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...David Wittner Nicely punctuated with historic illustrations and Walker's own photographs of the industrial sites visited during the course of researching this book, Toxic Archipelago is an outstanding history of industrial disease and environmental degradation in Japan. It is a welcome...

... the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown of 2011. By reading the current articles through the lens of my own research, I seek to situate catastrophe within a broader anthropological literature on environmental toxicity. Questions worth posing to this essay in light of the first two essays discussed earlier...

... posed by prevailing toxic masculinity, these lessons, I argue, are crucial for us to find a path through the turbulence and build a more peaceful world. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 “Be Water” philosophy Bruce Lee Hong Kong Ip Man justice masculinity...

...  2018 Anna Lora-Wainwright's Resigned Activism offers an intimate portrayal of life in polluted rural China in order to discover why people put up with such toxic living conditions. Is it because they do not know that they are being poisoned? Is it because they do not care? Lora-Wainwright visits...

... that balance the body's energies. Right? Not so fast, says Yan Liu. Countering stereotypes about Chinese medicine, Liu's new book Healing with Poisons examines the little-known “tradition of harnessing toxic drugs that would forcefully destroy or expel pathogenic entities” (p. 4). He shows how highly...

... the emergence of fangirls/fanboys and “toxic fandom” in American media culture. If the term otaku originally carried pathological connotations in Japan, those have carried over into North American discourse. Toxic fans feel special possession and entitlement to the object of their adoration: they “believe...

... concerns about pollution or demands that the state regulate toxic environments (Stawkowski 2016 ). Burkut, a man in his eighties who was born in Koyan, claimed that by eating radiation all these years, people's bodies adapted to it, so much so that most “can't live in clean air and need radiation...

... phenomena created by toxic environments is much more nuanced and takes into account political, economic, and ecological environments, as well as kinship networks, food chains, and the environment of the laboratory itself. The result is a less narrow interpretation of epigenetics than anthropologists...

... around the globe for episodes of environmental pollution and the ways in which the bodies of citizens have, often in horrific ways, exhibited the violence of unchecked industrial capitalism embodied in streams of cadmium, methylmercury, and other toxic chemicals. While in popular global imaginings Japan...

... of misfortune. Kut are typically private because people do not want their stories of misfortune to be made public, and audiences are, although potentially helpful, by no means necessary for a successful kut. Kim introduces his notion of toxicity by which he describes attitudes of ordinary people...

..., these are not necessarily dangerous. In most cases, however, the inferior foods need to be polished with chemicals, such as coloring unripe strawberries or cherries with carmine dye so that they appear to be of good quality and can be sold at higher prices. Using toxic chemicals to preserve processed foods is also common...

... the provincial average and cancer rates are twice the provincial average due to high pollution concentrations in the water. In 1994, the middle and lower reaches of the river turned black after factories dumped sewage and other toxic substances directly into the river, killing 26 million pounds of sh...

...-language monographs on Minamata, toxic waste, and environmental activism. It builds upon the scholarship of such historians as Timothy George, Brett Walker, and Simon Avenell, 1 but offers a number of new perspectives. Unlike these other authors, Yuki Miyamoto is not an environmental historian...

... rise, and rising toxicity. Nevertheless, themes of Asian disaster, risk, and vulnerability have been prominent recently among various Asia-based research venues, such as ARI's Disaster Governance project already mentioned. The year 2014 saw a burst of disaster-related projects in the Asian academy...

... the most prolific figure in the field, publishing three monographs— The Conquest of Ainu Lands , The Lost Wolves of Japan , and Toxic Archipelago— in less than a decade. 2 Walker's influence on the field though, has gone well beyond those monographs. He teamed with Gregory Pflugfelder to introduce...

...: Ecological Encounters along the Kor­ean DMZ. By Eleana J. Kim. Dur­ham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. xviii, 201 pp. ISBN: 9781478018353. Militarized env­ ir­ on­ments are all­around us, whether in the form of toxic eco­sys­tems or surv­eill­ance netw­ orks; yet, this rea­l­ity of­ten goes unn­ ot­iced...

... Every day brings reports of new environmental crises in China: rivers that run black, air pollution so severe that it causes the premature deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and rivers and lakes filled with toxic chemicals, leaving millions without drinkable water. Equally alarming are reports...

..., has contributed to much resentment and hostility toward them. Second, more recently, the issue of illegal immigration has become even more toxic and politicized owing to the rise of the right-wing, Hindu chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party. The party, quite predictably, has highlighted that the vast...

... a master of speed and efficiency, systems of worker recruitment, deceptive schemes to employ college interns, aluminum explosions, toxic poisoning, and struggles for compensation, justice, and fair labor. In the summer of 2010, as the number of suicides increased, Chan, Selden, and Ngai began to work...

.... Marran, Ecology without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic World (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Tsuchi demonstrates the value of tracing a single concept across a range of art practices and time periods, drawing attention to the formative role of this often unseen...