A multifaceted exploration of the South Korean film industry
What anachronisms reveal about historical narratives through Early Modern and Modern Japanese cultural products
Understanding generational trauma through a method of self-care
Reveals the deep entanglement of technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China
Understanding Chimerican entanglements through 21st-century media
An interdisciplinary look at gender and sexuality in contemporary South Korea
An in-depth look at why autonomy movements fail or succeed
A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature
An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China
Examines the roles of industrialization and tertiary education in Korea’s nonlinear path to democracy
Examining the contemporary rise in China’s political, economic, and military power through the opinions of its citizens
How Chinese artists created a transnational imaginary
Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries
The first comprehensive biography of Wang Jingwei, a poet, politician, and the most controversial figure in modern Chinese history
Essays by leading scholars expand understandings of theatrical realism through East Asian performances across premodern, modern, and contemporary periods
How laughter shapes contemporary Japanese media
On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema
Examines the ways in which Japanese video games engage with social issues and national traumas
Explores the conditional effect of fiscal decentralization on FDI inflows at county level in China and explores whether FDI sourced from adversarial states is more dependent upon local government fiscal autonomy than those sourced from the non-adversarial states
The definitive study of the pathbreaking and controversial Japanese film director who expanded the form, rhetoric, and philosophy of popular genre movies
Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China
How authoritarian states adapt to new phenomena
How the Chinese party-state attracts young officials to renew its elite
Explores romantic love in modern Japanese literature through the work of the leading poet in the Myōjō circle
An updated, augmented, and illustrated study and translation of this landmark collection of Buddhist tales