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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-14 - Publisher: McFarland
Thanks to the successes of directors and actors like John Woo, Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun-Fat, the cinema of Hong Kong is wildly popular worldwide, and there is
Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Routledge
"Examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, Japan, and Singapore and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the regi
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Pages: 366
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-21 - Publisher: SUNY Press
Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance. This book explores the soci
