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  • Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia

    by Ran Ma ...
    Series series Asian Visual Cultures
    Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia, a strand of transnational filmmaking that converges with Asia’s vibrant yet unevenly developed independent film movements amidst global neoliberalism. These projects bear ... Read more

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  • Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

    Second International Conference, ICPAMI 2025, Dalian, China, October 31 - November 2, 2025, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Jie Yang, Ran He, Shiwei Ma ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, ICPAMI 2025, held in Dalian, China, during August 29–31, 2025.The 23 papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. Their insightful talks covered the applications, challenges, and future directions of Multimodal Foundation and Large ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid trans-nationalistic appeal. This book investigates transcultural consumption of three iconic figures — the middle-aged Japanese female fandom of actor Bae Yong-Joon, the Western online cult fandom of the thriller film ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • China on Video

    Smaller-Screen Realities

    by Paola Voci ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies- ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Hong Kong Culture

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Hong Kong as a world city draws on a rich variety of foundational “texts” in film, fiction, architecture and other forms of visual culture. The city has been a cultural fault-line for centuries—a translation space where Chinese-ness is interpreted for “Westerners” and Western-ness is translated for Chinese. Though constantly refreshed by its Chinese roots and global influences, this hub of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a groundbreaking project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. As a foundational text, this volume provides a much-needed introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Urban Generation

    Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

    by Jason McGrath, Chris Berry, Sheldon H. Lu ...
    Since the early 1990s, while mainland China’s state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the “Urban Generation,” this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the “Urban Generation” rubric is their ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Asian Masculinities

    The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan

    Edited by Kam Louie, Morris Low ...
    This book shows how East Asian masculinities are being formed and transformed as Asia is increasingly globalized. The gender roles performed by Chinese and Japanese men are examined not just as they are lived in Asia, but also in the West. The essays collected here enhance current understandings of East Asian identities and cultures as well as Western conceptions of gender and sexuality. While ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • World Cinema

    A Critical Introduction

    by Shekhar Deshpande, Meta Mazaj ...
    World Cinema: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to film industries across the globe. From the 1980s onwards, new technologies and increased globalization have radically altered the landscape in which films are distributed and exhibited. Films are made from the large-scale industries of India, Hollywood, and Asia, to the small productions in Bhutan and Morocco. They ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    At the core of Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation is a fascinating paradox: the martial arts film, long regarded as a vehicle of Chinese cultural nationalism, can also be understood as a mass cultural expression of Hong Kong’s modern urban-industrial society. This important and popular genre, Man-Fung Yip argues, articulates the experiential ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader

    by Kuan-Hsing Chen, Beng Huat Chua ...
    Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies scholarship to the international English speaking world and constantly challenging existing conceptions of cultural studies, the journal has emerged as the leading publication in Cultural Studies in Asia ... Read more

    $70.99 USD