Rey Chow: 34 books
by Rey Chow
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics,...
by Rey Chow
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
In late-capitalist Western society, cross-ethnic cultural transactions are an inevitable daily routine. Yet, according to acclaimed cultural critic Rey Chow, the notion of ethnicity as it is currently used is theoretically ambivalent, confusing, indeed self-contradictory, straddling as it does an...
The Age of the World Target
Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics, dominated by the United States since the end of the...
Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory
Reimagining a Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2001
These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group...
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films
Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? What can the sentimental tell us about the precarious...
Not Like a Native Speaker
On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal...
by Rey Chow
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
How might the pornographic be associated with Brecht's and Benjamin's media theories? How are Foucault's and Deleuze's writings on visibilities "postcolonial"? What happens when Rancière's discussions of art are juxtaposed with cultural anthropology? What does a story by Lao She about collecting...
by Kyung Hyun Kim, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound sociopolitical changes in the country. Since 1980, South Korea has transformed from an insular,...
Learning Places
The Afterlives of Area Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Under globalization, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous reexamination that this volume and its distinguished contributors undertake. In the aftermath of World War II, area studies...
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader’s personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative of the Chinese revolution....
Envisioning Taiwan
Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in...
National History and the World of Nations
Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, Christopher L. Hill reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. The three countries, occupying widely different positions...
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis
The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001). Jesook Song argues that while the government proclaimed that it would guarantee all South Koreans...
Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature
Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan’s publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as cultural and economic power consolidated...