Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan by Dennis J. Frost

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Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan by Dennis J. Frost

H-ASIA
Feb 10 2011

Member's publication Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and
Body Culture in Modern Japan by Dennis J. Frost
*************************************
From: Dennis Frost <Dennis.Frost@kzoo.edu>

Please forgive the self-promotion, but I am pleased to announce the
publication of my book:

_Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern
Japan_

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0674056107

In Seeing Stars, Dennis J. Frost traces the emergence and evolution of
sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-
first centuries. Frost explores how various constituencies have
repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes,
revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena, the
products of both particular historical moments and broader discourses
of celebrity. Drawing from media coverage, biographies, literary
works, athletes' memoirs, bureaucratic memoranda, interviews, and
films, Frost argues that the largely unquestioned mass of information
about sports stars not only reflects, but also shapes society and body
culture. He examines the lives and times of star athletes—including
sumo grand champion Hitachiyama, female Olympic medalist Hitomi Kinue,
legendary pitcher Sawamura Eiji, and world champion boxer Gushiken
Yokō--demonstrating how representations of such sports stars mediated
Japan's emergence into the putatively universal realm of sports,
unsettled orthodox notions of gender, facilitated wartime mobilization
of physically fit men and women, and masked lingering inequalities in
postwar Japanese society. As the first critical examination of the
history of sports celebrity outside a Euro-American context, this book
also sheds new light on the transnational forces at play in the
production and impact of celebrity images and dispels misconceptions
that sports stars in the non-West are mere imitations of their Western
counterparts.

Contents
List of Figures x
Author's Note xii
Introduction: Sports Celebrity in Japan: A Transnational
History 1
1 Saving Sumo: Re-Presenting the National Sport
19
2 The Making of a Self-Made Star: Celebrity Images and the Emergence
of a Sports-
Star Paradigm 69
3 "So, Your Daughter Is a Sportsman": Gender Anxiety and
Nationalism in the Golden
Age of Sports 109
4 "Japan's Number One" Goes to War: Baseball, Militarization, and
Memory 151
5 Becoming the Kanmuriwashi: Ethnicity, Narrativity, and "Spectacular
Difference" 190
Epilogue: So How Tall Is Ichiro? 226
Reference Matter
Notes 239
Bibliography 303
Index 327

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674056107

Dennis J. Frost
Kalamazoo College

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Fw: H-ASIA: "East Asian Studies Dissertation Reviews" - Invitation to AAS/Hawaii Info Session

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H-ASIA
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"East Asian Studies Dissertation Reviews" - Invitation to AAS/Hawaii
Info Session
*************************************
From: Thomas S. Mullaney <tsmullaney@stanford.edu>

Dear Colleagues and Students,

I am writing to introduce a new electronic resource that features non-
critical, author-permitted reviews of recently defended dissertations
in the field of Chinese history. Fourteen reviews have been posted
thus far, and are available at http://
dissertationreviews.wordpress.com (a complete list of the reviews,
authors, and reviewers is included below).

The site is currently geared towards Chinese history, but is in the
process of expanding. At present, Nancy Abelmann (UIUC - Anthropology,
Asian-American Studies, EALC) is working on the first pilot extension
into Korean social science, with six reviews already in the pipeline.
We are also in conversation with scholars interested in developing a
Japan studies site. With these expansions in mind, the current name
("Chinese History Dissertation Reviews") will soon change to "East
Asian Studies Dissertation Reviews."

Barely in its fourth month, the site has already been viewed 13,000
times, and has expanded to include reviewers and reviewees from
Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Southern, Guilford, Harvard, Johns Hopkins,
Kansas State, La Trobe University, Marmara University (Turkey),
Middlebury, MIT, NYU, Princeton, Simon Fraser, Stanford, Sun Yat-sen
University, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UCSD, University of British
Columbia, University of Colorado, University of Illinois, University
of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Oregon, University
of Toronto, and Yale, among others.

In an effort to develop this resource further, and to discuss the
expansion of the site beyond History, and the development of parallel
sites for Japan Studies and Korea Studies, we will be holding an
informational session at the Association for Asian Studies Annual
Meeting in Hawaii. The meeting information is as follows:

Saturday, April 2
12:00-1:30pm
Main Conference Center (Hawaii Convention Center/1801 Kalakaua Avenue)
Room 305A

We would be grateful if you would spread the word to any China, Japan,
or Korea studies colleagues or students who might be interested, and
we hope to see you in Hawaii!

Happy Year of the Rabbit,

Tom Mullaney, Stanford University
Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gina Russo, Stanford University

LIST OF REVIEWS THUS FAR

Buddhist Empires: Saṃgha-State Relations in Tenth-Century China. By
BENJAMIN BROSE (Review by Nicolas Tackett)

Yudahua: The Growth of An Industrial Enterprise in Modern China
1890-1957. By JUANJUAN PENG (Review by George Zhijian Qiao)

Fascism, Cultural Revolution, and National Sovereignty in 1930s China.
By MARGARET CLINTON. (Review by Kristin Mulready-Stone)

"Give Me a Day, and I Will Give You the World": Chinese Fiction
Periodicals in Global Context, 1900-1910. By DUN WANG. (Review by Yvon
Wang).

Organizing Shanghai's Youth: Communist, Nationalist, and
Collaborationist Strategies, 1920-1942. By KRISTIN MULREADY-STONE
(Review by Maggie Clinton)

Becoming Faithful: Christianity, Literacy, and Female Consciousness in
Northeast China, 1830-1930. By JI LI (Review by Brooks Jessup)

Marginal Constituencies: Qing Borderland Policies and Vernacular
Histories of Five Tribes on the Sino-Russian Frontier. By LORETTA
EUMIE KIM (Review by Eric Vanden Bussche)

On the Run: Women, City, and the Law in Beijing, 1937-1949. By ZHAO MA
(Review by Nicole Barnes)

Saintly Brokers: Uyghur Muslims, Trade, and the Making of Qing Central
Asia, 1696-1814. By KWANGMIN KIM (Review by Loretta Kim)

International and Wartime Origins of the Propaganda State: The Motion
Picture in China, 1897-1955. By MATTHEW DAVID JOHNSON (Review by Kevin
Carrico)

Stretching the Skin of the Nation: Chinese Intellectuals, the State,
and the Frontiers in the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). (Author: ZHIHONG
CHEN | Reviewer: James Leibold)

Gu Hongming and the Re-invention of Chinese Civilization. (Author:
CHUNMEI DU | Reviewer: Hyungju Hur)

Law and Sensibility of Empire in the Making of Modern China,
1750-1900. (Author: LI CHEN | Reviewer: David Luesink)

Crossing the Urban-Rural Divide in Twentieth Century China. (Author:
JEREMY BROWN | Reviewer: Christopher Leighton)

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Thomas S. Mullaney
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Stanford University

Department Page:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/people/mullaney_thomas.html
Chinese History Dissertation Reviews:
http://dissertationreviews.wordpress.com

[On Leave 2010-11]

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Fw: H-ASIA: Librasia 2011-The Asian Conf on Lit. & Librarianship, Osaka, May 27-30, 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: Librasia 2011-The Asian Conf on Lit. & Librarianship,
Osaka, May 27-30, 2011

> H-ASIA
> February 9, 2011
>
> Librasia 2011 - The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2011
> Osaka, 27 to 30 May 2011
>
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> The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2011
>
> Location: Japan
> Conference Date: 2011-04-01
> Date Submitted: 2011-02-07
> Announcement ID: 182869
>
> Librasia 2011 - The Asian Conference on Literature
> and Librarianship 2011
> 27 to 30 May 2011
> Osaka, Japan
>
> As the country that gave the world the novel one thousand years ago, and
> subsequently haiku and manga, Japan's long and rich literary history make
> it an ideal place to bring together academics, writers, and librarians to
> celebrate, debate, and explore their common passion. The aim of this
> International Conference is to encourage academics, scholars and
> practitioners representing an exciting diversity of countries, cultures,
> and religion to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging
> respectful dialogue. By bringing together a number of university scholars
> working throughout Japan, Asia, and beyond to share ideas, LibrAsia 2011
> will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new
> contacts, and networking across higher education and beyond.
>
> LibrAsia 2011 will not only be an academic conference, but also offer a
> number of talks, workshops, and readings of original works, in an exciting
> long weekend of interdisciplinary and intercultural discussion. The Land
> of the Rising Sun offers an amazing juxtaposition of cultures, of east and
> west, of religious and secular, and of course of the Ancient and Modern
> reflected by tone of the conference themes. The other theme is Journey's
> of Discovery and the conference organizers hope that delegates will join
> on a collective and individual, intellectual and actual journey of
> discovery.
> FEATURED SPEAKER: DRAGO STAMBUK
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> The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 1 April 2011.
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> Enquiries: librasia@iafor.org
> Web address: http://librasia.iafor.org/
> Sponsored by: The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
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Fw: H-ASIA: Translators Needed on Religious Studies in Contemporary China

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> Translators Needed on Religious Studies in Contemporary China
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> We at Brill are publishing a series on religious studies in contemporary
> China (www.brill.nl/rscc). This is an effort to make Chinese scholarly
> research on religion available in English. This series includes six
> volumes of selected essays on the following topics: Popular Religion and
> Shamanism, Daoism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Marxism and
> Religious Studies.
>
> We are now looking for translators for the 4 volumes on Buddhism,
> Christianity, Islam, and Marxism and Religious Studies from Chinese
> (simplified) into English.
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> If you or your colleague(s) are interested in these translation projects,
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> Thanks!
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP 2nd Intl. Conf on Popular Culture & Education, Hong Kong, Dec. 7-10, 2011

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Kong, Dec. 7-10, 2011

> H-ASIA
> February 9, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Second International Conference on Popular Culture and
> Education, Hong Kong, 7-10 December 2011
> DEADLINE 30 JUNE 2011
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> Second International Conference on Popular Culture and Education
> Hong Kong, December 7-10, 2011
>
> Location: Hong Kong
> Conference Date: 2011-12-07
> Date Submitted: 2011-02-08
> Announcement ID: 182925
>
> You are invited to join us at the Second International Conference on
> Popular Culture and Education, organised by the Centre for Popular Culture
> and Education, at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
>
> The conference will bring together researchers from a variety of areas to
> focus on the implications of popular culture for educational practices and
> youth development. Papers on all aspects of popular culture and education
> are welcomed.
>
> Call for Paper deadline: 30 June 2011
>
> The first three days of the conference will be devoted to academic
> presentations. The fourth day of the conference will feature practical
> workshops for local teachers on popular culture and pedagogy.
>
> Nikita Chan
> Centre for Popular Culture and Education
> Hong Kong Institute of Education
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