Book Chat: Queering the Anthropocene in Taiwan Sci-Fi
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Ishiguro and the a-Tropoi
I grew up like so many people in Asia and especially Taiwan reading a lot of Japanese animation and manga. In fact, cyborgs, replicas, and joys and their human owners have been so popular in Japan. And we might need to remember that Japan suffered a lot because the it and bomb explosions in Hiroshima and the Naka-saki. I think more or less because of that, the Japanese artists and manga artists have been so preoccupied with questions of human bodies,.
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