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1. Refashioning Pop Music in Asia

   Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries

   Edited by Allen Chun, Ned Rossiter, Brian Shoesmith

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music and its cultural industries. Concentrating on the development of popular culture in its local socio-political...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Consuming China

   Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China

   Edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson, Jakob Klein

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance of consumption and consumerism in the People’s Republic of China today. In questioning the notion of...

   Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
3. Asian Food

   The Global and the Local

   By Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Boudewijn C. A. Walraven

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   By documenting, analysing and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples within the last hundred years, this volume pinpoints the consequences of the tension between homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation, which is so characteristic for today's global interaction....

   Published December 6th 2001 by Routledge
4. Illustrating Asia

   Comics, Humour Magazines and Picture Books

   By John Lent

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   Comic art and picture story telling have had rich traditions in Asia, yet have received little academic attention. This book helps redress this shortcoming through contributions on Asian comic and serial art, providing both historical and contemporary perspectives from countries across Asia....

   Published October 18th 2001 by Routledge
5. Asian Media Productions

   By Brian Moeran

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   A substantial book on the social practices and cultural attitudes of people producing, reading, watching and listening to different kinds of media in Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and India....

   Published August 9th 2001 by Routledge
6. The Commercialized Crafts of Thailand

   Hill Tribes and Lowland Villages

   By Erik Cohen

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   Brings together the author's pioneering studies of the commercialization of folk crafts in Thailand, conducted in the course of the last two decades. 'Destined to become a minor classic, both in the literature on rural Thailand and in the comparative study of contemporary arts and crafts.' Prof....

   Published July 24th 2000 by Routledge
7. Adult Manga

   Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society

   By Sharon Kinsella

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book shows how manga's status in Japanese society is intimately linked to changes in the balance of power between artists and editors....

   Published June 26th 2000 by Routledge
8. Japanese Consumer Behaviour

   From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers

   By John McCreery

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   What role does consumption play in Japanese lives that are more than study, work and shopping? How have those lives changed since World War II as Japan has wrestled with the meaning of white-collar careers, women spreading their wings, changing family values, a shrinking birth rate, an aging...

   Published April 5th 2000 by Routledge
9. Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism

   Asian Experiences

   By Kosaku Yoshino

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   Sheds new light on the issues of ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation in the context of Asia, blending theories with empirical material. This volume offers not only a wealth of historical and empirical detail, but also, most importantly, a fresh perspective, and a debunking of a number of...

   Published July 22nd 1999 by Routledge
10. Staging Hong Kong

    Gender and Performance in Transition

    By Rozanna Lilley

    Series: ConsumAsian Series

    Examines contemporary cultural production in Hong Kong and its links to representations of 'Hong Kong identity', and the political forces shaping discourses of identity and the ways in which identity is constituted within representation to dramatise an increasingly uncertain present....

    Published September 17th 1998 by Routledge