Category: Brill
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS Editor’s note: Ryan Ho Kilpatrick reflects on Reorienting Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific, a volume that interrogates Taiwanβs asserted maritime identity. The contributors expose tensions between political rhetoric, historical experience,…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βAn Oceanic Taiwan: Niki J. P. Alsford and Ti-Han Changβs Reorienting Taiwanβ by Lu Feng ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaonΒ Reorienting Taiwan. Niki J. P. Alsford and Ti-Han Chang (editors), Reorienting…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ChloΓ« F. Starr, Red-light Novels of the late Qing, Brill Publishing, 2007. 293 pgs. This book should be recognised as a significant academic achievement. It is the result of…
![[REVIEW] βA Niche Book on a Niche Subject: ChloΓ« F. Starrβs π
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Nightmare Japan. Jay McRoy, Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema, Brill, 2008. 232 pgs. Something has been happening with Asian horror, and it took a…
![[REVIEW] βEnfleshing Horror: Jay McRoyβs πππβπ‘ππππ π½ππππβ by Junnan Chen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/nightmare-japan-1.jpg?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tomoko Hidaka, Salaryman Masculinity: Continuity and Change in Hegemonic Masculinity in Japan, Brill, 2010. 224 pgs. βSalarymanβ is a word thatβs uniquely Japanese, even if the concept is not.…
![[REVIEW] βThe Paradigm to Emulate is the Salarymenβ by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/group-of-salarymen.webp?w=1000)
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