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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1023–1025.
Published: 01 November 2020
... on anthropological accounts of fan subcultures and close readings of particular media texts or consumer goods. Relatively few books have been published in English on anime's business, marketing, and industrial agents, and none of them take a managerial perspective. Ian Condry's The Soul of Anime examines...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 992–994.
Published: 01 November 2000
... them with cosmopolitan glamour and thus gave them "a means to resist state categorization . . . as 'backward'" (p. 105). Other contributors illuminate how consumerism both bridged and exposed gaps in trust among entrepreneurs, government bureaucrats, and consumers. In Nanjing's food markets, Ann Veeck...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1099–1101.
Published: 01 November 2004
... nascent consumer culture, and this combination of nationalism and consumerism became a basis for what it meant to live in modern China (p. 355). ANDREA MCELDERRY University of Louisville Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi. Edited by THOMAS GOLD, DOUG...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 278–280.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Seung-Kyung Kim Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea . By Laura C. Nelson . New York : Columbia University Press , 2000 . xviii , 224 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 278...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1380–1381.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Patricia L. Maclachlan Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Japanese Consumer Behaviour: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers . By John McCreery . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2000 . 216 pp. $24.95 (paper); $52.00 (cloth). 1380 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 645–646.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Sara Shneiderman Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society . By Mark Liechty . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2003 . xviii , 292 pp. $21.95 (paper), $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 575–576.
Published: 01 August 2022
... “the countryside overwhelms the city.” Hui perceptively characterizes the overflowing rubbish as “warfare” on middle-class civility (p. 198). Labor, disposable consumer products, and waste are intimately connected as cyclical stages of consumerism. Wang's film renders visible the previously invisible underside...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 135–164.
Published: 01 February 2009
..., as springing fully formed onto the global stage of postmodern consumerism. 1 Meanwhile, the absence of the consumer in the historical study of Japan has meant that comparative surveys of the literature on the history of consumption have been forced, often reluctantly, to assume that the “consumer revolution...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Miryam Sas Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art . Edited by Fran Lloyd . London : Reaktion Books , 2003 . 224 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 196 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S by Three Drunkards...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 256–257.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Alan Smart Consuming Hong Kong . Edited by Gordon Mathews and Tai-lok Lui . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2002 . xi, 340 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 256 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Consuming Hong Kong. Edited...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 804–806.
Published: 01 August 2011
... to a consuming society. This shift is not without consequences. He points out that the rise of consumerism is being sanctioned, even engineered, by the Chinese government: “although China remains a nominally socialist country, consumerism is now deeply entrenched in all areas of Chinese life” (p. 4). As much...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 217–219.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Robert B. Albritton Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves . By Mary Beth Mills . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 1999 . v, 218 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 75–93.
Published: 01 February 2019
... consumer and media culture as a source of docility and atomization, it sees the collective spectatorship of mass entertainment as generating the potential for self-transcendence and revolution. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 2019 capitalism cities consumption media...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 952–954.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Nick Kapur Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan . By Eiko Maruko Siniawer . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2018 . xxii, 398 pp. ISBN: 9781501725845 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 2019 One of the great paradoxes of recent times...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 February 2004
... on ukiyo-e virtually since people began writing about it. Moreover, he cites critical writings on museology, consumerism, Japonisme, and popular culture. Perusing this formidable arsenal was suf cient to assure me that The Prints of Isoda Koryu¯sai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 609–611.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Christopher A. Reed Consuming Literature: Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China . By Shuyu Kong . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2005 . x , 241 pp. $21.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 February 2016
... “country cousins” for much of modern history. This essay has two distinct parts. The first introduces the changing image of Amerikamun consumable American goods in Okinawa from the occupation through the present. The latter section is a case study of American Village and its development, which I view...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 February 2012
..., women could be viewed as producers and consumers of political culture and practice. This does not translate into a simple gendered déjà vu of low castes ‘reproducing’ upper-caste cultures and practices however: BSP women appropriate and re-enact gender idioms and models coined in colonial India while...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 272–274.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Laura C. Nelson Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance . Edited by Laurel Kendall . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2010 . 258 pp. $46.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 755–783.
Published: 01 August 2016
... in modern Japan by Harvard historian Andrew Gordon demonstrates the effects: what could feasibly have been published under the title “Making Machinists” was instead marketed as “Fabricating Consumers.” What does it mean to talk about consumers in 1950s Japan, a time and place of hard work, thrift...
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