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  • Sound Alignments

    Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars

    Edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, Kaley Mason ...
    In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional alignments and periodizations of Western cultural histories of the Cold War, they trace the routes of popular music, examining how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across Asia, from India to Indonesia, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology

    Edited by Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia.Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the historical processes of cultural, social, political, and economic transformation throughout the long ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

    Edited by Kam Louie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Sovereignty and Authenticity

    Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern

    by Prasenjit Duara ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. His study of Manchukuo, which had a population of 40 million and was three times the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

    Edited by Edward L. Davis ...
    Series series Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture
    This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of specialists, to enable readers to explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons to rock groups, underground Christian churches to TV talk shows and radio hotlines. Experimental ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • East Asia Beyond the History Wars

    Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Sinophone Studies

    A Critical Reader

    Edited by Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, Brian Bernards ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing readers to essential readings in Tibetan, Malaysian, Taiwanese, French, Caribbean, and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Hearts of Pine

    Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women"

    by Joshua D. Pilzer, J. D. ...
    In the wake of the Asia-Pacific War, Korean survivors of the "comfort women" system-those bound into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the war-lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. Hearts of Pine brings us into the lives of three such survivors: Pak Duri, Mun Pilgi, and Bae Chunhui. Over the course of eight years, author Joshua Pilzer worked with ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature

    Edited by Rajini Srikanth, Min Hyoung Song ...
    The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan

    Edited by Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into and out of Japan.Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book argues that a key factor behind the changing nature of Japanese popular culture lies ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Vision and Society

    Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology. But little work has been done to explore the implications not of society on art, but of art on the nature and principles of sociology itself.Vision and Society explores the ways in which art (here mainly understood as visual art) structures in fundamental ways the constitution of society, the relations between societies and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • UNESCO on the Ground

    Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Michael Dylan Foster, Lisa Gilman ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected by them? How connected is UNESCO with what is happening every day, on the ground, in local ... Read more

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