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Category Archives: textbooks
Book Announcement: Plotting the Prince: Shotoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8620-9780824834630.aspx Plotting the Prince: Shotoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism Author: Carr, Kevin Plotting the Prince traces the development of conceptual maps of the world created through the telling of stories about Prince Shōtoku (573?–622?), an eminent … Continue reading
Approaching the Sacred: Japanese Buddhist Temples in Hawai‘i Exhibition
Via News from University of Hawai‘i Press. An exhibition of Japanese Buddhist temple objects and furnishings will be on display at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i community gallery from December 1, 2012 through February 22, 2013. The show is curated by professors … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Illustrated Guide to Hawaii’s Japanese Buddhist Temples
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8767-9780824836795.aspx Tanabe, George J.; Tanabe, Willa Jane Japanese Buddhist Temples in Hawaii 256pp. October 2012 Paper – Price: $22.99ISBN: 978-0-8248-3679-5 Cloth – Price: $45.00ISBN: 978-0-8248-3663-4 363 color illus. A Latitude 20 Book Upon entering a Japanese Buddhist temple in Hawai‘i, … Continue reading
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Tagged area studies, book annoucement, books, Buddhist, culture, Hawai'i, Japanese, religious studies, temple, Zen
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Book Announcement: The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8622-9780824835873.aspx The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan Author: Cather, Kirsten 342pp. July 2012 Cloth – Price: $45.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3587-3 In 2002 a manga (comic book) was for the first time successfully charged with the crime of obscenity in the … Continue reading
Resource: Podcasts – New Books in East Asian Studies
We often post new book announcements on Sundays here at Shinpai Deshou, but we rarely have the time to review books we’ve read, especially not recent or up and coming works. Today’s resource does just that, and in convenient podcast … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, China, east asia, interviews, Japan, Korea, New Books in East Asian Studies, New Books Network, podcast
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Book Announcement: The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20941 The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan Maki Fukuoka Stanford University Press Forthcoming July 2012 ISBN: 9780804777902 The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century, academic, art, art history, book announcement, books, Japan, photography, science, visual culture
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Book Announcement: Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674065864 Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930 Satoru Saito ISBN 9780674065864 Harvard University Press Publication April 2012 In Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and … Continue reading
Book Announcement: The People’s Post Office
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674062450 The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871–2010 Patricia L. Maclachlan ISBN 9780674062450 Publication March 2012 In 2001, Prime Minister Koizumi Jun’ichirō launched a crusade to privatize Japan’s postal services. The plan was … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girl’s Culture in Japan
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8616-9780824836382.aspx Deborah Shamoon University of Hawai’i Press March 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3638-2; 978-0-8248-3542-2 Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, book announcement, books, culture, Deborah Shamoon, gender, girls' culture, magazines, manga, shojo, visual
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Book Announcement: Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8623-9780824835941.aspx Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano University of Hawai’i Press May 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3594-1 Digital technology has transformed cinema’s production, distribution, and consumption patterns and pushed contemporary cinema toward increasingly global markets. In the case of Japanese cinema, a once moribund industry has … Continue reading
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Tagged auteur, books, digital technology, ethnic, film, horror, Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, new media
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