Popular Culture in Asia

1. Introduction
Lorna Fitzsimmons

Part I. Memory

2. Engaging with the Valley of Death: The Dialogue with Modernity in The Burmese Harp
Lorna Fitzsimmons

3. National Allegory, Modernization, and the Cinematic Patrimony of the Marcos Regime
Talitha Espiritu

4. Censorship and the Unfinished Past: Political Satire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
Sueyoung Park-Primiano

Part II. City

5. Modernizing the Urban Landscape: Architecture and the Internationalized Face of Asia
Ian Morley

6. Romancing Urban Modernity in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai: The Film About Love and the Shaping of a Discursive East Asian Popular Culture
Romit Dasgupta

7. Imagining Modernity in Contemporary Malaysia: Non-Western Soap Opera and the Negative Urban Morality
Azizah Hamzah, Md Azalanshah Md Syed

Part III. Celebrity

8. Gender Reconstruction in Post-Mao Urban China: The Interplay between Modernity and Popular Culture
Hong Zhang

9. Beyond the “Fragile Woman”: Identity, Modernity, and Musical Gay Icons in Overseas Chinese Communities
Shzr Ee Tan

10. Jay Chou’s Music and the Shaping of Popular Culture in China
Wei-Hsin Lin

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Asian Culture, Media Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Cultural Policy