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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 6.1 is now available

Intellect is pleased to announce that East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 6.1 is now available! 

 

For more information about the issue and journal, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/east-asian-journal-of-popular-culture

 

Aims & Scope

 

The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture is the first academic peer-reviewed journal for scholars, teachers and students from around the world who have an active and passionate interest in the popular culture of East Asia. The journal is devoted to all aspects of popular culture in East Asia and the interplay between East Asia and the wider world.

 

Issue 6.1

 

Editorial

ANN HEYLEN, ED VICKERS AND KATE TAYLOR-JONES

 

Articles

 

Disciplining women in Hong Kong: The discourse of ‘Kong girl’ in the media and daily life

TRACY K. LEE

 

K-pop idols in Japan: The translation of Korean masculinities in music videos

JUDIT KROO

 

‘Little New Meat’ and ‘Korean Warm Men’: Performance of regional heterosexual masculinities among Taiwanese millennials

HONG-CHI SHIAU

 

Media mix and character marketing in Madoka Magica

SIMON GOUGH

 

Female idols in Japan: Desiring desire, fantasmatic consumption and drive satisfaction

PIETER-JAN VAN HAECKE

 

Foreign places as Korean spaces: Representations of national trauma in the South Korean dramas Ireland and Descendants of the Sun

FAYE MERCIER

 

Research Note

 

Cultural amnesia or continuity? Expressions of han in K-pop

BJÖRN BOMAN

 

Interview

 

Miki Dezaki speaks about the new struggle for Japanese patriotism

SCOTT SOMMERS

 

Book Reviews

 

Notes of a Crocodile, Qiu Miaojin (2017) 

QUENTIN BRAND

 

The White Book, Han Kang (2017) (trans. Deborah Smith)

JED LEA-HENRY