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Frames of Anime
Culture and Image-Building
by Ying Zhu and Stanley Rosen
This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Chinese cinema, surveying the evolution of film production and consumption in mainland China as a product of shifting relations between art, politics, and commerce.
(2010)
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The Construction of Raci...
Far from being a negligible aspect of contemporary identity, racialised senses ofbelonging have often been the very foundation ofnational identity in East Asia in the twentieth century. As this volume shows, the construction of symbolic boundaries between racial categories has...
(2010)
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Fruit Chan's Durian Durian
by Wendy Gan
This raucous, gender-stretching comedy follows the disruptions of a glamorous Hong Kong music couple's tumultuous romance by an "ordinary" fan's noisy arrival in their lives. With great comic story development, the film confronts social stereotypes of masculine females, male a...
(2008)
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A Social History of the ...
Books and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China
Rogue Flows brings together some of the best and most knowledgeable writers on consumption and cultural theory to chart the under-explored field of cultural flows and consumption across different regions in Asia, and the importance of these flows in constituting contemporary A...
(2006)
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Changing Identities of t...
by Jennifer Cus... and Gungwu Wang
"Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II" was held at the Australian National University in Canberra. This volume includes many of the papers from that symposium presented by ANU scholars and those from universities elsewhere
(2010)
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Hong Kong Connections
Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema
by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Chin...
Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers
(2010)
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Mei Lan-fang
The Life and Times of a Peking Actor
by A.C. Scott
Mei Lan-fang came from a famous actor family-the profession is often hereditary in China-and this story of his life is drawn mainly from his own reminiscences and from converstations with the author. He was a national figure whose name was a household wor
(2010)
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Celebrity in China
This book is an inter-disciplinary study of the subject of anime, a popular form of Japanese animation. Using a variety of research methods and spanning a period of nine years including intensive fieldwork conducted in Japan and other parts of Asia, the s
(2010)
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The Malacofauna of Hong ...
by Louise Edwards and Elaine Jeffreys
This is the first book-length exploration of celebrity in the People’s Republic of China. It examines how international norms of celebrity production interact with those operating in China. The book comprises case studies from popular culture (film, music
(2010)
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Taxation Without Represe...
The History of Hong Kong's Troublingly Successful Tax System
by Sheldon H. L... and Jiayan Mi (E)
This anthology is the first book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing "ecocinema" as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world: Chinese and Western epis
(2010)
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A Practical Approach to ...
by Andrea Rieme... and Deborah L. M...
Chinese migrant communities have reinvented their histories in many contexts, but the process of globalization has accelerated and diversified this phenomenon.
(2010)
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May Days in Hong Kong
Riot and Emergency in 1967
by Kenneth Chan
This book examines Hollywood’s post-1997 “remaking” of popular Chinese film culture for both its American and global markets. While focusing on the various cultural politics of this remaking and responses to them, it also tracks Hollywood’s cultural impac
(2010)
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Disorientation
France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality
This book explores literary representations of cultural hybridity spanning nearly half a century, a period marked by major shifts in Franco-Vietnamese relations. How can identity be thought and represented outside of the oppositional categories that divide cultures, histories...
(2010)
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Fantasy Production
Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order
Taking an innovative, postcolonial, feminist perspective on transformations in the Philippine nation in the context of globalization, Fantasy-Production provides a theoretical framework for understanding the nationalist and postcolonial capitalist logics shaping the actions of...
(2010)
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Feeling Asian Modernities
Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV Dramas
The recent transnational reach of Japanese television dramas in East and Southeast Asia is unprecedented, and not simply in terms of the range and scale of diffusion, but also of the intense sympathy many young Asians feel toward the characters in Japanese dramas, so that they...
(2010)
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The Fragile Scholar
Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture
The Fragile Scholar examines the pre-modern construction of Chinese masculinity from the popular image of the fragile scholar (caizi) in late imperial Chinese fiction and drama. The book is an original contribution to the study of the construction of masculinity in the Chinese...
(2010)
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Globalization and the Hu...
This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance. Against the tyranny of the worldwide free market that naturalizes the aggregation of powe...
(2010)
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Macau
A Cultural Janus
Macau, on the threshold of the twentieth-first century, is perhaps a harbinger of a new urban culture. Having been nurtured by the sharply constrasting legacies of China and Portugal, this unique city manages to meld cultural differences and avoid the destructiveness of ethnic...
(2010)
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Projecting A Nation
Chinese National Cinema Before 1949
This is the first major work on pre-1949 Chinese cinema in English. As such, it represents a major contribution to existing discussions of both Chinese cinema and national cinema, and is an indispensible basic resource for scholars interested in Chinese film history. The book ...
(2010)
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