Structure, audience and soft power in East Asian pop culture / Chua Beng Huat.

By:

Chua, Beng Huat [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789882208759
9882208754
1283578069
9781283578066
9789882208704
9882208703

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Structure, audience and soft power in East Asian pop culture.DDC classification:

306.095 23

LOC classification:

DS509.3 .C49 2012eb

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Contents:

1. East Asian Pop Culture -- 2. Pop Culture China -- 3. Taiwan's Present/Singapore's Past Mediated by the Hokkien Language -- 4. Placing Singapore in East Asian Pop Culture -- 5. The Structure of Identification and Distancing in Watching East Asian Television Drama -- 6. Layers of Audience Communities -- 7. Pop Culture as Soft Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Summary: In this book, the author examines East Asian pop culture as an integrated regional cultural economy that combines Japanese and Korean pop culture with the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture. The book provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process of transcultural audiences and the processes of audiences' formation and exercise of consumer power and engagement with national politics. It will appeal to scholars and students as well as general readers who are interested in media and cultural studies.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index.

In this book, the author examines East Asian pop culture as an integrated regional cultural economy that combines Japanese and Korean pop culture with the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture. The book provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process of transcultural audiences and the processes of audiences' formation and exercise of consumer power and engagement with national politics. It will appeal to scholars and students as well as general readers who are interested in media and cultural studies.