...Howard Chiang This article extends debates on the place of Taiwan on our scholarly canvas by highlighting the region's unique status at the intersections of various margins—geopolitical, sociocultural, and historiographical. Using press reports of renyao (“human prodigy,” a Chinese category...

..., Tashiro Antei (1857 – 1928) and Sasamori Gisuke (1845 – 1915), engaged in surveys of old customs called k y u¯ k a n , the likes of which were replicated in Taiwan, colonial Korea, the South Seas Islands, Manchuria, and agrarian villages that the Japanese military occupied in mainland China.19...

... tried to do in the first draft of NSC 48 was seize the initiative in Asia from the State Department for a program not of containment but of rollback, including U.S. annexation of Taiwan, overt and covert action against the Chinese communists, and a "coordinated political, economic...

... of the historical archive “create new complications in the ways that our research prisms (essentialized in search terms) limit our ability to see stories, especially queer stories” (184). In the collection’s final essay, “Archiving Peripheral Taiwan: The Prodigy of the Human and Historical Narration...

... Network), and many more. My work on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Prostitution Task Force led me to invitations to consult, where I often also performed, in Taiwan, Italy, Hungary, Hong Kong, Brussels, Canada, and more. In the midst of this work, I began acquiring a wide range of technical...

.... And, it should be added, Japan did help establish the Asian Women’s Fund in 1996 to raise money from businesses to compen- sate former comfort women from South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philip- pines, but, according to the Fund’s spokesman, the money was to be paid out for medical and welfare expenses...

.... IMPERIALISM/41 They are also focusing on a particular configuration of capitalist space. Thus when the realignment of global forces occurs, for ex- ample, the rise of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other nation states of the Pacific rim, this is taken as a demonstra- tion of how...

... organization. At issue is Colgate's con- THE ABUSABLE PAST / 141 tinuing marketing in Asia of "Darkie" brand toothpaste, whose logo is a grinning, top-hatted, and black-faced minstrel. In Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore, "Darkie" is the tooth...

... that presents a history of the human-animal binary and how it has been used to oppress beings of all kinds, opened in Helsinki in 2016 and has since toured in Italy, Taiwan, Norway, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. The sound installation Waiting Room (2019) and their most recent work Pigs (2021) explore...

... were to leave West Berlin, Europe would be abandoned as well,” he said .81 Schelling advised that the United States run risks over peripheral arcas, because if not in Berlin or the Taiwan Straits, then why California? Commitments were interdependent.R2indeed, the process became perverted...

...), 23 – 48; Xu Guoqi, Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895 – 2008 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008); Andrew Morris, Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010); Nicholas Griffin,Ping- ­Pong Diplomacy...

... contracts underwrote the expansion of its commercial services. During the war, the company broadened its operations to include commercial connections from the United States to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. Its container ship Panama was the first to arrive at the newly built Kobe Port Island Complex...

... and TV, listen to American music, and buy the products of American consumer-capitalist culture (even if these are more likely to be made in Mexico or Taiwan than in the United States itself). The actions of U.S. politicians might trans- form their lives...

... in South Africa (Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-­Natal Press, 2004). 3. Cf. Andrew D. Morris, Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). 4. Michel-Rolph­ Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power...

... York City, a trip that spanned twelve days, a dozen cities, and more than three thousand miles. There were immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, China, Taiwan, Palestine, the Philip- pines, and Siberia. Anglos and African Americans rode...

... customer ordered a new 3G iPhone and was startled to discover that his gad- get’s iTunes catalog already contained several photographs of a female assembly line Melillo | Neoliberal Enclosures of the Electromagnetic Commons  155 worker at Taiwan-­based contractor Foxconn’s Shenzhen...

... coast controlled by Taiwan and repeatedly shelled by the communists, undermined the very credibility that Chou had won on the diplomatic stage (18). In making these criticisms, Romulo was undoubtedly quite conscious of the celebrity status of these world-famous leaders, their cosmopolitanism...

... in countries like Taiwan and South Korea to greatly expand their exports to the United States with obvious negative consequences for U.S. manufacturing employ- ment. Finally, the politics of empire have contributed to the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. One need hardly join...

... Carr .f Taiwan). 34. Clearly expressed in the "trilateralist" debate of the mid-1970s; see Brian Crozier, et al., eds., 7Xu Crisis of Damarclcy: Ruport on thu Govurnability ~fD~nw~racks to thu Trikatural Com- mission (New York, 1975), and the current debates over protection...