This is the first English-language book on cultural policy in Korea, which critically historicises and analyses the contentious and dynamic development of the policy. It highlights that the evolution of cultural policy has been bound up with the complicated political, economic a…
Iconographies of Occupation is the first book to address how the "collaborationist" Reorganized National Government (RNG) in Japanese-occupied China sought to visualize its leader, Wang Jingwei (1883-1944); the Chinese people; and China itself. It explores the ways in which this…
This is a new edition of Greenfield's pioneering study about the legal, political and historical aspects of cultural restitution.
Brandon Taylor aims to provide a full picture of Soviet culture during the years 1917 and 1932, a time when different movements in the art world vied with each other in claiming to represent the true art of the people.
Chinese decorative, pictorial, and architectural forms, often approached as separate traditions, are here explained as a broad artistic movement and contextualized as part of a well-defined cultural and political tradition. The book begins with the first comprehensive explanatio…