... formulated with respect to the recent praxis of established experimentalists such as Beijing-based director and dramatist Meng Jinghui. The article argues that the Chinese avant-garde is not dead; it has, rather, evolved into a distinctive “pop avant-garde” mode that more aptly reflects and responds...

... such as Fahrenheit and Super Junior and male pop stars such as Jay Chou, Lam Truong, and Wang Lee Hom have cultivated international followings of screaming fans. The boy bang/gang band project consists of (campy?) images of faux pan-Asian boy bands and solo performers in various guises and costumes, examining...

... stance is in itself intriguing, since their chosen genre of expression is generally viewed in Europe and the United States as being inherently apolitical. Coupled with the fact that it is a musical genre without the same kind of mass public appeal as Mando-pop or Canto-pop makes one ask not only why...

...Fran Martin Through analysis of the fashion-and-beauty variety program 《女人我最大》 (English title Queen ), launched in 2003 by Taiwan cable channel TVBS-G and now spreading in syndicated adaptations in China, this paper examines the pop-cultural consolidation of a new category of feminine identity...

... the main source of Western pop, providing opportunities for Korean musicians to hone their skills and enrich their repertoire. While this might be seen as a classic example of cultural imperialism, it actually developed a much more complex pattern of glocalization, especially in the case of rock music...

... this so-called third world country up to speed with pop trends, Idol reveals the neocolonial processes and the culturalist terms under which global modernity is engendered in late capitalism. The author contends that global mass media — seen as free flowing, immaterial, and unbounded — reinforces...

..., and other kinds of Asian (particularly Hong Kong) films and pop music captured wider media attention and broader viewing audiences in the 1990s.25 Nostalgic tropes predominated in Japanese media discourses on the East Asian popular...

... premised on the absolute divide between the people and intellectuals—has long since tumbled down. When we come to modern and contemporary studies of Chinese pop culture, we confront a conceptual habit that locks the “popular...

... and production of films, television programs, and other artistic endeavors is increasingly controlled by market needs and demands, both domestic and international. For example, the so-called political pop in Chinese art, which has found audiences...

... in numerous versions encompass- ing the seven major dialect groups. Taiwan pop superstar Zhou Jielun (Jay Chou)’s “Nunchuks” (“Shuangjiegun,” 2001) was reworked as “The Chongqing Peasant Version of ‘Nunchuks’ ” (“Shuangjiegun zhi Chong­qing...

... Hong and Dal Yong Jin (2021: 1), Since the beginning of the 21st century, there has been an active development of the exchange and convergence of East Asian pop culture referring to the new collective condition represented by the reciprocal merging and penetrating within the once-­ separated...

... of popular culture. Could the fear of returning or replicating the pleasures of fascism be one of the reasons (aside from a polemical refusal to appropriate elements of consumer culture) that so-called serious leftists have steered clear of pop culture...

... but through these, as Lipsitz contends, in the articulation of present identities and struggles.4 The songs I introduce here are primarily from the folk (min’y or shima- uta) and “Uchina¯ Pop” genres and, with the exceptions of songs introduced...

... be valuable to the city-­state, for they are part of its larger multicultural reality.” In this way they do their work. Rossella Ferrari’s “The Avant-­garde Is Dead, Long Live the (Pop) Avant-­Garde! Critical Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese...

... in most of her tanka sequences to matters of love.1 Yet the range of discourses to which she alludes exceeds all accustomed boundaries in tanka: she includes pop music, fashion, cooking, and travel, as well as romance. In doing so, Tawara draws...

... Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Contributors E. Taylor Atkins is an assistant professor of history at Northern Illinois University, studies pop- ular arts and culture in twentieth-century Japan, and is writing...

... the historical past through our own pop images and stereotypes about that past, which itself remains forever out of reach.”8 But Jameson focused his critique on the time-­warp artifice of the Hollywood “nostalgia film.” What about the different claims...

... popular musical genres are mostly or entirely non-Japanese in origin—J-pop, Japanese reggae, and hip-hop to name just a few (Condry 2006 ; Sterling 2010 ). Jazz has had a constant presence in Japan from the 1920s (Atkins 2001 ). Even enka , the genre often called nihon no uta 日本の歌 (songs of Japan...

... in TDR: The Drama Review, Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and elsewhere. Her monograph Pop Goes the Avant-­Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China is forthcoming (2012...