Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture

<p>Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is this more apparent than when looking at popular culture where uneven but multilateral exchanges of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Chinese products have led to the construction of an ‘East Asian Popular Culture’. This is both influenced by, and in turn influences, the national cultures, and generates transnational co-production and reinvention. </p><p></p><p>As East Asian popular culture becomes a global force, it is increasingly important for us to understand the characteristics of contemporary East Asian popular culture, and in particular its transnational nature. In this handbook, the contributors theorize East Asian experiences and reconsider Western theories on cultural globalization to provide a cutting-edge overview of this global phenomenon.</p><p></p><p>The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture will be of great interest to students and scholars of a wide range of disciplines, including: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Communication Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Asian Studies in general.</p> <p>Introduction: Critical approaches to East Asian pop culture</p><p></p><p><strong>Part I: Historicization and Spatialization of East Asian pop culture</strong></p><p></p><p>1. Historicizing East Asian Pop Culture,</p><p></p><p>2. East Asian popular culture and inter-Asian referencing</p><p></p><p>3. Hybridity, Korean Wave and Asian Media</p><p></p><p>4. Been informal and formal cultural economy: Chinese subtitle groups and flexible accumulation in the age of online viewing</p><p></p><p>5. Digital Diaspora, Mobility and Home</p><p></p><p>Part II: The development of national production and its regional circulation/connection</p><p></p><p>6. Films</p><p></p><p>6a. Ways of S. Korean Cinema: Phantom, Trans –Cinema and Korean Blockbusters</p><p></p><p>6b. Welcome to Chollywood: Chinese Language Cinema as a Transborder Assemblage</p><p></p><p>6c. Globalism, New Media, and Cinematically Imagining the Inescapable Japan</p><p></p><p>7. TV dramas</p><p></p><p>7a. Bordercrossing, Local Modification and Transnational Transaction of TV Dramas in East Asia</p><p></p><p>7b. Confucian Heroes in Popular Asian Dramas in the Age of Capitalism</p><p></p><p>8. Pop Music</p><p></p><p>8a. K-pop, the Sound of Subaltern Cosmopolitanism? </p><p></p><p>8b. The legendary live venues and the changing music scenes in Taipei and Beijing: Underworld and D22 </p><p>9. Social media and popular activism </p><p>9a. Social Media and Popular Activism in a Korean Context</p><p></p><p>9b. Mobilizing Discontent: Social Media and Networked Activism since the Great East Japan Earthquake</p><p></p><p>9c. Social media in China: between an emerging civil society and commercialization</p><p></p><p>View III: Gender. Sexuality and Asian celebrity</p><p></p><p>10. East Asian stars, - public space and star studies</p><p></p><p>11. Ribbons and Frills: Shōjo Sensibility and the Transnational Imaginary</p><p></p><p>12. Queer Pop Culture in the Sinophone Mediasphere</p><p></p><p>13. Male and Female Idols of the Chinese Pornosphere</p><p></p><p>14. Soft, Smooth with Chocolate Abs: Performance of a Korean Masculinity in Taiwanese Men’s Fashion</p><p></p><p>Part IV: Politics of the commons</p><p></p><p>15. <i>Shanzhai</i> culture, Dafen art and Copyrights</p><p></p><p>16. Regional soft power/creative industries competition</p><p></p><p>17. Popular Culture and Historical Memories of War in Asia</p><p></p><p>18. Film Festivals and Regional Cosmopolitanism in East Asia: the case of Busan International Film Festival</p><p></p><p>19. Trans-East-Asia as method</p>