Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author of many books, including
Primitive Passions, which dealt with contemporary Chinese cinema and won the James Russell Lowell Prize, the most prestigious book award given by the Modern Language Association. She lives in Providence, RI.
36 Ebook di Rey Chow
Rey Chow: The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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 currentl …
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Rey Chow: Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films
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 s …
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Rey Chow: The Rey Chow Reader
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 literatu …
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Rey Chow: Not Like a Native Speaker
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 …
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Rey Chow: A Face Drawn in Sand
Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits …
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Rey Chow: Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory
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 fie …
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Wimal Dissanayake & Rob Wilson: Global/Local
This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization-the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in …
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Douglas Howland: Borders of Chinese Civilization
D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Look …
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Karen Kelsky: Women on the Verge
Over the past few decades, many young Japanese women have emerged as Japan’s most enthusiastic "internationalists, " investing in study or work abroad, or in romance with Western men as opp …
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Rebecca E. Karl: Staging the World
In Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamatio …
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Harry Harootunian & Masao Miyoshi: Learning Places
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 …
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Eric Cazdyn: Flash of Capital
The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan’s capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a …
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Charles A. Laughlin: Chinese Reportage
Chinese Reportage details for the first time in English the creation and evolution of a distinctive literary genre in twentieth-century China. Reportage literature, while sharing traditional journali …
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Zhen Ni: Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy
After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth, Raise the Red Lantern, and other …
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Patricia M. Pelley: Postcolonial Vietnam
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 his …
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Barbara Sato: New Japanese Woman
Presenting a vivid social history of "the new woman" who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life …
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Susan L Burns: Before the Nation
Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectua …
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Kyung Hyun Kim: Remasculinization of Korean Cinema
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 profo …
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Ai Maeda: Text and the City
Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and c …
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Tomiko Yoda: Gender and National Literature
Boldly challenging traditional understandings of Heian literature, Tomiko Yoda reveals the connections between gender, nationalism, and cultural representation evident in prevailing interpretations o …
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June Yip: Envisioning Taiwan
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 st …
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Rey Chow: Age of the World Target
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 on …
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Carlos Rojas & David Der-wei Wang: Writing Taiwan
Writing 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 liter …
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Harry Harootunian & Tomiko Yoda: Japan After Japan
The prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy that began during the recessionary 1990s triggered a complex set of reactions both within Japan and abroad, reshaping not only the country’s economy but …
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€41.28
Christopher Hill: National History and the World of Nations
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 …
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Kim Brandt: Kingdom of Beauty
A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to th …
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Christopher T. Nelson: Dancing with the Dead
Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of th …
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Jesook Song: South Koreans in the Debt Crisis
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). …
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Edward Mack: Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature
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 …
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Ken C. Kawashima: Proletarian Gamble
Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depre …
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Walter Skya: Japan’s Holy War
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 what …
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Fran Martin: Backward Glances
Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erot …
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Yomi Braester: Painting the City Red
Painting the City Red illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development of cities in China and Taiwan, from the emergence …
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Rebecca E. Karl: Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World
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, …
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Rey Chow: Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture
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 Ranciere’s …
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Rey Chow & James A. Steintrager: Sound Objects
Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, cult …
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