... involved in seeing and being seen. Taken together, Chang’s mixed-media fiction and Kwan’s literary adaptation propose a more diverse and symbiotic future for Chinese culture. Chang Fans Zhang mi character psychology Chow Rey Ding Ling Fu Lei Hong Kong New Wave Hong Kong Second Wave Hsia C T Hui Ann...

...This chapter examines how technological developments in media have shaped Japanese anime production and stylistic diversity, primarily as matters of production scale and targeted audience. It first considers the problem of how anime has been discursively constructed largely upon notions...

...This chapter concentrates on the use of media—radio and television in particular—to disseminate the new feminist epistemologies to a potential mass audience. It analyzes how radio and television transmitted women's studies courses “on the air” and offered ordinary women alternative role models...

... asserts that many extant hagiographies reveal continual negotiations of Prince Shōtoku's divine status over a period of more than one thousand years. In medieval times, new media were creatively deployed by armies of planners and proselytizers who all sought to be associated with Shōtoku. Each of them...

...This chapter examines how Japanese film culture engaged parallel forms of media to create imperial subjects by focusing on manga or comic books, popular music, and film magazines. It first considers the ways in which images of Asia represented in manga, illustrated novels, and animated films were...

... responsibility that shaped public policy in Japan during the late 1990s, in which women were blamed for issues such as Japan’s low birthrate and economic stagnation. At the center of these debates was women’s sexuality, which politicians and the media alternately worshipped and villainized. Kirino critiques...

... as ecological fact-fantasy, the other on Ozeki’s pastiche of US media advertising. Both, for Adams, are to be compared as writers who bring a wariest satiric eye to how the earth’s resources risk fatal endangerment. Binary binarism DDT DES Ecology Environment Identity My Year of Meats Ozeki Shonagon Sei...

... in which major earthquakes produced drama and goes on to highlight media sensationalism in the reporting of earthquakes. Finally, it explores how earthquakes created opportunities for economic profits, opportunities for governments to demonstrate their benevolence, and even significant new agricultural...

..., it stresses the role of print media, especially magazines and manga, in understanding the increase of interest in divination and the occult among girls and young women. consumption divination uranai girl culture Kawano Satsuki Miller Laura occult pursuits and objects social bonding technology...

...This chapter examines why the khit hsan thu and other variants of the fashionable female became the target of censorious and often misogynistic representations in the media. It considers various criticisms hurled against the khit hsan thuand their motivations...

...This chapter introduces the role of new digital media in the globalization of the cultural worlds of Papua New Guinea. It argues that access to digital media is empowering Papua New Guinean communities by giving them free, useful, and vital information fundamental to social development. Blogging...

...This chapter takes place in the grounds of West Papuan refugee camps in Papua New Guinea and online in their transnational virtual communities. It asserts that digital technology, especially social media, is changing the way West Papuans resist, and may be the key to helping them realize the goal...

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... that was no longer scrutinized as it had been in the 1920s. Highlighting Zhou’s cross-media performance and her ‘walking out’ as a female public figure in this case study, this paper aims to fill the gap between the readings of music and film experts by examining Zhou’s life and career as a performer. China...

... of Waljinah in print media also reflected state sanctioned ideas about what constituted the “modern Indonesian woman.” This study explores how genderings and gender ideologies were employed through specific types of language and discourse to create differing images of Waljinah while discussing tactics she has...

... profound social and cultural transformations with creative energy as well as urgent critique. Here, essays by an international group of established and younger scholars in cinema and media studies, anthropology, history, Asian and Tibetan studies bring innovative interdisciplinary methodologies...

... regularly produced the fastest marathon times in the world, a source of government satisfaction, media hype, and national pride. Japanese men again dominated world marathoning in the 1960s and late 1970s-1980s. Japanese women likewise emerged as some of the world’s fastest in the 1990s and early 2000s...

... in hinterland China. The fifth chapter explores the space of subjectivity in independent film and video and contextualizes experiments by young directors with various documentary styles. Chapter 6 calls attention to the space of performance and addresses issues of media and mediation by way of two kinds...

...By continuing to trace the interaction of the police and the press during the Cold War, this chapter illustrates how beginning in the late 1950s, a number of new actors including ‘dark hands,’ ‘third hands,’ and ‘men of influence’ began to appear in the vernacular media just as the police were...

... to the importance of preserving social relations but may conflict with transparency and the public's right to know, both of which are considered essential components of good governance. It also considers the role of media in disseminating information, especially that from government, to the public. family...