Publications

Books (since 2012)

2023. Lim, B.C. 唐物の神能における唐土: 『東方朔』『西王母』『菊慈童』『鶴亀』をめぐって. 東京、文学通信.

2021. Amos, T. & Ishii, A., eds. Revisiting Japan’s Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation. London and New York: Routledge.

2020. Kaplan, M., Thang, L.L., Sánchez, M., & Hoffman, J., eds. Intergenerational Contact Zones: Place-based Strategies for Promoting Social Inclusion and Belonging. London and New York: Routledge.

2016. Shamoon, D. & McMorran, C., eds. Teaching Japanese Popular Culture. Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies Publishers.

2012. Shamoon, D. Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls’ Culture in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

2022. McMorran, C. Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

2020. Naoi, N. Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth Century Japan. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

2019. Yeung, W.J.J. & Thang, L.L., eds. Family and Population in Asia (家庭与人口). Singapore: Centre for Family and Population Research, NUS.

2012. Lim, B.C. Another Stage: Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu and Late Muromachi Noh. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ East Asia Program.

2012. Mehta, K & Thang, L.L., eds. Experiencing Grandparenthood: An Asian Perspective. Netherlands: Springer.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (since 2015)

  • 2025. Tjin, A., Thang, L. L., Sondh, H.K., Stewart, R. "Healthcare Service Utilisation of People Living With Non-Alzheimer’s Dementia: A Systematic Review," Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology.
  • 2025. Thang, L. L., Cao, Y., Heng, C.K., Kiyota, E. "Housing Senior Citizens in Singapore," in Architectures of Ageing in Place, Chatterjee, A. ed., Routledge, pp. 79-95.
  • 2025. Thang, L. L. "The Development of Intergenerational Initiatives in Singapore," in The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Connections, Fideler, E.F. ed., Oxford University Press, pp. 295–310.
  • 2025. Satchanawakul, N., Liangruenrom, N., Thang, L. L., Satchanawakul, N. "Systematic scoping review of ageing in place strategies in Japan, Singapore and Thailand: A comparative analysis," Australasian Journal on Ageing, 44(1).
  • 2025. Ang, S., Thang, L. L., Ho, E.L.E. "Ethnic proximity, mobility and (non)-belonging: middle-class Singaporean migrants in China," Mobilities, 20(1), pp. 207–221.
  • 2025. Butts, D., & Thang, L. L. "Remembering Sally Newman: A Legendary Figure in Pioneering the Intergenerational Field," Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 23(3), pp. 264–268.
  • 2025. Maulod, A., Lee, J.M.L., Lu, S.Y., Cheng, G.H.L., Chan, A., Thang, L.L. & Malhotra, R. "Mismatch Between Older Persons’ Generative Concern and Internalized Generative Capacities: Leveraging on Generative Ambivalence to Enhance Intergenerational Cohesion," Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 37(4), pp. 593-617
  • 2024. McMorran, C. “Out of site, out of mind? Ethnographies of Japan, outside Japan,” in Teaching Japan: A Handbook. Gaitanidis, I. and Poole, G. eds., Routledge, pp. 85-98.
  • 2024. Dyer, S., Hill, J., Walkington, H., Couper, P., McMorran, C., Oates, Y., Pant, L., Rink, B., West, H. "Courageous and compassionate teaching: international reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic," Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 48:4, pp. 557-574.
  • 2024. Naoi, N. "Empire, Design, and the Modern Lifestyle: Japanese Department Stores and the Colonial Identity," Review of Japanese Culture and Society, 36.
  • 2024. Shamoon, D. “Manga Genres - Demographics and Themes,” in The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime. Berndt, J., ed. Cambridge University Press, pp. 161-171.
  • 2024. Abalos, J., Thang, L.L., Tong, B. eds. Special Issue on "Leisure and Older Adults in Asia," Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 39(3).
  • 2024. Abalos, J., Thang, L.L., Tong, B. "Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology on Leisure and Older Adults in Asia," Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 39(3).
  • 2024. Harding, S.C., Thang, L.L., Subramaniam, A. "Lifelong Learning and Healthy Ageing: A Global and Singaporean Perspective," in What Matters for Healthy Ageing. Byles, J. ed. Springer, Singapore, pp. 69–91.
  • 2024. Yuen, S.M. “Beyond “correctness,” Journal of Sociolinguistics, 28:3, pp. 35-39.
  • 2023. Eaton, C. "Strategic Races: Understanding Racial Categories in Japanese-Occupied Singapore", Asian Ethnicity, 24:4, pp. 505-522.
  • 2023. Eaton, C., Reeder M., Yang Y. "Co-producing ethnicity in urban Asia", Asian Ethnicity, 24:4, pp. 495-504.
  • 2023. McMorran, C. & W. Nathan Green. “Participant Observation,” in Key Methods in Geography, Fourth edition. Clifford, N., Cope, M., Gillespie, T., and French, S., eds. United Kingdom: Sage Publications, pp. 197-212.
  • 2023. Shamoon, D. “The Beautiful Men of the Inner Chamber,” in Introducing Japanese Popular Culture. Freedman, A., ed. Routledge, pp. 311-322.
  • 2023. Thang, L.L., Yui, Y., Wakabayashi, Y., Miyazawa, H. "Promoting age-friendly community of support and care in Japan's aging neighborhood: The Nagayama model", Aging and Health Research, 3(1), 100111.
  • 2023. Thang, L.L. & Ho, Y.K.A. "Long-Term Eldercare Policy and Practices in Asia: The Case in Singapore." in Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy. Springer, Singapore, pp. 1-18.
  • 2022. Kalicki, K. "Fearful states: the migration-security nexus in Northeast Asia," The Pacific Review, 35(1), pp. 59-89.
  • 2022. Lim, B.C. & Iezzi, J.A. "Techno-Tradition: A Foray into Technology-Integrated Traditional Japanese Theatre," Japanese Studies, 42:2, pp. 155-174.
  • 2022. McMorran, C. “Learning on Pause? The Ambivalent and Conflicting Velocities of International Student Mobilities in Pandemic Times,” in International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific: Letters to Coronavirus. Cheng Yi’En, ed. Springer, pp. 145-159.
  • 2022. Naoi, N. "Takehisa Yumeji in Modern Japanese Art—Through the Collection of Elise Wessels," Aziatische Kunst, 52(3), pp. 24-32.
  • 2022. Ho, E. L.-E., Thang, L.L., Huang, S., & Yeoh, B. S. A. "(Re)constructing Ageing Futures: Insights from Migration in Asia and Beyond", American Behavioral Scientist, 66(14), pp. 1819–1827.
  • 2022. Ang, S., Thang, L.L. & Ho, E. L.-E. "Singaporean Women Living in China: The Uneven Burdens of Middle-class Transnational Caregiving," Asian Studies Review, 47:3, pp. 464-480.
  • 2022. Mehta, K.K. & Thang, L.L., eds. Special Issue on "Asian Perspectives on Active Aging: Meaning, Purpose and Hope", Social Sciences, Volume 11.
  • 2022. Mehta, K.K. & Thang, L.L. "The Introduction of the Special Issue: Asian Perspectives on Active Aging: Meaning, Purpose and Hope", Social Sciences, 11(5), 190.
  • 2022. Thang, L.L. “Retirement Patterns,” in Encyclopedia of gerontology and population ageing. D. Gu, and M.E. Dupre, eds., Springer Reference, pp 4289–4294.
  • 2021. Hislop, S. "Haikai Time in Meiji Japan," in Revisiting Japan’s Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation. Amos, T. & Ishii, A., eds. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 135-140.
  • 2021. Ishii, A. "Questioning Modernity: A Historiographical Sketch of the Meiji Enlightenment," in Revisiting Japan’s Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation. Amos, T. & Ishii, A., eds. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 87-95.
  • 2021. Kalicki, K. "Toward Liberal Immigration Control: The Case of Japan," Asian Survey, 61(5), pp. 854–882.
  • 2021. Naoi, N. "Designing Japan's orient: Department stores and the modern experience," Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities, 52, pp. 147-153.
  • 2021. Shamoon, D. “Gazing on the Shōjo: Kawabata Yasunari’s Novels for Girls (Shōjo Shōsetsu),” Japanese Studies, 41(3), pp. 361-377.
  • 2021. Shamoon, D. “Class S: Appropriation of ‘Lesbian’ Subculture in Modern Japanese Literature and New Wave Cinema,” Cultural Studies, 35(1), pp. 27-43.
  • 2021. Chan, H.H. & Thang, L.L. "Active Aging through Later Life and Afterlife Planning: Shūkatsu in a Super-Aged Japan", Social Sciences, 11(1), 3.
  • 2021. Yui, Y., Miyazawa, H., Wakabayashi, Y. & Thang, L.L. "Regeneration of Housing Estates by the Community-Based Integrated Care Systems," in Community-Based Integrated Care and the Inclusive Society. Miyazawa, H., Hatakeyama, T., eds. Singapore: Springer, pp. 223-247.
  • 2021. Thang, L.L. & Toyota, M. "Japan-Southeast Asia engagements on the ground: Japanese women in Southeast Asia," in The courteous power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific era. J. D. Ciorciari & K. Tsutsui, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 225–240.
  • 2021. Yuen, S.M. “From Marginality to Possibility: Doing Transgender Studies in Japanese Studies,” New Voices in Japanese Studies, 13, pp. 1-18.
  • 2020. Kalicki, K. "Trading Liberty: Assisted Repatriation in Liberal Democracies," Government and Opposition, 55(4), pp. 711-731.
  • 2020. McMorran, C. “How to finish: Writing in a stressful world,” in Studying Japan: Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods. Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher, eds. Baden Baden: Nomos, pp. 405-413.
  • 2020. Shamoon, D. “The Girl in the Whirlpool: Girls' Culture (Shōjo Bunka) in Tanizaki's Manji,” U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, 57, pp. 3-20.
  • 2020. Thang, L.L., Lim, E.Z.K., Kang, D.J.Y. & Lim, W.L. "“We Are Close Enough”: Closeness and Support from Siblings Among Divorced and Widowed Seniors in Singapore," in Brothers and Sisters: Sibling Relationships Across the Life Course. Buchanan, A., Rotkirch, A., eds. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 357–376.
  • 2020. Thang, L.L. & Engel, R. "Intergenerational Connections: Exploring New Ways to Connect", Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 18(4), pp. 377-378.
  • 2020. Thang, L.L. & Mehta, K.K. "Teach Me To Be Filial: Intergenerational Care in Singapore Families," in Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies. Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore, Hong Zhang, eds. Berghahn Books, pp. 142–165.
  • 2020. Sone, S. & Thang, L.L. "Staying Till the End?: Japanese Later-Life Migrants and Belonging in Western Australia", Japanese Studies, 40(1), pp. 41-62.
  • 2020. Li, Q., Kaplan, M. & Thang, L.L. "Intergenerational Programs and Practices in China: Results Based on a Web Search Method", Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 18(1), pp. 1-16.
  • 2020. Ho, E.Q-Y., Hong, S-I., Thang, L.L., Ong, P.H. and Koh, G.C-H. “Falls among Asians living in small apartments designed for older adults in Singapore,” Journal of Aging and Environment, 34(1), pp. 31-47.
  • 2020. Thang, L.L. "Intergenerational contact zones", in Age Inclusive Public Space, Hauderowicz, D. and Serena, K.L., eds. Germany: Hatje Cantz.
  • 2020. Yuen, S.M. “Cultural Citizenship.” Japanese Media and Popular Culture: An Open-Access Digital Initiative of the University of Tokyo. https://jmpc-utokyo.com/keyword/cultural-citizenship/
  • 2020. Yuen, S.M. “Unqueer Queers—Drinking Parties and Negotiations of Cultural Citizenship by Female-to-Male Transpeople in Japan,” Asian Anthropology, 19(2), pp. 86-101.
  • 2019. Kalicki, K.. "Security Fears and Bureaucratic Rivalry: Admitting Foreign Labor in Japan and Taiwan," Comparative Politics, 51(4), pp. 603-624.
  • 2019. Kalicki, K.. "Japan’s Liberal-Democratic Paradox of Refugee Admission," Journal of Asian Studies, 78(2), pp. 355-378.
  • 2019. McMorran, C. and Ragupathi, K. “The promise and pitfalls of gradeless learning: responses to an alternative approach to grading,” Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44(7), pp. 925-938.
  • 2019. Lim, C.C.L., Low, C.L.T., Hia, S.B., Thang, L.L. and Thian, A.L. “Generativity: Establishing and Nurturing the Next Generation,” Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 17(3), pp. 368-379.
  • 2019. Thang, L.L., Lim, E. and Tan, S.L. “Lifelong learning and productive aging among the baby-boomers in Singapore,” Social Science and Medicine, 229, pp. 41-49.
  • 2019. Thang, L.L. “Socio-cultural aspects: Family and filial support,” in Ageing in Asia Contemporary trends and policy issues. K.H. Phua, L.G. Goh and M. T. Yap, eds., Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 177–202.
  • 2018. McMorran, C. “Liberating Work in the Tourist Industry,” in Rethinking Japanese Feminisms, Julia Bullock, Ayako Kano, and James Welker, eds., Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 119-130.
  • 2018. Shamoon, D. “The Beautiful Men of the Inner Chamber: Gender-Bending, Boys’ Love and Other Shōjo Manga Tropes in Ōoku,” in Introducing Japanese Popular Culture. Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade, eds., Routledge, pp. 287-299.
  • 2018. Shamoon, D. “Fire! Mizuno Hideko and the Development of 1960s Shōjo Manga,” in Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media. Darling-Wolf, F., ed., London and New York: Routledge, pp. 69-85.
  • 2018. Suen, J. and Thang, L.L. “Contextual challenges and the mosaic of support: Understanding the vulnerabilities of low-Income informal caregivers of dependent elders in Singapore,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 33(2), pp. 163-181.
  • 2018. Thang, L.L. and Suen, J. “Growing old in Singapore: Workings of the Many Helping Hands policy approach,” in Ageing in Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives. T.R. Klassen, M. Higo, N. S. Dhirathiti and T.W. Devasahayam, eds., Routledge.
  • 2018. Thang, L.L. and Suen, J. “Policy approaches to aging in Singapore: Tackling the limits of the family in supporting seniors,” in Family and Population Change in Singapore: A unique case in the global family change. W.J.J. Yeung and S. Hu, eds., London: Routledge.
  • 2018. Thang, L.L. “What if the family is no longer the fundamental building block of society?,” in Singapore Perspectives 2017: What if? G. Koh and D. Soon, eds., Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific.
  • 2018. Yuen, S.M. “Mediated masculinities—Negotiating the ‘normal’ in the Japanese Female-to-Male trans magazine Laph,” in Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media, Fabienne Darling-Wolf, ed., London and New York: Routledge, pp. 180-199.
  • 2017. Lim, B.C. “What is there to laugh about? University of Laughs as an anti-war film comedy,” in Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War. King-fai Tam, Timothy Y. Tsu and Sandra Wilson, eds., Routledge, pp. 151-161.
  • 2017. McMorran, C. “From Volunteers to Voluntours: shifting priorities in post-disaster Japan,” Japan Forum, 29(4), pp. 558-582.
  • 2017. McMorran, C., Ragupathi, K. and Luo S. “Assessment and Learning without Grades? Motivations and Concerns with Implementing Gradeless Learning in Higher Education,” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(3), pp. 361-377.
  • 2017. Toyota, M. and Thang, L.L. “Transnational retirement mobility as processes of identity negotiation: the case of Japanese in South-east Asia,” Identities, 24(5), pp.557-572.
  • 2017. Mehta, K. and Thang, L.L. “Experiences of formal and informal caregivers of older persons in Singapore,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 32(3), pp. 373-385.
  • 2017. Thang, L.L. “Promoting intergenerational connection and the creation of intergenerational contact zone (ICZ),” in Future of the Intergenerational Exchange as the World Standard: The theory and practices of intergenerational learning (Series 2). A. Kusano, K. Mazobe, H. Uchida and M. Yasunaga, eds., Otsu, Japan: Sangaku Publisher.
  • 2017. Thang, L.L. “Developing Japanese Studies with a Southeast Asia perspectives,” in Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region. K. Okano and Y. Sugimoto, eds., Routledge.
  • 2016. McMorran, C. “Unthinking the Nation-State as Area: interrogating Japan and Japanese studies,” Environment & Planning D: Society and Space, 34(5), pp. 815-821.
  • 2016. McMorran, C. “Author meets critics: learning through scholarly conversation,” Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 6(1), pp. 8-26.
  • 2016. Thang, L.L. and Hong, S. “Ageing-in-place in studio apartments in Singapore: Maintaining independence in community living.” Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 25(4), pp. 250-263.
  • 2016. Thang, L.L. “What Do Grandfathers Value? Understanding Grandfatherhood in Asia Through Chinese Grandfathers in Singapore,” in Grandfathers: Global Perspectives. Buchanan, A. and Rotkirch, A., eds., Palgrave Macmillan UK.
  • 2016. Kim, H. J. and Thang, L.L. “Regional Mobility from East Asia to Southeast Asia: The Case of Education and Retirement Migration,” in Advancing The Regional Commons in The New East Asia. Wajjwalku, S., Ho, K.C. and Yoshida, O., eds., London: Routledge.
  • 2015. McMorran, C. "Between fan pilgrimage and dark tourism: competing agendas in overseas field learning," Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 39(4), pp. 568-583.
  • 2015. McMorran, C. “Mobilities amid the Production of Fixities: Labor in a Japanese Inn,” Mobilities, 10(1), pp. 83-99. Reprinted in Mobilities: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, Ole B. Jensen, ed., London: Routledge.
  • 2015. Shamoon, D. "Japanese Masquerade in Bean Cake and ‘The Red Bridal,’ Short Film Studies, 5(2), pp. 203-206.
  • 2015. Shamoon, D. "The Superflat Space of Japanese Anime," in Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Edna Lim and Lilian Chee, eds., Routledge Advances in Film Studies, vol. 36., New York: Routledge, pp. 93-108.
  • 2015. Thang, L.L. “Social networks and the wellbeing of older adults in Singapore,” in Successful Aging: Asian Perspectives. S. Cheng, I. Chi, H. H. Fung, L. W. Li, and J. Woo, eds., Netherlands: Springer.
  • 2015. Thang, L.L. “Creating an intergenerational contact zone: encounters in public spaces within Singapore’s public housing neighbourhoods,” in Intergenerational Space. R.M. Vanderbeck and N. Worth, eds., London: Routledge.
  • 2015. Thang, L.L. and Toyota, M. “Making 'traditional' families in transnational settings: Japanese women in Balinese-Japanese marriages,” in Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan. T. Aoyama, L. Dales and R. Dasgupta, eds., London: Routledge.
  • 2015. Sone, S. and Thang, L.L. “Transnational Japanese women and family space in Western Australia,” in Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan. T. Aoyama, L. Dales and R. Dasgupta, eds., London: Routledge.