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Archive for March 2008

Survey on Swiss manga readers finally online

Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: March 30, 2008

At long last, here are the first results from the survey on Swiss manga readers! I’m sorry for having taken so long to come up with them and publish them, but this project has meant a huge amount of work for me, especially since I did pretty much everything alone. And it isn’t finished. What [...]

Enquête sur les lecteurs suisses de manga

Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: March 27, 2008

C’est avec un GRAND OUF (!!) de soulagement que je peux enfin annoncer la publication sur ce blog des premiers résultats de l’enquête que je mène depuis plusieurs mois pour le Manga Study Network sur les lecteurs suisses de manga.
Tout d’abord, je tiens à remercier encore une fois chaleureusement toutes les personnes qui ont [...]

Japanese soft-power embodied in Doraemon?

Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: March 25, 2008

In the recent years, the role of Japanese entertainment industry in shaping perception of Japan around the world has been the focus of many inquiries, either by journalists – remember Douglas McGray’s famous Japan’s Gross National Cool – or by scholars, like the Manga Study Network. The issue of whether “mangas” (Japanese comics) and “animés” [...]


Crossing out days…

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Blog Update

Latest update - 12/02/2008
Addition of a list of bibliographic resources on Japanese popular culture, particularly animes and mangas.

update - 11/24/2008
Addition of my thesis bibliography as it stands now in two sections: Collections of essays and Monographies.

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