Bücher der Reihe ConsumAsian Series

A study of the development of the Asian department store, this book examines various aspects of retailing, business organization, networking and consumerism in the expanding economies of Asia.

Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book shows how manga's status in Japanese society is intimately linked to changes in the balance of power between artists and editors.

This work consists of 12 essays on different aspects of Asian media by Japanese, European, and American scholars, many of whom have themselves been involved in the production of media forms.

By documenting, analysing and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples within the last hundred years, this volume tries to pinpoint the consequences of the tension between homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation.

This collection of thirteen essays examines cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music across Asia, from India to Japan.

This work focuses on a series of interactions and exchanges - whether philosophical, political, aesthetic or commercial - between Australia and the cultures of the Asia-Pacific region. Emphasis is placed on the discursive means by which Asia is represented in Australian cultural practices.

This collection of thirteen essays examines cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music across Asia, from India to Japan.