Beyond the Male Idol Factory
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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A star-making factory without rival, the Japanese talent agency Johnny's Jimusho has brought fame to several generations of male stars – singers, actors and p
K-pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: JungBong Choi
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-15 - Publisher: Routledge

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K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as "South Korea’s greatest export", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely through
Madhuri Dixit
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Nandana Bose
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-04 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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A wide-ranging account of the Indian film star Madhuri Dixit, one of the most popular actresses of Hindi cinema. Nandana Bose's study traces Dixit's twenty-five
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Mark Gallagher
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-25 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Tony Leung Chiu-Wai investigates the rich, prolific career of an acclaimed leading man of Hong Kong and Chinese film and television: the star of more than 70 fi
The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Yuichiro Shimizu
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-31 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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What is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a “kingdom of bureaucrats", but until no