Association for Asian Studies

Drinking Bomb and Shooting Meth

Alcohol and Drug Use in Japan

JEFFREY W. ALEXANDER

“A masterful analysis of modern Japanese alcohol and drug culture.”

—Norman Smith, author of

Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China’s Northeast

Jeffrey W. Alexander examines how Western alcohol and innovative pharmaceuticals became so popular, available, and fashionable in Japan. He considers the people who brewed, distilled, synthesized, and marketed these products and explores what their advertising campaigns say about Japan’s shifting culture.

JEFFREY W. ALEXANDER is dean of arts and sciences at Pueblo Community College.

$16.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-924304-85-9 $15.99 / £13.99 e-book 978-1-952636-09-7

2018 180 pages / 6" x 9" /  24 b&w figures

Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization

WILLIAM M. TSUTSUI

“The riotous, rich and multilayered nature of Japanese popular culture is crisply presented in this delightful overview. Hardcore student fans, bewildered teachers, and clueless scholars will all

benefit from the way Tsutsui makes sense of the diverse styles, narratives, and images surfacing in manga, anime, TV drama, music, and cinema.”

—Laura Miller, University of

Missouri-St . Louis

This book offers an accessible introduction to Japan’s pop creativity and its phenomenal influence on world culture, surveying forms from anime and manga to monster movies and Hello Kitty products.

WILLIAM M. TSUTSUI is Edwin O. Reischauer Distinguished Professor of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

Indonesia

History, Heritage, Culture

KATHLEEN M. ADAMS

This book offers a concise, engaging introduction to the historical, political and cultural dynamics of Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation and home to the world’s largest and most diverse Muslim population. Kathleen M. Adams interweaves brief, anthropologically informed stories of aspects of everyday life in Indonesia with broader historical accounts of the region.

KATHLEEN M. ADAMS is professor of anthropology at Loyola University Chicago and adjunct curator at the Field Museum of Natural History.

$15.00 / £12.99 paper 978-0-924304-62-0 $14.99 / £12.99 e-book 978-1-952636-05-9

2010 96 pages / 6" x 9" / 20 b&w figures $15.00 / £12.99 paper 978-0-924304-89-7

2020 132 pages / 6" x 9" / 48 b&w figures

The Dream of East Asia

The Rise of China, Nationalism, Popular Memory, and Regional Dynamics in Northeast Asia

JOHN LIE

This book presents a framework for understanding contemporary Northeast Asia, focusing on the countries that comprise the conventional understanding of East Asia—China, Taiwan, Japan, and the two Koreas. In so doing, John Lie illuminates regional economic, political, and cultural dynamics.

JOHN LIE is C. K. Cho Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity (2008).

A Friend in Deed

Lu Xun, Uchiyama Kanzō, and the Intellectual World of Shanghai on the Eve of War

JOSHUA A. FOGEL

The acclaimed writer Lu Xun spent the last decade of his life in the turbulent world of Shanghai. Soon after arriving in 1927, he befriended Uchiyama Kanzō, owner of a bookstore specializing in Japanese writings. Examining their friendship, Joshua Fogel paints a captivating portrait of two men of very different temperament, background, and political outlook.

JOSHUA A. FOGEL is Canada Research Chair in Modern Chinese Studies at York University. He is coeditor of Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China (2019).

Japanese Literature

From Murasaki to Murakami

MARVIN MARCUS

“This gracefully written volume will serve as a reliable anchor for any introduction to the full range of Japanese literary expression.”

—Jay Rubin, professor emeritus

of Japanese literature, Harvard

University

This book provides a concise introduction to the literature of Japan that traces its origins in the seventh century and explores its cultural contexts. Coverage extends to the present day with a focus on the complex twists and turns that mark Japan’s literature in the modern period.

MARVIN MARCUS is professor of Japanese language and literature and of comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis.

$16.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-924304-87-3 $15.99 / £13.99 e-book 978-1-952636-10-3

2018 138 pages / 6" x 9" / 20 b&w charts $16.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-924304-88-0 $15.99 / £13.99 e-book 978-1-952636-11-0

2019 122 pages / 6" x 9" $15.00 / £12.99 paper 978-0-924304-77-4 $14.99 / £12.99 e-book 978-1-952636-01-1

2015 132 pages / 6" x 9" / 32 b&w figures