John A. Lent
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Illustrating Asia
Comics, Humor, Magazines
and Picture Books
ConsumAsiaN Book Series
University of Hawai'i Press
Honolulu, Hawai'i, U.S.A.
252 pages, 2001
ISBN : 0-8248-2471-7
Acknowledgements
A note on japanese and chinese names
Introduction, John A. Lent
Part I : Overviews and case studies
1. Comics as social commentary in Java, Indonesia. Laine Berman
2. From self-knowledge to super heroes : the story of Indian comics. Aruna Rao
3. Shaping a cultural identity : the picture book and cartoons in Taiwan, 1945-1980. Shu-chu Wei
4. Cartooning in Sri-Lanka. John A. Lent
5. Lianhuanhua and Manhua - Picture books and comics in Old Shanghai. Kuiyi Shen
6. The corporeality of erotic imagination : a study of pictorials and cartoons in Republican China.
Yingjin Zhang
7. Red Comic Books : The origins of modern japanese Manga. Shimizu Isao
Part II : Representations and portrayals
8. Redrawing the past : modern presentation of ancient Chinese philosophy in the cartoons of
Tsai Chih-Chung. Shu-chu Wei
9. Gender insubordination in Japanese comics (Manga) for girls. Fusami Ōgi
10. Malaysia's Mad magazines : images of females and males in Malay culture. Ronald Provencher
11. Images of the enemy in the wartime Manga magazine, 1941-1945. Rei Okamoto
References
Contributors
Index
