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

Publication Info.	Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 183 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	TransAsia : screen cultures
	TransAsia--screen cultures.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index.
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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Subject	Popular culture -- East Asia.
	Popular culture.
	East Asia.
	Popular culture -- Singapore.
	Singapore.
	Culture diffusion -- East Asia.
	Culture diffusion.
	Mass media and culture -- East Asia.
	Mass media and culture.
	Mass media -- Political aspects -- East Asia.
	Mass media -- Political aspects.
	Politics and culture -- East Asia.
	Politics and culture.
	Consumption (Economics) -- East Asia.
	Consumption (Economics)
	Chinese -- Foreign countries -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
	Chinese -- Foreign countries.
	Manners and customs.
Chronological Term	21st century
Subject	Chinese -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
	Intellectual life.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Chua, Beng Huat. Structure, audience and soft power in East Asian pop culture. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2012 9789888139033 (OCoLC)774640330
ISBN	9789882208759 (electronic book)
	9882208754 (electronic book)
	1283578069
	9781283578066
	9789888139033 (hardback)
	9888139037 (hardback)
	9789888139040 (paperback)
	9888139045 (paperback)

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

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