Illustrating Asia

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