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Contents

Part III

Gender, sexuality, and cultural icons 165

10 East Asian stars, public space, and star studies 167

Jocelyn Yi-Hsuan Lai

11 Ribbons and frills: Shōjo sensibility and the transnational imaginary 178

Jinhee Choi

12 Queer pop culture in the Sinophone mediasphere 191

Fran Martin

13 Male and female idols of the Chinese pornosphere 202

Katrien Jacobs

14 Soft, smooth with chocolate abs: Performance of a Korean masculinity

in Taiwanese men’s fashion 212

Hong-Chi Shiau

Part IV

The politics of the transnational commons 227

15 Shanzhai culture, Dafen art, and copyrights 229

Jeroen de Kloet and Yiu Fai Chow

16 Regional soft power/creative industries competition 242

Chua Beng Huat

17 Popular culture and historical memories of war in Asia 254

Rumi Sakamoto

18 Film festivals and regional cosmopolitanism in East Asia:

The case of the Busan International Film Festival 265

Soojeong Ahn

19 Trans–East Asia as method 276

Koichi Iwabuchi

Index 285