Popular culture and the state in East and Southeast Asia / edited by Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben-Ari.

"This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift i...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Otmazgin, Nissim (Editor), Ben-Ari, Eyal, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Asia's transformations ; 35.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures, plates and tables
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Cultural industries and the state in East and Southeast Asia
  • PART 1. Popular culture and soft power
  • 2. Does popular culture matter to International Relations scholars Possible links and methodological challenges
  • 3. Popular culture as a tool for soft power: myth or reality Manga in four European countries
  • 4. Delusional desire: soft power and television drama
  • PART 2. The processes of policy making.
  • 5. Nationalizing "cool": Japan's global promotion of the content industry
  • 6. Copyright law as a new industrial policy Japan's attempts to promote its content industry
  • 7. Managing the transnational, governing the national: cultural policy and the politics of the "culture archetype project" in South Korea
  • PART 3. Cultural policy and the dynamics of censorship
  • 8. Post-socialism and cultural policy: the depoliticization of culture in late 1970s' and early 1980s' China
  • 9. Banned in China: the vagaries of censorship
  • 10. Manipulating historical tensions in East Asian popular culture.
  • 11. Silence and protest in Singapore's censorship debatesIndex.