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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

Ghosts in the Neighborhood

Why Japan Is Haunted by Its Past and Germany Is Not

By Walter Hatch
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Uneasy neighbors

Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema

Edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, and Wenchi Lin
Subjects: Asian Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

A film-by-film introduction to Taiwan cinema and cultures

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

Revised Edition

By Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies

Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature

Male Love, Intimacy, and Erotics, 1886–2014

Edited by Stephen D. Miller
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

India as Kingmaker

Status Quo or Revisionist Power

By Michael Slobodchikoff & Aakriti A Tandon
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia

Predicting India’s future global influence

Minor Salvage

The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings

By Stephen Hong Sohn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

Explores the forgotten archives and life writings of Korean War refugees

Empire and Environment

Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific

Edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Xiaojing Zhou
Subjects: American Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia

Explores environmental violence and recovery in Indigenous Pacific Islander, Asian North American, and Asian diasporic cultural expressions

Power of Freedom

Hu Shih's Political Writings

Edited by Chih-Ping Chou & Carlos Lin
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, International Relations
Series: China Understandings Today

Collection of several previously unpublished works from one of China’s most important scholars in the 20th century

Power of Freedom

Hu Shih’s Political Writings

Edited by Chih-Ping Chou & Carlos Lin
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, International Relations
Series: China Understandings Today

Collection of several previously unpublished works from one of China’s most important scholars in the 20th century

Complex Rivalry

The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict

By Surinder Mohan
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, International Relations, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia

A new model to understand the India–Pakistan rivalry

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