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Book SynopsisThe study of Asian culture, media and communications is an area that has developed rapidly over the past two decades. This rapid development has led to the deployment of diverse scholarly approaches while simultaneously raising important questions regarding the extent to which the use of key terms such as “nation”, “citizenship” and “modernity” must be modified to reflect the specificity of an Asian context. Furthermore, the irrepressible flows of popular cultural forms and the enthusiastic adoption of new communications technologies across the region demand approaches that can accommodate the dynamism and diversity of Asian culture and media. Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia brings together leading scholars from Asia, North America and Australia to address questions related to these challenges, producing new insights and frameworks that can be productively utilized by students and scholars working in the field.
Trade ReviewThis volume brings together a refreshing set of chapters focusing on the diverse and dynamic landscape of contemporary Asian media and culture. Adopting what the editors call a ‘trans-Asian’ approach and adopting an expansive notion of ‘Asia’ that extends beyond discrete nation-states and conventional regional boundaries, the volume is testimony to the coming into maturity of Asian and Asian-diasporic scholarship in the field. -- Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Western Sydney
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Part I: Trans-Asian connectivity and dialogue / 1. The Yellow Pacific: East Asian Pop Culture and East Asian Modernities, Younghan Cho / 2. The National Is/As the Global, Ariel Heryanto / 3. Vancouver Imagined: The Trans-Pacific Itineraries of Film Locations, Helen Hok-Sze Leung / Part II: Muslim modernities / 4. Who wants to be a (Muslim) Millionaire? Motivation, modernity and the power of positive narratives in contemporary Indonesia, Meg Downes / 5. Disembedded listeners: religious oratory in the age of information, Julian Millie / Part III: Cultural diversity / 6. Affective listening? The politics of (mediated) minority recognition in the ‘All About Us’ project in Hong Kong, Lisa Leung Yuk-ming / 7. Long Live Cuteness’: S.H.E.’s ‘Girl Power’ and the Negotiations with Nationalisms in ‘Pop Culture China, Liew Kai Khiun and Yang Fang-Chih Irene / 8. Queer India(s): the pleasures of song and dance, Shalmalee Palekar / Part IV: Cultural politics and digital convergence / 9. Digital Creative Labour: The Ethics of Labour and Neoliberal Governmentality of Selfhood, Yeran Kim / 10. Digital Pluralism and Dissociative Publics, Koichi Iwabuchi / 11. Digital Media, International Students, and the Cultural Politics of Location, Fran Martin / Afterword, John N. Erni / Index
