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DESCRIPTION:Where did manga come from? According to the Japanese government
 \, manga is first and foremost very old and very Japanese. But even a popu
 lar academic history of modern Japan appears only able to speculate when i
 t comes to manga’s origins: “one inspiration for the twentieth-century
  comic book (manga) was probably the printmaking of the Tokugawa era.”\n
 \nIn fact\, manga (in the sense of twentieth-century comics) was largely i
 mported\, during the 1920s and 1930s\, from the United States\, where the 
 first modern comic strips had developed around 1900 in response to new tec
 hnologies like film and phonograph records. The Japanese importation of co
 mics was not an isolated case\; comics similarly spread to countries like 
 China and France during the same time period. The medium’s success in Ja
 pan was of course unparalleled\, but less as the result of inherent cultur
 al traits than a confluence of material differences between comics publish
 ing in Japan and elsewhere.\n\nRSVP required. Please register for this eve
 nt here.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nEike Exner is an independent scholar and
  historian of graphic narrative. After receiving his PhD in Comparative Li
 terature from the University of Southern California in 2018\, he recently 
 published his first book\, Comics and the Origins of Manga\, and is curren
 tly working on a comprehensive history of comics in Japan.
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SUMMARY:What the Japanese Government Doesn't Want You to Know about Manga H
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