Koichi Iwabuchi is a Professor & Director of Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia.Eva Tsai is an Associate Professor at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. Chris Berry is a Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, UK.

• Introduction: Critical approaches to East Asian pop culturePart I: Historicization and Spatialization of East Asian pop culture1. Historicizing East Asian Pop Culture,2. East Asian popular culture and inter-Asian referencing3. Hybridity, Korean Wave and Asian Media4. Been informal and formal cultural economy: Chinese subtitle groups and flexible accumulation in the age of online viewing5. Digital Diaspora, Mobility and HomePart II: The development of national production and its regional circulation/connection6. Films6a. Ways of S. Korean Cinema: Phantom, Trans –Cinema and Korean Blockbusters6b. Welcome to Chollywood: Chinese Language Cinema as a Transborder Assemblage6c. Globalism, New Media, and Cinematically Imagining the Inescapable Japan7. TV dramas7a. Bordercrossing, Local Modification and Transnational Transaction of TV Dramas in East Asia7b. Confucian Heroes in Popular Asian Dramas in the Age of Capitalism8. Pop Music8a. K-pop, the Sound of Subaltern Cosmopolitanism? 8b. The legendary live venues and the changing music scenes in Taipei and Beijing: Underworld and D22 9. Social media and popular activism 9a. Social Media and Popular Activism in a Korean Context9b. Mobilizing Discontent: Social Media and Networked Activism since the Great East Japan Earthquake9c. Social media in China: between an emerging civil society and commercializationView III: Gender. Sexuality and Asian celebrity10. East Asian stars, - public space and star studies11. Ribbons and Frills: Shōjo Sensibility and the Transnational Imaginary12. Queer Pop Culture in the Sinophone Mediasphere13. Male and Female Idols of the Chinese Pornosphere14. Soft, Smooth with Chocolate Abs: Performance of a Korean Masculinity in Taiwanese Men’s FashionPart IV: Politics of the commons15. Shanzhai culture, Dafen art and Copyrights16. Regional soft power/creative industries competition17. Popular Culture and Historical Memories of War in Asia18. Film Festivals and Regional Cosmopolitanism in East Asia: the case of Busan International Film Festival19. Trans-East-Asia as method

Koichi Iwabuchi is a Professor & Director of Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia.Eva Tsai is an Associate Professor at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. Chris Berry is a Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, UK.

• Introduction: Critical approaches to East Asian pop culturePart I: Historicization and Spatialization of East Asian pop culture1. Historicizing East Asian Pop Culture,2. East Asian popular culture and inter-Asian referencing3. Hybridity, Korean Wave and Asian Media4. Been informal and formal cultural economy: Chinese subtitle groups and flexible accumulation in the age of online viewing5. Digital Diaspora, Mobility and HomePart II: The development of national production and its regional circulation/connection6. Films6a. Ways of S. Korean Cinema: Phantom, Trans –Cinema and Korean Blockbusters6b. Welcome to Chollywood: Chinese Language Cinema as a Transborder Assemblage6c. Globalism, New Media, and Cinematically Imagining the Inescapable Japan7. TV dramas7a. Bordercrossing, Local Modification and Transnational Transaction of TV Dramas in East Asia7b. Confucian Heroes in Popular Asian Dramas in the Age of Capitalism8. Pop Music8a. K-pop, the Sound of Subaltern Cosmopolitanism? 8b. The legendary live venues and the changing music scenes in Taipei and Beijing: Underworld and D22 9. Social media and popular activism 9a. Social Media and Popular Activism in a Korean Context9b. Mobilizing Discontent: Social Media and Networked Activism since the Great East Japan Earthquake9c. Social media in China: between an emerging civil society and commercializationView III: Gender. Sexuality and Asian celebrity10. East Asian stars, - public space and star studies11. Ribbons and Frills: Shōjo Sensibility and the Transnational Imaginary12. Queer Pop Culture in the Sinophone Mediasphere13. Male and Female Idols of the Chinese Pornosphere14. Soft, Smooth with Chocolate Abs: Performance of a Korean Masculinity in Taiwanese Men’s FashionPart IV: Politics of the commons15. Shanzhai culture, Dafen art and Copyrights16. Regional soft power/creative industries competition17. Popular Culture and Historical Memories of War in Asia18. Film Festivals and Regional Cosmopolitanism in East Asia: the case of Busan International Film Festival19. Trans-East-Asia as method

Koichi Iwabuchi is a Professor & Director of Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia.Eva Tsai is an Associate Professor at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. Chris Berry is a Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, UK.

• Introduction: Critical approaches to East Asian pop culturePart I: Historicization and Spatialization of East Asian pop culture1. Historicizing East Asian Pop Culture,2. East Asian popular culture and inter-Asian referencing3. Hybridity, Korean Wave and Asian Media4. Been informal and formal cultural economy: Chinese subtitle groups and flexible accumulation in the age of online viewing5. Digital Diaspora, Mobility and HomePart II: The development of national production and its regional circulation/connection6. Films6a. Ways of S. Korean Cinema: Phantom, Trans –Cinema and Korean Blockbusters6b. Welcome to Chollywood: Chinese Language Cinema as a Transborder Assemblage6c. Globalism, New Media, and Cinematically Imagining the Inescapable Japan7. TV dramas7a. Bordercrossing, Local Modification and Transnational Transaction of TV Dramas in East Asia7b. Confucian Heroes in Popular Asian Dramas in the Age of Capitalism8. Pop Music8a. K-pop, the Sound of Subaltern Cosmopolitanism? 8b. The legendary live venues and the changing music scenes in Taipei and Beijing: Underworld and D22 9. Social media and popular activism 9a. Social Media and Popular Activism in a Korean Context9b. Mobilizing Discontent: Social Media and Networked Activism since the Great East Japan Earthquake9c. Social media in China: between an emerging civil society and commercializationView III: Gender. Sexuality and Asian celebrity10. East Asian stars, - public space and star studies11. Ribbons and Frills: Shōjo Sensibility and the Transnational Imaginary12. Queer Pop Culture in the Sinophone Mediasphere13. Male and Female Idols of the Chinese Pornosphere14. Soft, Smooth with Chocolate Abs: Performance of a Korean Masculinity in Taiwanese Men’s FashionPart IV: Politics of the commons15. Shanzhai culture, Dafen art and Copyrights16. Regional soft power/creative industries competition17. Popular Culture and Historical Memories of War in Asia18. Film Festivals and Regional Cosmopolitanism in East Asia: the case of Busan International Film Festival19. Trans-East-Asia as method