AEMS News and Reviews: Winter 2012 (Issue: #43)

Jervis, Nancy

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Title

AEMS News and Reviews: Winter 2012 (Issue: #43)

Author(s)

Jervis, Nancy

Contributor(s)

• Allen, Tracy H.
• Mills, James E.
• Lee, Jonathan H.X.
• Prescott, Anne

Issue Date

2012-12-01

Keyword(s)

AEMS News and Reviews

Date of Ingest

2025-07-30T14:14:32-05:00

Geographic Coverage

• China
• Tibet
• Japan

Abstract

In this winter issue, we feature three films from AEMS' Digital Asia project (www.digitalasia.illinois.edu). Kenneth Dean's Bored in Heaven, reviewed by Jonathan H.X. Lee, is a visual exploration of the performance of contemporary religious rituals in southeast China. Two films on environmental issues—in China (Lessons of the Loess Plateau by John Liu, reviewed by James E. Mills) and in Tibet (Shielding the Mountains by Emily Yeh and Kunga Lama, reviewed by Tracy H. Allen)—give hope to environmentalists everywhere by demonstrating the different ways local communities are acting to maintain the delicate balance between man and nature. The fourth film set, Can't Go Native? and supplementary DVDs by anthropologist and filmmaker David W. Plath, reviewed by Anne Prescott, looks at anthropologist Keith Brown's fifty-year relationship with the Japanese community he studied.

Publisher

Asian Educational Media Service

Series/Report Name or Number

Issue: #43

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

newsletter

Language

eng

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies

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