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      • Humour
        May 2018

        Mothers Union Comic

        The Whimsical Behaviour of Young Mothers

        by Puty Puar

        “Welcome to the jungle!” That’s what her friends told Puty when she had her first son. Sounds funny at first, but after going through the process, it is apparently pretty scary. Becoming a mother is a huge deal.  It is actually the accumulation of daily struggles and achievements. Those daily stuffs are what she put into this book. Funny, yet so heartwarming and inspiring. Puty captures the moments of early motherhood with honest and entertaining pieces of comic.

      • December 2011

        ballpoint pen de kantan puti kawaii irasuto ga kakeru hon

        by KAMO

        An illustrator introduces tips for drawing various things, including people, animals, sweets, small items, vehicles, etc., cutely by yourself. You will be able to draw your favorite cute small illustrations on anything such as memo pads, and hand-made variety goods.

      • Food & Drink

        Tikim

        Essay on Philippine Food and Culture

        by Doreen G. Fernandez

        Doreen Gamboa Fernandez represents “the compleat writer” – her incisive yet soulful writing, coupled with her keen understanding of the Filipino’s culture and psyche, has brought her (and us fortunate readers) into the very essence of Filipino cooking. According to her, “Writing about food should not be left to newspaper food columnists, or to restaurant reporters. It should be taken from us by historians of the culture, by dramatists and essayists, by novelists, and especially by poets. For it is an act of understanding, an extension of experience. If one can savor the word, then one can swallow the world.”

      • December 2021

        Queering Chinese Kinship

        Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China

        by Lin Song

        What does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies are of such great importance? This book makes sense of queer cultures in China—a country with one of the largest queer populations in the world—and offers an alternative to Euro-American blueprints of queer individual identity. This book contends that kinship relations must be understood as central to any expression of queer selfhood and culture in contemporary cultural production in China. Using a critical approach—“queering Chinese kinship”—Lin Song scrutinizes the relationship between queerness and family relations, and questions Eurocentric queer culture’s frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from blood family.   Offering five case studies of queer representations across a range of media genres, this book also challenges the tendency in current scholarship on Chinese and East Asian queerness to understand queer cultures as predominantly counter-mainstream, marginal, and underground. Shedding light on the representations of queerness and kinship in independent and subcultural as well as commercial and popular cultural products, the book presents a more comprehensive picture of queerness and kinship in flux and highlights queer politics as an integral part of contemporary Chinese public culture.

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