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positions (2005) 13 (1): 157–167.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Kuang Xinnian 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Translated by Jim Bonk Preemptive War and a World Out of Control
Kuang Xinnian
Disregarding the opposition of France, Germany, and Russia, as well as
an unprecedented tide of global antiwar...
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positions (2005) 13 (2): 441–471.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Rong Cai 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World
Rong Cai
Taiwanese director Ang Lee’s creative trajectory exemplifies the growing
trend of cross-cultural transmission. The most...
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positions (2006) 14 (1): 131–164.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Emma Jinhua Teng Duke University Press 2006 Eurasian Hybridity in Chinese Utopian Visions:
From “One World” to “A Society Based on Beauty” and Beyond
Emma Jinhua Teng
“Can Mixed-Blood Hybrids Really Improve the Chinese Race?” This pro-
vocative...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 263–283.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Sue Golding (johnny de philo) 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Raw(hide): World War IV, Part 3, the Sequel
Sue Golding (johnny de philo)
Where do we draw the line here between logic and experience?
—Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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positions (2007) 15 (2): 225–249.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Andre Gunder Frank Duke University Press 2007 No Civilization/s: Unity and Continuity in Diversity; or,
Multilateral and Entropic Paradigms for the World Today and Tomorrow
Andre Gunder Frank
A Holistic Introduction
We are living in confusing and dangerous times...
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positions (2009) 17 (1): 43–72.
Published: 01 February 2009
... about China and the manifesto Principles of Thought for a New Japan . I argue that with Miki's participation in the Shōwa Kenkyūkai and the production of its “world-historical answer” in the form of its signature concept of cooperativism ( kyōdōshugi ) there occurs a sudden shift away from...
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positions (1993) 1 (3): 677–714.
Published: 01 August 1993
...David Pollack Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Revenge of the Illegal Asians:
Aliens, Gangsters, and Myth in Kon Satoshi's World Apartment Horror
David Pollack
World Apartment Horror (Japanese title: Wa'rudo apitomento hora') by Kon...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 801–851.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Shi-chi Mike Lan This article studies the history and historiography of Taiwanese World War II veterans (commonly known as Taiji Riben bing or Taiwanese-native Japanese soldiers), who served as Japanese paramilitary fighting the Chinese and Allied forces. Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese were...
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 429–460.
Published: 01 May 2014
... a desire to envision difference out of this repetition, to imagine a way out of the endless everyday of the present. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Fantasies of the End of the World:
The Politics of Repetition in the Films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Baryon Tensor Posadas
Kurosawa...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 411–435.
Published: 01 August 2015
...—the authors trace the development of the Foxconn Technology Group as a case that demonstrates the aggressive nature of capital expansion in China and its impact on the lives of Chinese workers. While the Foxconn Group produces Apple products for the world's consumers, it simultaneously produces a new Chinese...
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positions (1994) 2 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 1994
...William Hover Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 1
A World of Corpses: From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to AIDS
William Haver
[Pllagues are never just medico...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 389–421.
Published: 01 August 2018
... with the nation’s postcolonialglobal duality. Through Nancy’s Sense of the World and Creation of the World or Globalization , the author contends that the films evoke a phenomenology that speaks to Malaysia’s own geopolitical “sense of the world.” References Ahmad Yasmin . 2007 . “ The Making of Mukhsin...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 749–780.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Haerin Shin “Unlocking the Mindware: Taking Responsibility for the Solipsistic Self in Murakami Haruki’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ” addresses the issue of identity formation in relation to neuroscientific technologies by observing a phenomenon called (self-imposed) “locked...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 361–396.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of World Cinema ” in Dennison Lim , eds., Remapping World Cinema , 19 – 29 . New York : Wallflower Press . Bergson Henri . 1911 . Matter and Memory , authorized translation by Nancy Margaret Paul and W. Scott Palmer . London : S. Sonnenschein . Borradori Giovanna . 2003...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 739–771.
Published: 01 November 2019
...David Tobin The official China Dream of the Great revival tells a story of China reversing “humiliation” by Western powers and returning to its premodern, rightful place at the center of world affairs. However, since ethnically targeted violence in Ürümqi in 2009, leading thinkers and policy makers...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 91–116.
Published: 01 February 2023
... subjectivity or even, at its core, race. Brownness reminds us that the nonwhite gaze describes the vast, vast majority of the world, and so too brown theory proceeds with brownness as already the way of the world. It seeks not grand theoretical axioms but to reinvigorate bodies with histories, to move through...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 895–916.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Pál Nyíri; Fanni Beck Abstract Since the 1980s, China has become the source of a new type of international migration. In the liberal world of the 1990s, Chinese migrants became the epitome of “flexible citizenship” aimed at maximizing economic advantages. In the postliberal world of which...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 171–202.
Published: 01 February 2023
... on the anime and manga trope of isekai (other‐world), which depicts life and work in a fantastic environment. These depictions are compared with analogues in live‐action films and television during the period of Japan's neoliberalization. Invoking philosophical concepts of social imagination and drawing...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 623–648.
Published: 01 August 2023
... (Zhonglian 中聯, 1952 – 1967) in colonial Hong Kong, and scrutinizes how it embraced world literary classics to enhance the prestige of Cantonese films. It focuses on three 1955 adaptations: An Orphan's Tragedy ( Guxing xuelei 孤星血淚; from Great Expectations ), Anna ( Chuncan mengduan 春殘夢斷; from Anna Karenina...
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 259–285.
Published: 01 May 2024
... monocultural and mono‐ethnic mythologies have influenced the study and production of Japanese music. Ethnomusicology and area studies are Cold War enterprises, designed to create research that would help maintain that world order, educate Americans as global leaders, and change hearts and minds in foreign...
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