03183oam 2200661 450 991079035430332120170523091620.0988-220-912-21-283-57806-99786613890511988-220-875-4(OCoLC)794939934(MiFhGG)GVRLA07I(EXLCZ)99267000000020664920121023d2012 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrStructure, audience and soft power in East Asian pop culture /Chua Beng Huat1st edition.Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press ;London Eurospan [distributor]2012Hong Kong :Hong Kong University Press,2012.1 online resource (183 pages)TransAsia: screen culturesDescription based upon print version of record.988-8139-03-7 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.TransAsia: screen cultures.Popular cultureEast AsiaPopular cultureSingaporeCulture diffusionEast AsiaMass media and cultureEast AsiaMass mediaPolitical aspectsEast AsiaPolitics and cultureEast AsiaConsumption (Economics)East AsiaChineseForeign countriesSocial life and customs21st centuryChineseForeign countriesIntellectual life21st centuryPopular culturePopular cultureCulture diffusionMass media and cultureMass mediaPolitical aspectsPolitics and cultureConsumption (Economics)ChineseSocial life and customsChineseIntellectual life306.095Chua Beng Huat896138MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910790354303321Structure, audience and soft power in East Asian pop culture3712180UNINA