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    Against Agamben: Sovereignty and the Void in the Discourse of the Nation in Early Modern China.Joyce C. H. Liu - 2015 - Theory, Culture and Society 32 (4):81-104.
    In Kingdom and Glory, Agamben analyzed the dual perspective of the void, through the metaphor of the empty throne, in the governmental machine in the West. I engage with the ambiguous question of the void with regard to the concept of sovereignty through my reading of two Chinese intellectuals in the late Qing period, Liang Qichao (1872–1929) and Zhang Taiyan (1869–1936). This paper therefore addresses the question of sovereignty and the void in the discourse of nation in early modern China, (...)
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    Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought.Joyce C. H. Liu - 2023 - Theory, Culture and Society 40 (4-5):201-218.
    This article challenges François Jullien’s reading of Chinese thought based on his disjunction between ontology and shi, or propensity. According to Jullien, the Chinese history of ideas has been a never-changing entity in a homogeneous society for thousands of years. Jullien’s juxtaposing and contrasting ‘European thought’ and ‘Chinese thought’ falls into the trap of cultural essentialism he wanted to avoid. Jullien’s interpretation of shi also led him to believe that Chinese people never challenge reality, never confront or resist, tend to (...)
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    Beyond borders: trans-local critical pedagogy for inter-Asian cultural studies.Joyce C. H. Liu - 2020 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 52 (11):1162-1172.
    This paper challenges the apparatus of the knowledge reproduction of the nationalist narrative of historical trauma that leads to the making of exclusive nationalism and unequal citizenship, partic...
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