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Illustrating Asia : comics, humor magazines, and picture books / edited by John A. Lent.
- Title
- Illustrating Asia : comics, humor magazines, and picture books / edited by John A. Lent.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lent, John A.
- Description
- ix, 249 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- All of the articles consider cartoon and/or comic art in the historical and social setting of seven South, Southeast, and East Asian countries: India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. The contributors treat comic and narrative art--including comic books, comic strips, picture books, and humor and fan magazines--in both historical and socio-cultural perspectives, as well as portrayals of ancient Chinese philosophy, gender, and the enemy in cartoons and comics. -- Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- ConsumAsiaN book series
- Uniform Title
- ConsumAsiaN book series.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Comics as social commentary in Java, Indonesia / Laine Berman -- From self-knowledge to super heroes: the story of Indian comics / Aruna Rao -- Shaping a cultural identity: the picture book and cartoons in Taiwan, 1945-1980 / Shu-chu Wei -- Cartooning in Sri Lanka / John A. Lent -- Lianhuanhua and Manhua, picture books and comics in old Shanghai / Kuiyi Shen -- The corporeality of erotic imagination: a study of pictorials and cartoons in Republican China / Yingjin Zhang -- Red comic books: the origins of modern Japanese Manga / Shimizu Isao -- Redrawing the past: modern presentation of ancient Chinese philosophy in the cartoons of Tsai Chih-Chung / Shu-chu Wei -- Gender insubordination in Japanese comics (Manga) for girls / Fusami Ōgi -- Malaysia's mad magazines: images of females and males in Malay culture / Ronald Provencher -- Images of the enemy in wartime Manga magazine, 1941-1945 / Rei Okamoto.
- ISBN
- 0824824717 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^00054498^
- OCLC
- 45661703
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library