... with the originals will appreciate the amount of work carried out behind the scenes; everyone else will “just” enjoy the ride. For a collection of “Literature from Japan's Mega-City” (“the hotbed for the production of this literature and its greatest market”; p. ix), An Edo Anthology includes selections whose...

...Yeong-Hyun Kim Moreover, the book would have benefited greatly from a more systemic comparison of individual mega-urban regions with regard to the specific urban policies that are discussed in chapters 4 to 9. Some tables could have been used to provide a summary of differences and commonalities...

...Ravinder Kaur Abstract This article is an against-the-grain reading of the highly publicized failure of the 2004 India Shining campaign. Aimed at the Indian publics, this mega-publicity spectacle sought to communicate the success of neoliberal reforms in transforming India from a developing nation...

... 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...

...Se-Mi Oh Abstract This article examines the transformation of Nanjido, an island that served as a landfill for Seoul from 1978 to 1993, into an ecological park called World Cup Park in preparation for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. It discusses how this mega-event instigated urban planning focusing...

..., may ask, “into what open?” Indeed, the “links” of Singapore, at least those already in action, often lead from offices, flats, and blocks into one mega-supermarket and then into another. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 It is impressive how, in Prasenjit Duara's...

..., with perceptions of a decline of political morals, the incapacity of the state to carry out projects, and the fraying of civil society. While mega-events such as the Beijing Olympics and the Commonwealth Games in Delhi this year overtly appeal to notions of national glory, it is a moot question what order...

... G E N R U L A N D . Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1996. xv, 260 pp. $39-90 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). The rapid growth of mega-urban regions in Southeast Asia has emerged as a major policy and research issue in the decade of the 1980s. This collection of essays arose out...

... mega events volunteering In recent years, many Asian countries have seized the opportunity to show off their economic and political powers by hosting mega sport events. For example, China hosted the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and the Asian Games in Guangzhou in 2010, South Korea held...

... three limitations. First, there is insufficient discussion of the overall spatial context in these cities. Recent publications have documented the spatial spread of these city cores into surrounding areas, creating mega-urban regions (see T. G. McGee and Ira Robinson, The Mega-Urban Regions of Southeast...

... with which ambitiously imagined and intensively promoted (hyped, indeed) mega-events (to borrow a term used most often by sociologists) are being held outside Western Europe and North America. From the mid-1800s through the early 1900s, when World's Fairs were the most important international extravaganzas...

... familiar from larger sporting mega-events, including the Asian Games, Olympics, and football World Cup, the narrative of national conquest also paralleled the structural rhythm of previous SEA Games—notably the two events immediately preceding Myanmar 2013 in Laos in 2009 and Indonesia in 2011. Given...

... of the modern mega-department stores that are found in the major urban centers of South Korea today. I also found interesting the argument that foods such as kimch'i and makkŏlli can trace their present-day international visibility as the result of being popular exports to Japan. We are told...

... cities depends not on “factor accumulation,” as was the case in the past, but on technologies, intellectual creation, and innovation. The volume's content and perspectives sit comfortably with the literature on global cities, which forwards the view that technopolises and financial centers—not mega...

... the commodification of racial diversity. Images of media sport athletes, then, become transnational floating signifiers of the Korean nation, race, and sport. Few would disagree that in the contemporary world, sport is one of the most powerful sites that produces and reproduces nationalism. At mega sporting...

... celebrating amateurism and transcendence of difference gave way to more directed goals of channeling these mega-events into benefiting national projects, from the building of infrastructure to promoting indigenous tourist industries. The geographical and chronological reach of this work is crucial to its...

... the potential for comparisons with the style's adaptations in Beijing, Bangkok, and Tokyo, which bore different motivations. Sarah Moser offers a reading of urban planning and state mega-projects in postcolonial Malaysia, particularly in the late twentieth-century new administrative capital Putrajaya...

... of official policy in creating a new face that beckons the overseas customer. One prominent figure who has commented and acted extensively on “pink globalization” is international mega-star artist Takashi Murakami (b. 1966). Beginning with his 2000 exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles...

... are planning to expand the water supply across Bangalore and the peri-urban zone. The plan is to fund the Greater Bangalore Water and Sewerage Project with citizen contributions, market bonds, mega-city loans, and state government finance. A local NGO, Janaagraha, is included in the project to organize...

... not only in remote areas but also in the modern mega-cities, as indicated by Yue-man Yeung, notwithstanding their ability to exploit the opportunities created by the global market. Finally, Andrew Elek explores the possible evolution of the APEC cooperation frame beyond trade and toward a possible new...