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In the Event of Women

By: Tani Barlow

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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 origin story in relation to commercial capital's modern advertising industry and the conclusion that women's liberation involved selling, buying, and advertising industrial commodities. The political struggle over how the truth of women in China would be performed and understood, Barlow shows, means in part that an event of women was likely global because its truth is vested in biology and physiology. In so doing, she reveals the ways in which historical universals are effected in places where truth claims are not usually sought. This book reconsiders Alain Badiou's concept of the event; particularly the question of whose political moment marks newly discovered truths.

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1478021748

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Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia

By: Tani E. Barlow

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Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia

By: Tani E. Barlow

The essays in Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia challenge the idea that notions of modernity and colonialism are mere imports from the West, and show how colonial modernity has evolved from and into unique forms throughout Asia. Although the modernity of non-European colonies is as indisputable as the colonial core of European modernity, until recently East Asian scholarship has tried to view Asian colonialism through the paradigm of colonial India (for instance), failing to recognize anti-imperialist nationalist impulses within differing Asian countries and regions. Demonstrating an impatience with social science models of knowledge, the contributors show that binary categories focused on during the Cold War are no longer central to the project of history writing. By bringing together articles previously published in the journal positions: east asia cultures critique, editor Tani Barlow has demonstrated how scholars construct identity and history, providing cultural critics with new ways to think about these concepts--in the context of Asia and beyond. Chapters address topics such as the making of imperial subjects in Okinawa, politics and the body social in colonial Hong Kong, and the discourse of decolonization and popular memory in South Korea. This is an invaluable collection for students and scholars of Asian studies, postcolonial studies, and anthropology. Contributors. Charles K. Armstrong, Tani E. Barlow, Fred Y. L. Chiu, Chungmoo Choi, Alan S. Christy, Craig Clunas, James A. Fujii, James L. Hevia, Charles Shiro Inouye, Lydia H. Liu, Miriam Silverberg, Tomiyama Ichiro, Wang Hui

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0822319438

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9780822319436

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

By: Tani Barlow

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The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

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DIVBarlow 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./div

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Gender Politics in Modern China

Writing and Feminism

By: Tani E. Barlow

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Gender Politics in Modern China

Writing and Feminism

By: Tani E. Barlow

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 textual stategies construct notions of gender. Among the specific themes discussed are: how femininity is produced in texts by allocating women to domestic space; the extent to which textual production lies at the base of a changing, historically specific code of the feminine; the extent to which women in modern Chinese societies are products of literary canons; the ways in which the historical processes of gendering have operated in Chinese modernity vis à vis modernity in the West; the representation of feminists as avengers and as westernized women; and the meager recognition of feminism as a serious intellectual current and a large body of theory. Originally published as a special issue of Modern Chinese Literature (Spring & Fall 1988), this expanded book represents some of the most compelling new work in post-Mao feminist scholarship and will appeal to all those concerned with understanding a revitalized feminism in the Chinese context. Contributors. Carolyn Brown, Ching-kiu Stephen Chan, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Yu-shih Chen, Rey Chow, Randy Kaplan, Richard King, Wolfgang Kubin, Wendy Larson, Lydia Liu, Seung-Yeun Daisy Ng, Jon Solomon, Meng Yue, Wang Zheng

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0822313898

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The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

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Intellectuals and Social Movements

By: Tani E. Barlow,Wang Hui,Celia Lowe

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Intellectuals and Social Movements

By: Tani E. Barlow,Wang Hui,Celia Lowe

A special edition of positions: asia critique

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Gender Politics in Modern China

Writing and Feminism

By: Tani E. Barlow

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Writing and Feminism

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Positions

20 Years After

By: Tani E. Barlow

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Positions

20 Years After

By: Tani E. Barlow

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of positions, this special issue 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. Essays, interviews, and visual art allow contributors to explore how positions has encouraged alternative analytical modes for the study of politics, engaged literary theory, queer theory, and economic, religious, and artistic cultures through the lens of Asia. The issue speculates on how future scholarship will negotiate the transformations wrought by the declining hegemony of US-dominated Asian studies in the academic world. Consistent with the journal's core mission, the issue combines current assessments of broad scholarly disciplines, such as Marxism, cultural studies, and queer studies, with illustrative case studies on topics ranging from Korean real estate markets to the border-crossing experiences of migrant laborers to early twentieth-century advertising in China. A collection of contemporary Asian visual art presented throughout the issue offers a challenge and testament to the political and interpretive scope of positions' past and future. Contributors: Tani E. Barlow, Tina Mai Chen, Harry Harootunian, Rebecca Karl, Thomas LaMarre, Boreth Ly, Rosalind C. Morris, Claudia Pozzana, Christophe Robert, Lisa Rofel, Alessandro Russo, Naoki Sakai, Jesook Song, Norman A. Spencer, Rolando B. Tolentino, Wang Hui, Angela Zito Tani E. Barlow is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Asian History and the Director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. She is the author of The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism and New Asian Marxisms, both also published by Duke University Press.

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Book's by Tani Barlow

In the Event of Women

In the Event of Women

Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia

Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

In the Event of Women

In the Event of Women

Gender Politics in Modern China

Gender Politics in Modern China

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

Intellectuals and Social Movements

Intellectuals and Social Movements

Gender Politics in Modern China

Gender Politics in Modern China

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