In this book, an international group of contributors provide a multi-layered analysis of the emerging East Asian media culture, using the Korean TV drama as its analytic vehicle. This collection of essays is also the result of a workshop organized by the Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. The aim of the Cluster is to promo…
As the most ecologically efficient and economical source of complete protein in human food, soy is gradually attracting more use in the American diet for its nutritional and financial value. Derived from soybean plants - the leading export crop of the United States and the world's most traded crop - soy produced for human consumption is part of a global enterprise affecting the likes of farmers…
Buku Komik Kiri Kanan Jakarta adalah sebuah komik strip yang berisikan cerita-cerita keseharian yang sering terjadi pada masyarakat di wilayah seputaran Jakarta dan sekitarnya. Komik ini dibuat atas kolaborasi karya Beng Rahadian, Diyan Bijac, dan Sheila Rooswith, diterbitkan oleh Penerbit Octopus Garden pada tahun 2017. Komik ini merupakan bagian dari Seri Komik Jakarta yang seluruhnya terdiri…
Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara penghasil kopi terbesar di dunia. Beragam kopi Indonesia telah dinikmati oleh hampir pecinta kopi di seluruh dunia. Salah satu kopi terbaik tanah air yang banyak dikenal dunia adalah kopi Gayo. Kopi ini merupakan varietas kopi Arabika dan menjadi salah satu komoditi unggulan yang berasal dari dataran tinggi Gayo, Aceh. Di Aceh terdapat dua jenis kopi yang d…
Chinese cuisine has had a deep impact on culinary traditions in Southeast Asia, where the lack of certain ingredients and access to new ingredients along with the culinary knowledge of local people led Chinese migrants to modify traditional dishes and to invent new foods. This process brought the cuisine of southern China, considered by some writers to be "the finest in the world," into contact…
Over the past two decades, ISEAS has compiled abridged articles that analyse key aspects of Southeast Asia's development and the ASEAN process. The ASEAN Reader was published in 1992 just as the Cold War ended, while The Second ASEAN Reader came in 2003 in the wake of the 1997 Asian crisis and the September 11 attacks in 2001. The past decade has not been spared its share of intense changes, wi…
Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies scholarship to the international English speaking world and constantly challenging existing conceptions of cultural studies, the journal has emerged as the leading publication in Cultural Studies in Asi…
Kaldu Ikan adalah sebuah proyek yang digagas oleh Takahashi Mizuki dan Ade Darmawan untuk menerbitkan buku kompilasi komik di Indonesia oleh seniman Indonesia dan Jepang. Diterbitkan sebagai bagian dari 'KITA!!: Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia' yang diselenggarakan untuk merayakan 50 tahun hubungan diplomatik Indonesia dan Jepang, dipartisipasi oleh sekitar 50 seniman yang aktif dan giat bereks…
The essays in this collection challenge conventional ideas about consumption and consumerism: they consider if the inundation of Western consumer goods have created identity confusions among the affluent in Asia, and if the expansion of consumer culture really does threaten the stability of politically anti-liberal states in Asia. This is the first book to analyse in detial consumerism in the r…
Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the politics of food production, in particular, how, when, from where and even why different kinds of fo…