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Contents

Part II

Media culture in national specificities and inter-asian referencing 67

6 Films 69

6a Ways of South Korean cinema: Phantom cinema, trans-cinema,

and Korean blockbusters 71

Soyoung Kim

6b Welcome to Chollywood: Chinese language cinema as a transborder

assemblage 78

Chris Berry

6c Globalism, new media, and cinematically imagining the inescapable Japan 86

Aaron Gerow

7 Television drama 93

7a Bordercrossing, local modification, and transnational transaction

of TV dramas in East Asia 94

Anthony Fung

7b Confucian heroes in popular Asian dramas in the age of capitalism 102

Hsiu-Chuang Deppman

8 Pop music 115

8a K-pop, the sound of subaltern cosmopolitanism? 116

Hyunjoon Shin

8b The legendary live venues and the changing music scenes in Taipei

and Beijing: Underworld and D22 124

Miaoju Jian

9 Social media 135

9a Social media and popular activism in a Korean context 137

Dong Hyun Song

9b Mobilizing discontent: Social media and networked activism in Japan 148

Love Kindstrand, Keiko Nishimura, and David H. Slater

9c Social media in China: Between an emerging civil society

and commercialization 158

Jens Damm