In this Issue
Offering a fresh approach to East Asia and Asian American studies, positions employs theoretical and multidisciplinary methods in creating a provocative forum for vigorous debate. Through expansive scholarly articles, commentaries, poetry, photo spreads, and political and philosophical debates, contributors consider a broad variety of pressing questions from a striking range of perspectives. Thematic issues of positions tackling new, often pathbreaking areas of concern—or traditional areas of concern from a fresh vantage point—are interspersed with general issues offering original scholarship that crosses disciplinary and topical boundaries. The breadth and pace of the journal ensure that readers are challenged as well as informed.
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Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 2014Editorial Board
Senior Editor
Tani Barlow, Rice University
Associate Editors
James Hevia, University of Chicago
‡Donald Lowe
Rachel Ross, Rice University
Jesook Song, University of Toronto
Art Editor
Maya Kovskaya
Manuscript Editor
Kristy Leissle
Corresponding Editors
Paik Nak-chung, Ch'angjakkwa bip'yeong (Korea)
Russell C. Leong, Amerasia Journal (USA)
Li Tuo, Chen Yangu, Horizons (People's Republic of China)
Bei Dao, Jintian (Today) (People's Republic of China)
Li Shaojun, Tianya (People's Republic of China)
Editorial collective of Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social
Studies (Taiwan)
Editorial Collective
Charles Armstrong
Tani Barlow
Henry H. Em
Judith Farquhar
James Fujii
Yukiko Hanawa
James Hevia
Marilyn Ivy
Rebecca E. Karl
Thomas LaMarre
Lydia Liu
‡Donald Lowe
Christopher Lupke
Boreth Ly
Rosalind C. Morris
David Palumbo-Liu
Lisa Rofel
Alessandro Russo
Naoki Sakai
Jesook Song
Jing Wang
Angela Zito
Advisory Board
Ann Anagnost
Arjun Appadurai
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Chungmoo Choi
Kyeong-Hee Choi
Prasenjit Duara
Norma Field
Gail Hershatter
Huang Ping
Ted Huters
Robert Hymes
Andrew Jones
Elaine H. Kim
Kojin Karatani
Lee Hyo-chae
Li Tuo
Yoshiko Miyake
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Aihwa Ong
Paik Nak-chung
Vince Rafael
Mark Selden
Gi-Wook Shin
‡Miriam Silverberg
Mariko Tamanoi
John Treat
Wang Hui
Sylvia Yanagisako
Mayfair Yang
Marilyn Young