Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture

1 Introduction: the making of East Asian cultural space 1

SEOK-KYEONG HONG AND DAL YONG JIN

PART I

History and content of the transnational: flows of East Asian popular culture 13

2 East Asian popular culture in the early 20th century: Jin Yan/Kim Yom (??), the emperor of film in Shanghai 15

DOOBO SHIM

3 Media ecologies and transnational media flow in East Asia 32

DONG-HOO LEE

4 Converging East Asia: cultural politics toward cultural regionalization 52

DAL YONG JIN

PART II

Transnational convergence of culture 73

5 New Generation Dance Music: the beginning of K-pop and J-pop's influence 75

GYU TAG LEE

6 The past, present, and future of Boys Love (BL) cultures in East Asia 96

JUNGMIN KWON

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7 Sharing gender imagination in East Asia: an essay on soft masculinity and female digital scopophilia in East Asian mediaculture 113

SEOK-KYEONG HONG

8 Pirate cosmopolitanism and the undercurrents of flow: fansubbing television on China's P2P networks 127

JINYING LI

PART III

Digital platforms, cultural industries, and East Asia 147

9 The rise of digital platforms in the networked Korean society 149

DAL YONG JIN

10 War memory, globalization, and cultural convergence: the trajectory of PRC-Japan coproduction from the 1980s to the present 170

WENDY SU

11 Korea's creative migration to media cities in China: the space of flows and fluid assemblages 189

JU OAK KIM

12 Cultural industries and the state in East Asia 207

NISSIM OTMAZGIN