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Jin Yong
The most popular series by the most successful Chinese author - a cultural monument translated into English for the first time
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The most popular series by the most successful Chinese author - a cultural monument translated into English for the first time.
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This volume showcases continuity and change in communication with and within North Korea. By approaching the country from three distinct angles -news media, popular culture, and digital technology- the volume…
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Paul B Foster
Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex is an analysis of the role of Jin Yong's stories and characters in the construction of the "kungfu industrial complex"--a…
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Dal Yong Jin
This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective.
Seongcheol Kim, Dal Yong Jin
Korea's Platform Empire explores the evolution of digital platforms in South Korea's media sphere, and their global political, economic, cultural, and technological influence.
This book introduces Uisang (625-702), a seminal figure in East Asian religion who founded the Korean Hwaom school of Buddhism and will be of interest to researchers in a variety…
This reprint encompasses articles that were accepted and published as part of the Special Issue entitled "Advanced Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Solutions in Applied Mechanics and Engineering." This Special Issue…
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Dr Guo Yong Jin
"The Ancient Wisdom of Dao De Jing" is concise, simple, yet profound. Each chapter contains timeless wisdom. If you interpret the words according to the text, you can only understand…
Jin Yong Park
This book provides easy-to-understand descriptions of high-quality liposuction techniques applicable to different parts of the body, including the face, abdomen, breasts, arms, buttocks, thighs, and calves. The coverage also encompasses…
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A multifaceted exploration of the South Korean film industry
Presents the first detailed scholarly overview of the South Korean film industry. This volume offers invigorating discussions of the South Korean film industry, as well as its economic, political, and…
Paul B. Foster
Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex explores the role of Jin Yong's popular martial arts fiction in Chinese literary and cultural discourse. The kungfu industrial complex…
Christopher Hamm
The martial arts novel is one of the most distinctive and widely-read forms of modern Chinese fiction. John Christopher Hamm offers the first in-depth English-language study of this fascinating and…
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The high stakes, tension-filled epic Legends of the Condor Heroes series, where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung fu master…
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Jin Yong, Gigi Chang (trans.)
The most popular series by the most successful Chinese author – a cultural monument translated into English for the first time.
Ann Huss,Jianmei Liu
This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yongs works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in Chinese literature to the English-speaking audience. Jin Yong…
First published in the English language in Great Britain by MacLehose Press –Copyright page.
A Heart Divided is the fourth and final volume in Jin Yong’s high stakes, tension-filled epic Legends of the Condor Heroes, where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power…
Louis Cha (Jin Yong)
The Deer and the Cauldron is Louis Cha’s last novel. This picaresque, historical romance feaures Trinket , an irreverent and comic anti-hero unlike Cha’s more conventional, valorous protagonists. The Times…
Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other…
A comprehensive and critical introduction to understanding the Korean Wave (Hallyu) as a transnational media phenomenon.
Global media expert Dal Yong Jin examines the nexus of globalization, digital media, and contemporary popular culture in this empirically rich, student-friendly book.
In this comprehensive volume, leading scholars of media and communication examine the nexus of globalization, digital media, and popular culture in the early 21st century.
This book offers an in-depth academic discourse on the convergence of AI, digital platforms, and popular culture, in order to understand the ways in which the platform and cultural industries…
This book contributes to the platform imperialism discourse by mapping out several core areas of platform imperialism, such as intellectual property, the global digital divide, and free labor, focusing on…
This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry - a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians’ engagement…
Examines the complex relationship between technology, culture, and socio-economic elements by exploring it in a transnational, yet contextually grounded, framework. It explores diverse perspectives and approaches, from political economy to…
Explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent…
Analyses mobile communication in the context of Korean smartphones. This book looks into a largely neglected focus of inquiry, a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Koreans’ engagement…
Yong Jin Park
Exploring the chasm between the tyranny of surveillance and the ideal of privacy, this book traces the origins of personal data collection in digital technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) embedded…
