...Jonathan Abel Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture . By Seth Jacobowitz . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2015 . xii, 299 pp. ISBN: 9780674088412 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Martin E. Abel Trade and Growth in the Philippines: An Open Dual Economy . By George L. Hicks and Geoffrey McNicoll . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1971 . xi. 244 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index, $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973...

...Jessamyn R. Abel Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups . By Robert Hellyer . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . 304 pp. ISBN: 9780231199100 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Robert Hellyer begins Green...

... in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji. By Jona­ t­han Abel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 327 pp. ISBN: 978517910662. Jon­a­than Abel s The New Real comb­ ines fas­cin­ ati­ ng (mi­cro)hist­ ori­ ­cal data with a care­ful the­o­riz­at­ion. The book inv­est­ig­ ates how new med­ ia...

... for interdisciplinary scholars to follow, while Abel's inspired conceptual frameworks will make a lasting impact on our thinking about censorship, both as an object of study and as an ongoing process in our own societies. Part four examines the hybridity of text and image in the trials of Ōshima's book, including...

...Yukiko Koshiro The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan's Global Engagement, 1933–1964 . By Jessamyn R. Abel . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2015 . ix, 331 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 The “international...

...Caitlin Meagher Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train . By Jessamyn R. Abel . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2022 . 304 pp. ISBN: 9781503610385 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Recent decades have seen an increasing...

... the 1950s. Abel ar­gues that (re)med­ i­a­tions the iconic masked sup­ erh­ ero Gekk Kamen transformed des­ires and dreams over time and space, with Gekk Kamen ul­ti­mately a met­a­phor of jus­tice in the real world. The su­per­hero s white mask bound to­gether an allegoric/symb­ olic realm (i.­e...

... Abel, Carl, 1725 Abel, Clarke, 480 Abel-yen, 1767 Abelin, Jean-Philippe (pseud. Gottfried, Johann Ludwig), 1943, 3257 Abels, Conrad, 3603, 3747 Aberigh-Mackay, G. R., 4300 Abetti, Giorgio, 4359 Aboul Ghazi Bahadour Khan, 2770 Abraham, R. D., 3880, 4087, 4090-91 Page 27, column 2, upper part...

...). The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji. By Jona­ t­han Abel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 327 pp. ISBN: 978517910662. Jon­a­than Abel s The New Real com­bines fasc­ i­nati­ ng (mic­ ro)his­tori­ ­cal data with a care­ful the­o­riz­at­ion. The book...

... review of Schmidt's original translation that appeared in Extrait du nouveau journal asiatique , Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat maligned Sagan Sechen (and his translator) for not rising to the disciplinary standards of systematic Orientalism. Sagan Sechen, he spat, “is not a historian; he is a compiler...

... to replace the postwar representation of nation-as-woman with this homoscocial metonym of the cross-dresser, declaring in the end that the emperor himself is the epitome of this cross-dressing. Jonathan Abel's essay provides the grand finale to the anthology as well, where what begins as a seemingly...

..., declaring in the end that the emperor himself is the epitome of this cross-dressing. Jonathan Abel's essay provides the grand finale to the anthology as well, where what begins as a seemingly historical piece on the representation of underpants in Nikkatsu's roman poruno ends as shitagi itself...

... secretary, Sir George Abell, apparently to Radcliffe's secretary, Beaumont. Next day, a letter was dispatched from Abell to Abbott, secretary to Jenkins. It enclosed a rough statement of the proposed boundary, including a map depicting a "sharp salient" in Ferozepore District, with the Ferozepore and Zira 7...

... of knowledge circulation and exchange. Yet I would not say that all these biographical parts are written equally well. For example, the story of Dorzhi Banzarov, one of the earliest Asians to get a European university education, comes between a brilliant chapter focused on the life path of Jean-Pierre Abel...

... in which the brilliance of his style and his enlightened critical intelligence break through the gray clouds of public ceremonial. For example: "The fact of brotherhood didn't save Abel, and doesn't save the Abels caught in racial riots in South America or Africa, in Nigeria or the Congo. It doesn't seem...

... Abel, and doesn't save the Abels caught in racial riots in South America or Africa, in Nigeria or the Congo. It doesn't seem to save the Vietnamese. Brotherhood is, after all, a frail bond unless there is the consciousness of a common fatherhood or motherhood. The ethical feeling of brotherhood has...