East Asian Transwar Popular Culture

Author : Pei-yin Lin,Su Yun Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811332005

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East Asian Transwar Popular Culture by Pei-yin Lin,Su Yun Kim Pdf

This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean popular culture by focusing on the representation of gender, genre, state regulation, and spectatorship. Calling for the “de-colonializing” and “de–Cold Warring” of the two ex-colonies and anticommunist allies, the book places Taiwan and Korea side by side in a “trans-war” frame. Considering Taiwan–Korea relations along a new trans-war axis, the book focuses on the continuities between the late colonial period’s Asia-Pacific War and the consequent Korean War and the ongoing conflict between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, facilitated by Cold War power struggles. The collection also invites a meaningful transcolonial reconsideration of East Asian cultural and literary flows, beyond the conventional colonizer/colonized dichotomy and ideological antagonism. ​

Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Morris Low,Leonid Petrov,Timothy Y. Tsu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136192265

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East Asia Beyond the History Wars by Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Morris Low,Leonid Petrov,Timothy Y. Tsu Pdf

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 peace treaty has ever been signed to conclude the Korean War. For over a decade, the region’s governments and non-government groups have sought to confront the ghosts of the past by developing paths to reconciliation. Focusing particularly on popular culture and grassroots action, East Asia beyond the History Wars explores these East Asian approaches to historical reconciliation. This book examines how Korean historians from North and South exchange ideas about national history, how Chinese film-makers reframe their views of the war with Japan, and how Japanese social activists develop grassroots reconciliation projects with counterparts from Korea and elsewhere. As the volume’s studies of museums, monuments and memorials show, East Asian public images of modern history are changing, but change is fragile and uncertain. This unfinished story of East Asia’s search for historical reconciliation has important implications for the study of popular memory worldwide. Presenting a fresh perspective on reconciliation which draws on both history and cultural studies, this book will be welcomed by students and scholars working in the fields of Asian history, Asian culture and society as well as those interested in war and memory studies more generally.

Author : Reto Hofmann,Max Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350182820

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Transwar Asia by Reto Hofmann,Max Ward Pdf

This volume considers the possibilities of the term 'transwar' to understand the history of Asia from the 1920s to the 1960s. Recently, scholars have challenged earlier studies that suggested a neat division between the pre- and postwar or colonial/postcolonial periods in the national histories of East Asia, instead assessing change and continuity across the divide of war. Taking this reconsideration further, Transwar Asia explores the complex processes by which prewar and colonial ideologies, practices, and institutions from the 1920s and 1930s were reconfigured during World War II and, crucially, in the two decades that followed, thus shaping the Asian Cold War and the processes of decolonization and nation state-formation. With contributions covering the transwar histories of China, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan, the book addresses key themes such as authoritarianism, militarization, criminal rehabilitation, market controls, labor-regimes, and anti-communism. A transwar angle, the authors argue, sheds new light on the continuing problems that undergirded the formation of postwar nation-states and illuminates the political legacies that still shape the various regions in Asia up to the present.

Author : Sumei Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004470620

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The East Asian Modern Girl by Sumei Wang Pdf

The East Asian Modern Girl reports the long-neglected experiences of modern women in East Asia during the interwar period. The edited volume includes original studies on the modern girl in Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, Japan, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, which reveal differentiated forms of colonial modernity, influences of global media and the struggles of women at the time. The advent of the East Asian modern girl is particularly meaningful for it signifies a separation from traditional Confucian influences and progression toward global media and capitalism, which involves high political and economic tension between the East and West. This book presents geo-historical investigations on the multi-force triggered phenomenon and how it eventually contributed to greater post-war transformations.

Author : Christina Klein
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520296503

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Cold War Cosmopolitanism by Christina Klein Pdf

South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many “Golden Age cinemas” that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era’s most glamorous and popular women’s pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han’s films took shape within a “free world” network of aesthetic and material ties created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War by the CIA, the forging of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from around the world. Klein combines nuanced readings of Han’s sophisticated style with careful attention to key issues of modernity—such as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and consumerism—in the first monograph devoted to this major Korean director. A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Author : Kwai-Cheung Lo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438432089

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Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions by Kwai-Cheung Lo Pdf

Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.

Author : Bi-yu Chang,Pei-yin Lin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429663864

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Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context by Bi-yu Chang,Pei-yin Lin Pdf

Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement, it highlights Taiwan’s subjectivity, viewing the island as a site of a global development that epitomizes both resistance and negotiation in the process of cultural flows. The fourteen contributions by an international team of scholars investigate the multi-layered and multidirectional interplays between the island and the outside world, exploring the impact of complex cultural encounters on the construction, writing and rewriting of Taiwan in a global context. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the topics covered range from Taiwanese literature, cinema, food culture and tourism to cultural geography, colonial history, and folk religion, with comparisons made with Japan, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the West. Focusing on continuous cross-cultural interplays, this book affords readers a deeper understanding of identity politics and a better insight into the fluidity, changeability, and constructionist nature of culture. As such, it will be will be of great interest to students and scholars of Taiwan Studies and Cultural Studies, as well as Asian film, literature and popular culture.

Author : Jeremy E. Taylor,Lanjun Xu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000450194

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Chineseness and the Cold War by Jeremy E. Taylor,Lanjun Xu Pdf

This book explores contested notions of "Chineseness" in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong during the Cold War, showing how competing ideas about "Chineseness" were an important ideological factor at play in the region. After providing an overview of the scholarship on "Chineseness" and "diaspora", the book sheds light on specific case studies, through the lens of the "Chinese cultural Cold War", from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. It provides detailed examples of competition for control of definitions of "Chineseness" by political or politically oriented forces of diverse kinds, and shows how such competition was played out in bookstores, cinemas, music halls, classrooms, and even sports clubs and places of worship across the region in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The book also demonstrates how the legacies of these Cold War contestations continue to influence debates about Chinese influence – and "Chineseness" – in Southeast Asia and the wider region today. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Harumi Befu
Publisher : RoutledgeCurzon
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052602763

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Cultural Nationalism in East Asia by Harumi Befu Pdf

Author : Nayoung Aimee Kwon,Takushi Odagiri,Moonim Baek
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253059772

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Theorizing Colonial Cinema by Nayoung Aimee Kwon,Takushi Odagiri,Moonim Baek Pdf

Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that end, contributors begin by excavating little-known archives and perspectives from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing focus on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the colonies. The collection pinpoints various forms of devaluation and misrecognition both in and beyond the region that continue to relegate local voices to the margins. This pathbreaking study on global film history advances prior scholarship by bringing together an array of established and new interdisciplinary voices from film studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to consider how the present is continually haunted by the colonial past. Winner of the SCMS Best Edited Collection Award!

Author : Caroline Reitz,Elizabeth Foxwell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781476654423

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Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2024) by Caroline Reitz,Elizabeth Foxwell Pdf

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Author : Jesook Song,Michelle Cho
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472904372

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Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea by Jesook Song,Michelle Cho Pdf

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea focuses on the relationship between media representation and gender politics in South Korea. Its chapters feature notable voices of South Korea’s burgeoning sphere of gender critique enabled by social media, doing what no other academic volume has yet accomplished in the sphere of Anglophone studies on this topic. Seeking to interrogate the role of popular media in establishing and shaping gendered common sense, this volume fosters cross-disciplinary conversations linked by the central thesis that gender discourse and representation are central to the politics, aesthetics, and economics of contemporary South Korea. In the post-authoritarian period (the late 1980s to the #MeToo present), media representation and popular discourse changed the gender conventions that are found at the core of civic, political, and cultural debates. Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea maps the ways in which popular media and public discourse make the social dynamics of gender visible and open them up for debate and dismantling. In presenting innovative new research on the ways in which popular ideas about gender gain concrete form and political substance through mass mediation, the book’s contributors investigate the discursive production of gender in contemporary South Korea through trends, tropes, and thematics, as popular media become the domain in which new gendered subjectivities and relations transpire. The essays in this volume present cases and media objects that span multiple media and platforms, introducing new ways of thinking about gender as a platform and a conceptual infrastructure in the post-authoritarian era.

Author : Irena Hayter,George T. Sipos,Mark Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000397307

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Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan by Irena Hayter,George T. Sipos,Mark Williams Pdf

This book approaches the concept of tenkō (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates. Tenkō connotes the expressions of ideological conversion performed by members of the Japanese Communist Party, starting in 1933, whereby they renounced Marxism and expressed support for Japan’s imperial expansion on the continent. Although tenkō has a significant presence in Japan’s postwar intellectual and literary histories, this contributed volume is one of the first in Englishm language scholarship to approach the phenomenon. International perspectives from both established and early career scholars show tenkō as inseparable from the global politics of empire, deeply marked by an age of mechanical reproduction, mediatization and the manipulation of language. Chapters draw on a wide range of interdisciplinary methodologies, from political theory and intellectual history to literary studies. In this way, tenkō is explored through new conceptual and analytical frameworks, including questions of gender and the role of affect in politics, implications that render the phenomenon distinctly relevant to the contemporary moment. Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan will prove a valuable resource to students and scholars of Japanese and East Asian history, literature and politics.

Author : Noriko Sudo,Takeshi Tanikawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1920901469

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Cultural Politics Around East Asian Cinema 1939-2018 by Noriko Sudo,Takeshi Tanikawa Pdf

This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in East Asia, treating films as political economic products, mixtures of government policy and industrial motives, rather than mere works of art or media commodities. Chapters examine the East Asian film industries from the 1930s to the 2010s, which pursued their own economic and political goals by cooperating, negotiating, and conflicting with states. Through studies of national film policies, film industry strategies, and cultural-political influences on audience receptivity, this book reveals how films are formed by the interaction of the state, the film companies, and audiences.

Author : William Tsutsui,Michael Baskett
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004212657

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The East Asian Olympiads, 1934–2008 by William Tsutsui,Michael Baskett Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume, the first to focus on the collective East Asian Olympic experience, reveals the Games' important role in the creation of a modern Asian identity in a world—and a global sporting culture—still dominated by the West.