Tina Mai Chen 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Proletarian White and Working Bodies in Mao’s China
Tina Mai Chen
Infused with the spirit of May Fourth critique of the enfeebled Chinese
body politic of the past, a young Mao Zedong joined the chorus...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 171–202.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Brett Hack Abstract This article analyzes depictions of work in postmillennial Japanese media, particularly anime and manga, in order to theorize the function of imaginative responses to the social dislocations of neoliberalism. Critical studies of precarity in Japanese popular culture have tended...
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 341–369.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Pun Ngai Abstract This article anticipates a political project that underlines China's infrastructural capitalism and the infrastructural power of labor in the making of the Chinese working class. This project embarks a re‐departure of the left movement after the Jasic struggle, which inspired...
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 781–808.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to continue the leftist struggle. This article is primarily concerned with his earlier work, starting from his first collection of essays, Spirit of Renaissance (1946), to his well-known Avant-Garde Art (1954), touching upon some of his major motifs found in these texts. Beginning with Hanada's concern...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 381–409.
Published: 01 August 2015
... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. youth labor developmental state neoliberalism affective labor emotional labor postcapitalist politics Labor Games: Youth, Work, and Politics in East Asia
Gabriella Lukacs
In Fukusaku Kinji’s film Battle Royale, Kitano...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 August 2020
... . Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Lee Jung-ja . 1975 . “ On Emergency Measure No. 9 .” The Woman 10 , June . Lee Sook-chong . 1975 . “ Frugal Living .” The Woman 11 , December . Lee...
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 225–237.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Kamala Kempadoo Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Commentary
Slavery or Work? Reconceptualizing Third World Prostitution
Kamala Kempadoo
Third World prostitution is often described as sexual slavery, as violence to
women...
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positions (2003) 11 (2): 511–520.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Paola Zamperini 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Making Fashion Work: Interview with Sophie Hong
Paola Zamperini
Hong Lifen, also known to the Western world as Sophie Hong, graduated
from the fashion and design department of Shijian University...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 805–830.
Published: 01 August 2012
... the “Cambodian syndrome” and are productively rooted in “memory work.” Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Cambodian American Memory Work: Justice and the “Cambodian Syndrome”
Cathy J. Schlund- Vials
The work of healing a country really happens inside each Cambodian...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 45–69.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Nicole Constable This article explores, ethnographically and critically, migrant women's contributions to three intersecting sectors of “intimate industries” in Asia: domestic work, sex tourism, and adoption. These three sectors are normally understood as separate and distinct, and in the cases...
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in Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 February 2023
Figure 7 The dangerous work of new arrivals to the isekai in Grimgar , 2015.
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in Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 February 2023
Figure 5 Work dissolves into care in ARIA . ©KOZUE AMANO/MAG Garden 2003.
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1 Photo of Xiao Hai in 2017, in the Migrant Workers Home library/reading room, holding a copy of Haizi's collected works. His hat says “Work hard play hard.” The white front cover of Howl in the Factory , his own collection of poetry, published in the unofficial Picun series, is visible
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in The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 8 Tong Lam, untitled (2014), from the series Where There Is No Room for Fiction . Light box. An image of a migrant worker projected next to graffiti art. Since the negotiation stalemate, the village has become a haven for graffiti artists who use their works to comment on China's urban
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in The Limits of Family: Military Law and Sex Panics in Contemporary South Korea
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2021
-encouraging therapy and part-time sex work.” Photo by Timothy Gitzen.
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 231–251.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Hagiwara Hiroko The aim of this essay is to suggest a way to see and discuss a body of Araki Nobuyoshi's later photographic work that centers on images of bound and naked women. Araki has prolifically exhibited and published provocative photographs for over thirty years in Japan and for some years...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 121–144.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Peggy Wang In studies of contemporary Chinese art, Lin Tianmiao’s work has been overwhelmingly discussed in terms of women’s crafts and maternal roles. Citing her use of embroidery and the female figure, these interpretations have led to broad and often simplified characterizations of her work...
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 259–285.
Published: 01 May 2015
... him to discover deep flaws in the novel's capacity for mimesis. I agree, but not with their conclusions that he therefore abandoned the form. On the contrary, I suggest that it was the very power of the novel to hold competing conventions of representation in tension, and to work through the epistemic...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 145–169.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Gavin Walker As an author, a figure, and as an author who relied on figurations of himself as a primary device, Mishima Yukio (1925–1970) has existed in a complex relationship to criticism and literary history. Criticism of Mishima's work and life has often taken for granted the network...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 213–241.
Published: 01 May 2018
... had investigated questions about the exposure of bodies to radiation. Their paths crossed at a workshop entitled “Exposure and Effect: Measuring Safety, Environment, and Life in Asia” at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where they discussed the meanings of their research and work...
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