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In the Event of Women outlines the stakes of what Tani Barlow calls "the event of women." Focusing on the era of the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century's Cultural Revolution, Barlow shows that an event is a politically inspired action to install a newly discovered truth, in this case the mammal origins of human social evolution. Highbrow and lowbrow social theory circulating in Chinese urban print media placed humanity's...

In the Event of Women outlines the stakes of what Tani Barlow calls "the event of women." Focusing on the era of the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century's Cultural Revolution, Barlow shows that an event is a politically inspired action to install a newly discovered truth, in this case the mammal origins of human social evolution. Highbrow and lowbrow social theory circulating in Chinese urban print media placed humanity's...

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The current place of Marxism in Asian and Asian Studies thinking.

The current place of Marxism in Asian and Asian Studies thinking.

Barlow documents the history of "woman" as a category in twentieth century Chinese history, tracing the question of gender through various phases in the literary career of Ding Ling, a major modern Chinese writer.

Barlow documents the history of "woman" as a category in twentieth century Chinese history, tracing the question of gender through various phases in the literary career of Ding Ling, a major modern Chinese writer.

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Grapples with the journal's origins in the critique of Cold War area studies and its ongoing role in providing openings for theoretically engaged scholarship

Demonstrating an impatience with social science models of knowledge, this title features contributors who show that binary categories focused on during the Cold War are no longer central to the project of history writing. It is suitable for students and scholars of Asian studies, postcolonial studies, and anthropology.

In the war on Iraq, the Bush administration has advanced a strategy of preemption--striking in advance of any realized threat. This special issue of positions is a call for critical and international opposition to the logic of preemptive war.

Theoretically informed and sophisticated, the essays in this volume relflect some of the most creative and intelligent readings of twentieth-century Chinese fiction being produced in a number of venues. Taken as a group, they illustrate the variety of ways in which gender has been deployed by modern Chinese writers as textual and political strategy."--Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz

The essays in Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia illustrate how valuable the analytic of colonial modernity is to the rethinking of contemporary history. Although the modernity of non-European colonies is as indisputable as the colonial core of European modernity, scholarship on the region of "East Asia" has tried until recently to view colonialism primarily through the lens of British India, and has not fully registered pervasive d...

Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China.Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China, to close feminist readings of individual authors, these essays confront the degree to which ...

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An edition of positions: asia critique.