Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture

by Chua Beng Huat

East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process of transcultural audiences and the processes of audiences'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888139045
• ISBN13: 9789888139040
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher