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  • 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

    $29.69 CAD

  • 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

    $33.59 CAD

  • 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

    $29.59 CAD

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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

    $36.79 CAD

  • 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

    $29.69 CAD

  • Women on the Verge

    Japanese Women, Western Dreams

    by Karen Kelsky, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    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 opportunities to circumvent what they consider their country’s oppressive corporate and family structures. Drawing on a rich supply of autobiographical narratives, as well as literary and cultural texts, Karen ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • 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

    $36.79 CAD

  • Backward Glances

    Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary

    by Fran Martin, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    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 erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, Fran Martin shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Learning Places

    The Afterlives of Area Studies

    by Rey Chow ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    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 were created in large part to supply information on potential enemies of the United States. The ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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

    $34.09 CAD

  • Japan After Japan

    Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present

    by Rey Chow, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    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 also its politics, society, and culture. In Japan After Japan, scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and film explore the profound transformations in Japan since the early 1990s, providing ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD