In Pursuit Of Contemporary East Asian Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0429720912
- ISBN-13
- 9780429720918
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-04-03
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Xiaobing Tang
Description
These critical essays examine East Asian culture through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural lens. Readings of film, television, and visual and literary texts reveal the historical condition as well as the contemporary impulses driving East Asian culture today. We feel the muted tension in a rural South Korean village; we walk down the bustling streets of Hong Kong and witness the city's protean possibilities for a postrevolutionary reality. The boisterous tarento shows on Japanese television force us to rethink the nature of information and image production in relation to leisure management; cinematic spectacles in Japan, North Korea, Taiwan, and China point to complex issues of agency, the formation of the public sphere, and postnationalist identities. We see contemporary fiction from China and Japan engage themes of desire and remembrance as metaphors to express a profound historical anxiety. Mirroring the fast-moving and multifaceted landscape is our ability to move freely through time as we confront legitimizing narratives of modernization in early-twentieth-century Japan and, against an emerging regime of global capitalism, reexamine the approaching century in imagined historical hindsight. By anticipating the geocultural shift to the Asian Pacific Rim in the twenty-first century, this volume serves as both an introduction to contemporary East Asian culture and an exploration of its global context.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
In Pursuit of Contemporary East Asian Culture
By Xiaobing TangThese critical essays examine East Asian culture through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural lens.
-
Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture
By Koichi Iwabuchi, Chris Berry, Eva TsaiThis is both influenced by, and in turn influences, the national cultures, and generates transnational co-production and reinvention.
-
In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's "new" Urban Middle Class
By Denise Potrzeba LettThe series is committed to the publication of outstanding new scholarly work on Korea, regardless of discipline, in both the humanities and the social sciences.
-
East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region
By Jeffrey Broadbent, Vicky Brockman157–182 In Pursuit of Contemporary East Asian Culture, edited by X. Tang and S. Snyder. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Birch, D. 1993. ''Staging Crises: Media and Citizenship.'' In G. Rodan 1993, 72–83. Brooker, P. 1995.
-
Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea: Contemporary Research and Future Prospects
By Dal Yong Jin, Nojin KwakDefamation: Libel and Slander Defamation law has been one of the Korean communication law topics most widely covered in ... Of the Korea chapter in the first edition of his book International Libel and Privacy Handbook, First Amendment ...
-
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
By Joshua S. MostowThe waves of modernization can be seen as reaching each of these countries in a staggered fashion, with eddies and back-flows between them then complicating the picture further. This volume provides a vivid sense of this dynamic interplay.
-
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society
By Kevin LathamThe Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary Chinese social and cultural issues in the twenty-first century.
-
Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian
By Xiaobing TangMy ultimate responsibility, however, lies in revealing the contemporary relevance of the Chinese experience in a most remarkable century. ... Reprinted by permission of the Program for Cultural Studies, The East-West Center. Chapter .
-
The Triple Asian Olympics - Asia Rising: The Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem
By J. A. Mangan, Sandra COLLINS, Gwang OkIn Pursuit of Contemporary East Asian Culture. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. In Dirlik, Arif and Xudong Zhang, eds. Postmodernism and China. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. Harootunian, H.D. Overcome by Modernity, ...
-
Media and Cultural Transformation in China
By Haiqing YuThis book examines the role played by the media in China’s cultural transformation in the early years of the 21st century.