Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture

Koichi Iwabuchi is a Professor & Director of Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia. Eva Tsai is an Associate Professor at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. Chris Berry is a Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, UK.

Introduction: Critical approaches to East Asian pop culture

Part I: Historicization and Spatialization of East Asian pop culture

1. Historicizing East Asian Pop Culture,

2. East Asian popular culture and inter-Asian referencing

3. Hybridity, Korean Wave and Asian Media

4. Been informal and formal cultural economy: Chinese subtitle groups and flexible accumulation in the age of online viewing

5. Digital Diaspora, Mobility and Home

Part II: The development of national production and its regional circulation/connection

6. Films

6a. Ways of S. Korean Cinema: Phantom, Trans –Cinema and Korean Blockbusters

6b. Welcome to Chollywood: Chinese Language Cinema as a Transborder Assemblage

6c. Globalism, New Media, and Cinematically Imagining the Inescapable Japan

7. TV dramas

7a. Bordercrossing, Local Modification and Transnational Transaction of TV Dramas in East Asia

7b. Confucian Heroes in Popular Asian Dramas in the Age of Capitalism

8. Pop Music

8a. K-pop, the Sound of Subaltern Cosmopolitanism?

8b. The legendary live venues and the changing music scenes in Taipei and Beijing: Underworld and D22

9. Social media and popular activism

9a. Social Media and Popular Activism in a Korean Context

9b. Mobilizing Discontent: Social Media and Networked Activism since the Great East Japan Earthquake

9c. Social media in China: between an emerging civil society and commercialization

View III: Gender. Sexuality and Asian celebrity

10. East Asian stars, - public space and star studies

11. Ribbons and Frills: Shōjo Sensibility and the Transnational Imaginary

12. Queer Pop Culture in the Sinophone Mediasphere

13. Male and Female Idols of the Chinese Pornosphere

14. Soft, Smooth with Chocolate Abs: Performance of a Korean Masculinity in Taiwanese Men’s Fashion

Part IV: Politics of the commons

15. Shanzhai culture, Dafen art and Copyrights

16. Regional soft power/creative industries competition

17. Popular Culture and Historical Memories of War in Asia

18. Film Festivals and Regional Cosmopolitanism in East Asia: the case of Busan International Film Festival

19. Trans-East-Asia as method