Intra-Regional Popular Cultural Flows
This edited volume brings together scholars from eight countries to explore interactions of popular cultural flows, state politics, audiences’ receptions, and public debates in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam and China, and across the region as a whole. These investigations provide fresh conceptual and empirical insights into the study of the dynamic and complex interface of cultural adaptation, political identification and regional identity formation in the popular cultural consumption process in East Asia. The impact of cross-border popular cultural flows on East Asians’ competing national selves and the potential of translating pleasure from popular cultural consumption into regional integration urges are thus issues carrying political significance and consequence for East Asia, and possibly with serious repercussions on the world.
Xin Chen joined the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland in 1997. Before that, she was with the East West Centre in Honolulu, first as a degree fellow, then as a research assistant and finally as a research fellow. During that time she also received her PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii.
Nicholas Tarling received his LittD from the University of Cambridge. He was Emeritus Professor of History and Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland. To recognize his outstanding achievement and contribution, he was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.