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The South Korean Film Industry

Edited by Junhyung Cho, Sangjoon Lee, and Dal Yong Jin
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

Samurai with Telephones

Anachronism in Japanese Literature

By Christopher Smith
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

What anachronisms reveal about historical narratives through Early Modern and Modern Japanese cultural products

Learning to Love

Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China

By Sonya E Pritzker
Subjects: Asian Studies, China

Understanding generational trauma through a method of self-care

Revolutionary Stagecraft

Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China

By Tarryn Li-Min Chun
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance

Reveals the deep entanglement of technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China

Disorienting Politics

Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements

By Fan Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, American Studies

Understanding Chimerican entanglements through 21st-century media

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

By 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

State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands

Regional Movements in Greater Southeast Asia

Edited by Joel Selway & Amy H. Liu
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Comparative Politics
Series: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

An in-depth look at why autonomy movements fail or succeed

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

By Rocio Ortuño Casanova & Axel Gasquet
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies

A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature

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

Seeds of Mobilization

The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy

By Joan E. Cho
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Asian Studies, Korea
Series: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Examines the roles of industrialization and tertiary education in Korea’s nonlinear path to democracy

China as Number One?

The Emerging Values of a Rising Power

By Yang Zhong & Ronald F. Inglehart
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: China Understandings Today

Examining the contemporary rise in China’s political, economic, and military power through the opinions of its citizens

Paris and the Art of Transposition

Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters

By Angie Chau
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Art, Art History
Series: China Understandings Today

How Chinese artists created a transnational imaginary

Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

Poetry, History, Memory

Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

By Zhiyi Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, History, Chinese History

The first comprehensive biography of  Wang Jingwei, a poet, politician, and the most controversial figure in modern Chinese history

Realisms in East Asian Performance

Edited by Jessica Nakamura & Katherine Saltzman-Li
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea

Essays by leading scholars expand understandings of theatrical realism through East Asian performances across premodern, modern, and contemporary periods

The Time of Laughter

Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan

By David Humphrey
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Theater and Performance
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How laughter shapes contemporary Japanese media

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By Pavitra Sundar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Women's Studies

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

Toward a Gameic World

New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games

By Ben Whaley
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the ways in which Japanese video games engage with social issues and national traumas

Where FDI Goes in Decentralized Authoritarian Countries

The Politics of Taiwanese Site Selection for Investment in Mainland China

By Kelan Lu
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China, Political Theory

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

Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist

The Films of Suzuki Seijun

By Peter A. Yacavone
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The definitive study of the pathbreaking and controversial Japanese film director who expanded the form, rhetoric, and philosophy of popular genre movies

The Currency of Truth

Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era

By Emily H. C. Chua
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Political Communication
Series: China Understandings Today

Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China

Disruptions as Opportunities

Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism

By Taiyi Sun
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: China Understandings Today

How authoritarian states adapt to new phenomena

Rejuvenating Communism

Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China

By Jérôme Doyon
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: China Understandings Today

How the Chinese party-state attracts young officials to renew its elite

How Dark Is My Flower

Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love

By Leith Morton
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores romantic love in modern Japanese literature through the work of the leading poet in the Myōjō circle

The Three Treasures

A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe

By Edward Kamens & Ethan Bushelle
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An updated, augmented, and illustrated study and translation of this landmark collection of Buddhist tales

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