1st Edition

Chinese Fans of Japanese and Korean Pop Culture Nationalistic Narratives and International Fandom

By Lu Chen Copyright 2018
188 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

How can Japanese popular culture gain numerous fans in China, despite pervasive anti-Japanese sentiment? How is it that there’s such a strong anti-Korean sentiment in Chinese online fan communities when the official Sino-Korean relationship is quite stable before 2016? Avid fans in China are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding to make gifts to their idols in foreign countries.... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Understanding Popular Culture in China

Chapter 2: Cultural Policy and Cultural Market in China

Chapter 3: Methodology and Research Method

Chapter 4: Japanese and Korean Popular Culture in China: The Dissemination, Reception and Formation of Fandom (Before 2011)

Chapter 5: Offline Activities: Individual Fans, Fragmented Groups and Consumer Interests

Chapter 6: Patriotic Education and Alternative Historical Narratives

Chapter 7: Gossip and Tabloid News: Radicalized Online Anti-Fan Activities and Self-Patriotic Education

Chapter 8: Conclusion: Party-State, Fandom and Nationalism

Biography

Lu Chen assistant professor in the Faculty of Journalism and Communication, Guangzhou University, China.