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Entrepreneurs of the National Past: The Discourse of Ethnic Indigeneity and Indigenous Cultural Writing in China 民族历史的企业家:中国的民族本体性话语与本土文化写作

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8852163

Yanshuo Zhang

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Ideological Conversion: Mongolia's Transition from Socialism to Postsocialism 思想转换:蒙古从社会主义到后社会主义的过渡

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8852150

Christian Sorace

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Literature by Other Mediums: Revisiting Lu Xun's Preface to Outcry 其他媒介的文学——再看鲁迅的《呐喊序》

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8852137

Chenshu Zhou

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He Rests from His Labors": Racialized Recreation and Missionary Science in Colonial Korea 他在劳动中休息”:殖民朝鲜的种族化娱乐和传教科学

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8852111

Derek Kramer

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Between Two Funerals: Zombie Temporality and Media Ecology in Japan 两个葬礼之间:日本的僵尸时间性与媒介生态

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8852085

Alexander Zahlten

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Literature, Powerlessness, and Modernity: A Reading of Takeuchi Yoshimi's "What Is Modernity?" 文学、无力与现代性——解读竹内吉美《什么是现代性?》

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8852124

Qin Wang

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Penan Storytelling as Indigenous Counter-Narrations of Malaysian Nation-State Developmentalism 马来民族国家发展主义的土著反叙事——本南叙事

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8722836

Zawawi Ibrahim, Lin Hongxuan

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Racial Slurs and Whispers in Situated Testimonies of Dutch Imperial Fiction 荷兰帝国小说背景证词中的种族歧视与窃窃私语

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8722784

L. Sears

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Introduction: Thinking Comparison with the Politics of Storytelling 导论:思维与叙事政治的比较

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8722743

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva, L. Sears

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The What-Has-Been and the Now of a Communist Past in Malaya in the Films of Amir Muhammad 阿米尔·穆罕默德电影中马来亚共产主义过去的过去和现在

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8722769

Carlo Bonura

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