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  • K-pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry

    Edited by JungBong Choi, Roald Maliangkay ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as "South Korea’s greatest export", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely through distribution over the Internet. This book examines the phenomenon, and discusses the reasons for its success. It considers the national and transnational conditions that have played a role in K-pop’s ascendancy, and explores how they relate ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Tales of Enshin, the Reluctant Samurai

    Stories of Old Japan. Book 2

    by Roald Knutsen ...
    Torii Enshin was the son of a high-ranking warrior in the late-fifteenth century and a skilled swordsman. He was disturbed at the sad lives of the common people and became a priest. He intended to devote his life to healing the poor who suffered everywhere in war-torn Japan. But then found himself reluctantly having to use his samurai skills once again… These short stories, drawn from his own ... Read more

    $70.07 CAD

  • Women in Islam

    The Western Experience

    by Anne-Sofie Roald ...
    Women in Islam investigates the ongoing debate across the Muslim world and the West on the position of women in Islam.Anne-Sofie Roald focuses on how Islamic perceptions of women and gender change in Western Muslim communities. She shows how Islamic attitudes towards social concerns such as gender relations, female circumcision, and female dress emerge as responsive to culture and context, rather ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

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    by Shyam Selvadurai ...
    A Globe and Mail Best Book • A Guardian Summer Book Pick • A CBC Best Canadian Fiction Book of the Year • From the bestselling, award-winning author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts comes a breathtaking reimagining of ancient India through the extraordinary life of Yasodhara, the woman who married the Buddha.In this sweeping tale, at once epic and intimate, Shyam Selvadurai introduces us to ... Read more

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  • Television Studies After TV

    Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era

    Edited by Graeme Turner, Jinna Tay ...
    Television studies must now address a complex environment where change has been vigorous but uneven, and where local and national conditions vary significantly. Globalizing media industries, deregulatory policy regimes, the multiplication, convergence and trade in media formats, the emergence of new content production industries outside the US/UK umbrella, and the fragmentation of media audiences ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • 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

    $30.79 CAD

  • 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

    $27.49 CAD

  • Sons of Darkness

    by Gourav Mohanty ...
    Series Book 1 - The Raag of Rta
    **'LIKE GAME OF THRONES IN AN INDIAN UNIVERSE' DAN JONES**THE HOUSE OF THE DRAGON MEETS SUCCESSION IN AN EPIC REIMAGINING OF THE MAHABHARATA'An unforgettable wild journey set in re-imagined Vedic India' SF Book Review'Like Game of Thrones in an Indian alternative universe... exhilarating... heralds the arrival of a special new talent' Dan ... ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

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  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

    Edited by Edward L. Davis ...
    Series series Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture
    This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of specialists, to enable readers to explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons to rock groups, underground Christian churches to TV talk shows and radio hotlines. Experimental ... Read more

    $182.75 CAD

  • 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

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Last of Earth

    A BBC must-read book

    by Deepa Anappara ...
    A STUNNING HISTORICAL NOVEL FROM WOMEN'S PRIZE LONGLISTED AUTHOR* One of BBC's '12 books you need to read in 2026'* A Guardian Book of the Day* A BookBub 'Best Historical Fiction of 2026' selectionTwo outsiders venture into the Forbidden Kingdom of Tibet, both driven by a motive they are desperate to keep secret…In 1869, the mountainous territory of Tibet is closed t... ... Read more

    $17.39 CAD

  • The Korean Wave

    Korean Media Go Global

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture - the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a global context?This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD