Asian Popular Culture in Transition
Asian Popular Culture in Transition examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, and Japan, and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in information technologies and globalization have impacted cultural markets, fashion, the digital generation, mobile culture, femininity, matrimonial advertising, and a film actress image and performance. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources and methods including historical research, content analysis, anthropological observation, textual analyses, and interviews, Asian Popular Culture in Transition makes a significant contribution to this growing area of research.
Given its broad range of countries, theories, and approaches, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, cultural studies, media and communication studies, and gender studies.
Lorna Fitzsimmons is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Humanities Program at California State University, Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles.
John A. Lent is publisher and editor of the International Journal of Comic Art, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
1 Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe
Shopping for Allies
Czeslaw Tubilewicz
2 The Asia-Europe Meeting
The Theory and Practice of Interregionalism
Alfredo C. Robles, Jr
3 Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia
Edited by Anthony Reid and Michael Gilsenan
4 Asian-European Relations
Building Blocks for Global Governance?
Edited by Jrgen Rland,
Gunter Schubert, Gnter
Schucher and Cornelia Storz
5 Taiwans Environmental Struggle
Toward a Green Silicon Island
Jack F. Williams and Chang-yi David Chang
6 Taiwans Relations with Mainland China
A Tail Wagging Two Dogs
Su Chi
7 The Politics of Civic Space in Asia
Building Urban Communities
Edited by Amrita Daniere and Mike Douglass
8 Trade and Contemporary Society Along the Silk Road
An Ethno-History of Ladakh
Jacqueline Fewkes
9 Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis
Edited by Richard Carney
10 Kim Jong Ils Leadership of North Korea
Jae-Cheon Lim
11 Education as a Political Tool in Asia
Edited by Marie Lall and Edward Vickers
12 Human Genetic Biobanks in Asia
Politics of Trust and Scientific Advancement
Edited by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
13 East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective
Current features and a vision for the future
Edited by Tamio Nakamura
14 Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asias Cities
Edited by Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham
15 Preventing Corruption in Asia
Institutional Design and Policy Capacity
Edited by Ting Gong and Stephen Ma
16 Expansion of Trade and FDI in Asia
Strategic and Policy challenges
Edited by Julien Chaisse and Philippe Gugler
17 Business Innovation in Asia
Knowledge and technology networks from Japan
Dennis McNamara
18 Regional Minorities and Development in Asia
Edited by Huhua Cao and Elizabeth Morrell
19 Regionalism in China-Vietnam Relations
Institution-Building in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Oliver Hensengerth
20 From Orientalism to Postcolonialism
Asia-Europe and the Lineages of Difference
Edited by Sucheta Mazumdar, Kaiwar Vasant and Thierry Labica
21 Politics and Change in Singapore and Hong Kong
Containing Contention
Stephan Ortmann
22 Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia
Considering the Other through Ethnonyms, Territories and Rituals
Edited by Christian Culas and Franois Robinne
23 Asia and Latin America
Political, Economic and Multilateral Relations
Edited by Jrn Dosch and Olaf Jacob
24 Japan and Africa
Globalization and Foreign Aid in the 21st Century
Edited by Howard P. Lehman
25 De-Westernizing Communication Research
Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks
Edited by Georgette Wang
26 Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces
Edited by Tai-Chee Wong and Jonathan Rigg
27 Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture
Asia in Flight
Sheng-mei Ma
28 Alterities in Asia
Reflections on Identity and
Regionalism
Edited by Leong Yew
29 Soft Power in Japan-China Relations
State, Sub-state and Non-state
Relations
Utpal Vyas
30 Enhancing Asia-Europe Co-operation through Educational Exchange
Georg Wiessala
31 History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia
Divided Memories
Edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel C. Sneider
32 The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia
Edited by Ishtiaq Ahmed
33 The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora
Revisiting the Boatpeople
Edited by Yuk Wah Chan
34 The Dynamics of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Asia
Vibrant Societies
Edited by Amrita Daniere and
Hy Van Luong
35 Eurasias Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics
Rivalry or Partnership for China, Russia and Central Asia?
Edited by Robert E. Bedeski and Niklas Swanstrm
36 Asian Popular Culture in Transition
Edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons
37 Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600-1950
Edited by Raquel Reyes and William G. Clarence Smith
38 Asias Role in Governing Global Health
Edited by Kelley Lee, Tikki Pang and Yeling Tan
39 Asian Heritage Management
Contexts, Concerns, and Prospects
Edited by Kapila D. Silva and Neel Kamal Chapagain