Asian Popular Culture

Description

This book examines different aspects of Asian popular culture, including films, TV, music, comedy, folklore, cultural icons, the Internet and theme parks. It raises important questions such as – What are the implications of popularity of Asian popular culture for globalization? Do regional forces impede the globalizing of cultures? Or does the Asian popular culture flow act as a catalyst or conveying channel for cultural globalization? Does the globalization of culture pose a threat to local culture? It addresses 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 necessarily disconnected from their origins in order to cater for the local market. It thereby presents a collective argument that, whilst local social formations, and patterns of consumption and participation in Asia are still very much dependent on global cultural developments and the phenomena of modernity, yet such dependence is often concretized, reshaped and distorted by the local media to cater for the local market.

Contents

1. Asian Disneylands: One Region, Two Modernities Micky Lee; Anthony Fung and Janet Wasko 2. New Patterns of Glocal Flows in the Visual Culture of China (the case of Esquire and Cosmopolitan in Beijing) Eric Ma 3. Shanghai Youth Reading Harry Potter John Erni 4. Pop Idol in China Michael Keane 5. Reality TV Ainori in Taiwan and Japan Kelly Hu 6. A Yearning for Tenderness: A Scenario for Korean Cinema Shin Dong Kim and Joel David 7. Harry Potter and Folklores in the Philippines Jane Vinculado 8. Cultural Hybridity of Singapore films Tania Lim Reality TV in Asia Jinna Tay 9. Japanese Comics Eyeing for the Global Market Kukee Choo 10. The Consumption of localized Hip Hop Music in Thailand Viriya Sawangchot 11. From Rock and Roll to Hip Hop: The Japanese Pop Music Style Yoshitaka Mouri 12. Glocalization as Fashion Business Strategy in China (case studies of different brands Dunhill, DKNY, etc) Matthew Chew

Author Bio

Anthony Y.H. Fung is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the co-author of the book New Television Globalisation and the East Asian Cultural Imagination, and Global Capital, Local Culture: Localization of Transnational Media Corporations in China (2008).

Related Subjects

1. Asian Studies
2. Popular Culture
3. Sociology of Culture