xivaCknowledgments
Previous publication
An earlier version of part of Chapter 2 was included in Koichi Iwabuchi, “De- Westernization,
Inter-Asian Referencing and Beyond.” European Journal of Cultural Studies, 16(6), 44–57, 2014;
Chapter 3 is based on an updated version of Doobo Shim, “Hybridity and the Rise of Korean
Popular Culture in Asia.” Media, Culture & Society, 28(1), 25–44, 2006; Part B of Chapter 9
is partly adapted from Love Kindstrand, Keiko Nishimura, David H. Slater, “Mobilizing
Discontent: Social Media and Networked Activism since the Great East Japan Earthquake.”
In Hjorth, Larissa, and Olivia Khoo, eds. Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia (Routledge,
2015); Chapter 13 includes excerpts from two previous books by Katrien Jacobs, People’s Porno-
graphy: Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet (UK: Intellect Books, 2012) and The Afterglow
of Women’s Pornography in Post-Digital China (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Funding
The research on which Part B of Chapter 9 is based was funded in part by the Japanese Government,
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research. The information about Boys’ Love fans in Chapter 12 was
compiled as part of a GRF grant “Trans-Asian Women’s Forum on Erotic/Pornographic Media
and Cultural Affect” (CUHK14404514). Chapter 16 has been supported by a consoli dator grant
from the European Research Council (ERC-2013-CoG 616882-ChinaCreative).