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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david s roh”
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  • Minor Transpacific

    Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions

    by David S. Roh ...
    Series series Asian America
    There is a tendency to think of Korean American literature—and Asian American literature writ large—as a field of study involving only two spaces, the United States and Korea, with the same being true in Asian studies of Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature involving only Japan and Korea. This book posits that both fields have to account for three spaces: Korean American literature has to grapple ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Illegal Literature

    Toward a Disruptive Creativity

    by David S. Roh ...
    What is the cultural value of illegal works that violate the copyrights of popular fiction? Why do they persist despite clear and stringent intellectual property laws? Drawing on the disciplines of new media, law, and literary studies, Illegal Literature suggests that extralegal works such as fan fiction are critical to a system that spurs the evolution of culture.Reconsidering voices relegated to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Techno-Orientalism 2.0

    New Intersections and Interventions

    by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta Aiyu Niu, Christopher T. Fan, Justin Battin, Agnieszka Kiejziewicz, Edmond Chang0, Clare Kim1, Adhy Kim2, Jung Soo Lee3, Lori Kido Lopez4, Kimberly McKee5, Jane Park6, Imran Parray7, Baryon Posadas8, Thomas Sarmiento9, Gerald Sim0, Leland Tabares1, Rachel Tay2, Jae Yeon Yoo3, Charles Tung4, Shana Ye5, Ian Liujia Tian6, Professor Anna Romina Guevarra7, Professor Won Jeon8 ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions addresses the impact of a volatile post-pandemic present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The backdrop of this highly anticipated follow-up is a world that is radically ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Techno-Orientalism

    Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

    by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Seo-Young Chu0, Abigail De Kosnik1, Jinny Huh2, Steve Choe3, Se Young Kim4, Dylan Yeats5, Julie Ha Tran6, Kathryn Allan7, Aimee Bahng8, Douglas S. Ishii9, Tzarina T. Prater0, Catherine Fung1, Charles Park2 ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature

    Edited by Crystal Parikh, Daniel Y. Kim ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural movements affecting ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • China, the New Paper Tiger

    by John Tierney ...
    China has been China for four thousand years; concealment may be a reaction to a past redolent of autocracy, but it seems prevelent in all aspects of Chinese life. Confucious' idea of keeping the masses ignorant in order to make them easier to govern remains in force. We in America have had, or had until just recently, an underlying assumption that things are going to get better and better. This ... Read more

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  • Coming of Age in Second Life

    An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

    by Tom Boellstorff, Tom Boellstorff ...
    Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    by David Moser ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Queer Transfigurations

    Boys Love Media in Asia

    by Dr. Thomas Baudinette, Dr. Poowin Bunyavejchewin, Dr. Tricia Abigail Santos Fermin, Dr. Katrien Jacobs, Dr. Han Hau Lai, Byung’chu Dredge Kang-Nguyễn, Dr. Hyojin Kim, Dr. Jungmin Kwon, Dr. Aerin Lai, Dr. Xi Lin, Dr. Lakshmi Menon, Dr. Kazumi Nagaike, Dr. Gita Pramudita Prameswari, Dr. Asako P. Santo, Dr. Kristine Michelle Santos, Dr. Kania Arini Sukotjo, Dr. Peiti Wang, Dr. Yanrui Xu, Dr. Ling Yang, Dr. Wei Wei ...
    Series series Asia Pop!
    The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan works. BL ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Asia as Method

    Toward Deimperialization

    by Kuan-Hsing Chen ...
    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Dangerous Women

    Gender and Korean Nationalism

    Edited by Elaine H. Kim, Chungmoo Choi ...
    Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated ... Read more

    $68.99 USD