Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture

Introduction: Critical approaches to East Asian pop culture, Koichi Iwabuchi, Eva Tsai, and Chris BerryPart I: Historicization and Spatialization of East Asian pop culture1. Historicizing East Asian Pop Culture, Younghan CHO2. East Asian popular culture and inter-Asian referencing, Koichi IWABUCHI3. Hybridity, Korean Wave and Asian Media, Doobo SHIM4. Been informal and formal cultural economy: Chinese subtitle groups and flexible accumulation in the age of online viewing, Kelly HU5. Digital Diaspora, Mobility and Home, Youna KIMPart II: The development of national production and its regional circulation/connection6. Films6a. Ways of S. Korean Cinema: Phantom, Trans -Cinema and Korean Blockbusters, Soyoung KIM6b. Welcome to Chollywood: Chinese Language Cinema as a Transborder Assemblage, Chris Berry6c. Globalism, New Media, and Cinematically Imagining the Inescapable Japan, Aaron Gerow7. TV dramas7a. Bordercrossing, Local Modification and Transnational Transaction of TV Dramas in East Asia, Anthony FUNG7b. Confucian Heroes in Popular Asian Dramas in the Age of Capitalism, Hsiu-Chuang DEPPMAN8. Pop Music8a. K-pop, the Sound of Subaltern Cosmopolitanism? Hyunjoon SHIN8b. The legendary live venues and the changing music scenes in Taipei and Beijing: Underworld and D22, Miaoju JIAN9. Social media and popular activism9a. Social Media and Popular Activism in a Korean Context, Dong Hyun SONG9b. Mobilizing Discontent: Social Media and Networked Activism since the Great East Japan Earthquake, Love KINDSTRAND, Keiko NISHIMURA, and David H. SLATER9c. Social media in China: between an emerging civil society and commercialization, Jens DammView III: Gender. Sexuality and Asian celebrity10. East Asian stars, - public space and star studies, Jocelyn Yi-Hsuan LAI11. Ribbons and Frills: Shojo Sensibility and the Transnational Imaginary, Jinhee CHOI12. Queer Pop Culture in the Sinophone Mediasphere, Fran MARTIN13. Male and Female Idols of the Chinese Pornosphere, Katrien JACOBS14. Soft, Smooth with Chocolate Abs: Performance of a Korean Masculinity in Taiwanese Men\'s Fashion, Hong-Chi SHIAUPart IV: Politics of the commons15. Shanzhai culture, Dafen art and Copyrights, Jeroen de KLOET and Yiu Fai CHOW16. Regional soft power/creative industries competition, Beng Huat CHUA17. Popular Culture and Historical Memories of War in Asia, Rumi SAKAMOTO 18. Film Festivals and Regional Cosmopolitanism in East Asia: the case of Busan International Film Festival, Soojeong AHN19. Trans-East-Asia as method, Koichi IWABUCHI