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In Pursuit of Contemporary East Asian Culture (Hardcover)
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In Pursuit of Contemporary East Asian Culture (Hardcover)
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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.
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