Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines and Picture Books
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (2001), ix, 249 pp.
Contains many illustrations, bibliogr. pp. 221-233, index
Series: ConsumAsiaN Book Series
ISBN 0-7007-1188-0
Signature commbox: 300:20-Entertainment 2001
Introduction / John A. Lent, 1
I. OVERVIEW AND CASE STUDIES
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
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
I. OVERVIEW AND CASE STUDIES
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
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
