FILM/ART New in paper
Edo Kabuki in Transition
When Was Modernism
From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost
Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India
Satoko Shimazaki
Geeta Kapur
JOHN WHITNEY HALL BOOK PRIZE, ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES; CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. She then analyzes the profound changes that took place in Edo kabuki toward the end of the early modern period, which witnessed the rise of a new type of character: the vengeful female ghost. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17227-1 $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-17226-4 2020 392 pages
A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author situates the modern in contemporary cultural practice. The essays divide into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and Artworks and Film/Narratives, raise questions of authorship, genre, and contemporary features of national culture that materialize into an aesthetic in the Indian context. The last section—Frames of Reference—formalizes the polemical options developed across the book. $60.00 / £50.00 paper 978-81-894872-4-9 January 2021 456 pages
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Transpacific Attachments
Stars 79–80
Edited by Li Xi
Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
Lily Wong
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18339-0
In the late 1970s, at the close of the Cultural Revolution, a group of young, largely autodidact artists in China endeavored to create artwork that would depart from present norms and reflect individual ideals. It was a period of hope for the future, full of energy on all levels of society. In the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Stars, Stars 79–80 collects their most significant writings, images, and artworks, capturing the youthfulness and vibrancy of a new ideological movement.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-18338-3
$52.00 cloth 978-988-237-182-8
2020 248 pages 30 illus.
2020 292 pages 270 illus
GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE
THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG PRESS
Lily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century to the present. Wong focuses on the transpacific networks that reconfigure Chineseness, complicating a diasporic framework of cultural authenticity.
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