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Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 31–53.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Yeujin Wang Copyright © 1989-90 by Duke University Press 1989 Mixing Memory and Desire: Red Sorghum A Chinese Version of Masculinity and Femininity Yeujin Wang East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department Harvard University The film Red Sorghum (Dir. Zhang Yimou, 1987...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 297–313.
Published: 01 May 1993
... 114–125 in Perspectives on Chinese Cinema . Chris Berry, ed. London: British Film Institute. Chen , Yuanbin . 1991 . “Wanjia susong” [“Ten Thousand Litigations”]. In Xiaoshuo yuebao [ Short Story Monthly ], no. 8 . Chow , Rey . 1992 . “Male Narcissism and National Culture...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 357–384.
Published: 01 May 2012
... China” symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, May 2010. Welcoming China to Modernity: US Fantasies of Chinese Automobility Cotten Seiler A touch of automobiliousness makes...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 149–178.
Published: 01 January 2003
...). Remembering/Forgetting the May Riots: Architecture, Violence, and the Making of “Chinese Cultures” in Post-1998 Jakarta Abidin Kusno “Serbu . . . serbu . . . serbu...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 507–529.
Published: 01 September 2006
... capitalism and the culture of neoliberalism . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Conceison, Claire. 2004 . Significant other: Staging the American in China . Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Festa, Paul. 2006 . Mahjong politics in contemporary China: Civility, Chineseness, and mass culture...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 74–92.
Published: 01 January 2000
... in Chinese Painting (1996) and “The Hong Kong Clock—Public Time-Telling and Political Time/Space” ( Public Culture , spring 1997). A Chinese Dream by Wang Jin Wu Hung B orn in 1962 and first trained in traditional Chinese painting...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 193–217.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Mingwei Huang Abstract This article tells a story about the unfolding “Chinese Century” in South Africa centered on China Malls, wholesale shopping centers for Chinese goods that have cropped up along Johannesburg's old mining belt since the early 2000s. Based in ethnographic and historical...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 141–173.
Published: 01 January 2009
...William A. Callahan Maps are an important site of the production and consumption of the national image. This essay examines modern Chinese maps to show how the very material borders between foreign and domestic space are the outgrowth of the symbolic workings of historical geography...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 539–549.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Jie Li This essay explores the politics of remembering the Chinese Cultural Revolution through a study of two banned documentaries by Hu Jie that have circulated widely in cyberspace: Though I Am Gone (2006) and In Search of Lin Zhao's Soul (2004). Contextualizing them in discourses on the (still...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 369–397.
Published: 01 May 2010
...James Tweedie Using contemporary Chinese and Hong Kong cinema, the large body of writing on media emanating from Koolhaas and his atelier, and the headquarters for China Central Television as its primary touchstones, this essay examines the relationship between the current media environment in East...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 447–456.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., Sanskrit, and Chinese, has so little echo in English? Is Arabic literature untranslatable? The obstacles in this case are political as much as they are linguistic. Taking its cue from Said’s notion of a “perfect inequality” between the two languages, this essay argues for a situational—rather than literal...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 551–557.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Judith Farquhar; John Kelly This commentary addresses “translation” in two further domains beyond the topics explored in the introduction and the three essays of this dossier: the material logic of physiology in traditional Chinese medicine and the operation of finance in several stages...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 145–171.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Christian Sorace In this essay, I argue that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) affective sovereignty results from its ability to adapt confessional practices to fit its governing needs at different moments in history. I analyze what recent televised confessions of party cadres reveal about...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 77–106.
Published: 01 January 2020
... subjects through the Chinese authorities’ turn to “therapeutic governance.” “Self-adjustment” ( ziji tiaozheng ), to use our informants’ words, is thus neither a natural given of the lowly social standing of our subjects nor a mere product of governance logics. Instead, it is achieved , even though...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 21–45.
Published: 01 January 2022
... interested parties contest and collude on its deployment. This essay traces how such portable technologies as sentiment analysis and “like” buttons wound up redefining collective action in China, which partly explains the conservative turn observed in Chinese online cultures since the mid‐2010s. It unpacks...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 167–193.
Published: 01 May 2022
... how Chinese state capital investment incentivizes technology companies to engage in the dataveillance of ethno-racialized populations to generate what the article names terror capitalism . Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, interviews with former detainees, and analysis of internal police...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 161–191.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Matthew Kohrman Abstract Air purification in Chinese contexts over the last half century has been generative for a way of being human, what the author calls “filtered life.” This is a materially, aesthetically, and even humorously mediated form of dwelling. In it, people confront ethics...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 4 A protest against eviction-and-demolition remixes outmoded Maoist “redness” with appeals to “the law” in Fuzhou, China, 2011. The Chinese characters echo the social resonance in making a big noisy scene: “The People's Voice Voice Voice / A Legal Matter Matter Matter.” More
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 1 The terraces used to reach the mountaintops. At present, they only cover the lower valleys. Above the terraces, residents have planted China firs. Most of the higher parts have been taken over by nature. Whereas Qinghe’s residents detest this view, urbanites — both Chinese and Western More
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 75–107.
Published: 01 January 1999
... 75 Public Culture Although I am naturally drawn to the “political correctness” of such a line of interpretation, I am somewhat suspicious of its totalizing intent. Mao Dun, the avowed leftist writer and an early member of the Chinese Communist Party...