This second collection of primary sources in English translation ranges across a gamut of places and moments in the early modern Spanish Pacific.
This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children’s social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations influence their digital experiences.
This book explores the fundamental creative tension between the native and the foreign in many areas of Japanese culture, from politics and religion to art and literature – a tension also often interpreted as between tradition and modernity.
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This edited volume seeks to evaluate the complex tensions between democratic renewal and regression by focusing on the activist efforts by Indonesian filmmakers to maintain and open spaces for creative experimentation, critical reflection and social diversity.
This book examines how sport and leisure have the capacity to impact on our understanding and experience of culture, protest, and social change.
The Evolution of Chinese Popular Cinema provides insights into the Chinese film industry and popular cinema in the past two decades (with a major focus on the films produced since the mid-2010s).
This book utilizes empirically rich case studies explore the nature, regulation and evolution of internet cultural products, vernacular internet cultures and subcultural online communities which have been deemed ‘vulgar’ by the Chinese state, official media and policy documents.
Focussing on a series of films produced during the administration of disgraced and then pardoned President Park Geun-hye (2013–2017), this book examines South Korea’s relationship with Japan and how this relationship continues to be negotiated through films and politics.
Chinese Borderlands in Transition: Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation offers a compelling exploration of borderlands as dynamic cultural spaces.
This book is the culmination of advanced historical and sociological fieldwork in China, Japan and France.