xiContributorspublication is Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture. He is founding co-
executive editor of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.
Jens Damm is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies, Chang Jung
Christian University in Tainan, Taiwan, and a non-residential research fellow at the Oriental
Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His research is mainly focused on
the impact of new communication technologies, and on discourses on gender and ethnicity-
related issues in Greater China.
Jeroen De Kloet is Professor of Globalisation Studies and Director of the Amsterdam Centre
for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam, Holland. His work focuses
on cultural globalisation in the context of East Asia. He is part of a HERA project on single
women in Shanghai and Delhi. De Kloet is also the principal investigator of a project funded
by the European Research Council (ERC), focusing on creative practice and production in
contemporary China. His publications include: China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and
Popular Music and Sonic Multiplicities: Hong Kong Pop and the Global Circulation of Sound and Image
(co-authored).
Hsiu-Chuang Deppman is Associate Professor of Chinese and Cinema Studies at Oberlin
College, US. Her research interests include the history of cinema, film adaptations, documenta-
ries, and modern Chinese fiction. She is the author of Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Poli-
tics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film. She has published on Chinese film and literature, most
recently in the Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature, Journal of Chinese Cinemas,
Documenting Taiwan on Film, and Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres.
Anthony Fung is Director and Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. He is also Professor in the School of Art and
Communication at Beijing Normal University, China, as part of the “One Thousand Talents
Scheme” under the Ministry of Education. His recent publications include Asian Popular Culture:
The Global (Dis)continuity and Chinese Youth Culture, co-authored with Jeroen de Kloet.
Aaron Gerow is Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale
University, US, and has published widely on a variety of topics in Japanese film, media, and
popular culture. His books include Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation,
and Spectatorship, 1895–1925; A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan; and Kitano
Takeshi.
Kelly Hu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Mass Communication at National
Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. Her main research interests focus on information
technology, social media, online fandom, and inter-Asia pop culture/cultural flows. Her most
recent research publication was “Competition and Collaboration: Chinese Video Websites,
Subtitle Groups, State Regulation and Market,” in the International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Monash University and Director
of the Monash Asia Institute, Australia. He is the author of Recentering Globalization: Popular
Culture and Japanese Transnationalism and Resilient Borders and Cultural Diversity: Internationalism,
Brand Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Japan. He is the editor of the book series, Asian Cultural
Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches.