Book Series in Asian Studies
ConsumAsian Series
New & Published Titles:
Consuming China
Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China
Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54686-7 (Routledge)
Refashioning Pop Music in Asia
Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries
Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music…
read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1401-8 (Routledge)
Asian Food
The Global and the Local
By documenting, analysing and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples within the last hundred years, this volume pinpoints the consequences of… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1333-2 (Routledge)
Illustrating Asia
Comics, Humour Magazines and Picture Books
Comic art and picture story telling have had rich traditions in Asia, yet have received little academic attention. This book helps redress this shortcoming through… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1188-8 (Routledge)
Asian Media Productions
A substantial book on the social practices and cultural attitudes of people producing, reading, watching and listening to different kinds of media in Japan, China,… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1334-9 (Routledge)
The Commercialized Crafts of Thailand
Hill Tribes and Lowland Villages
Brings together the author's pioneering studies of the commercialization of folk crafts in Thailand, conducted in the course of the last two decades. 'Destined to… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1196-3 (Routledge)
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Adult Manga
Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society
First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1004-1 (Routledge)
Japanese Consumer Behaviour
From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers
What role does consumption play in Japanese lives that are more than study, work and shopping? How have those lives changed since World War II… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1358-5 (Routledge)
Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism
Asian Experiences
Sheds new light on the issues of ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation in the context of Asia, blending theories with empirical material. This volume offers not… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1189-5 (Routledge)
Staging Hong Kong
Gender and Performance in Transition
Examines contemporary cultural production in Hong Kong and its links to representations of 'Hong Kong identity', and the political forces shaping discourses of identity and… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0703-4 (Routledge)