Positions-Asia Critique

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Thinking Like a State: Policing Dangerous Thought in Imperial Japan, 1900–194510
From Immigrants to Refugees: Relocating Strangers in Two Plays about North Korean Defectors6
Village Songs and the Building of Community Culture: A Talk5
The Fruits of Demolition: Generative Neglect in Zhengzhou's Urban Villages4
Summer Happiness: Performing the Good Life in a Tibetan Town4
Paris in Korean Cinema: Fraudulence and the Female Form in Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Kim Ki-duk's Wild Animals4
Not before Twenty-Five: Contesting Marriage and Looking for the Good Life in Contemporary Urban China3
Shanzhai: Creative Imitation of China in Highland Myanmar3
The Undocumented and Archipelagic Universal in Miko Revereza'sNo Data Plan3
“When It's Dark in the East, It's Light in the West”: Lifelong Venturing and Accelerated Temporality in Beijing's Urban Villages3
Entrepreneurs of the National Past: The Discourse of Ethnic Indigeneity and Indigenous Cultural Writing in China3
Editor's Introduction3
Spirits with Morality: Social Criticism and Notions of a Good Life in Laos through theBangbotImaginary3
Undoing the Nation-State-Capital Trinity: Turning Inagaki's Petition into a Korean Playwright's Taiwan2
Beyond Bias: Critical Analysis and Layered Reading of Mao-Era Sources2
Contributors2
Contributors2
Pema Tseden's Balloon: Reincarnation of a Semi-transparent Envelope2
Archiving Facts and Documentary Films: Sites of Memorial Struggle for the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Thailand2
Literature, Powerlessness, and Modernity: A Reading of Takeuchi Yoshimi's “What Is Modernity?”1
The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)1
Introduction: The Politics of (Maoist) History1
Rewriting the Heart Sutra: Buddhism and the (Geo)Politics of Symbols in Qiu Zhijie's Art1
Jiang Qing, the Iconic Anti-icon: Visual Dissection of Female Political Power in Post-Mao People's Republic of China1
Clashing Gender in the Age of Transnational Infrastructural Capitalism: The Vocational Education and Subject Making of China's Future Workers1
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
China's Infrastructural Capitalism and Infrastructural Power of Labor: The Making of the Chinese Working Class1
Guest Editors’ Introduction: The Urban In-Between1
Afterword: Conversing with the Good Left about PRC History1
Plugged into the Good Life: Living Electrically through the Ages in Urban Vietnam1
Erratum1
From the Law of Value Debate to the One-Child Policy in China: On Accounting and Biopolitics1
Guest Editor's Introduction—Expansive Trajectories: Remapping Transnationalism in the Global China Era1
Editor's Introduction1
Archaeology of the Eyeball: Lu Xun, Eye-Gouging Myth, and Ocular Anatomy1
Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life1
Archive of the Missing: Speculative Visions and the Terms of Social Repair in Transnational Adoption1
Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) and the Apocalypse of Ecological Visibility1
Racist Attachments: Dakko-chan, Black Kitsch, and Kawaii Culture1
Animating the Trauma: Colonial Atrocities and the Use of New Media in Contemporary South Korean Museums1
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
Deleuze and East Asia: Toward a Comparative Methodology of the Gap1
Editor's Introduction: Aesthetics of the Uncanny1
The Worker-Poet as the Ethnographic Partner: Documenting the Emotional Pain of Rural Migrant Women0
I and We in Picun: The Making of Chinese Poet Xiao Hai0
Editor's Introduction: Dissonances0
Opening a Virtual Space before the Door of the Law: The Transnational Togani Effect from Silenced to Angels Wear White0
Sound, Gender, and the Thing: Earphone and Miss Earphone in Shanghai Cinema, 1939–19490
Proletarian Melodrama: Censorship, Popularization, and Consumerism in Colonial Korea0
Body Art in China: Yang Zhichao's Diary from a Psychiatric Ward0
China Anxiety: Deracializing Debates about Housing and Education0
Mismatched: Intensive Mothering in China's Urban Villages0
“Flat Surface” as Material Metaphor: “Bad” Cover Design, “Good” Storytelling, and Post-Fordist Sensibility in Chinese Web Novels0
Contributors0
To Confront the Totality: A Critique of Empiricism in the Historiography of the People's Republic of China0
Philanthropy Fever from Below: On the Possibilities of a Good Life in Late-Socialist China0
Editor's Introduction: Praxis of On-Sitedness0
Editor's Introduction0
Made in Others’ Wor(l)ds: Personhood and the Angloscene in Afro-Chinese Beijing0
Running and Reading RemnantDanweiWalls in China's Postsocialist City0
The Advertising Museum in Seoul: Dream-Images and the Freedom to Advertise0
Sounding the Ineffable: Third-Century Chinese Whistling as an Alternative Voice0
The Sinophone as an Uneven Experience of Time and Place: Translocal Media Consumption in Chinese-Speaking Malaysia0
Epistemic Labor: Narratives of Hyper-Uncertainty and Future-Making on China's Urban Fringe0
The Cultural Politics of Asian Life in Carl Mydans's Photojournalism of Tule Lake and Yosu-Sunchon0
Contributors0
Brown Theory: A Storied Manifest of Our World0
Children and Law in the Shadows: Legal Ideologies and Personal Strategies in Response to Parental Abductions in Japan0
Cosmopolitanism from Below: Union Film's Adaptation of World Classics0
“Snail Households”: Containerization of Migrant Housing on Shanghai's Fringe0
Guest Editors’ Introduction0
Editor's Introduction0
Ideology of the Image: Wu Guanzhong's Abstract Expression, 1979–19830
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Deportable to Nowhere: Stateless Children as Challenges to State Logics of Immigration Control0
Lesbian and Gay Parents, Heterosexual Kinship, and Queer Dreams: Making Families in Twenty-First Century Taiwan0
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Low-End Accumulation: Spatial Transformation and Social Stratification in a Beijing Urban Village0
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PRC History in Crisis and Clover0
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Foundations of Theory in PRC History: Mass Communications Research, Political Culture, and the Values Paradigm0
Can the “Comfort Women” Footage Speak? The Afterlives of Camera Images as Document and the Flow of Life0
Japanese New Left's Political Theories of Subjectivity and Ōshima Nagisa's Practice of Cinema0
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Not Entirely Married: Resisting the Hegemonic Patrilineal Family in Japan's Household Registry0
Continuity and Disjuncture: The Translocal-Transnational Experiences of Chinese Skilled Trade Workers in Western Australia0
The Last Korean Animation: Wonderful Days and the Aesthetics of Global Monopoly Capitalism0
Literature as Medium: The Development and Cultural Space of New Worker Literature0
Foreign Bodies: Horror and Intimacy in Singapore's Migrant Labor Regimes0
Tu Er DaiPeasant Landlords and the Infrastructures of Accumulation in Guangzhou's Urban Villages0
Long Live the Mass Line! Errant Cadres and Post-Disillusionment PRC History0
Editor's Introduction: Conditions of Seeing0
The Market Life of Japanese Literature in Postwar America: Knopf, Translation, and the Archives of Cultural Commerce0
Will Marriage Rights Bring Family Equality? Law, Lesbian Co-Mothers, and Strategies of Recognition in Taiwan0
Barriers Faced by Returning Migrant Children in Vietnam: The Case of the Mekong Delta Region0
Cover Image Commentary—Shooting a Shot: The Decisive Moment of Abe Shinzo's and Asanuma Inejirō’s Assassinations on Camera0
Heterogenesis and the Affective Economies of Catastrophes0
Face Masks for the Ancestors: Everyday Life and Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Urban Hanoi0
The Limits of Family: Military Law and Sex Panics in Contemporary South Korea0
On Mourning and Solidarities, on Poetry and Translation: A Note from the Associate Editor0
Critique of Archived Life: Toward a Hesitation of Sikh Immigrant Accumulation0
The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique0
Remade in China: Rule of Law, Democracy, and the Chinese 12 Angry Men0
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The Promise of (Un)happiness:34 Literatureand Yi Si-u's Surrealist Poetics in Colonial Korea0
Musica Practica: The Sound of the Beijing New Worker Band0
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The Making ofHomo Socialist: The Discursive Analysis of the Ideological Production of Class in China, 1949–19760
Frenemies on Film: Rescreening the Sino-Indian War of 19620
China's Feminist Gap: Edges, Nearness, and Distance in Women's Arts0
Semantics of Tea Drinking: Online Writing and the Shaping of Counter-public Spheres in Xi Jinping's China0
From Golden Venture to Golden Visas: The Reenchantment of Culture and Flexible Citizenship in a Nativist World0
Encountering Violence: Media and Memory in Asia0
Calculating Needs and Prescribing Properties: Chaiqian and the Commensuration of Value at Nanjing's Urban Edge0
Foreword: The Maoism of PRC History0
Rethinking the Political Economy of Development in Mao's China0
Literature by Other Mediums: Revisiting Lu Xun's Preface to Outcry0
Editor's Introduction: Structures of Feeling0
Contributors0
From the First Thirty to the Next Thirty Years of positions: A Conversation between Editors0
Caught between Two Transnationalisms: Mainland Chinese Students’ Emotional Conflicts in Recent Hong Kong Protests0
Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China0
Ideological Conversion: Mongolia's Transition from Socialism to Postsocialism0
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How to Create a New Workers’ Culture Together: An Interview with Wang Dezhi0
Productive Encounters: Kinship, Gender, and Family Laws in East Asia0
Parental Rights and the Temporality of Attachment: Law, Kinship, and Child Welfare in Japan0
Children's Bodies Are Not Capital: Arduous Cross-Border Mobilities between Shenzhen and Hong Kong0
Between Two Funerals: Zombie Temporality and Media Ecology in Japan0
Breaking with the Family Form: Historical Categories, Social Reproduction, and Everyday Life in Late 1950s Rural China0
A Changing Representation: “Personal Writing” in Artistic Intervention in Chinese Rural Communities0
Daizō Sakurai's Trans-Asian Tent Theater, Picun, and the Reenchantment of Urban Space0
Children's Experience and Practice of Belonging: The Realities of Integration among De Facto Stateless Vietnamese Children in Cambodia0
Protecting the Body, Living the Good Life: Negotiating Health in Rural Lowland Laos0
Geometries of Fractals and Power: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia's Global Ruralities0
The Gap Which Separates: Simultaneity, Disparity, and Audiovisual-Linking Technologies in “Southeast Asian Contemporary Art”0
Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope0
Who Makes the City? Beijing's Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation0
Far-Right Orientalism and the Uyghurs: Revisiting Gunnar Jarring0
Crazy English: Nation Strengthening and the Changing Politics of Neoliberal Selfhood in Reform-Era China0
Guest Editors’ Introduction Children and Youth in Asian Migration0
You Forbid Me to Walk: Yokota Hiroshi's Disability Poetics0
Archipelagic Optics in Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes0
The Good Life as the Green Life: Digital Environmentalism and Ecological Consciousness in China0
Afterword: What Good Life, and Why Now?0
Hope without a Future: Conflicts between Time and Place in Japan after 3/110
On Mourning and Solidarities0
Between History and Phantasmagoria: Critical Nostalgic Lyricism in Alai's Poetry and Short Fiction0
Psychedelic Codes and Close Listening to South Korean Fiction, 1971 – 19890
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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
“He Rests from His Labors”: Racialized Recreation and Missionary Science in Colonial Korea0
Native Soil of Postmemory and Affective Archives in Wu Ming-Yi'sThe Stolen Bicycle0
“Dulled Emotions and Dying Humanity”: The Jjimjilbang (Gay Bathhouse) as a Dark Space in Seoul0
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Dancing and Rapping the Good Life: Sharing Aspirations and Values in Vietnamese Hip-Hop0
Familiar Strangers: North Koreans as “Dangerous Refugees” and the Crisis of Korean Chinese Community in Zhang Lu's Dooman River (2010)0
Seeking Pleasure in Peril: Male Same-Sex Relations during the Cultural Revolution0
Translational Nation: Politics and Re-presentation at the Independence Hall of Korea0
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“I Can't Do Anything but Wait”: The Lived Experiences of Children of Transnational Migrants in Lombok, Indonesia0
A Collective Fantasia of the Financial Age in Early 1990s China: Erotic-Speculative Sensation, Neoliberal Labor Heroine, and Presentist Worldly Wisdom0
The Production of Everyday Space for Workers: The New Village Movement in China, 1919–19360
Voicing the Malayan Emergency: Ventriloquizing Subjectivity in British Colonial Film and Radio0
Adopting in the Shadows: False Registration as a Method of Adoption in Postcolonial South Korea0
Forgotten Refugees and Erased “Multicultural” Subjects: The Vietnam War and South Korea's Subimperial Nation-Building0
The Audiovisual Turn of Recent Korean Documentary Cinema: The Time-Image, Place, and Landscape0
Transperipheral Educational Mobility: Less Privileged South Korean Young Adults Pursuing English Language Study in a Peripheral City in the Philippines0
Between Koenji and Brooklyn: Tokyo, New York, and the Circulations of Experimental Musics in a Global World0
The “Unlikely Writers” from Picun: Reinventing Literature and Politics at the Migrant Workers Home0
Village Lunatics0
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Between Plastic Surgery and the Photographic Representation: Ji Yeo Undoes the Elusive Narrative of Transformation0
Guest Editor's Introduction: Cultures of Labor and the Labor of Culture0
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