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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 723–724.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Ji-Hyun Ahn Global Sports Fandom in South Korea: American Major League Baseball and Its Fans in the Online Community . By Younghan Cho . Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 . xii, 238 pp. ISBN: 9789811531958 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 From Chan Ho Park...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 737–738.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Here Comes the Flood is a timely addition to Korean popular culture fandom studies. As the circulation of Korean popular culture formed global fandom phenomena, the so-called Hallyu (Korean Wave) studies began expanding their scope and perspectives. Drawing on Judith Butler's performativity and its...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 817–819.
Published: 01 August 2012
... in global popular culture. Following new Korean cinema in the late 1990s and TV drama in the 2000s, K-pop took over as the flagship of hallyu fandom in the 2010s. The growing fandom of K-pop in Europe and other parts of the world disputes the skeptical view of the transnational consumption of South Korean...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 772–774.
Published: 01 August 2024
... emotional rapport and relatability between the band and their fandom are the main reasons for the BTS phenomenon, which creates “cracks in the existing order in the US-centric music business” (203). Candace Epps-Robertson argues that K-pop fandoms can be understood as “both transnational and transcultural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 776–778.
Published: 01 August 2020
... the emergence of fangirls/fanboys and “toxic fandom” in American media culture. If the term otaku originally carried pathological connotations in Japan, those have carried over into North American discourse. Toxic fans feel special possession and entitlement to the object of their adoration: they “believe...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 644–647.
Published: 01 May 2010
...). While chapter 2 specifically addresses the political significance of death metal fandom in the early 1990s and chapter 3 examines the same period's reggae scene, both explore the relationships of their respective musics to contemporaneous, rapidly changing discourses of nationalism, regionalism...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 February 2024
... link, and the inclusion of hikikomori needs more explanation. Chapter 2, “The Lure of the Mask,” and chapter 5, “Fandom and the Fictional Mode of Existence,” both present an interesting approach to cosplay studies using critical theories, but these may need to be developed further by future...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1097–1098.
Published: 01 November 2018
... young fans in Latin America. This interview-informed chapter reveals the barriers that K-pop has to surmount to become a major cultural force in the region, including the high cost of authentic CDs and concert tickets. Consequently K-pop fandom in the region is based on “cultural enlisting” through...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 715–747.
Published: 01 August 2009
... the globe, Chinese-speaking enthusiasts of Murakami's fiction (the so-called Cunshang mi ) use the virtual realm, and the liberation it offers from the shackles of space and time, to share their findings, commune with kindred spirits, and articulate their fandom creatively. That said, the Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 227–228.
Published: 01 February 2007
... to the 1970s (Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting), and on economic conditions that contributed to the indigenization of Hong Kong martial arts physicality within Hindi cinema (Valentina Vitali). The second kind of work is best represented by essays on the development of a new kind of cinephilia or fandom based...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 225–226.
Published: 01 February 2022
...), rather than a place merely pursuing global city status. Pop City is recommended for scholars of popular culture in Korea (and East Asia more broadly) and those who are interested in cultural geography, urbanity, media, and fandom. This book will be a particularly useful resource for a graduate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 793–794.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., to media and consumption, blogs and fandom, cultures of “Red Capitalism,” and more. Restless China will appeal to scholars as well as nonspecialists, and also serve very well in the university classroom. We are fortunate to have the three volumes in this trilogy, which stand witness to the massive...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 757–759.
Published: 01 August 2021
... products as soft power, tools for negotiating the South's position in international relations. Popular culture as used in “soap opera diplomacy,” “transnational sports fandom,” and “symphonic diplomacy” (pp. 176, 178, 220). Meanwhile, the North challenged its characterization as an isolated “axis of evil...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 954–955.
Published: 01 November 2019
... confluence of imperial enthusiasm, young fandom, technological wonder, and militaristic zeal. He links prewar enthusiasm for aviation to the grim fascination with the kamikaze that emerged within late wartime mass media. I encourage readers of all sorts to engage with Japan's Carnival War , despite its...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 1047–1049.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of techno) are missing. Analysis of fans, fandom, and variations among individual overseas markets is sparse. Discussions of social networking technologies and digital music files as routes and platforms of distribution and reproduction, especially the conscious use of YouTube by entertainment companies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 468–470.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of their Bolivian national heritage. Chapter 4 shifts focus to Japanese fans and performers of the music. Bigenho portrays the Japanese fandom that goes beyond being passive consumption; many become enthusiastic hobbyists and professional performers, taking classes, participating in workshops, and even...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 828–829.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of affiliations and to imagine reconciliation otherwise” (p. 131), one of the challenges is to continue to recreate and sustain, in the face of persistent naysayers, “a transnational community of fandom that has the potential to transcend the parochialism and nationalism marred by previous generations’ personal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1083–1085.
Published: 01 November 2024
... to a wide range of readers, especially those focused on popular culture and fandom, employment, legal structures in practice, or gender. It is an eminently readable text, with vibrant human stories and powerful analysis that bring vital questions to life. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1015–1016.
Published: 01 November 2020
...”—the acknowledgment that a key insight into a research question might come from anywhere. Alongside extensive references to game studies scholars, postcolonial theorists, Japanese literary critics, and so on, Hutchinson makes full use of the “amateur,” fandom-based critical apparatus—YouTube essays, “Let's Play...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (2): 414–415.
Published: 01 May 1990
...," are particularly thorough examples. The chapter on science fiction by Elizabeth Anne Hull and Mark Siegel begins with a fascinating look at the origins of science fiction and fantasy in traditional Japanese literature but concludes with a perhaps unnecessarily detailed survey of science fiction fandom. Conversely...