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Subject(s)

• Comic books, strips, etc—Asia—History and criticism [Browse]

Related name

Lent, John A. [Browse]

Publisher

University of Hawaii (System). Press [Browse]

Series

ConsumAsiaN book series. [More in this series]

Summary note

All of the articles consider cartoon and/or comic art in the historical and social setting of seven South, Southeast, and East Asian countries: India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. The contributors treat comic and narrative art--including comic books, comic strips, picture books, and humor and fan magazines--in both historical and socio-cultural perspectives, as well as portrayals of ancient Chinese philosophy, gender, and the enemy in cartoons and comics. -- Publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Comics as social commentary in Java, Indonesia / Laine Berman
• From self-knowledge to super heroes: the story of Indian comics / Aruna Rao
• Shaping a cultural identity: the picture book and cartoons in Taiwan, 1945-1980 / Shu-chu Wei
• Cartooning in Sri Lanka / John A. Lent
• Lianhuanhua and Manhua, picture books and comics in old Shanghai / Kuiyi Shen
• The corporeality of erotic imagination: a study of pictorials and cartoons in Republican China / Yingjin Zhang
• Red comic books: the origins of modern Japanese Manga / Shimizu Isao
• Redrawing the past: modern presentation of ancient Chinese philosophy in the cartoons of Tsai Chih-Chung / Shu-chu Wei
• Gender insubordination in Japanese comics (Manga) for girls / Fusami Ōgi
• Malaysia's mad magazines: images of females and males in Malay culture / Ronald Provencher
• Images of the enemy in wartime Manga magazine, 1941-1945 / Rei Okamoto.

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ISBN

0824824717 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00054498^

OCLC

45661703

RCP

H - S

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