Digital diaspora, mobility, and homea new sense of the region as “New Asia,” or the imagination and mobilization of a regional
identity and affiliation (Berry, Liscutin, and Mackintosh 2009). “Asia as method” has increasingly
become an inescapable demand and an issue of subjectivity in dealing with the world and with
the mistake of the “catching up to Euro–America” sentiment that has repressed an alternative
horizon, perspective, or method (Chen 2010). Using Asia as an imaginary anchoring point can
allow societies in Asia to become each other’s reference point, so that the understanding of the
self can be transformed and subjectivity rebuilt. The mediating site for these movements is the
imaginary Asia. East Asian pop culture can be an imagination of a new national, regional, and
global cultural formation, or an important source of new meanings for the cultural geography
of East Asia and East Asian sensibilities that are being re-thought and re-invented through their
own pop culture.
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