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  • Not Like a Native Speaker

    On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience

    by Rey Chow ...
    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 languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films

    Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility

    by Rey Chow ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    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 foundations of human coexistence in this age of globalization?Rey Chow explores these questions ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    by Rey Chow ...
    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 uneasy boundary between a universalist rhetoric of inclusion on the one hand, and actual, lived ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • National History and the World of Nations

    Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States

    by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi, Christopher Hill ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    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 in the world, faced similar ideological challenges stemming from the rapidly changing geopolitical ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Japan's Holy War

    The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism

    by Walter Skya, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Japan’s Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new information, Walter A. Skya demonstrates that whatever other motives the Japanese had for waging war in Asia and the Pacific, for many the war was the fulfillment of a religious mandate. In the early twentieth century, a fervent nationalism developed ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Vietnam

    New Histories of the National Past

    by Patricia M. Pelley, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought what counted as history, what producing history entailed, and who should be included as participants and agents in the story. Beginning with government-appointed historians’ first publications in 1954 and following their ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World

    A Concise History

    by Rebecca E. Karl, Rey Chow, Michael Dutton, Harry Harootunian, Rosalind C. Morris ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    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. She situates Mao and the revolution in a global setting informed by imperialism, decolonization, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Writing Taiwan

    A New Literary History

    by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    W**riting Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. The ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Face Drawn in Sand

    Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present

    by Rey Chow ...
    Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there are innumerable discussions of Michel Foucault in the English-speaking academy, seldom is his ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Rey Chow Reader

    by Rey Chow ...
    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, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the same time as they ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • South Koreans in the Debt Crisis

    The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society

    by Jesook Song, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    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 a minimum standard of living, it prioritized assisting those citizens perceived as embodying the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Everything Good about God Is True

    Choosing Faith

    by Bruce Reyes-Chow ...
    A better story of faith exists, and it has the capacity to heal the world--if we only embrace, articulate, and live it more courageously.You know what you don't believe: about the Bible, the church, and God. You don't agree with the doctrines of an exclusionary, dominant Christianity. But what if someone asked you: "What do you believe?" In this primer on progressive, expansive, generous ... Read more

    $17.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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