Popular Culture in Asia: Memory, City, Celebrity

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Engaging with the Valley of Death: The Dialogue with Modernity in The Burmese Harp....Pages 19-42
National Allegory, Modernization, and the Cinematic Patrimony of the Marcos Regime....Pages 43-64
Censorship and the Unfinished Past: Political Satire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema....Pages 65-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Modernizing the Urban Landscape: Architecture and the Internationalized Face of Asia....Pages 91-115
Romancing Urban Modernity in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai: The Film About Love and the Shaping of a Discursive East Asian Popular Culture....Pages 116-141
Imagining Modernity in Contemporary Malaysia: Non-Western Soap Opera and the Negative Urban Morality....Pages 142-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Gender Reconstruction in Post-Mao Urban China: The Interplay between Modernity and Popular Culture....Pages 165-182
Beyond the “Fragile Woman”: Identity, Modernity, and Musical Gay Icons in Overseas Chinese Communities....Pages 183-205
Jay Chou’s Music and the Shaping of Popular Culture in China....Pages 206-219
Back Matter....Pages 220-222