Teaching About Asia through Youth Culture

Winter 2008: Volume 13, Number 3

Features

Top Ten Things to Know about Japan in the Early Twenty-First Century
by Carol Gluck

Nerd Nation: Otaku and Youth Subcultures in Contemporary Japan
by William M. Tsutsui

Indian Youth Culture: Reflections on Film
An EAA Interview with Coonoor Kripalani

Ethnicity in the Lives of Modern Malaysian Youth
by Nancy Janus, Courtney Graham, Melissa Christie, Zoe Friedman, and Jonathan Bonner

Confucian and Cool: China's Youth in Transition
by Robert Moore and James Rizor

Film and China's Youth Culture
by Stanley Rosen

Charting Their Own Course: Resources for Teaching about China's Youth (PDF)
by Mary Cingcade

Mobile Phones, Young People, and South Korean Culture
by Kyongwon Yoon

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Web Resources

Web Gleanings (Website Listings): Teaching About Asia through Youth Culture
by Judith S. Ames

Resources

EAA Interview with 2008 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize Winners, Selena Lai and Waka Takahashi Brown

Curriculum Materials Review

Chinese Dynasties, Part Two: The Song Dynasty through the Qing Dynasty—960 to 1911 CE
Reviewed by Alan Whitehead

Essay

Analyzing the Appeal of Manga: Teaching Information Literacy skills through Japanese Popular Culture
by Maureen Donovan

Book Review Essay

When Asia Was the World
Reviewed by Gwen R. Johnson

Film Review Essay

On Another Playground: Japanese Popular Culture in America
Reviewed by Carl Rachelson

Film Review

The Forbidden Kingdom
Reviewed by Elizabeth Parke