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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 9.2 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 9.2 is out now.

 

Special Issue: ‘Chinese Popular Culture in Translation and Transmission’

 

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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.

 

This title is indexed with Scopus.

 

Issue 9.2

 

Editorial

KATE TAYLOR-JONES, EDWARD VICKERS AND ANN HEYLEN

 

Introduction

 

Chinese Popular Culture in Translation and Transmission

YAN YING AND WEIQING XIAO

 

Special Issue articles

 

Translating tai chi and transforming qigong in British media culture

PAUL BOWMAN, IZZATI AZIZ AND XIUJIE MA

 

Orientalist afterlives: Theorizing discourse about Peppa Pig and China

PAUL KENDALL

 

Internet celebrities, foreign speakers and Chinese learning: The case of MYBY on YouTube

XUAN WANG AND ELAINE CHUNG

 

Chinese online literature in the anglophone world and beyond: Translation, dissemination and impact

DI ZHAO

 

General articles

 

Labour of love: Chinese-to-English fan translations of BL web novels

KIRK KANESAKA AND GLADYS MAC

 

Sakura imagery and cosmetics: Colour symbolism, aesthetics and cultural significance in an Australian context

MIO BRYCE, KELSEY E. SCHOLES AND JANE SIMON

 

Fantasies of Europe, fantasies of Japan: Isekai and the narrative logic of Japanese Occidentalism

SCOTT MA

 

Book Reviews

 

Found in Translation: ‘New People’ in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction, Jing Jiang (2021)

 

The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First Century Chinese Science Fiction, Mingwei Song and Theodore Huters (eds) (2018)

 

Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945–1965, Nicolai Volland (2017)

CHRISTOPHER N. PAYNE

 

History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis, Paul A. Cohen (2017)

MARIA FAUST

 

Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo, Thomas Baudinette (2021)

JAMIE COATES

 

Manga: A Critical Guide, Shige (CJ) Suzuki and Ronald Stewart (2023)

MIKHAIL KOULIKOV