Structure, audience and soft power in East Asian pop culture [electronic resource] / Chua Beng Huat.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | TransAsia : screen cultures | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Hong Kong, China : Hong Kong University Press, c2012 2012) 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xiii, 183 p.) :) digital fileISBN: - 9789882208759
- Chinese -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
- Chinese -- Foreign countries -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Culture diffusion -- East Asia
- Popular culture -- Singapore
- Consumption (Economics) -- East Asia
- Popular culture -- East Asia
- Mass media and culture -- East Asia
- Politics and culture -- East Asia
- Mass media -- Political aspects -- East Asia
- DS509.3 .C58 2012
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-176) and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. East Asian pop culture : mapping the contours -- 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.
East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat 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.
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