Lent,
John A., ed. Illustrating
Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines, and Picture Books.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii P, 2001. 249pp. ISBN 0824824717 (cloth).
Acknowledgments ... vii
A note on Japanese and Chinese names ... ix
Introduction, John A. Lent ... 1
Part I: Overviews and Case Studies
- Comics as Social Commentary in Java, Indonesia, Laine Berman ... 13
- From Self-Knowledge to Super Heroes: the story of Indian comics, Aruna Rao ... 37
- Shaping a Cultural Identity: the picture book and cartoons in Taiwan, 1945-1980, Shu-chu Wei ... 64
- Cartooning in Sri Lanka, John A. Lent ... 81
- Lianhuanhua and Manhua - Picture Books and Comics in Old Shanghai, Kuiyi Shen ... 100
- The Corporeality of Erotic Imagination: a study of pictorials and cartoons in Republican China, Yingjin Zhang ... 121
- Red Comic Books: the origins of modern Japanese Manga, Shimizu Isao ... 137
Part II: Representations and Portrayals
- Redrawing the Past: modern presentation of ancient Chinese philosophy in the cartoons of Tsai Chih-Chung, Shu-chu Wei ... 153
- Gender Insubordination in Japanese Comics (Manga) for Girls, Fusami ōgi ... 171
- Malaysia's Mad Magazines: images of females and males in Malay culture, Ronald Provencher ... 187
- Images of the Enemy in the Wartime Manga Magazine, 1941-1945, Rei Okamoto ... 204
References ... 221
Contributors ... 234
Index ... 236