...Rachael Hutchinson The greatest strength of this book is its focus on the “art” of censorship; while most censorship studies are couched in terms of political history, Cather achieves her aim of examining the texts as art, and the trials as art criticism. This allows her to explore the complex...

... ). Harrison Nicholas . 2001 . “Complicity.” In Censorship: A World Encyclopedia , ed. Derek Jones . Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn . Herman Edward S. , and Noam Chomsky . 1994 . Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media . London : Vintage Books . Humagai Devraj...

... manner deploying fewer well-chosen examples. Nevertheless, overall, this is a commendable effort highlighting a fascinating aspect of the history of twentieth-century India. The Second World War created additional pressures on the censorship system. One obvious way for government to censor newspapers...

...Edmund Malesky Censorship in Vietnam: Brave New World . By Thomas A. Bass . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2017 . ix, 228 pp. ISBN: 9781625342959 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019...

...David Desser Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima. 1956–1978 . By Nagisa Oshima . Edited by Annette Michelson ; translated by Dawn Lawson . Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press , 1992 . 308 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Richard H. Minear Censorship in Imperial Japan . By Richard H. Mitchell . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1983 . xii, 424 pp. Bibliography, Index. $35. Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State . By Jay Rubin . Seattle : University of Washington Press...

...Charles Laughlin Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film . By Thomas Chen . New York : Columbia University Press , 2022 . x, 236 pp. ISBN: 9780231204019 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Made in Censorship is a highly-engaging...

...Samson W. Lim Abstract A cursory examination of the Thai press reveals two things: A history of censorship, at times violently repressive, and sensational content centered on crime news. Reporters, editors, and publishers have been threatened, intimidated, and murdered in an effort to control...

... of adulation and resentment of powerful Western nations produces a distinctive set of attitudes. Important cultural and political consequences flow from this shared condition, as is also contrastively demonstrated by the two countries’ very different recent histories. For example, censorship, once deeply...

... absent. Censorship and the repression of autonomous spaces in society, on the one hand, and the failure of the state to enforce efficient health and environmental policies, on the other, are keywords in these works that illustrate the double-faced appearance of the state's existence and role in society...

... by Abe's government to pressure and intimidate the media into self-censorship (Kingston 2018a). Since early 2017, however, the liberal Asahi newspaper led the way in exposing two cronyism scandals involving private-school projects linked to Abe. It also exposed a series of cases revolving around...

... in encouraging such self-censorship. By most accounts, such efforts have proved effective in diffusing critical public opinion and in pruning public memory. Yet, the ending of the era has provided an extra impetus and a rhetorical rationale for a reckoning of everyday life in Shōwa Japan by the masses whose...

... through state censorship and the “Great Firewall,” while netizens (citizens of the Internet who are actively involved in online communities) persistently resist censorship and find creative ways to oppose the regime. In Contesting Cyberspace in China , Rongbin Han unpacks this seemingly dichotomous state...

... screenplays, several hundred films, and interviews with both former Occupation personnel and Japanese directors, producers, and writers, Hirano traces the history of Occupation censorship from its background in the American and Japanese wartime mobilization of their motion picture industries to its legacy...

... a highly informative and compelling book on the topic. As for the main argument, there is little that one can dispute. The image of idealistic artists battling a totalitarian censor is clearly wrong, as Kraus points out. Even during the Mao period, censorship was not complete, and artists were never...

... policy toward the control and censorship of the Japanese media, literature, and the arts subjects that have been covered in depth and at length by previous scholarship. The long-term impact of the occupation on the development of Japanese postwar arts and popular culture is treated, in most cases...

... and punishing online citizens. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 censorship cybersecurity digital governance Facebook late-socialist politics media social media Vietnam June 2018 was an intense time in Vietnam when one saw the role of social media in revealing...

... largely on China's strict regulatory environment and pervasive content censorship. 1 Yet, despite these restrictions, various internet sectors in China have taken off spectacularly. Luzhou Li's Zoning China examines this puzzling and seemingly contradictory phenomenon, particularly in the realm...

..., the emergence of women from the domestic sphere into the workforce, the rise of scientism and eugenics, the censorship and ideological control that came with the Asia-Pacific War, and the return of demobilized soldiers after Japan's defeat. The first chapter, on city life, focuses on the act of tailing...

...Jennifer H. Munger At the AAS in Asia meetings in Seoul in the summer of 2017, a group of analysts interested in media explored the notion that the market and the state are two ends of a continuum when it comes to censorship and freedom of expression. The panelists challenged that received...