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Seeking a Future for the Past

Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City

By Philipp Demgenski
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China

Chasing Greatness

On Russia's Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium

By Anatoly Reshetnikov
Subjects: History, Russian History, Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

How a millennia idealizing political greatness has affected Russia

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Volume editor Jesook Song & Michelle Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An interdisciplinary look at gender and sexuality in contemporary South Korea

Performing the Greek Crisis

Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity

By Natalie Zervou
Subjects: Dance, History, European History
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Examining how changes in dance amid the Greek financial crisis altered perceptions and discourses of Greece’s culture and national identity

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Uncovering the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

The South Korean Film Industry

Edited by Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Junhyung Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Art, Art History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A multifaceted exploration of the South Korean film industry

Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome

By Tim Hart
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Explores how Roman perceptions of Danubian peoples influenced some of the most politically and socially significant events of Roman antiquity

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes China's cultural diplomacy by using the emergence of the China Institute in America and the Chinese Nationalist government

The Postdevelopmental State

Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea

By Jamie Doucette
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Labor History, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Examining the struggle to align high-growth economic models with the egalitarian promises of democracy

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