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Writing Beijing

History and Knowledge of the Capital

By Naixi Feng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Intellectual History, Chinese History, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

The textual transformation of Beijing from a frontier outpost to the capital of China

The Pliant Public

Ideology and Public Opinion in China

By Jason Y. Wu
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: China Understandings Today

Why a depolarized public strengthens the Communist Party today, but may undermine it tomorrow

Weapons of the People

The Culture and Politics of Guns in Modern China

By Lei Duan
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Political Science, Public Policy and Governance
Series: China Understandings Today

How gun control became a central tool of governance in China

Ambivalent Desires

Affect and Boys Love in China

By Liang Ge
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Media Studies, Fan Studies, T.V. & Radio, New Media
Series: China Understandings Today

The cultural ecology of the Chinese boys love genre

Cinema and the Cosmopolitan City

Colonial Encounters in Shanghai, 1900–1930

By Qiliang He
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

Reenvisioning early Chinese cinema and the urban experience

Leaving the Tomboy Behind

Sinophone Lesbian Subjectivities and Transnational Queer Media

By Carman K.M. Fung
Subjects: Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, China, Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

Turning to global LGBTQ+ media to explore selfhood and gender expressions

Programmed Viewership

Japanese Tele-Mediality, Seriality, and Film as a Social Medium

By Rea Amit
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, T.V. & Radio, Platform and Industry
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the divergent and convergent ecologies of the dissemination of Japanese films

Brutal Ephemerality

Migrant Temporalities on China's Urban Fringe

By Yang Zhan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies, China, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

A temporal perspective to understanding urban governance and social marginalization in urban Beijing

Cold War and Sinophone Culture at the Borders

By Shuang Shen
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: China Understandings Today

The cultural production of Sinophone communities outside of China during the Cold War

The Great Separation

The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Political Origins of Ordoeconomism

By Xiaohong Xu
Edited by Roi Livne, Robert S. Jansen, and Yang Zhang
Foreword by Ho-fung Hung
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Economics, Economic Theory, Sociology, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: China Understandings Today

Upending the understandings of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the market reforms that followed

Youth Activism in Asia

A New Wave

Edited by Colm Anthony Fox, Meredith L. Weiss, and Edward Aspinall
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, Political Communication
Series: Emerging Democracies

A dramatic look at the diversity of contemporary youth activism in the world’s most populous region

Home Team Away

Watching European Football in Urban China

By Yuan Gong
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Sports, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

European football fandom as a cultural process in urban middle-class China

Inner Worlds

Interiority and Capitalist Modernity in Japan

By Richard M Reitan
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian History, Intellectual History, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores the connections among interiority, capitalism, and fascism in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Japan

Across Continents

Writing Goans, Making Worlds

By R. Benedito Ferrão
Subjects: African Studies, Asian Studies, South Asia, Diaspora Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

A dialogue between postcolonial literature and Afro-Asiatic studies through an analysis of Goan characters

China’s Date Debate

How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II

By Emily Matson
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

How the “date debate” rewrote Chinese history

Sideways Developments

Queer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong

By Kai Hang Cheang
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

A meditation on queer and trans persistence in global Hong Kong

Four Years in Izumi

Village Japan in the Early Sixteenth Century

By Lee Butler
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian History, Medieval and Early Modern History
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An unparalleled view of village society in Japan’s tumultuous Warring States period

Transpacific Experiments

Intermedia Art and Music in 1960s Japan

By Miki Kaneda
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, New Media

How intermedia art and everyday life in 1960s Japan shaped an unexpected transcultural avant-garde

Ruling Indonesia

Jokowi's Presidency in an Age of Democratic Crisis and Great Power Competition

By Marcus Mietzner
Subjects: Political Science, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Emerging Democracies

A personal examination of how one leader prioritized economic development over democratic liberties

Macau and Catholic Sacred Music Across the Sino-Western Divide

By Jen-yen Chen
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, China
Series: Musics in Motion

The sonic experiences and cultural diversity of the Catholic religion in Macau

Supernatural Japan

Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic

By Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Izumi Kyōka’s influence on modern literature of the fantastic

Modern Japanese Literary Studies

Edited by Seth Jacobowitz & Jonathan Eran Abel
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores new directions in modern Japanese literature

The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society

By Mujun Zhou
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Sociology
Series: China Understandings Today

How the Chinese liberal intellectuals launched the civil society movement and how it later disintegrated

Chinese Boycotts versus Japanese Bombs

The Failure of China's "Revolutionary Diplomacy," 1931-32

By Donald Allan Jordan
Subjects: Asian Studies, History

Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations

By Mary Paterson Cheadle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Asian Studies
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