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... and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 . By Gennifer Weisenfeld . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . xv, 393 pp. ISBN: 9780520271951 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 Gennifer...

...Hai Ren Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts . By Xiaobing Tang . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . 2015 . 287 pp. ISBN: 9781107446373 (cloth, also available in paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017...

...Su-hsing Lin Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives . Edited by Alexandra Green . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2013 . 258 pp. ISBN 9789888139101 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 Until...

...Julia K. Murray Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China . By Shih-shan Susan Huang . Harvard East Asian Monographs 342. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2012 . xxv, 526 pp., 368 ill. (80 color, 46 halftone, 242 line art). $69.95 (cloth...

...Ketu H. Katrak Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film . By Rachel Dwyer and Divia Patel . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 2002 . 240 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 218 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S...

...Karil J. Kucera Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618–960 . By Sarah E. Fraser . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2004 . xvi , 342 pp. $65.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 1074 T...

...” and there is, thus, “no Japanese posthumanism per se,” as Brown points out, it does “come to be inflected in certain ways by the cultural forms and practices specific to Japanese visual culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries” (p. 159). It seems a shame, then, that Brown engages so briefly...

...Francesca Dal Lago Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai . By Ellen Johnston Laing . Honolulu : University of Hawai's Press , 2004 . x , 305 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V...

... to reach for the largest synthesis possible producing a study that will provoke discussion for years. The book is not a guide to Lotus-related representations, but how imaginary topographies structure visual culture. He could have titled each chapter according to the numbered sections of the Lotus...

...Julia K. Murray Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368–1644 . By Craig Clunas . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2007 . 288 pp. $59.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In this vigorously...

...Nora A. Taylor Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century . Edited by Vishakha N. Desai . Williamstown, M.A. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute , 2007 . xiii , 253 pp. $24.95 (paper) What's the Use of Art? Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context . Edited...

... Shanghai in its adolescence, so to speak. Readers will readily visualize the foreign concessions, brimming with a multitude of businesses and shops, the core of modern Shanghai where the great majority of residents were recently arrived Chinese sojourners. Liang depicts the life in courtesan houses...

... by Remco Raben, who has coedited a volume on the Dutch Lutheran minister Jan Brandes (1743–1808). 1 Instead of reading the textual to confirm the visual, Raben contrasts Brandes's intimate red-pencil sketch of his female slave Roosje with the brutality laid bare in Brandes's notes and diaries (32...

...Dylan Suher Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture: Envisioning the Nation . By Sheldon H. Lu . London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2021 . 242 pp. ISBN: 9781350234185 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 The focus of Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu's book Contemporary...

...Karil J. Kucera Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture . By Sonya S. Lee . Aberdeen : Hong Kong University Press , 2010 . xv, 355 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Surviving Nirvana seeks to prove...

...Nicholas A. Kaldis Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture . By Sheldon H. Lu . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2007 . 264 pp. $56.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

...John Clark Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan . Edited by Yuko Kikuchi . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2007 . ix , 285 pp. $60.00 (cloth) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 This is a substantial...

...Daniel Ehnbom Perceptions of South Asia's Visual Past . Edited by Catherine B. Asher and Thomas R. Metcalf . New Delhi : American Institute of Indian Studies , 1994 . xviii, 306 pp. 79 plates. $54.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK...

...Gina Marchetti Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China Japan . Edited by Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1994 . xii, 345 pp. $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 Criticizing and Evaluating the Visual Arts in India: A Preliminary Example JOANNA WILLIAMS BY WHAT STANDARDS should we judge works of art from another culture or era? We are generally used to the idea that understanding the meaning of an image requires...