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Shanzhai: Creative Imitation of China in Highland Myanmar 山寨:缅甸高地对中国的创造性模仿

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967409

Hans Steinmüller

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Editor's Introduction 编辑器的介绍

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967279

K. Hirano

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Japanese New Left's Political Theories of Subjectivity and Ōshima Nagisa's Practice of Cinema 日本新左派的主体性政治理论与Ōshima渚的电影实践

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967305

Ferran de Vargas

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You Forbid Me to Walk: Yokota Hiroshi's Disability Poetics 你禁止我行走:横田浩的残疾诗学

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967331

Andrew Campana

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Archipelagic Optics in Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes 吴明义《复眼人》中的群岛光学

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967383

Yi-Ting Chang

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Native Soil of Postmemory and Affective Archives in Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle 吴明义《被偷的自行车》的后记忆土与情感档案

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967357

Chialan Sharon Wang

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Between Plastic Surgery and the Photographic Representation: Ji Yeo Undoes the Elusive Narrative of Transformation 在整形手术与摄影表现之间:池杨解开难以捉摸的转型叙事

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967318

So-Rim Lee

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Calculating Needs and Prescribing Properties: Chaiqian and the Commensuration of Value at Nanjing's Urban Edge 计算需求，规定属性:柴钱与南京城市边缘价值的公约

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9723698

Mengqi Wang

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Tu Er Dai Peasant Landlords and the Infrastructures of Accumulation in Guangzhou's Urban Villages 屠尔代地主与广州城中村的积累基础设施

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9723685

Nellie Chu

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"When It's Dark in the East, It's Light in the West": Lifelong Venturing and Accelerated Temporality in Beijing's Urban Villages “东黑西亮”:北京城中村的终身冒险与加速的时间性

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9723750

Yang Zhan

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