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In pursuit of contemporary East Asian culture

Author: Xiaobing Tang; Stephen Snyder
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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These critical essays examine various aspects of East Asian culture through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural lens. Analyzing film, television, and visual and literary texts, the contributors reveal the historical conditions as well as the contemporary impulses driving East Asian culture today. By anticipating the geocultural shift to the Asian Pacific Rim in the twenty-first century, this collection serves as  Read more...
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In pursuit of contemporary East Asian culture.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996
(OCoLC)603697862
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Xiaobing Tang; Stephen Snyder
ISBN: 0813327482 9780813327488 0813327490 9780813327495
OCLC Number: 34243738
Description: viii, 227 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Xiaobing Tang --
1. General Nogi's Wife: Representations of Women in Narratives of Japanese Modernization / Sharalyn Orbaugh --
2. Against Metaphor: Gender, Violence, and Decolonization in Korean Nationalist Literature / You-me Park --
3. Writing Erratic Desire: Sexual Politics in Contemporary Chinese Fiction / Hu Ying --
4. Two Murakamis and Marcel Proust: Memory as Form in Contemporary Japanese Fiction / Stephen Snyder --
5. The Fractured Cinema of North Korea: The Discourse of the Nation in Sea of Blood / Kyung Hyun Kim --
6. New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Contemporary China / Xiaobing Tang --
7. Image, Information, Commodity: A Few Speculations on Japanese Televisual Culture / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto --
8. Cinema and the Public Sphere: The Films of Oshima Nagisa / Wimal Dissanayake --
9. Sexual DisOrientations: Homosexual Rights, East Asian Films, and Postmodern Postnationalism / Chris Berry.
Responsibility: edited by Xiaobing Tang and Stephen Snyder.

Abstract:

These critical essays examine various aspects of East Asian culture through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural lens. Analyzing film, television, and visual and literary texts, the contributors reveal the historical conditions as well as the contemporary impulses driving East Asian culture today. By anticipating the geocultural shift to the Asian Pacific Rim in the twenty-first century, this collection serves as both an introduction to contemporary East Asian culture and an exploration of its global context.

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