Illustrating Asia : comics, humor magazines, and picture books / edited by John A. Lent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lent, John A.

Series:

ConsumAsiaN book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Asia--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Asia.

Physical Description:

ix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2001]

Summary:

Illustrating Asia is a fascinating book on a subject that is of wide and topical interest. All of the articles consider cartoon and/or comic art in the historical and social setting of seven South, Southeast, and East Asia countries: India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan.

Contents:

1 Comics as Social Commentary in Java, Indonesia / Laine Berman 13

2 From Self-Knowledge to Super Heroes: the story of Indian comics / Aruna Rao 37

3 Shaping a Cultural Identity: the picture book and cartoons in Taiwan, 1945-1980 / Shu-chu Wei 64

4 Cartooning in Sri Lanka / John A. Lent 81

5 Lianhuanhua and Manhua

Picture Books and Comics in Old Shanghai / Kuiyi Shen 100

6 The Corporeality of Erotic Imagination: a study of pictorials and cartoons in Republican China / Yingjin Zhang 121

7 Red Comic Books: the origins of modern Japanese Manga / Shimizu Isao 137

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 153

9 Gender Insubordination in Japanese Comics (Manga) for Girls / Fusami Ogi 171

10 Malaysia's Mad Magazines: images of females and males in Malay culture / Ronald Provencher 187

11 Images of the Enemy in the Wartime Manga Magazine, 1941-1945 / Rei Okamoto 204.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.

ISBN:

0824824717

OCLC:

45661703