Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen

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This is a thought-provoking work that will raise many questions worthy of a reader's careful consideration ... A rewarding read. * Monumenta Nipponica * This is a long-awaited book that comprehensively examines Japan's media representation of China. Griseldis Kirsch superbly elucidates the continuity and change of historically constituted Japan's ambivalent desire for China through the analysis of TV and film representation in the post-cold-war context of China's rising economic power. It offers us a precious historical account of the current predicament of Japan's relationship with China. * Koichi Iwabuchi, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia * With clarity and erudition, Griseldis Kirsch provides us with a close reading of Japanese film and television productions since the late 1980s as they refer to Asia, and China in particular. Outlining surprising historical continuities in the entangled and fraught ways that characterise modern Japan's relation to and imagination of Asia, Kirsch gives a fascinating account and a deep theoretical reading of the grand narrative that seems to underlie small and big screen productions: What evolves is an ever shape-shifting but tenaciously persistent nihonjinron. A must read for anyone interested not only in media, film and television studies in Japan but in the wider question of cultural and political relations in the changing economic landscape of East Asian nations. * Andrea Germer, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan *