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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790354303321

Autore

Chua Beng Huat

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press

London, : Eurospan [distributor], 2012

Hong Kong : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2012

ISBN

988-220-912-2

1-283-57806-9

9786613890511

988-220-875-4

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 pages)

Collana

TransAsia: screen cultures

Disciplina

306.095

Soggetti

Popular culture - East Asia

Popular culture - Singapore

Culture diffusion - East Asia

Mass media and culture - East Asia

Mass media - Political aspects - East Asia

Politics and culture - East Asia

Consumption (Economics) - East Asia

Chinese - Foreign countries - Social life and customs - 21st century

Chinese - Foreign countries - Intellectual life - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-176) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.