Kim Brandt: 3 books
Kingdom of Beauty
Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim...
The Affect of Difference
Representations of Race in East Asian Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Affect of Difference is a collection of essays offering a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia. Contributors approach this subject through the exploration of everyday culture from a range of academic disciplines, each working to show how race was made...
by Fiction River, Annie Reed, Lee Allred
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Humans prove great fodder for fiction. But what about the universe of possibilities offered by the nonhuman protagonist? The eighteen daring humans of Fiction River’s latest volume explore just that. From a goblin who must choose whether to risk everything for love to a heroic rat adventuring at...