Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. The need to incorporate nature into politics was rev…
Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. The need to incorporate nature into politics was rev…
A study of post-Suharto Indonesia that focuses on the role of architecture and urban space in defining social changes, as well the role that such spaces play in forming social and political identities, particularly social memories.
"In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on the long history of US hegemony in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construc…
"In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on the long history of US hegemony in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construc…
The end of Pax Americana and the nationalism of Hikikomori
by Sakai, Naoki
fromAsia-Pacific
"In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on the long history of US hegemony in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construc…
"Naoki Sakai examines the decline of US hegemony in Japan and East Asia and its impact on national identity and legacies of imperialism."--
Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love of one woman for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and te…
Examining a broad range of media (texts, film, television soap operas, comics, pop music, internet) this book studies lesbian representation in the contemporary Chinese mass cultures that circulate between the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Examining a broad range of media, this book studies lesbian representation in the contemporary Chinese mass cultures that circulate between the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.