Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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A Geek in Indonesia: Discover the Land of Komodo Dragons, Balinese Healers and Dangdut Music
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Award-winning writer and Indonesia expert Tim Hannigan gives Southeast Asia's biggest country its proper due. Written in an irreverent, youthful ...
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Tokyo Geek's Guide: Manga, Anime, Gaming, Cosplay, Toys, Idols & More - The Ultimate Guide to Japan's Otaku Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's famous "geek" or otaku culture—a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe. This is the most comprehensive ...
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Otaku Japan: The Fascinating World of Japanese Manga, Anime, Gaming, Cosplay, Toys, Idols and More! (Covers over 450 locations with more than 400 photographs and 21 maps)
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Transport yourself to the global capital of cool with this ultimate guide to Japanese pop culture!Are you crazy about Japanese manga, anime, vide...
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Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $68.95 - Original price $68.95Original price $68.95$88.99$88.99 - $88.99Current price $88.99| /Born of Japan's cultural encounter with Western entertainment media, manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films) are two of ...
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Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a qu...
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Outlaw Music in Russia: The Rise of an Unlikely Genre
HardcoverOriginal price $89.95 - Original price $89.95Original price $89.95$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /The Russian shanson can be heard across the country today, on radio and television shows, at mass events like political rallies, and even at the Kr...
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Asian Political Cartoons
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia...
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Asian Political Cartoons
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia...
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Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Devotional Fanscapes examines the practices and materiality of fans who worship film stars as divine figures. This book is an analysis of visual cu...
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Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China: TV Drama as Popular Media
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book reveals how the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation and provides important clues to the understan...
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Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II. Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in ...
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A History of Modern Manga
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Discover the major events and artists who have shaped the history of modern manga, with this deluxe expanded volume. Amid reconstruction after Worl...
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Comics Art in China
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781496846471 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Publication Date: 04-21-2023 Pages: 234 Prod...
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Postwar South Korea and Japanese Popular Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /After World War II, Japanese popular culture was "banned" in Korea. However, despite the official ban, Japanese popular culture was introduced and ...
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Tabegirl: The Art of Jun
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Powerfully cute! Jun's TabeGirls are the embodiment of what makes Japanese character designs so beloved, as they capture young ladies at their pure...
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Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan's Lost Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cu...
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Tokyo - Capital of Cool: Tokyo's Most Famous Sights from Asakusa to Harajuku
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /**Winner of the North American Travel Journalists Association Silver Medal Prize** Take a colorful tour of Japan's capital with this alternative Ja...
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Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese lif...
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Edo-Punk!: The Dynamic World of Ukiyo-E by Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi & Others
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Absorb the invigorating energy that erupts from these ukiyo-e artists' works depicting the space between life and death!Ukiyo-e are paintings of th...
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Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of "Boys Love" (BL) soap operas whic...
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India - What can it teach us?: A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A must-read for every Indian. What Can It teach us? is a compilation of lectures delivered by Max Muller at Cambridge.F. Max Müller in lectures po...
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Hidetaka Tenjin's Artistry of Macross: Macross Frontier Films, Macross Delta & Archives
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime franchise illustrator Hidetaka...
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Spring Comes Riding in a Carriage: Maiden's Bookshelf
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A more intimate and romantic entry in the Maiden's Bookshelf series, this tale of doomed romance brings together the so-called "God of Literature" ...
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Japan from Anime to Zen: Quick Takes on Culture, Art, History, Food . . . and More
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This friendly guide offers concise but detailed demystifications of more than 85 aspects of ancient and modern Japan. It can be read in sequence,...
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