However, Wong's connection to kawaii culture, which I have attempted to establish here, suggests a different reading of his films. As Larissa Hjorth has argued, “The kawaii is not about post-humanism but rather a clear demonstration of neo-humanist types” (144). In this sense, East Asian kawaii culture, like Wong's films, should be understood as desperate attempts to create a dreamlike humanist space within the harsh reality of globalized capitalism.

The lealest lover time can show, / Doomed for a lady-love to languish, / Among these solitudes doth go, / A prey to every kind of anguish.

The presence of the story about the Samaritan within the story about the lawyer establishes two interacting rhetographies in this portion of Luke. The picture of the lawyer's performance in relation to Jesus interacts with the picture of the Samaritan's performance in relation to the priest and Levite.

(viii) The Chukuang and Nankan township administrative offices were renovated.