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Book SynopsisUnderlining the importance of understanding the operations of human agency, this work emphasizes the cultural and historical conditions that facilitate the production of agency in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the cultures of China, Japan and India.
Table of ContentsIntroduction/agency and cultural understanding - some pre-liminary remarks, Wimal Dissanayake; translingual practice - the discourse of individualism between China and the west, Lydia H. Liu; Samsarae - self and the crisis of visual narrative, Eugene Yuejin Wang; visual agency and ideo-logical fantasy in three films by Zhang Yimou, Ming-Bao Yue; contesting and contested identities - Mathura's chaubes, Owen M. Lynch; self-made, Richard G. Fox; defining the self in Indian literary and filmic texts, Vijay Mishra; selves and others in Japanese culture in historical perspective, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney; self, agency, and cultural knowledge - reflections on three Japanese films, Wimal Dissanayake; the nail that came out all the way - Kayashi Takeshi's case against the regulation of the Japanese student body, Marie Thorsten Morimoto.
