positions: east asia cultures critique records, 1990-2005

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Positions (Durham, N.C.)
Title
positions: east asia cultures critique records
Dates
1990-2005 (inclusive)
Quantity
13.76 cubic feet (16 boxes)
Collection Number
UW Resource No. 05683 (Accession No. 06-019)
Summary
Records of an academic journal on East Asian culture published by Duke University Press with editorial support from the University of Washington
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users, but access to portions of the papers restricted. Contact repository for details.

Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.

Request at UW

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

positions: asia critique, formerly positions: east asia cultures critique is published four times a year by Duke University Press. Tani Barlow continues as the founding senior editor of the journal. Previously a professor Women's Studies and History at the University of Washington, Barlow currently teaches Chinese history at Rice University. While housed at the University of Washington the journal received support from the Jackson School of International Studies, the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, and the School of Humanities. A number of talented doctoral students from the English department staffed the journal over the years. positions is the first post-Cold War journal to examine critically the histories and politics of Asia/Asian America. Over its existence positions has won five awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, of the Modern Languages Association.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Correspondence, publicity materials, manuscript files, journals; 1990-2005.

Correspondence and journals document the tenure of Tani Barlow while serving as editor of the academic journal, positions: east asia cultures critique. Accepted manuscript files include correspondence and annotated drafts of accepted and rejected manuscript submissions to the positions journal.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Public Records (Use unrestricted when access is granted).

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged in 5 series:

  • Correspondence, 1990-1997
  • Publicity Materials, 1992-1994
  • Accepted Manuscripts, 1994-2000
  • Editor's Journal Notebooks, 1994-1996
  • Rejected Manuscripts, 1996-2005

Preservation Note

Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.

Acquisition Information

Received from positions: east asia cultures critique, March 3, 2006.

Processing Note

Minimally processed.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Correspondence, 1990-1997Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
1
Editor's Journal re: Starting the Journal
1992
1
Starting Up the Journal
1990-1992
1
Starting Up the Journal
1992-1993
1
The Business of the Journal
1993-1997
1
Staring the Collective and Advisory Board
1991-1992
8
CVs: Possible Board Members
Restricted.
1992
8
Collective Voting on First Board Members
Restricted.
1992-1993
1
First Issue Manuscript Correspondence (1991-1992)
1991-1992
1
Issue Manuscript Correspondence (1993)
1991-1993
1
First Issue Manuscript Correspondence (1993-1994)
1992-1994
1
First Issue Manuscript Correspondence II (1993-1994)
1993-1994
1
Creating Special Issues
1992-1998
1
Duke Correspondence
1992-1994
1
Subscription Exchanges
1993-1994

Publicity Materials, 1992-1994Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
1
First Duke Catalogs: Advertising
1992-1993
1
Miscellaneous Marketing and Advertising Artifacts
1992-1993
1
Artwork for First Issue
circa 1993
1
Artifacts/Promotional/Marketing
1992-1994

Accepted Manuscripts, 1992-1996Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Issue 1.1
Box
1
Manuscripts Hand-Copy Edited by Editor
circa 1993
Issue 4.2
Box
2
Joseph R. Allen - "Dressing and Undressing the Chinese Woman Warrior"
one 3.5" computer disk
circa 1996
2
Fred Y. L. Chui - "Politics and the Body Social in Colonial Hong Kong"
circa 1996
2
Andrew E. Barshey - "The Social Sciences in Japan"
1995-1996
2
Traise Yamamoto - "As Natural as the Partnership of Sun and Moon"
1995-1996
2
Giovanni Vitiello - "The Fantatic Journey of an Ugly Boy"
1994-1996
2
Fred Y. L. Chiu - "Calling Home the Soul"
two 3.5" computer disks
1995-1996
2
Fred Y. L. Chui - "Tale of Rearing Tigers: Body Social in Colonial Hong Kong"
1996
2
Diane Dorfman - "Spirits of Reform"
two 3.5" computer disks
1994-1996
2
Xiaoqun Xu - "Whither Feminism"
1995-1996
Issue 4.3
Box
8
4.3 Publication Agreements
Restricted.
1996
2
Sheng-Mei Ma - "Immigrant Subjectivities and Desires in Overseas Student Literature"
one 3.5" computer disk
1995-1996
2
Joseph R. Allen - "Satorial Story of the Chinese Woman Warrior"
1993-1995
2
Carole Cavanaugh - "Women, Text, and Textile"
1995-1996
2
Barry Sautman - "Theories of East Asian Superiority"
1995-1996
8
Kathleen Uno - "Questioning Patrilineality"
one 3.5" computer disk
Restricted.
1995-1996
2
Karen Wigen - "All For One"
one 3.5" computer disk
1995-1996
2
Yukiko Hanawa - "Queer 'N Asian"
1995-1996
2
Myung Mi Kim - "Exordium"
1996
Issue 5.1
Box
2
Permissions
1996
2
Guest Editor - Chungmoo Choi
one 3.5" computer disk
1995-1996
2
Comfort Women Original Disks
six 3.5" computer disks
1995
3
Norma Field - "War and Apology"
1995
3
Chin Sung Chung - "The Origin and Development of the Problems Concerning Military Sexual Slavery by Imperialist Japan"
1995
3
Yiki Fujime - "Licensed Prostitution System"
1995-1996
3
Hyun Sook Kim - "Contested History"
1995
3
Oe-Kim Dialogue
1995-1996
3
Song Youn-ok - "Japanese Colonial Rule" (translated by Melissa L. Wender)
undated
3
Won Soon Park - "Comparative Review of Post-War Reparations"
1995
3
Hyunah Yang - "Re-membering Korean 'Military Comfort Women'"
1995-1996
3
Vera Mackie - "Feminist History and Human Rights Discourse"
1995
3
War and Prostitution
1992-1993

Editor's Journal Notebooks, 1994-1996Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
3
AAS 1994
1994
3
January to February
1994
3
February 24 to April 25
1994
3
April 25 to July 26
1994
3
July 26 to October 27
1994
3
October 27 to December 14
1994
3
December 14 to January 18
1994-1995
3
March 20 to September 24
1995
3
September 24 to March 20
1995-1996

Accepted Manuscripts, 1994-2000Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Issue 5.2
Box
3
Lisa Lowe, Elaine Kim (Guest Editors) - New Asian American Communities
1996-1997
3
ASAM - Issue Reviews
1995-1996
8
Intro. AA Plus Miscellaneous Editors
Restricted.
1996-1997
3
Final Asian American Disks
nine 3.5" computer disks
1997
3
Anuradha G. Advani - "Development of a South Asian American Labor Organization"
1996-1997
3
Rick Bonus - "Marking and Marketing 'Difference'"
1997-1999
3
Oscar V. Campomanes - "New Formations of Asian American Studies"
1997
3
Gayatri Gopinath - "Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora"
1996-1997
3
Helen Heran Jun - "Contingent Nationalisms"
1997
3
Laura Hyun Yi Kang - "Si(gh)ting Asian/American Women as Transnational Labor"
1997
3
Peter Nein-chu Kiang - "Pedagogies of Life and Death"
1996-1997
4
Min-Jung Kim - "Moments of Danger in the (Dis)continuous Relation of Korean Nationalism and Korean-American Nationalism"
1997
4
Eithne Luibheid - "The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act"
1996-1997
4
Viet Thanh Nguyen - "Le Ly Hayslip and the Victimized Body"
1997
4
Eliza Noh - "Amazing Grace, Come Sit on My Face"
1996-1997
4
Miscellaneous Asian American Disks
nine 3.5" computer disks
1996
4
Essays for Positions Issue on Asian American Studies
2 folders
1996
Issue 5.3
Box
4
Geoffrey White - "Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s)"
19951997
4
Lisa Yoneyama - "Facticity, Discursive Warps, Complicit Amnesia"
1995-1997
8
Author Contracts/Information
Restricted.
1995-1997
4
Hiroshima: Photography Materials
1994-1995
4
Final 5.3 Mailed To Duke
six 3.5" computer disk
1995-1997
4
Marita Sturken - "The Absent Images of Memory"
1995-1997
4
Gerald Figal - "Placed Names"
1996-1997
4
Choy and Tong - "In the Name of the Emperor"
1995-1997
4
Linda Hoaglund - "Hiroshima: Tomatsu, Nagasaki Document"
1995-1997
Issue 6.1
Box
8
6.1 Positions Copy
Restricted.
1997
4
Lingzhen Wang - "Retheorizing the Personal"
one 3.5" computer disk
1995-1997
4
Xiaobin Yang - "The Republic of Wine"
1994-1997
4
Thongchai Winichakul - "The Future of Asian Studies"
1997
4
John Russell - "Consuming Passions"
1995-1997
5
Ben Xu - "The Rise of Nativist Cultural Theory in Post-1989 China"
1996-1997
5
Andrew Sartori - "Robert Redford's Civilizations Project"
1996-1997
5
Alessandro Russo - "The Probable Defeat"
1995-1997
5
Wang Hui - "PRC Cultural Studies and Cultural Criticism in the 1990's"
1997
5
Sugimaya Mitsunobu - "Japanese Social Science"
1995-1997
Issue 6.2
Box
8
6.2 Contract/Bio Sheets
Restricted.
1997
5
6.2 Positions Copy For Files
1997-1998
5
Yoshikuni Igarashi - "The Bomb, Hirohito, and History"
one 3.5" computer disk
1997
5
Jiemin Bao - "Same Bed, Different Dreams"
one 3.5" computer disk
1995-1997
5
Hai Ren - "Displacement and Museum Representation"
one 3.5" computer disk
1995-1997
5
E. Taylor Atkins - "The War on Jazz/Jazz Goes to War"
one 3.5" computer disk
1996-1997
5
Donald Nonini - "Chinese Society, Coffeeshop Talk, Possessing Gods"
one 3.5" computer disk
1996-1997
8
Takashi Fuitani - "Minshushi as Critique of Orientalist Knowledges"
Restricted.
1996-1997
Issue 6.3
Box
8
Empire of Hygiene - Miscellaneous
Restricted.
1997-1999
5
Introduction
circa 1998
5
Marta Hanson - "Robust Northerners and Delicate Southerners"
circa 1998
5
Hugh Shapiro - "The Puzzle of Spermattorrhea in Republican Period China"
circa 1998
5
Thomas Lamarre - "Bacterial Cultures and Linguistic Colonies"
circa 1998
5
Michael Bourdaghs - "The Disease of Nationalism, The Empire of Hygiene"
circa 1998
5
Phillippa Levine - "Modernity, Medicine, and Colonialism"
circa 1998
5
Warwick Anderson - "Leprosy and Citizenship"
1998
5
Nathan Sivin - "The History of Chinese Medicine"
circa 1998
Issue 7.1
Box
5
Copies For Files
1998
5
Contracts and Info Sheets - Author Contact List
one 3.5" computer disk
1998-2000
8
Artwork - Prince Varughese Thomas
10 color slides
Restricted.
1998
8
Maranatha Ivanova - "Ambiguity, Absurdity, Chaos, and Self-Creation in the Art of Ma Liuming"
Restricted.
1998
8
Alan Cole - "Homestyle Vinaya and Docile Boys in Chinese Buddhism"
one 3.5" computer disk
Restricted.
1997-1998
8
Roger Hart - "How To Do Things With Worlds"
one 3.5" computer disk
Restricted.
1998
6
Fran Martin - "Hybrid Citations"
one 3.5" computer disk
1997-1999
6
Michael Keane and Tao Dongfeng - "Interview with Feng Xiaogang"
1997-1998
8
Peter Zarrow - "Exiles from History"
two 3.5" computer disks
Restricted.
1994-1998
8
Kamala Kempadoo - "Slavery of Work?"
one 3.5" computer disk
Restricted.
1998
8
Wesley Sasaki-Uemura - "Towards a Politics of the Marginal"
one 3.5" computer disk
Restricted.
1996-1998
8
Shuyu Kong - "Wild Swans or Spider Eaters? The Problematics of Memoirs"
one 3.5" computer disk
Restricted.
1998
6
D. Venkat Rao - "Writing Orally: Decolonization From Below"
one 3.5" computer disk
1998
Issue 7.2
Box
6
Introduction
circa 1999
6
Correspondence
1998
9
Checklists, Duplicate Letters, Contracts, Info Sheets, and Author Contact List
two 3.5" computer disks
Restricted.
1997-1998
9
Tim Oakes - "Bathing in the Far Village"
two 3.5" computer disks
Restricted.
1998
9
Naoki Sakai - "Dialogue with Harry Harootunian"
three 3.5" computer disks
Restricted.
1998-1999
9
Nicholas Kaldis - "Filming Chinese Postmodernism"
three 3.5" computer disks
Restricted.
1996-1998
9
Tomoko Masuzawa - "From Empire to Utopia"
one 3.5" computer disk
Restricted.
1996-1998
9
Lily H. M. Ling - "Sex Machine"
one 3.5" computer disk
Restricted.
1997-1999
9
Eika Tai - "Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan"
one 3.5" computer disk
Restricted.
1996-1998
7
Mary Ann O'Donnell - "Constructing Gendered Nationalism"
two 3.5" computer disks
1997-1998
10
Jane C. Desmond - "Picturing Hawaii"
one 3.5" computer disk
Restricted.
1997-1999
10
Joshua L. Goldstein - "Mei Lanfang and the Nationalization of Peking Opera, 1912-1930"
four 3.5" computer disks
Restricted.
1997-1998
7
Chua Beng-Huat - "'Asian Values' Discourse and the Resurrection of the Social"
one 3.5" computer disk
1998-1999
7
Positions Copies for Files
2 folders
circa 1999

Rejected Manuscripts, 1996-2005Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
10
Articles (S-Z)
Restricted.
1996-1999
10
Articles (A-C)
Restricted.
1999-2001
11
Articles (C-U)
Restricted.
1999-2001
12
Articles (W-Z)
Restricted.
1999-2001
12
Articles (A-K)
Restricted.
2002
13
Articles (J-L)
Restricted.
2002
13
Articles (A-W)
Restricted.
2003
13
Articles (A-B)
Restricted.
2004
14
Articles (C-Y)
Restricted.
2004
14
Articles (A-E)
Restricted.
2005
15
Articles (F-O)
Restricted.
2005
16
Articles (P-V)
Restricted.
2005

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Periodicals
  • University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Barlow, Tani E

Corporate Names

  • Duke University Press
  • Positions (Durham, N.C.)--Archives

Geographical Names

  • East Asia--Civilization--Periodicals

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names
    • University of Washington. University Archives