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positions (2022) 30 (4): 815–838.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Eun Ah Cho Abstract This article examines the humanistic relationship between Korean Chinese and North Korean refugees on the Sino–North Korean border in Zhang Lu's film Dooman River (2010) and delineates how the ethical obligation to “our” people, or brethren ( dongpo ), is removed...
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View articletitled, Familiar Strangers: North Koreans as “Dangerous Refugees” and the Crisis of Korean Chinese Community in <span class="search-highlight">Zhang</span> Lu's Dooman River (2010)
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 185–190.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Jing Wang; Winnie Won Yin Wong This piece is an interview conducted as an e-mail Q&A by the editors with Huan Zhang in November 2013. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Sino-Japanese history digital media online pedagogy global academe visual culture Interview with 2005...
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positions (1995) 3 (3): 663–694.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Naifei Ding Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Tears of Ressentiment; or, Zhang Zhupo’s Jin Ping Mei
Naifei Ding
This essay is part of a project in which I read thejin ping mei (hereafter JPM),
in its three seventeenth-century...
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positions (2002) 10 (3): 525–546.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Jian Xu 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Radical Ethnicity and Apocryphal History:
Reading the Sublime Object of Humanism in Zhang Chengzhi’s Late Fictions
Jian Xu
Zhang Chengzhi is a well-known contemporary Chinese writer whose sen-
timents...
View articletitled, Radical Ethnicity and Apocryphal History: Reading the Sublime Object of Humanism in <span class="search-highlight">Zhang</span> Chengzhi's Late Fictions
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positions (2006) 14 (3): 687–715.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Howard Y. F. Choy Duke University Press 2006 “To Construct an Unknown China”:
Ethnoreligious Historiography in Zhang Chengzhi’s Islamic Fiction
Howard Y. F. Choy
China is a polyethnic country with the Han as the dominant majority...
View articletitled, “To Construct an Unknown China”: Ethnoreligious Historiography in <span class="search-highlight">Zhang</span> Chengzhi's Islamic Fiction
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Qiaoyun Zhang; Guanli Zhang; Wen Huang; Yun Tang With massive state aid, many Qiang-concentrated settlements were not only swiftly reconstructed but also transformed into heritage tourism destinations, aiming to preserve the Qiang cultural features and develop the local economy. Longxi...
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View articletitled, The Social Production and Political Potency of Home: Contentions between Housing Reconstruction and Place Making among the Chinese Qiang after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 789–812.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Nicholas de Villiers; Yongan Wu Zhang Bingjian's documentary Readymade (2008) focuses on the lives of two Mao Zedong impersonators in the People's Republic of China: Mr. Peng Tian, a forty-six-year-old farmer from Hunan Province enrolled in the performance art program of Beijing Film Academy...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Zhang
Huiyu; Federico Picerni Abstract Over the past few years, China's cultural landscape has seen the emergence of several authors from among its migrant laborers, or “new workers.” Fan Yusu and Xu Lizhi are the most representative. Their literary production, which draws on their personal...
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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 (1): 209–216.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Li Zhang Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 [email protected] References Berlant Lauren . 2011 . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Chen Nancy . 2003 . Breathing Space: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China . New York...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 573–600.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Yu Zhang Abstract When the notion of “finance” reentered ordinary Chinese people's lives since the “Reform and Opening Up,” how were “finance and economics” ( caijing ) perceived and felt? This essay focuses on the mainland critics’ reviews of the “finance-themed” novels by the Hong Kong...
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View articletitled, A Collective Fantasia of the Financial Age in Early 1990s China: Erotic-Speculative Sensation, Neoliberal Labor Heroine, and Presentist Worldly Wisdom
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 29–53.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Yuanfang Zhang Abstract This article examines the containment of the dispossessed Chinese peasants through the mechanism of the collective hamlet in Japan-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s. To alleviate its internal recession, Japan initiated the agrarian emigration project and sent farmers...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 423–450.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Yanshuo Zhang Abstract This article probes a long‐overlooked concept in modern China—ethnic indigeneity—to propose new ways of looking at the relationship between the Chinese nation and its multiethnic minority groups. The Western scholarly community has long held that because the Chinese state...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 515–543.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Xia Zhang In recent years, China's labor market deregulation and increasing unemployment and underemployment have hit Chinese youth particularly hard. How are Chinese urban youth responding to these new labor conditions? This article argues that they are not only creating new forms of work...
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positions (1994) 2 (3): 603–628.
Published: 01 August 1994
...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...
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positions (2000) 8 (2): 349–387.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Xudong Zhang 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Shanghai Nostalgia: Postrevolutionary Allegories in Wang Anyi’s
Literary Production in the 1990s
Xudong Zhang
Prologue: The City at a Standstill
In Zhang Ailing’s now classic 1943 short story “Sealed Off ” (“Fengsuo...
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positions (1993) 1 (3): 816–832.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Yingjin Zhang Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Commentary
Re-envisioning the Institution of Modern Chinese literature Studies:
Strategies of Positionality and Self-Reflexivity
Yingjin Zhang
The journal Modern China recently carried a debate over...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 659–667.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Li Zhang In this essay I suggest that rather than asking whether China or Vietnam is becoming neoliberal, we might be better served by asking how Chinese or Vietnamese political and social actors make use of neoliberal ideas and techniques for their own ends. A central task of the anthropology...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the intimate lives of one hundred women factory workers in China's Pearl River delta. Their experiences are documented—in poetic form—in Stories of Migrant Women written by China's best known rural migrant poet Zhang Xiaoqiong. The article approaches Zheng the poet as a de facto social science researcher...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 155–177.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Eileen Otis In her best-selling book, Beautiful Faces Grow Rice ( Meili liandan zhang dami ), author Lu Junqing articulated an emergent aesthetic and economic logic: women's pursuit of beauty is the most certain means of achieving career success. In an industry that is rapidly growing, millions...
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