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A modern popular culture in middle-class Japan 日本中产阶级的现代流行文化

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/eapc_00075_2

S. Sommers

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The ‘hedonistic revolution of everyday life’: Men’s magazines, consumerism and the Japanese salaryman in the 1960s “日常生活的享乐主义革命”:20世纪60年代的男性杂志、消费主义和日本工薪族

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/eapc_00076_1

M. Smith

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The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media, Thomas Lamarre (2018) 《动漫生态:电视、动画和游戏媒体谱系》，托马斯·拉玛雷著(2018)

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/eapc_00082_5

Mathieu Rondeau

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Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama, Guojun Wang (2020) 舞台人物：清初戏剧中的角色扮演，王国军（2020）

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/eapc_00083_5

Adam D. Frank

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The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan, Kirk A. Denton (2021) 《历史记忆的景观：台湾后大陆法中的博物馆政治与纪念文化》，柯克·丹顿（2021）

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/eapc_00084_5

Yan Ying

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Examining the emergence of Hong Kong identity: A critical study of the 1970s Cantonese sketch comedy, The Hui Brothers Show 检视香港身份认同的出现:对七十年代广东小品喜剧《许氏兄弟秀》的批判性研究

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/eapc_00074_1

Charles Lam, Genevieve Leung

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Changes in the image of middle-aged women: A study of otona-joshi (‘adult girls’) in Japanese print media 中年妇女形象的变化:日本平面媒体中“成年女孩”的研究

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/eapc_00079_1

Satoshi Ota

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Panmemic inoculation: How Taiwan is nerfing the pandemic with cute humour 流感疫苗:台湾如何用可爱的幽默来抵御流感

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/eapc_00073_1

Jacob F. Tischer

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The Takarazuka Revue’s post-war tours of Hawai’i: Exploring Japanese female agency and the restrictions placed upon it 宝冢影评战后夏威夷之旅：探索日本女性经纪公司及其限制

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/eapc_00078_1

Toshiko Irie

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General editorial: EAJPC 8.2 总论：EAJPC 8.2

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/eapc_00072_2

E. Vickers, A. Heylen, K. Taylor-Jones

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