...Jianqi Wang News Media and New Media . Edited by Madanmohan Rao . The AsiaPacific Internet Handbook Episode V. Singapore : Eastern Universities Press , 2003 . xv , 549 pp. $30.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S A S I A : C O M...

...Xiaowei Zheng Complicated Currents: Media Flows, Soft Power, and East Asia . Edited by Daniel Black , Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita . Victoria, Australia : Monash University Press , 2010 . xx, 244 pp. $45.00 AUD (paper); no charge (electronic). Copyright © The Association...

.../Korean media sport has made. Thus, the book is highly recommended for courses on, as well as for scholars and students in the fields of, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies of sport; Asian American studies; and Asian studies. Korean and Korean American media sport athletes, Joo further...

...Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan . By Barbara Sato. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2003 . xiv, 241 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S J...

... subjectivity” associated with television, with careful attention to television's restructuring of identity, sociality, and relations among different forms of media (312). Chapter 7 shifts focus to the conceptualization of “citizens,” social movements, and volunteerism in Japan from the Anpo movement...

... topic in material objects, print culture, or book history but instead the whole domain of media. Kile has erected a beaming tower, signaling a brave new direction for a whole younger generation of scholars to follow. But just as chapter 4 delivers an intermedial dream beyond the hierarchical...

...Richard D. Lambert New Lamps for Aladdin: Mass Media in Developing Societies . By J. C. Mathur . Calcutta : Orient Longmans Ltd. , 1965 . xii, 138 pp. Appendices. Rs. 7.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 315 Twayne series, is intended...

...Jinying Li Anime's Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan . By Marc Steinberg . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2012 . vii, 336 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Convergence, or “media mix...

... as a commercial transaction” (p. 40) by the majority of men long into the twentieth century. On the other hand, the notion of “romantic love as the ideal foundation for a heterosexual relationship” was well established in the Japanese media before the war (p. 26), while the erotic-grotesque movement of the 1920s...

...Takeo Rivera Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media . Edited by David S. Roh , Betsy Huang , and Greta A. Niu . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 2015 . x, 260 pp. ISBN: 9780813570631...

... when analyzing media practices in China. Although the book is written with non-Chinese specialists in mind, it offers a view of queer culture in China that is deeply rooted in its communities. By bridging the queer community in China and its international counterparts, the book is an extraordinary work...

...Yi Gu Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Media Culture . By Shengqing Wu . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . 384 pp. ISBN: 9780231192217 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Meticulously researched and beautifully produced, Photo...

...Paul Clark The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media . By Nathan Shockey . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . xvi, 336 pp. ISBN: 9780231194280 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Matthew H. Sommer Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China . By Ting Zhang . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2020 . xi, 256 pp. ISBN: 9780295747156 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Ting Zhang's...

... from the ecosystems that other (global) mega-platforms create. Engaging with the insights from recent studies of platforms and utilizing empirical media analysis, I argue that Korean webtoon platforms demonstrate the continuing and intensifying dependency of art on platforms—a process that I call...

... the party state or television possesses more power in the bargaining between structural censorship and media freedom.” Rather, it is “how television enables plural networks, both statist and nonstatist, of media genres, techniques, producers, and viewers in ways that actualize different forms of national...

... of Europe or the United States, Chinese migration to Italy originated for the most part from the same area (Wenzhou and other neighboring counties in Zhejiang Province). This gave the Italian-Chinese community a uniqueness that can be seen in Chinese media production in Italy, where “the Chinese-language...

...Sumit Ganguly Politics and State-Society Relations in India . By James Manor . London : Hurst & Company , 2017 . xviii, 366 pp. ISBN: 9781849047180 (cloth). Political Communication and Mobilisation: The Hindi Media in India . By Taberez Ahmed Neyazi . Cambridge : Cambridge...

...Giang Nguyen-Thu Abstract June 2018 was an intense time in Vietnam when one saw the role of social media in revealing and facilitating the (dis)congruity between connectivism, collectivism, and conservatism. On June 12, the National Assembly of Vietnam passed the controversial Cybersecurity Law...

...Jennifer H. Munger Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 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...