Positions-Asia Critique

Papers
(The median citation count of Positions-Asia Critique is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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From Immigrants to Refugees: Relocating Strangers in Two Plays about North Korean Defectors11
Village Songs and the Building of Community Culture: A Talk10
Paris in Korean Cinema: Fraudulence and the Female Form in Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Kim Ki-duk's Wild Animals6
The Fruits of Demolition: Generative Neglect in Zhengzhou's Urban Villages6
Summer Happiness: Performing the Good Life in a Tibetan Town5
Thinking Like a State: Policing Dangerous Thought in Imperial Japan, 1900–19454
Spirits with Morality: Social Criticism and Notions of a Good Life in Laos through theBangbotImaginary4
Shanzhai: Creative Imitation of China in Highland Myanmar4
The Undocumented and Archipelagic Universal in Miko Revereza'sNo Data Plan4
“When It's Dark in the East, It's Light in the West”: Lifelong Venturing and Accelerated Temporality in Beijing's Urban Villages3
Negotiating Bu Kaifang: Chronicles of Opening and Engagement in Miao Country3
Archiving Facts and Documentary Films: Sites of Memorial Struggle for the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Thailand3
Fragments of Our Youth in the Long 1980s: A Meandering Conversation in the Labyrinth of Time3
Not before Twenty-Five: Contesting Marriage and Looking for the Good Life in Contemporary Urban China3
Pema Tseden's Balloon: Reincarnation of a Semi-transparent Envelope3
Instinct, Society, and Li Zehou's Farewell to Revolution3
Undoing the Nation-State-Capital Trinity: Turning Inagaki's Petition into a Korean Playwright's Taiwan3
Beyond Bias: Critical Analysis and Layered Reading of Mao-Era Sources2
Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) and the Apocalypse of Ecological Visibility2
Plugged into the Good Life: Living Electrically through the Ages in Urban Vietnam2
Afterword: Conversing with the Good Left about PRC History2
Contributors2
Contributors2
Introduction: The Politics of (Maoist) History2
The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)1
China's Infrastructural Capitalism and Infrastructural Power of Labor: The Making of the Chinese Working Class1
Erratum1
Zainichi Protagonists and the Making of Historical Fiction: Cold War Security and Economic Insecurity in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yang Sŏk-il's Chi to hone (Blood and Bones)1
Guest Editor's Introduction—Expansive Trajectories: Remapping Transnationalism in the Global China Era1
Mnemonic Politics around the Japanese Colonial Era in Post–Cold War Taiwan: Wei Te-sheng's Colonial Trilogy and Post–New Cinema1
Contesting the Residue: Bandits, Collective Hamlets, and Japanese Colonialism in Manchuria1
Clashing Gender in the Age of Transnational Infrastructural Capitalism: The Vocational Education and Subject Making of China's Future Workers1
Jiang Qing, the Iconic Anti-icon: Visual Dissection of Female Political Power in Post-Mao People's Republic of China1
Guest Editors’ Introduction: The Urban In-Between1
Archive of the Missing: Speculative Visions and the Terms of Social Repair in Transnational Adoption1
Archaeology of the Eyeball: Lu Xun, Eye-Gouging Myth, and Ocular Anatomy1
Racist Attachments: Dakko-chan, Black Kitsch, and Kawaii Culture1
From the Law of Value Debate to the One-Child Policy in China: On Accounting and Biopolitics1
Editor's Introduction1
Between Plastic Surgery and the Photographic Representation: Ji Yeo Undoes the Elusive Narrative of Transformation1
Rewriting the Heart Sutra: Buddhism and the (Geo)Politics of Symbols in Qiu Zhijie's Art1
Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life1
Imagined Islands and the Potential Nation1
The University of the 1980s: Scattered Thoughts and Reminiscences on Literature1
Animating the Trauma: Colonial Atrocities and the Use of New Media in Contemporary South Korean Museums1
Deleuze and East Asia: Toward a Comparative Methodology of the Gap1
Editor's Introduction: Aesthetics of the Uncanny1
Literature as Medium: The Development and Cultural Space of New Worker Literature1
Contributors0
Editor's Introduction: Dissonances0
Musica Practica: The Sound of the Beijing New Worker Band0
Protecting the Body, Living the Good Life: Negotiating Health in Rural Lowland Laos0
Toward an Understanding of “Release” (Fangkai): Labor, Minerals, and the Transformation of a Mountain Region in China's Long 1980s0
“Dulled Emotions and Dying Humanity”: The Jjimjilbang (Gay Bathhouse) as a Dark Space in Seoul0
Contributors0
Editor's Introduction: Praxis of On-Sitedness0
Contributors0
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Deportable to Nowhere: Stateless Children as Challenges to State Logics of Immigration Control0
Calculating Needs and Prescribing Properties: Chaiqian and the Commensuration of Value at Nanjing's Urban Edge0
Tu Er DaiPeasant Landlords and the Infrastructures of Accumulation in Guangzhou's Urban Villages0
Between History and Phantasmagoria: Critical Nostalgic Lyricism in Alai's Poetry and Short Fiction0
Editor's Introduction0
Rise of the Brain: Envisioning Human Potential in 1980s China0
Editor's Introduction: Structures of Feeling0
“I Can't Do Anything but Wait”: The Lived Experiences of Children of Transnational Migrants in Lombok, Indonesia0
PRC History in Crisis and Clover0
Far-Right Orientalism and the Uyghurs: Revisiting Gunnar Jarring0
1979/1984: Of Scholarship, Sinological Tourism, and Thermoses0
Transperipheral Educational Mobility: Less Privileged South Korean Young Adults Pursuing English Language Study in a Peripheral City in the Philippines0
Will Marriage Rights Bring Family Equality? Law, Lesbian Co-Mothers, and Strategies of Recognition in Taiwan0
On Mourning and Solidarities0
How to Create a New Workers’ Culture Together: An Interview with Wang Dezhi0
Contributors0
Opening a Virtual Space before the Door of the Law: The Transnational Togani Effect from Silenced to Angels Wear White0
Proletarian Melodrama: Censorship, Popularization, and Consumerism in Colonial Korea0
I and We in Picun: The Making of Chinese Poet Xiao Hai0
Native Soil of Postmemory and Affective Archives in Wu Ming-Yi'sThe Stolen Bicycle0
The Two Movements in the 1980s: Forces That Shaped Contemporary China0
Sound, Gender, and the Thing: Earphone and Miss Earphone in Shanghai Cinema, 1939–19490
Barriers Faced by Returning Migrant Children in Vietnam: The Case of the Mekong Delta Region0
Guest Editors’ Introduction0
Guest Editors’ Introduction Children and Youth in Asian Migration0
Mismatched: Intensive Mothering in China's Urban Villages0
Body Art in China: Yang Zhichao's Diary from a Psychiatric Ward0
The Production of Everyday Space for Workers: The New Village Movement in China, 1919–19360
The Good Life as the Green Life: Digital Environmentalism and Ecological Consciousness in China0
Philanthropy Fever from Below: On the Possibilities of a Good Life in Late-Socialist China0
Face Masks for the Ancestors: Everyday Life and Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Urban Hanoi0
The Audiovisual Turn of Recent Korean Documentary Cinema: The Time-Image, Place, and Landscape0
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Afterword: What Good Life, and Why Now?0
Running and Reading RemnantDanweiWalls in China's Postsocialist City0
Epistemic Labor: Narratives of Hyper-Uncertainty and Future-Making on China's Urban Fringe0
Productive Encounters: Kinship, Gender, and Family Laws in East Asia0
The Cultural Politics of Asian Life in Carl Mydans's Photojournalism of Tule Lake and Yosu-Sunchon0
Remade in China: Rule of Law, Democracy, and the Chinese 12 Angry Men0
Forgotten Refugees and Erased “Multicultural” Subjects: The Vietnam War and South Korea's Subimperial Nation-Building0
A Changing Representation: “Personal Writing” in Artistic Intervention in Chinese Rural Communities0
Contributors0
Semantics of Tea Drinking: Online Writing and the Shaping of Counter-public Spheres in Xi Jinping's China0
The “Unlikely Writers” from Picun: Reinventing Literature and Politics at the Migrant Workers Home0
Children and Law in the Shadows: Legal Ideologies and Personal Strategies in Response to Parental Abductions in Japan0
Translational Nation: Politics and Re-presentation at the Independence Hall of Korea0
Children's Bodies Are Not Capital: Arduous Cross-Border Mobilities between Shenzhen and Hong Kong0
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Seeking Pleasure in Peril: Male Same-Sex Relations during the Cultural Revolution0
From the First Thirty to the Next Thirty Years of positions: A Conversation between Editors0
Can the “Comfort Women” Footage Speak? The Afterlives of Camera Images as Document and the Flow of Life0
Lesbian and Gay Parents, Heterosexual Kinship, and Queer Dreams: Making Families in Twenty-First Century Taiwan0
Erratum0
“Flat Surface” as Material Metaphor: “Bad” Cover Design, “Good” Storytelling, and Post-Fordist Sensibility in Chinese Web Novels0
Archipelagic Optics in Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes0
Continuity and Disjuncture: The Translocal-Transnational Experiences of Chinese Skilled Trade Workers in Western Australia0
Hope without a Future: Conflicts between Time and Place in Japan after 3/110
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Village Lunatics0
Psychedelic Codes and Close Listening to South Korean Fiction, 1971 – 19890
Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope0
The Worker-Poet as the Ethnographic Partner: Documenting the Emotional Pain of Rural Migrant Women0
Long Live the Mass Line! Errant Cadres and Post-Disillusionment PRC History0
The Making ofHomo Socialist: The Discursive Analysis of the Ideological Production of Class in China, 1949–19760
China Anxiety: Deracializing Debates about Housing and Education0
The Market Life of Japanese Literature in Postwar America: Knopf, Translation, and the Archives of Cultural Commerce0
Guest Editor's Introduction: Cultures of Labor and the Labor of Culture0
The Sinophone as an Uneven Experience of Time and Place: Translocal Media Consumption in Chinese-Speaking Malaysia0
The Limits of Family: Military Law and Sex Panics in Contemporary South Korea0
Children's Experience and Practice of Belonging: The Realities of Integration among De Facto Stateless Vietnamese Children in Cambodia0
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From Golden Venture to Golden Visas: The Reenchantment of Culture and Flexible Citizenship in a Nativist World0
The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique0
On Mourning and Solidarities, on Poetry and Translation: A Note from the Associate Editor0
The Gap Which Separates: Simultaneity, Disparity, and Audiovisual-Linking Technologies in “Southeast Asian Contemporary Art”0
The Promise of (Un)happiness:34 Literatureand Yi Si-u's Surrealist Poetics in Colonial Korea0
The Last Korean Animation: Wonderful Days and the Aesthetics of Global Monopoly Capitalism0
Between Koenji and Brooklyn: Tokyo, New York, and the Circulations of Experimental Musics in a Global World0
Editor's Introduction0
Caught between Two Transnationalisms: Mainland Chinese Students’ Emotional Conflicts in Recent Hong Kong Protests0
Frenemies on Film: Rescreening the Sino-Indian War of 19620
Low-End Accumulation: Spatial Transformation and Social Stratification in a Beijing Urban Village0
China's Feminist Gap: Edges, Nearness, and Distance in Women's Arts0
Outdoor Exhibitions in Beijing, 19790
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Foreword: The Maoism of PRC History0
Cosmopolitanism from Below: Union Film's Adaptation of World Classics0
Dancing and Rapping the Good Life: Sharing Aspirations and Values in Vietnamese Hip-Hop0
Not Entirely Married: Resisting the Hegemonic Patrilineal Family in Japan's Household Registry0
Encountering Violence: Media and Memory in Asia0
Ideology of the Image: Wu Guanzhong's Abstract Expression, 1979–19830
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A Collective Fantasia of the Financial Age in Early 1990s China: Erotic-Speculative Sensation, Neoliberal Labor Heroine, and Presentist Worldly Wisdom0
Rethinking the Political Economy of Development in Mao's China0
Adopting in the Shadows: False Registration as a Method of Adoption in Postcolonial South Korea0
Foreign Bodies: Horror and Intimacy in Singapore's Migrant Labor Regimes0
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The Social Production and Political Potency of Home: Contentions between Housing Reconstruction and Place Making among the Chinese Qiang after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake0
Voicing the Malayan Emergency: Ventriloquizing Subjectivity in British Colonial Film and Radio0
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Foundations of Theory in PRC History: Mass Communications Research, Political Culture, and the Values Paradigm0
Made in Others’ Wor(l)ds: Personhood and the Angloscene in Afro-Chinese Beijing0
Daizō Sakurai's Trans-Asian Tent Theater, Picun, and the Reenchantment of Urban Space0
“Snail Households”: Containerization of Migrant Housing on Shanghai's Fringe0
Breaking with the Family Form: Historical Categories, Social Reproduction, and Everyday Life in Late 1950s Rural China0
能 Neng and China's Long 1980s: A Reevaluation0
Editor's Introduction: Conditions of Seeing0
Contributors0
Geometries of Fractals and Power: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia's Global Ruralities0
Brown Theory: A Storied Manifest of Our World0
Cover Image Commentary—Shooting a Shot: The Decisive Moment of Abe Shinzo's and Asanuma Inejirō’s Assassinations on Camera0
Who Makes the City? Beijing's Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation0
Crazy English: Nation Strengthening and the Changing Politics of Neoliberal Selfhood in Reform-Era China0
Familiar Strangers: North Koreans as “Dangerous Refugees” and the Crisis of Korean Chinese Community in Zhang Lu's Dooman River (2010)0
To Confront the Totality: A Critique of Empiricism in the Historiography of the People's Republic of China0
You Forbid Me to Walk: Yokota Hiroshi's Disability Poetics0
Parental Rights and the Temporality of Attachment: Law, Kinship, and Child Welfare in Japan0
Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China0
The Advertising Museum in Seoul: Dream-Images and the Freedom to Advertise0
Heterogenesis and the Affective Economies of Catastrophes0
Japanese New Left's Political Theories of Subjectivity and Ōshima Nagisa's Practice of Cinema0
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