{"product_id":"narratives-of-agency-selfmaking-in-china-india-and-japan-9780816626571","title":"Narratives Of Agency  SelfMaking in China India","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderlining 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\/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.","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038538694999,"sku":"9780816626571","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816626571.jpg?v=1750940602","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/narratives-of-agency-selfmaking-in-china-india-and-japan-9780816626571","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}