New in Asian Studies

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Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building

By Kwai-Cheung Lo
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

A comprehensive study of China’s ethnic minority cinema from the Republican Era to the present

Gendered Memories

An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs

By Xian Wang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: China Understandings Today

An imaginary museum of the legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs

Creating with Roots

Contemporary Chinese National Folk Dance Choreography

Translated by Emily Wilcox

By Rui Xu
Translated by Emily Wilcox
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Dance, Cultural Studies

Navigating tradition and innovation in Chinese national folk dance, available in English for the first time 

The Community of Nuchi Du Takara ("Life Is the Ultimate Treasure") in Postwar Okinawa

Local Subjectivity within and against Empire

By Masamichi (Marro) Inoue
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian History, Political Science, International Relations

Explores the conflict between Okinawans and the post-WWII US-Japan military alliance through the concept of nuchi du takara

Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre

Intellectuals, Amateurs, and Cultural Entrepreneurs, 1910s–1940s

By Man He
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History

First comprehensive English-language exploration of huaju during its formative decades, delivered from the perspective of the backstage

Political Trust in China

By Lianjiang Li
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science

Examining the dimensions of Chinese citizens’ trust in the current regime

Cultural Production of Hallyu in the Digital Platform Era

Industry Perspectives

By Dal Yong Jin
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies

Exploring the platformization of the Korean Wave and its connection to cultural industries

Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing

By Katherine L Alexander
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature

How disasters compelled moral reformers to transform society and imagine new ways of reaching audiences in the Qing era

In the Presence of Gods and Spirits

Hirata Atsutane and His Collaborators

By Anne Walthall
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Religion, History, Asian History
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The legacy of Hirata Atsutane’s study of the Way of the Gods

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