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Tears of Longing
Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song
Häftad, 2003
227 kr
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Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who constitute enka's primary audience, this music—of parted lovers, long unseen rural hometowns, and self-sacrificing mothers—evokes a direct connection …
Modern Girls on the Go
Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan
Av Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1235 kr
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This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the …
Modern Girls on the Go
Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan
Av Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
300 kr
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This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the …
Modern Girls on the Go
Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan
Av Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
364 kr
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This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the …
Airborne Dreams
"Nisei" Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
Häftad, 2011
521 kr
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In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well. Based in Honolulu, these women were informally known as Pan Am’s “Nisei”-second-generation Japanese Americans-even …
Pink Globalization
Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific
Inbunden, 2013
1570 kr
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In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization-the spread of goods and images labeled cute (kawaii) from …
Pink Globalization
Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific
Häftad, 2013
314 kr
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In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization-the spread of goods and images labeled cute (kawaii) from …
Airborne Dreams
“Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
E-bok, 2011
521 kr
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In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well. Based in Honolulu, these women were informally known as Pan Am’s “Nisei”—second-generation Japanese Americans—even …
Pink Globalization
Hello Kitty''s Trek across the Pacific
E-bok, 2013
472 kr
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In Pink Globalization , Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization—the spread of goods and images labeled cute ( kawaii ) …
Eating Korean in America
Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity
Av Sonia Ryang, Christine R. Yano m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
272 kr
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Ryang explores the world of Korean food in four American locations, visiting restaurants and grocery stores and observing Korean food as it is prepared and served. She analyzes the history and evolution of each dish, how it arrived and what it became, but above all, she tastes and experiences her …
Branding Japanese Food
From Meibutsu to Washoku
Av Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Yasuhara Miho m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
927 kr
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Branding Japanese Food is the first book in English on the use of food for the purpose of place branding in Japan. At the center of the narrative is the 2013 inscription of "Washoku, traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese, notably for the celebration of New Year" on UNESCO's Representative …
Branding Japanese Food
From Meibutsu to Washoku
Av Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Yasuhara Miho m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
338 kr
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Branding Japanese Food is the first book in English on the use of food for the purpose of place branding in Japan. At the center of the narrative is the 2013 inscription of ""Washoku, traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese, notably for the celebration of New Year"" on UNESCO's Representative …
Straight a's
Asian American College Students in Their Own Words
Av Christine R. Yano, Neal K. Adolph Akatsuka
Inbunden, 2018
1390 kr
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The American Dream of success for many Asian Americans includes the highest levels of education. But what does it mean to live that success? In Straight A’s Asian American students at Harvard reflect on their common experiences with discrimination, immigrant communities, their relationships to …
Straight a's
Asian American College Students in Their Own Words
Av Christine R. Yano, Neal K. Adolph Akatsuka
Häftad, 2018
332 kr
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The American Dream of success for many Asian Americans includes the highest levels of education. But what does it mean to live that success? In Straight A’s Asian American students at Harvard reflect on their common experiences with discrimination, immigrant communities, their relationships to …
Straight A's
Asian American College Students in Their Own Words
Av Neal K. Adolph Akatsuka, Christine R. Yano
E-bok, 2018
521 kr
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The American Dream of success for many Asian Americans includes the highest levels of education. But what does it mean to live that success? In Straight A’s Asian American students at Harvard reflect on their common experiences with discrimination, immigrant communities, their relationships to …
Speak American
The Politics of Race, Language, and Education in Territorial Hawai‘i
Inbunden, 2026
869 kr
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Speak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Hawai‘i from 1924 to 1960 via the public K–12 English Standard School System. In this segregated system, children were tested for spoken English fluency: those who passed were placed in elite classes or …
Speak American
The Politics of Race, Language, and Education in Territorial Hawai‘i
Häftad, 2026
314 kr
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Speak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Hawai‘i from 1924 to 1960 via the public K–12 English Standard School System. In this segregated system, children were tested for spoken English fluency: those who passed were placed in elite classes or …
Airborne Dreams
"Nisei" Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
Inbunden, 2011
1263 kr
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In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well. Based in Honolulu, these women were informally known as Pan Am’s “Nisei”-second-generation Japanese Americans-even …
Crowning the Nice Girl
Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawaii's Cherry Blossom Festival
Inbunden, 2006
668 kr
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After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953, members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce and their wives created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival (CBF) Queen Pageant, which quickly …
Crowning the Nice Girl
Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawaii's Cherry Blossom Festival
Häftad, 2006
309 kr
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After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953, members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce and their wives created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival (CBF) Queen Pageant, which quickly …
Eating Korean in America
Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity
Av Sonia Ryang, Christine R. Yano m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
453 kr
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Can food be both national and global at the same time? What happens when a food with a national identity travels beyond the boundaries of a nation? What makes a food authentically national and yet American or broader global?With these questions in mind, Sonia Ryang explores the world of Korean food …
Making Waves
Traveling Musics in Hawai'i, Asia, and the Pacific
Av Frederick Lau, Christine R. Yano
Inbunden, 2018
927 kr
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Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), …
Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine
The Food Movement That Changed the Way Hawai‘i Eats
Av Samuel Hideo Yamashita, Robert Ji-Song Ku m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
774 kr
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Poke, spam musubi, and loco mocos are currently the rage on the mainland United States, and restaurants serving “local food” have popped up not only in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle but also in Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC. Who could have predicted the popularity of over-the-top …
Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine
The Food Movement That Changed the Way Hawai‘i Eats
Av Samuel Hideo Yamashita, Robert Ji-Song Ku m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
216 kr
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Poke, spam musubi, and loco mocos are currently the rage on the mainland United States, and restaurants serving “local food” have popped up not only in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle but also in Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC. Who could have predicted the popularity of over-the-top …
Making Waves
Traveling Musics in Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific
Av Frederick Lau, David D. Harnish m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
309 kr
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Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), …
