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Journal of East Asian Libraries, No. 165, October 2017
Journal of East Asian Libraries Volume 2017 | Number 165 Article 1 10-2017 Journal of East Asian Libraries, No. 165, October 2017 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal BYU ScholarsArchive Citation (2017) "Journal of East Asian Libraries, No. 165, October 2017," Journal of East Asian Libraries: Vol. 2017 : No. 165 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal/vol2017/iss165/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of East Asian Libraries by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Journal of East Asian Libraries Journal of the Council on East Asian Libraries No. 165, October 2017 CONTENTS From the President 3 Essay A Tribute to John Yung-Hsiang Lai 4 Eugene W. Wu Peer-Review Articles An Overview of Predatory Journal Publishing in Asia 8 Jingfeng Xia, Yue Li, and Ping Situ Current Situation and Challenges of Building a Japanese LGBTQ Ephemera Collection at Yale Haruko Nakamura, Yoshie Yanagihara, and Tetsuyuki Shida 19 Using Data Visualization to Examine Translated Korean Literature 36 Hyokyoung Yi and Kyung Eun (Alex) Hur Managing Changes in Collection Development 45 Xiaohong Chen Korean R me for the Library of Congress to Stop Promoting Mccune-Reischauer and Adopt the Revised Romanization Scheme? 57 Chris Dollŏmaniz’atiŏn: Is It Finally Ti Reports Building a “One- 85 Paul W. T. Poon hour Library Circle” in China’s Pearl River Delta Region with the Curator of the Po Leung Kuk Museum 87 Patrick Lo and Dickson Chiu Interview 1 Web- 93 ProjectCollecting Report: Social Media Data from the Sina Weibo Api 113 Archiving Chinese Social Media: Final Project Report New Appointments 136 Book Review 137 Yongyi Song, Editor-in-Chief:China and the Maoist Legacy: The 50th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution文革五十年:毛泽东遗产和当代中国. -
When the Tsunami Came to Shore
When the Tsunami Came to Shore <UN> <UN> When the Tsunami Came to Shore Culture and Disaster in Japan Edited by Roy Starrs LEIDEN | BOSTON <UN> Cover illustration: The Great Wave Off Fukushima by Roy Starrs, 2014. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data When the tsunami came to shore : culture and disaster in Japan / edited by Roy Starrs. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-26829-6 (hardback : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-26831-9 (e-book) 1. Disasters-- Social aspects--Japan--History. 2. Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011. 3. Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. 4. Typhoons--Japan--History--21st century. 5. Floods--Japan--History--21st century. 6. Atomic bomb--Japan--History--20th century. 7. Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923. 8. Disasters--Japan-- Religious aspects--History. 9. Disasters in literature. 10. Japanese literature--History and criticism. I. Starrs, Roy, 1946- DS806.5.W47 2014 363.34’940952090512--dc23 2014020424 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. isbn 978-90-04-26829-6 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-26831-9 (e-book) Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Global Oriental and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. -
A World Like Ours: Gay Men in Japanese Novels and Films
A WORLD LIKE OURS: GAY MEN IN JAPANESE NOVELS AND FILMS, 1989-2007 by Nicholas James Hall A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Asian Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) December 2013 © Nicholas James Hall, 2013 Abstract This dissertation examines representations of gay men in contemporary Japanese novels and films produced from around the beginning of the 1990s so-called gay boom era to the present day. Although these were produced in Japanese and for the Japanese market, and reflect contemporary Japan’s social, cultural and political milieu, I argue that they not only articulate the concerns and desires of gay men and (other queer people) in Japan, but also that they reflect a transnational global gay culture and identity. The study focuses on the work of current Japanese writers and directors while taking into account a broad, historical view of male-male eroticism in Japan from the Edo era to the present. It addresses such issues as whether there can be said to be a Japanese gay identity; the circulation of gay culture across international borders in the modern period; and issues of representation of gay men in mainstream popular culture products. As has been pointed out by various scholars, many mainstream Japanese representations of LGBT people are troubling, whether because they represent “tourism”—they are made for straight audiences whose pleasure comes from being titillated by watching the exotic Others portrayed in them—or because they are made by and for a female audience and have little connection with the lives and experiences of real gay men, or because they circulate outside Japan and are taken as realistic representations by non-Japanese audiences. -
Referencia Bibliográfica: Saito, K. (2011). Desire in Subtext: Gender
Referencia bibliográfica: Saito, K. (2011). Desire in Subtext: Gender, Fandom, and Women’s Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan. Mechademia, 6, 171–191. Disponible en https://muse.jhu.edu/article/454422 ISSN: - 'HVLUHLQ6XEWH[W*HQGHU)DQGRPDQG:RPHQ V0DOH0DOH +RPRHURWLF3DURGLHVLQ&RQWHPSRUDU\-DSDQ .XPLNR6DLWR Mechademia, Volume 6, 2011, pp. 171-191 (Article) 3XEOLVKHGE\8QLYHUVLW\RI0LQQHVRWD3UHVV DOI: 10.1353/mec.2011.0000 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mec/summary/v006/6.saito.html Access provided by University of Sydney Library (13 Nov 2015 18:03 GMT) KumiKo saito Desire in Subtext: Gender, Fandom, and Women’s Male–Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan Manga and anime fan cultures in postwar Japan have expanded rapidly in a manner similar to British and American science fiction fandoms that devel- oped through conventions. From the 1970s to the present, the Comic Market (hereafter Comiket) has been a leading venue for manga and anime fan activi- ties in Japan. Over the three days of the convention, more than thirty-seven thousand groups participate, and their dōjinshi (self-published fan fiction) and character goods generate ¥10 billion in sales.1 Contrary to the common stereo- type of anime/manga cult fans—the so-called otaku—who are males in their twenties and thirties, more than 70 percent of the participants in this fan fic- tion market are reported to be women in their twenties and thirties.2 Dōjinshi have created a locus where female fans vigorously explore identities and desires that are usually not expressed openly in public. The overwhelming majority of women’s fan fiction consists of stories that adapt characters from official me- dia to portray male–male homosexual romance and/or erotica. -
Entrance Ceremony Held to Welcome Newest Students by JIU Times
Produced by × JIU TIMES Vol. 16 SPRING 2016 Entrance ceremony held to welcome newest students by JIU Times Josai International University (JIU) held an entrance ceremony for new students on April 2 at its Togane Campus in Chiba Prefecture. The university, which is celebrating the 25th year anniversary, welcomed 1,650 students to its eight faculties and graduate school, as well as its school of Japanese Language and Culture. Among freshmen, 330 were non-Japanese from 22 countries and regions in Asia, Europe and South America. The ceremony at the Sports Culture Center was attended by foreign dignitaries, including HRH Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Ibni Tu- anku Syed Sirajuddin Jamalullail, the Crown Prince of Perlis, Malaysia; HRH Tuanku Haj- jah Lailatul Shahreen Akashah Binti Khalil, Right photo: The Crown Prince of Perlis, Malaysia, HRH Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Ibni Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Jamalullail, one of the guests at the JIU entrance ceremony, addresses new students at the Togane the Crown Princess of Perlis, Malaysia; former Campus in Chiba Prefecture on April 2; Left photo: The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Perlis, Malaysia, HRH Tuanku Hajjah Lailatul Shahreen Akashah Binti Khalil, look on during the ceremony. Malaysian Minister of Tourism and Josai Cen- tre of ASEAN Studies Director Ng Yen Yen; Foundation that enabled five female students Bright future ahead for latest graduates of JIU Kamarudin Hussin, former vice chancellor of from the Southeast Asian country to study at Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP); and Zul the university from the 2016 academic year. by Terutada Tsunoda, Student Her Imperial Highness Princess Taka- Azhar Zahid Jamal, deputy vice chancellor of “Created by the mother of his royal high- Faculty of International Humanities mado attended the ceremony, offering a UniMAP. -
Undergraduate Journal for East Asian Studies
Undergraduate Journal for East Asian Studies VOLUME ONE Summer 2019 Alienated Desires: Marxist Materiality in Edogawa Ranpo’s “The Human Chair” By Linda Zhou, Stanford University Abstract In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Japanese writer Edogawa Ranpo made an indelible imprint on Japanese popular culture by popularizing the erotic-grotesque-nonsense (ero-guro-nansensu) movement with his provocative body of writing. Ranpo’s erotic-grotesque-nonsense texts have been interpreted along the lines of gender, sexuality and ethnicity, but one critical axiom has been largely unaddressed: class. In this essay I will argue that Marxist thought is a crucial analytical framework for examining Ranpo’s iconic erotic-grotesque-nonsense short story ‘The Human Chair’. Through fleshing out its context and doing a close reading of its narrative intricacies, I will demonstrate how this seemingly frivolous and perverted story is in dialogue with Marxist theories of alienation and commodity fetishism. Introduction: Edogawa Ranpo and the Erotic-Grotesque-Nonsense Crowned as a seminal figure in Japanese detective fiction, Edogawa Ranpo has exhibited a narrative obsession with the psychopathological underbelly of society since the early days of his writing career.1 His pen name, interestingly, is phonetically Based off the name of Edgar Allan Poe, the American father of detective fiction who he was highly influenced by. 2 Ranpo’s fascination with social taBoos propelled him as the leading writer in the erotic-grotesque-nonsense (ero guro nansensu) cultural movement -
Representations of Queer Families in Contemporary Japanese Literature
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Masters Theses Dissertations and Theses July 2019 IMAGINING A HOME FOR US: REPRESENTATIONS OF QUEER FAMILIES IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LITERATURE Patrick Carland Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2 Part of the Japanese Studies Commons Recommended Citation Carland, Patrick, "IMAGINING A HOME FOR US: REPRESENTATIONS OF QUEER FAMILIES IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LITERATURE" (2019). Masters Theses. 761. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/761 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. IMAGINING A HOME FOR US: REPRESENTATIONS OF QUEER FAMILIES IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LITERATURE A Thesis Presented By PATRICK JAMES CARLAND Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS May 2019 Japanese IMAGINING A HOME FOR US: REPRESENTATIONS OF QUEER FAMILIES IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LITERATURE A Thesis Presented by PATRICK JAMES CARLAND Approved as to style and content by: Stephen Miller, Chair Amanda Seaman, Member ________________________________________ David K. Schneider, Unit Director East Asian Languages and Cultures Program Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures ________________________________________ Robert Sullivan, Chair Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis has been made possible by the immeasurable other help people have lent to me in researching and writing it. -
New Translations from Japan Frank Stewart
University of Hawai'i Manoa Kahualike UH Press Book Previews University of Hawai`i Press Spring 1-31-2018 Mountain/Home: New Translations from Japan Frank Stewart Leza Lowitz Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/uhpbr Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, and the Modern Literature Commons Recommended Citation Stewart, Frank and Lowitz, Leza, "Mountain/Home: New Translations from Japan" (2018). UH Press Book Previews. 11. https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/uhpbr/11 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in UH Press Book Previews by an authorized administrator of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Literature /Japan /Anthologies lowitz stewart New Translations from Japan frank stewart, series editor leza lowitz, guest editor Mountain Home NEW TRANSLATIONS⁄ FROM JAPAN Mountain/Home presents a selection of new translations of literature from Japan’s medieval era to the present. The volume opens with traditional folktales, court poetry, Mountai Edo Period haiku, and modern fiction—all excerpted from “One Hundred Literary Views of Mount Fuji.” Each work in this section contains references to Japan’s national symbol; the ways Mount Fuji is depicted reveal how the country’s self-image has changed over the centuries. Mountain/Home also includes a new translation of a n chapter from Lady Murasaki’s classic, The Tale of Genji; fiction by Dazai Osamu; and experimental poetry by ⁄ H Yoshioka Minoru and Ayukawa Nobuo, who both served in the Imperial Army during the Second World ome War and became influential anti-war writers. -
Fox Natasha MA 2013 Minor
Sexuality and Ambiguity at Girlfriend, a Contemporary Tokyo Women-Only Dance Party by Natasha Fox BA, Portland State University, 2007 A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies © Natasha Fox 2013 University of Victoria All rights reserved. This thesis may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopy or other means, without the permission of the author. Supervisory Committee Sexuality and Ambiguity at Girlfriend, a Contemporary Tokyo Women-Only Dance Party by Natasha Fox BA, Portland State University, 2007 Supervisory Committee Dr. Hiroko Noro, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies Co-Supervisor Dr. Leslie Butt, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies Co-Supervisor ii Abstract Supervisory Committee Dr. Hiroko Noro, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies Co-Supervisor Dr. Leslie Butt, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies Co-Supervisor In the Tokyo neighborhood of Shinjuku Ni-Chome, the number of women's gay bars has more than tripled over the past five years. Focusing on a neighborhood dance party called Girlfriend, this thesis explores the manner in which patrons and organizers of Girlfriend approach and negotiate with contemporary dance events. Taking place once a month, Girlfriend draws hundreds of young Japanese women who identify as queer, lesbian, bisexual and heterosexual, offering a variety of activities based on themes that challenge conventional norms about sexuality and gender. I conducted original qualitative research over the summer of 2011, including a series of open-ended interviews with patrons and organizers of Girlfriend. The information gathered from the interviews is analyzed along five key themes: observation of the tachi/neko binary (a dyadic system of masculine and feminine gender performativity), fantasy, safety and escape, the Other and contingency. -
Seminář Japonských Studií Bakalářská Diplomová Práce
Masarykova univerzita Filozofická fakulta Seminář japonských studií Bakalářská diplomová práce 2020 Michaela Chupíková Masarykova univerzita Filozofická fakulta Seminář japonských studií Japanistika Michaela Chupíková Legislativní změny v Japonsku související s právy homosexuálů po roce 2000 Bakalářská diplomová práce Vedoucí práce: Mgr. Zuzana Rozwałka 2020 Prohlašuji, že jsem bakalářskou diplomovou práci vypracovala samostatně s využitím uvedených pramenů. Souhlasím s tím, aby práce byla archivována a zpřístupněna ke studijním účelům. ..................................................... Michaela Chupíková Na tomto místě bych ráda poděkovala vedoucí své práce, Mgr. Zuzaně Rozwałce, za její cenné připomínky, trpělivost a čas, který mi věnovala při konzultacích. Obsah Poznámka k formální úpravě práce ......................................................................................................... 6 Úvod ........................................................................................................................................................ 7 1. Úvod do problematiky života japonských homosexuálů ................................................................. 9 2. Legislativa upravující práva japonských homosexuálů před 21. stoletím ..................................... 11 3. Současná legislativa týkající se uznávání stejnopohlavních svazků a partnerského soužití .......... 15 3.1 Ústava Japonska ......................................................................................................................... -
Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community
Telling Her Story: Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community TELLING HER STORY: 1 NARRATING A JAPANESE LESBIAN COMMUNITY James Welker Abstract: This paper explores queer Japanese women’s narratives of their own his- tories and the history of the “Japanese lesbian community,” which has been con- structed as a space outside the heterosexual mainstream, a space where queer women can find at least temporary refuge. It begins with the acknowledgement that the evolution and the shape of the community, along with the identities of the women who comprise it, are shifting and contested. This paper specifically looks at the long history of the lesbian bar scene as well as more recent history of lesbian dance parties; the early role of lesbian feminism and activism; lesbian community- based and commercial publications, paying special attention to the critical role translation has played in Japanese lesbian discourse and the construction of mul- tiple lesbian identities; and, finally, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pride events and film festivals, through which the larger LGBT community has been gaining increasing visibility. This paper argues that while some of the build- ing blocks of the community are borrowed, from the “West” as well as from the Jap- anese gay community, there has also been creative translation, adaptation and re- sistance to these imports. The resulting Japanese lesbian community is a complex and local construct, an innovative bricolage firmly sited in Japan. SHAPING A LESBIAN COMMUNITY Lesbian translator Hara Minako (1996: 129) writes that if, in recent years, “it has become easier for women to love women … it is because self-iden- tified lesbians and bisexual women have emerged to work on lesbian is- sues.” Hara, who, for her part, has been actively translating key lesbian works from English, suggests that lesbian activism has created spaces where lesbian desire can be acted on, and, perhaps more subtly, implies that increasing visibility has also been beneficial to this project. -
N E W S L E T T
AATJNEWSLETTER VOL. 7, NO. 1 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 北米日本語教師協会会 ルと大学レベルが協力して対策を立てる必要があり 員各位 ます。もう一つの問題は、世代交代で、教員の数が不 足しつつあることです。先日、すでに別の科目で教え 会員の皆様、初めまし ている高校教師が、日本語の科目も加えたいという て。会長としての任期を ことで、問い合わせてきました。ところが、調べてみた 始めるにあたって、少し ところ、私の勤めている大学で初めの教員免許をとっ 自己紹介をさせていた ていない人には別科目を加える道は閉ざされている だきます。1986年から とのことでした。日本語教師としての知識や技能があ Suwako Watanabe 1990年にかけて、社会 るにもかかわらず、このような制度上の障害があるの 渡辺素和子 言語学をジョージタウン は残念なことです。また、ある先生は、退職をしたいの 大 学 で 学 び 、そ の あ と 、 にもかかわらず、後任の教師がみつからないがため ポートランド州立大学で1990年から日本語を教え に、まだ教え続けているという話も聞きました。 始めて、かれこれ28年になります。私の興味のある研 究分野は、主に談話分析なので、人々のコミュニケー 北米の教育制度の中で、日本語・日本研究の地位を ションをいつも観察しています。また、ACTFL OPIの より強固なものにするために、日本語教師協会は、さ テスターとトレーナーをしているので、言語評価と言 らなる振 興を続けていく必 要があります。どうぞ、会 語プロフィシェンシーの育成にも関心を持っていま 員の皆さんの声をお聞かせください。また、各アフィ す。プライベートでは、日曜日に茶 道を教えています。 リエートの代表の方々も、ぜひ会員の声を吸い上げ 談話分析と教えることと茶道、この三つは、意外にも て、現場の状況をお知らせください。みなさんと一緒 互いに関連性があって、仕事でもプライベートでもう に頑張っていきたいと思います。よろしくお願いいた まく活かすことができています。 します。 日本語、文学、文化などを含む日本学・日本研究の 3月のワシントンDCでの学会でお会いするのを楽し 分野としての現状を見ると、強みがいくつもあるこ みにしています。 とに気付かされます。大学レベルでの学習者数が 安定していること、実績のある言語教授法と経験の 会長 渡辺素和子 ある教員、また、年に二回の学会に質の高い学会誌 Japanese Language and Literatureを有するこ Greetings to members of American Association of とは私たちの分野が確立されていることを示してい Teachers of Japanese! ます。 I am excited to start my term as the president of ただ、一方では、いくつかの問題にも直面しています。 AATJ. I would like to introduce a little bit about そのうちの一つの問題は、K-12レベルで日本語プロ myself. I did my Ph.D. in Sociolinguistics at グラムが減っていることが挙げられます。K-12レベル Georgetown University from 1986 to 1990, and の学習者数が少ないということは、大学で日本語の then I started teaching Japanese language and 学習を続ける学生数が減るということで、K-12レベ culture at Portland State University in 1990, so continued on next page this is my 28th year teaching at PSU. My primary college levels need to talk about what can be done research interest is discourse analysis, so I am to prevent Japanese programs at the K-12 level always observing how people interact with one from being cut. Another issue is licensure and the another.