Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture

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Contents

List of figures viii

List of tables ix

Notes on contributors x

Acknowledgments xiv

Critical approaches to East Asian popular culture 1

Koichi Iwabuchi, Eva Tsai, and Chris Berry

Pa r t I

Historicizing and spatializing East asian popular culture 11

1 Historicizing East Asian pop culture 13

Younghan Cho

2 East Asian popular culture and inter-Asian referencing 24

Koichi Iwabuchi

3 Hybridity, Korean Wave, and Asian media 34

Doobo Shim

4 Between informal and formal cultural economy: Chinese subtitle

groups and flexible accumulation in the age of online viewing 45

Kelly Hu

5 Digital diaspora, mobility, and home 55

Youna Kim