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Resistant Consumerism: The Politics of Consumption in South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Period (1961–1979)
(2021-07-12)
My dissertation examines the emergence of a consumer society in South Korea under the gradually authoritarian Park Chung Hee government (1961–1979). By closely examining women’s magazines, government sources, newspaper ...
Indians on the Move: Law, Borders, and Freedoms at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
(2021-05-14)
Contemporary immigration and border controls in many White settler colonies can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when new patterns of Asian migration provoked nativist rage. In the United States, as in other settler ...
Revolution Remains: Literature, Thought, and the Politics of Emotion in Reform China
(2021-07-12)
This dissertation explores how the “remains” of communist revolution—as literary practice, mediated memory, and political imaginary—have profoundly shaped China’s cultural and intellectual transformations from the late ...
The Dustbin of History: Making Archives in Modern China
(2021-05-19)
For nearly a century, scholars of China have used discarded government papers, often peddled at flea markets outside the law, to peel away the country’s secrecy. Even till today, these “garbage materials” have spawned ...