...James Delbourgo This essay explores the interpenetration of the botanical and the human in Hans Sloane's engagement with cacao as a species and chocolate as a commodity, in relation to his late seventeenth-century voyage to Jamaica, and subsequent claims that he invented milk chocolate. How...

... movement at Tiananmen in 1989, excerpts from the writings of the currently imprisoned (as of this writing) 2010 Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, and the blog posts and interview comments of China's most popular writer, Han Han. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Homo Dissensum Significans...

... 1. Hans Hauck, circa 1921 – 22. All photos of Hans Hauck are reproduced with permission of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC (hereafter, USHMM) frames...

... the imperial framework; the Mongols, whose ancestors were also once imperial standard-bearers; the Tibetans, with their special relations to the empire; the Muslims; and finally, what is usually known as “Han Chinese” — a modern renaming of earlier admixtures of different ethnolinguistic line- ages...

... Shana L. Rodríguez Dylan Echavez Sarita , eds. Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Eng David L. Han Shinhee . “ A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia .” In Loss: The Politics of Mourning , edited by Eng David L. Kazanjian David...

... blackness with Sora Han and Fred Moten as “nonperformance,” though nonperformance is now understood as enthusiasm’s insovereign poetics of the breach—a breach of religious contract in the name of some other freedom. 65 From that breach, the sacred, in flight from sovereignty, understood as practices...

... the question whether the two “posts” in the post-­postcolonial do indeed cancel each other out. If yes, then what has been seen as postcolonial ressentiment by predominantly Han Chinese intellectuals against the West will need to be fundamentally and critically reconsidered, especially in light of Han...

... Contributors Dai Jinhua is professor at the Research Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture and director of the Centre for Film Studies and Cultural Stud- ies at Pek ing Universit y. Dai has published more t han ten Chinese-language...

... and Global Intelligence, 1770–1820 (Science History Publications) and is completing a book about Hans Sloane’s voy- age to Jamaica and its eighteenth-­century aftermaths. Sarah Franklin is professor of social studies of biomedicine and associate director of the BIOS Centre at the London School...

... and the Mass Line,” Modern China 4, no. 1 (1978): 3 – 27. 12. Han Guangyu, Minzhujizhongzhi yanjiu (Studies of Democratic Centralism) (Changsha: Hunan daxue chubanshe, 2008), 12 – 20; Lewis, Leadership in Com- munist China, 21, 70 – 100; James R. Townsend, Political Participation in Communist...

... flowering of queer minstrelsy. 18 Daniel ∙ Punk Performance and the Epistemology of Queer Minstrelsy Zeigenbock Kopf versus Faggots against Gay Simulation (FAGS) Zeigenbock Kopf, the gay German electronic/industrial/punk trio consist- ing of Hans Bunschlappen, Hans’s “brother” Uli...

... of Love ; Fassin, “Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life.” See also Stevenson’s contribution in this volume. 24 Mbembe, “Necropolitics.” 25 Das and Han, Living and Dying , 30 ; Tsing, Mushroom at the End of the World . 26 Berlant, Cruel Optimism . 27 Povinelli...

... as an autonomous discipline4 is that of interna- tional politics studied from a perspective introduced in the late 1930s and 1940s by writers such as E. H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, and George Kennan.5 This so-called Realist perspective...

... that would seem ripe for transformation into an otherwise world. 1 See Naisargi N. Dave’s contribution in this issue. 2 Han, “Symptoms of Another Life.” 3 Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip ; see also Weeks, Problem with Work . 4 Berlant, Cruel Optimism . 5 See, e.g...

... teach critical theory and political praxis? How might melancholia inspire or inform a protest agenda? David Eng and Shinhee Han offer a compelling response to these queries. Theorizing the insurgent uses of melancholia, they highlight its “militant refusal on the part of the ego to let go” which...

... prostrate to power.” Yan lists examples of heroic individuals such as Han Yu, Zhu Xi, and Wang Fuzhi, suggesting that the key to authentic subjectivity inheres in being one who “surges onwards an exceptional path, despite being dis- dained...