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Cultural Studies

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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

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Edited by Rocío 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

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

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

Textures of Mourning

Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls

By Reginald Jackson
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Unfolds the intimate relationship between mourning, writing, reading, painting, and viewing, through The Tale of Genji and its legacy

The Magellan Fallacy

Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish

By Adam Lifshey
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, African American Studies

Now available in paperback—the award-winning first study of Spanish-language literature of Southeast Asia and West Africa

Ecoambiguity

Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

By Karen Thornber
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Nature/Environment

Delving into the complex, contradictory relationships between humans and the environment in Asian literatures

Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance

Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India

By Nandi Bhatia
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies

Explores the relationship between nationalism, colonialism, and the politics of theater in colonial and postcolonial India

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