Japanese Popular Culture in Greater China

ISBN-13: 9781138714069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2027 / 256 str.

Wei Wei; Karin Ling Chau; Heung-Wah Wong

Opis

This book explores how Japanese popular culture, exported to China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, is received in these societies. Based on extensive ethnographic research observing in detail the reception of a particular Japanese cultural product, the book shows how, even when the product has been modified to anticipate a different reception in each of the three places, even then the reception is different. The book goes onto discuss more generally the nature of Japanese popular culture and its reception in the three places, showing how history and continuing national antagonism influence attitudes in China, how Hong Kong's special "in between" status affects the reception there, and how in Taiwan the memory of Japanese colonialism is being re-formed in order to reinforce Taiwan's cultural distinctiveness.

O autorze

Wei Wei is in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong

 

Karin Chau Ling Fung is a Teaching Assistant in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong

 

Wong Heung-Wah is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong