Popular culture co-productions and collaborations in East and Southeast Asia

摘要

From Bollywood to Hong Kong, and more recently the Korean Wave, the fluidity and hybridity characterising popular culture flows is becoming a subject of scholarship on Asia. Moving away from the immutability of Orientalist and nationalist interpretations, the study of popular culture in the region has turned into the search for more cosmopolitan identities reinforced by transnational engagements. In case studies on performance, transmissions and fandoms, the politics of representation, appropriation and imaginations are being played out in such interactions across otherwise diverse societies.