The distinct character on cover reveals the theme sharply.
The main image creates spacious perception and balance off the virtual-reality difference from the content photos.
Bilingual writing conveniences both local and oversea readers.
Characteristics of different Cosplay cultures in East Asia are supplemented on top of research content.
娃娃遊蹤：
東亞COSPLAY之旅
作者：余幼薇
譯者：楊靜
國際書號：9789881965592
紙本規格 Book Specification
196 pages
Full-colour. Softcover
250 mm x 150 mm
Traditional Chinese and English
Popular Culture/ Social Science
馬傑偉（香港中文大學新聞及傳播學院教授）：這是一部很有感染力和現場感的視覺民族誌……作者細緻與敏感的描述讓人如臨現場……細節的描述讓讀者逐步修正獵奇印象而進入跨性別人士與cosplayer的生活日程，並打開了再認識、再反思的門徑……這本書聚焦於視覺／身體／身份的議題，對理解今天各種廣泛的身體政治尤其重要。
江紹祺（香港大學社會學系助理教授）：香港需要Katrien。這不僅僅因為她善於利用頗具刺激性和爭議性的材料作為教育工具幫助學生們認識和理解數碼網絡、媒體技術、藝術與審查，更是由於她的作品為學術界探索指出新的方向……以極富創意的影音記錄挑戰傳統的研究方法擴充了我們對於不可能疆域的想像……
本書是一個西方學者在東亞地區對流行藝術和動漫文化作深入探索的旅行手記……
京都：人型形娃娃與變身之神；
香港：異裝扮演與變性主義的地下旅程；
北京：共產主義活動與藝術合作；
萬隆：幸福廣場停車場裡的噴火表演。
本書中英對照，記錄了作者與動漫文化和異裝扮演愛好者對現實與幻想世界中交錯的自我和性別角色，同時還探討和論述了動漫文化、數碼科技及神秘的幻想進程等議題。
Author: Katrien Jacobs
Translator: Jing Yang
ISBN: 9789881965592
Eric, K. W. Ma (Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK): “This book offers a very compelling and readable visual ethnographic account… her exquisite and sensitive depictions draw readers into a deeper involvement with the characters and stories… The author’s detailed articulation leads readers to step back from their quest for exotic novelties, helps them to enter the daily life of transgendered people and cosplayers, and hence invites them to start their own interpretive re-rereading and rediscovery and reflection… With a focus on visualise, body and identity, this book also helps readers understand body politics and of consumer culture in general.
Travis, S. K. Kong (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, HKU): “Hong Kong needs Katrien. Not just due to the fact that she is famous in using provocative and controversial materials as a tool of pedagogy in helping students understand digital networks, media technologies, arts and censorship but also because of the fact that her work brings a new direction to academic endeavour… She always challenges conventional research methodology with creative and audiovisual documentation, blurs academic disciplines with artistic creation, and expands our imaginations of the impossible…
This book is a travelogue of a Belgian scholar’s discovery of popular cultures and ACG (Anime, Comics and Games) subcultures in East Asia…
Kyoto: Animating Ball-Jointed Dolls and the Deity of Transformation
Hong Kong: Subterranean Journey into Cross-Dressing and Transsexualism
Beijing: Communist Events Organization and Artistic Cooperation
Bandung: Breath of Fire in the Lucky Square’s Parking Garage
This bilingual book records the experience of ACG lovers and cosplayers in understanding their imagined selves in both reality and fantasy, as well as reflecting on major social and political issues of ACG subcultures, digital technologies and virtual fantasy processes.
http://www.libidot.org/wandering_dolls/eng
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