Tani Barlow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3693027 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tani Barlow |
| NOMBRES | Tani |
| APELLIDO | Barlow |
| FIRMA | BARLOW T |
| AFILIACIONES | Rice University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Instinct, Society, and Li Zehou's Farewell to Revolution
The article examines how philosopher Li Zehou (1930–2021) engaged but departed from earlier twentieth-century debates over evolution, instinct, and social theory in modern Chinese intellectual history. While Li Zehou’s predecessor Li Shicen (1892–1934) had maintained a dynamic tension between biological instincts and social structures in his Bergsonian-influenced philosophy, Li Zehou attempted to resolve tension by privileging cultural evolution …
Modified Bodies, Material Selves
Bury the Corpse of Colonialism
Armstrong describes a global feminist meeting that she believes has been underappreciated in U.S. feminist liberation movements.Armstrong credits this meeting, which was organized by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) and held in the PRC six years before Bandung, with telling a story of "a theory of anti-colonialism and internationalism that women built" (8).Over a week, December 10-17, 1949, it produced, again according to Ar…
From the First Thirty to the Next Thirty Years of positions
After thirty years at the helm of positions, founding editor Tani Barlow steps down, and Suzy Kim takes the wheel as editor. Like the rest of the journal's work, the transition has been animated by mutual mentorship and collective responsibility to continue the journal's remarkable journey. Among our many topics of conversation, we include reflections on the first three decades and futures ahead.Suzy Kim: In the twenty-year anniversary interview …
Buying In
Epilogue
Research Article| August 01 2020 Epilogue Tani Barlow Tani Barlow Tani Barlow is a professor of Chinese history at Rice University. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph In the Event of Women. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2020) 28 (3): 677–688. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8315192 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tani Barlow; Epilogue. positions 1 August…
Joan Judge. Republican Lens
Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press is a lively, informative book that seeks to open a new body of research material and introduces what Joan Judge calls “Republican Ladies.” Founded and edited by Mr. Bao Tianxiao, the periodical Funü shibao (Women’s Eastern Times) published twenty-one issues between June 1911 and April 1917. Judge’s painstaking textual focus on the understudied journal shows c…
History's Coffin Can Never Be Closed
This article argues that the polymath Marxist philosopher and Communist Party apparatchik Qu Qiubai, who established sociology in the Chinese Marxist tradition by organizing the Sociology Department at Shanghai University in 1930, proposed that “society” was the sine qua non of human existence. To establish the contours of society and exploit the value of the social sciences, however, Qu as a translator struggled against China's written language …
How Chinese Are You? Or, It Could Have Been Me
This essay raises for discussion complicated issues of political community, political action, racial identification, and moral panic. Barlow's commentary on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) controversy asks why identification with brutal images seems to lead no further than ritualized failure to misread or disavow the ideological positioning that instigates recrimination. Barlow argues that this journal issue is an important opport…
Legal Orientalism
Legal Orientalism: China, United States, and Modern Law, by Teemu Ruskola. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2013. 338 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Teemu Ruskola's Legal Orientalism focuses attention on extraterritorial laws and Chinese sovereignty in the last half of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries. It accepts Turan Kayoglu's Legal Imperialism: Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China (Londo…
Mission Statement Responses
I see this new phase in the history of a well-established scholarly journal as offering a major opportunity. That opportunity needs to be placed in a context. There are three key elements to this context, from the point of view of the American research university and the geographies of the rest of the world. First, globalization has encouraged greater traffic among disciplines, regions, and institutions based primarily on growing access to inform…
Debates Over Colonial Modernity in East Asia and Another Alternative
The introduction of the term 'colonial modernity' in historiography of the early 1990s provided an alternative to 'modernization theory' and an international focus to writing about Japanese and other imperialisms on the China mainland. This neologistic phrase also raised many other questions: the historicity of the national focus versus 'regionalism' in Asian Studies; the role imperialist social science in US Asian studies; the project of globali…
Advertising Ephemera and the Angel of History
This essay addresses a crucial object world of modern urban China, commodity advertising. It shows how attention to advertisements requires forceful wresting of images out of linear time. That the ads are themselves illustrations of linear time in popular narratives of modern history makes them complex. Plastered on billboards, placards, news kiosks, and trolleys; advertising Sun-Maid Raisins, Ford Model Ts, Pond's, Cutex products, cigarette bran…
Is a New Internationalism Possible
This short commemorative piece notes the twenty-year relationship of editors Wang Hui and Tani Barlow and Wang's strong commitment to the international world of journal publication. Wang's long career as a journal founder and editor and his utopian hopes for continuing development of internationalist work through journal projects are noted
A Dialogue on The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought
In this dialogue, Wang Hui explains his writing of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, especially how he started from Lu Xun studies to the research of Chinese intellectual history. He interprets the connotations and meanings of the thesis he raised in this four-volume book around topics covered by each volume, titled repectively, “Principle and Things,” “Empire and Nation-State,” “Gongli and Anti-Gongli,” and “The Community of Scientific Discour…
The Big Words and Our Work
One of the questions before us is how to knit the big words—such as peace, human security, gender, and justice—into the routines of everyday life. How is it possible to put these words around a quotidian experience so indentured to violence, war, and predatory capitalism and to the brutal commodity life and the normalization of human suffering that accompany them? The deceptively simple question of gender and everyday life and the project of exam…
Entries
Introduction
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
New Asian Marxisms
Contributors. Tani Barlow, Michael Dutton, D. R. Howland, Dai Jinhua, Marshall Johnson, Liu Kang, Sugiyama Mitsunobu, You-me Park, William Pietz, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandro Russo, Sanjay Seth, Gi-Wook Shin, Jing Wang
International Feminism of the Future
Founding positions
Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia
Colonialism and modernity are indivisible features of the history of industrial capitalism.That much has been clear since Marx pointed out the crucial role colonialism played in the transformations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although the ways that Marx's own narratives centered Europe and personified European capitalism's emancipatory potential are not theoretically or empirically viable.Leninist and Maoist analyses of imperialis…
Gender Politics in Modern China
Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China, to close feminist readings of individual authors, these essays confront the degree to which te…
Zhishifenzi [Chinese intellectuals] and power
History's Coffin Can Never Be Closed
This article argues that the polymath Marxist philosopher and Communist Party apparatchik Qu Qiubai, who established sociology in the Chinese Marxist tradition by organizing the Sociology Department at Shanghai University in 1930, proposed that “society” was the sine qua non of human existence. To establish the contours of society and exploit the value of the social sciences, however, Qu as a translator struggled against China's written language …
Advertising Ephemera and the Angel of History
This essay addresses a crucial object world of modern urban China, commodity advertising. It shows how attention to advertisements requires forceful wresting of images out of linear time. That the ads are themselves illustrations of linear time in popular narratives of modern history makes them complex. Plastered on billboards, placards, news kiosks, and trolleys; advertising Sun-Maid Raisins, Ford Model Ts, Pond's, Cutex products, cigarette bran…
Responses
How Chinese Are You? Or, It Could Have Been Me
This essay raises for discussion complicated issues of political community, political action, racial identification, and moral panic. Barlow's commentary on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) controversy asks why identification with brutal images seems to lead no further than ritualized failure to misread or disavow the ideological positioning that instigates recrimination. Barlow argues that this journal issue is an important opport…
Responses
Zhishifenzi [Chinese intellectuals] and power
Gender Politics in Modern China
Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China, to close feminist readings of individual authors, these essays confront the degree to which te…
Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia
Colonialism and modernity are indivisible features of the history of industrial capitalism.That much has been clear since Marx pointed out the crucial role colonialism played in the transformations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although the ways that Marx's own narratives centered Europe and personified European capitalism's emancipatory potential are not theoretically or empirically viable.Leninist and Maoist analyses of imperialis…
Founding positions
International Feminism of the Future
New Asian Marxisms
Contributors. Tani Barlow, Michael Dutton, D. R. Howland, Dai Jinhua, Marshall Johnson, Liu Kang, Sugiyama Mitsunobu, You-me Park, William Pietz, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandro Russo, Sanjay Seth, Gi-Wook Shin, Jing Wang
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
Introduction
Entries
The Big Words and Our Work
One of the questions before us is how to knit the big words—such as peace, human security, gender, and justice—into the routines of everyday life. How is it possible to put these words around a quotidian experience so indentured to violence, war, and predatory capitalism and to the brutal commodity life and the normalization of human suffering that accompany them? The deceptively simple question of gender and everyday life and the project of exam…
Debates Over Colonial Modernity in East Asia and Another Alternative
The introduction of the term 'colonial modernity' in historiography of the early 1990s provided an alternative to 'modernization theory' and an international focus to writing about Japanese and other imperialisms on the China mainland. This neologistic phrase also raised many other questions: the historicity of the national focus versus 'regionalism' in Asian Studies; the role imperialist social science in US Asian studies; the project of globali…
Advertising Ephemera and the Angel of History
This essay addresses a crucial object world of modern urban China, commodity advertising. It shows how attention to advertisements requires forceful wresting of images out of linear time. That the ads are themselves illustrations of linear time in popular narratives of modern history makes them complex. Plastered on billboards, placards, news kiosks, and trolleys; advertising Sun-Maid Raisins, Ford Model Ts, Pond's, Cutex products, cigarette bran…
Is a New Internationalism Possible
This short commemorative piece notes the twenty-year relationship of editors Wang Hui and Tani Barlow and Wang's strong commitment to the international world of journal publication. Wang's long career as a journal founder and editor and his utopian hopes for continuing development of internationalist work through journal projects are noted
A Dialogue on The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought
In this dialogue, Wang Hui explains his writing of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, especially how he started from Lu Xun studies to the research of Chinese intellectual history. He interprets the connotations and meanings of the thesis he raised in this four-volume book around topics covered by each volume, titled repectively, “Principle and Things,” “Empire and Nation-State,” “Gongli and Anti-Gongli,” and “The Community of Scientific Discour…
Mission Statement Responses
I see this new phase in the history of a well-established scholarly journal as offering a major opportunity. That opportunity needs to be placed in a context. There are three key elements to this context, from the point of view of the American research university and the geographies of the rest of the world. First, globalization has encouraged greater traffic among disciplines, regions, and institutions based primarily on growing access to inform…
Legal Orientalism
Legal Orientalism: China, United States, and Modern Law, by Teemu Ruskola. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2013. 338 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Teemu Ruskola's Legal Orientalism focuses attention on extraterritorial laws and Chinese sovereignty in the last half of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries. It accepts Turan Kayoglu's Legal Imperialism: Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China (Londo…
How Chinese Are You? Or, It Could Have Been Me
This essay raises for discussion complicated issues of political community, political action, racial identification, and moral panic. Barlow's commentary on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) controversy asks why identification with brutal images seems to lead no further than ritualized failure to misread or disavow the ideological positioning that instigates recrimination. Barlow argues that this journal issue is an important opport…
History's Coffin Can Never Be Closed
This article argues that the polymath Marxist philosopher and Communist Party apparatchik Qu Qiubai, who established sociology in the Chinese Marxist tradition by organizing the Sociology Department at Shanghai University in 1930, proposed that “society” was the sine qua non of human existence. To establish the contours of society and exploit the value of the social sciences, however, Qu as a translator struggled against China's written language …
Joan Judge. Republican Lens
Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press is a lively, informative book that seeks to open a new body of research material and introduces what Joan Judge calls “Republican Ladies.” Founded and edited by Mr. Bao Tianxiao, the periodical Funü shibao (Women’s Eastern Times) published twenty-one issues between June 1911 and April 1917. Judge’s painstaking textual focus on the understudied journal shows c…
Buying In
Epilogue
Research Article| August 01 2020 Epilogue Tani Barlow Tani Barlow Tani Barlow is a professor of Chinese history at Rice University. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph In the Event of Women. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2020) 28 (3): 677–688. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8315192 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tani Barlow; Epilogue. positions 1 August…
From the First Thirty to the Next Thirty Years of positions
After thirty years at the helm of positions, founding editor Tani Barlow steps down, and Suzy Kim takes the wheel as editor. Like the rest of the journal's work, the transition has been animated by mutual mentorship and collective responsibility to continue the journal's remarkable journey. Among our many topics of conversation, we include reflections on the first three decades and futures ahead.Suzy Kim: In the twenty-year anniversary interview …
Modified Bodies, Material Selves
Bury the Corpse of Colonialism
Armstrong describes a global feminist meeting that she believes has been underappreciated in U.S. feminist liberation movements.Armstrong credits this meeting, which was organized by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) and held in the PRC six years before Bandung, with telling a story of "a theory of anti-colonialism and internationalism that women built" (8).Over a week, December 10-17, 1949, it produced, again according to Ar…
Sociology (18 obras) · History (15 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Art (10 obras) · Chinese history and philosophy (10 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · History (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras)