IndexKorean Venture Investment Corporation 110
Korean Wave 3, 16, 18, 36–7, 72–3; masculinity
213–15
Korean-Chinese coproductions 41–3
K-pop 16, 38, 72–3, 116; as a genre 118–19; idols
116–20; making money 119–21; multi-use
content 119–21; overview 121–2
Kristeva, Julia 187
Kurosawa Kiyoshi 87, 89
Kwak Jae-yong 42
Kwan, Stanley 194
Kwok, Aaron 83
Kwon Sang-Woo 218, 221
labor, stars 168–70
Lan Yu 194
Lan-Bi-Tou, fansubbers 50
landscapes, differences in discursive locations 172–4
Larson, Wendy 183
Le, Lan Xuan 29
Lee Byung-hun 217–18
Lee Geun 246
Lee Kuan Yew 104
Lee Min-Ho 217–18, 221
Lee Myung-bak 75, 135, 139
Lee Soo-Man 38, 117–18
Lee Soo-Man and 365 Days 38
Lee Yong-kwan 272
Leng, Rachel 194
Let’s Watch Meteor Shower 100
Leung, Helen Hok-Sze 195
Ley Lines (Nihon kuroshakai) 87
LGBTIQ 192–3
Li Xianglan 168
Li Yuchun 192
Lie, John 16
Lin, Randy 125
Lin Heping 237
Lin Yi-Chieh 234
Ling Shuhua 182
liquification 91
Lishi’s Diary 182
Liu Heping 239
Live Houses 124, 126
Lo Kwai-Cheung 169
local modification, television 95; cultural
values 96–7
logic of speed 72
Lolita Nationalism 174
looped narratives, Japanese cinema 90
The Love Eterne 191
love play 182
Lu, Sheldon 79
Lu Chuan 260
Lung Yingtai 127
Lu Xun 232
Lu Yin 182
mainlandization, Hong Kong film industry 83
Majumdar, Neepa 169
manga, war memories 257–9
Manga Kenkanryu 167, 250
market-driven cultural globalization 278
marriage, local modification, television 96–7
Marshall, P. David 168
Martin, Fran 182
masculinity, men’s fashion 217–22
Matsuda Masao 87
Matsumoto Hajime 152
Matsushima Kaede 207
Maxey, Trent 257
Maybe Mars 128
Mayday 125
MC Hotdog 250
McChesney, Robert 35
McGray, Douglas 245
media: ethnic media 59–61, 63; Korean-Chinese
coproductions 41–3
media culture, soft power 251
media culture products, soft power 249–51
media development, Korean Wave 36–7
media enterprises, stars 170–2
media environment, Japan 149–50
media imports 243
media liberalization 36–7
media regionalization, format exchange 38–41
media spaces 279
media stars see stars
Meirenyu 83
melange of iterations, articulating East Asian pop
culture 17–19
Memento Mori 195
memorial schoolgirl romance 187
memories: second-order memories 254; war
memories see war memories
Memories of a Geisha 175
men, Korean masculinity 212–15
Mengxia 84
men’s fashion 215–22
Men’s Non-No 216
Men’s UNO 212–19
Mermaid 83
meta-geographical desires 180
Meteor Garden 28–9, 99
metropolises, moral high ground 105–7
metrosexuality 216, 219
migrants: Asian women migrants 56; banal racism
58–9; ethnic media, enclaves 59–61; nowhere
women, feeling stuck in diaspora 61–3
Miike Takashi 87, 90
Miss Granny 42
misunderstanding transnational works 173
mixed-blood performers 176
Mixi 151
mobility, diasporic daughters 56–8