Waiyee Loh
Biographic Data
| ID | 182519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Waiyee Loh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Waiyee |
| FAMILY NAME | Loh |
| SIGNATURE | LOH W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Japanese tourists in Victorian Britain
This article explores Japanese women’s engagements with the British heritage industry in the 2000s by reading two recent Japanese texts concerned with commodified British heritage, especially heritage from the Victorian period. Reading these Japanese ‘heritage texts’ reveals that a perceived lack of aristocratic cultural capital, which has grown out of Japan’s encounter with informal British imperialism in the nineteenth century, continues to sha…
Supernatural monsters and neo-Victorian detectives
Detective fiction was introduced to Japanese readers in the 19th century, together with the idea that the rationality detectives embody is an ideal for Japan to emulate. This article examines Yuki Kaori’s Count Cain series, a neo-Victorian Japanese girls’ comic (shōjo manga) that references the Sherlock Holmes stories and the wider genre of the detective mystery. The Count Cain series both supports and challenges the idealization of western ratio…
Superflat and the Postmodern Gothic
Superflat and the Postmodern Gothic: Images of Western Modernity in Kuroshitsuji Waiyee Loh (bio) In 2007, Toboso Yana began publishing Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler), a manga series set in late Victorian England about a beautiful butler named Sebastian, who is actually a devil in disguise, and his young master, Count Ciel Phantomhive. With its Western European setting, its aestheticization of the demonic and the deathly, and its penchant for roses,…
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Superflat and the Postmodern Gothic
Superflat and the Postmodern Gothic: Images of Western Modernity in Kuroshitsuji Waiyee Loh (bio) In 2007, Toboso Yana began publishing Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler), a manga series set in late Victorian England about a beautiful butler named Sebastian, who is actually a devil in disguise, and his young master, Count Ciel Phantomhive. With its Western European setting, its aestheticization of the demonic and the deathly, and its penchant for roses,…
Supernatural monsters and neo-Victorian detectives
Detective fiction was introduced to Japanese readers in the 19th century, together with the idea that the rationality detectives embody is an ideal for Japan to emulate. This article examines Yuki Kaori’s Count Cain series, a neo-Victorian Japanese girls’ comic (shōjo manga) that references the Sherlock Holmes stories and the wider genre of the detective mystery. The Count Cain series both supports and challenges the idealization of western ratio…
Japanese tourists in Victorian Britain
This article explores Japanese women’s engagements with the British heritage industry in the 2000s by reading two recent Japanese texts concerned with commodified British heritage, especially heritage from the Victorian period. Reading these Japanese ‘heritage texts’ reveals that a perceived lack of aristocratic cultural capital, which has grown out of Japan’s encounter with informal British imperialism in the nineteenth century, continues to sha…
Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 works)