Asian popular culture /

"Examines two seemingly contradictory and yet parallel processes in the circulation of Asian popular culture: the interconnectedness between Asian popular culture and western culture in an era of cultural globalization, and the local derivatives and versions of global culture that are necessari...

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Other Authors: Fung, Anthony Y. H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 31.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Asian popular culture, the global (dis)continuity / Anthony Y.H. Fung
  • Pt. 1. The dominance of global continuity : cultural localization and adaptation. When Chinese youth met Harry Potter : translating consumption and middle class identification / John Nguyet Erni
  • One region, two modernities : Disneyland in Tokyo and Hong Kong / Micky Lee and Anthony Y.H. Fung
  • Comic travels : Disney publishing in the People's Republic of China / Jennifer Altehenger
  • Saving face for magazine covers : new forms of transborder visuality in urban China / Eric Kit-Wai Ma
  • Cultural consumption and masculinity : a case study of GQ magazine covers in Taiwan / Hong-Chi Shiau
  • Pt. 2. Global discontinuity : the local absorption of global culture. An unlocalized and unglobalized subculture : English language independent music in Singapore / Kai Khiun Liew and Shzr Ee Tan
  • "Only mix, never been cut" : the localized production of Jamaican music in Thailand / Viriya Sawangchot
  • Popular online games in the Taiwanese market : an examination of the relationships of media globalization and local media consumption / Lai-Chi Chen
  • The rise of the Korean cinema in inbound and outbound globalization / Shin Dong Kim
  • Pt. 3. Cultural domestication : a new form of global continuity. Pocket capitalism and virtual intimacy : Pokémon as a symptom of post-industrial youth culture / Anne Allison
  • Playing the global game : Japan brand and globalization / Kukhee Choo
  • Pt. 4. China as a rising market : cultural antagonism and globalization. China's new creative strategy : the utilization of cultural soft power and new markets / Michael Keane and Bonnie Liu
  • Renationalizing Hong Kong cinema : the gathering force of the mainland market / Michael Curtin.