East Asia: An International Quarterly articles

Recent articles from East Asia: An International Quarterly

FROM THE EDITOR.
December 22, 2000... The subject matter of this issue of East Asia breaks new ground for our journal. However, "East Asian Sexualities" are not irrelevant to the expanding horizon of our journal as the new sexualities have become part and parcel of the process of liberalization, democratization, and...

INTRODUCTION: EAST ASIAN SEXUALITIES.
December 22, 2000... What does it mean to talk about East Asian sexualities? What it means for the purpose of this issue is that sexualities are situated; they appear and are always lived within national, political, racial-ethnic and gender frames. It means that sexuality exceeds, or supercedes, any facile...

SPOKEN PLEASURES AND DANGEROUS DESIRES: SEXUALITY, MARRIAGE, AND THE STATE IN RURAL SOUTHEASTERN CHINA.
December 22, 2000... Contemporary studies of rural China are notable for their lack of attention to sexuality. Most implicitly accept a prevailing view of rural society as ruled by conservative sexual mores and a procreative imperative, institutionalized through near-universal marriage rates.(1) When I began...

ASSUMING MANHOOD: PROSTITUTION AND PATRIOTIC PASSIONS IN KOREA(1).
December 22, 2000... "Korean Men! Rise! Korean Men! Rise!" The Korean beverage market is saturated with male tonics. A 1999 TV commercial of one such tonic(2) featured a gigantic bottle of the drink making a thunderous landing onto the city, upon which toppled buildings become erected, together with throngs...

SUBVERSIVE STRATEGIES: MASOCHISM, GENDER AND POWER IN KONO TAEKO'S "TODDLER-HUNTING".(author)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... --You're a naughty boy, the father starts. I'm going to have to teach you a lesson. A crash as the father whacks the boy across the face, hard enough, it seems, to crack his small skull in two. The child crumples up in pain, staggers backwards, then bounces back to his former position. He...