Nissim Otmazgin is a Lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.Eyal Ben-Ari is a Professor of Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

• Introduction 1. Cultural Industries and the State in East and Southeast Asia, Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben Ari Part I: Popular Culture and Soft Power 2. Does Popular Culture Matter to International Relations Scholars? Possible Links and Methodological Challenges, Galia Press-Barnathan 3. Popular Culture as a Tool for Japanese ‘Soft Power’: Myth or Reality? Manga in Four European Countries, Jean Marie Bouissou 4. Delusional Desire: Soft Power and TV Dramas, Chua Beng Huat Part II: The Processes of Policy Making 5. Nationalizing ‘Cool’: Japan's Government Global Policy toward the Content Industry, Kukhee Choo 6. Copyright Law as a New Industrial Policy? Japan’s Attempts to Promote its Contents Industry, Kozuka Souichirou 7. Managing the Transnational, Governing the National: Cultural Policy and the Politics of ‘The Cultural Archetype Project in South Korea’, Jung-Yup Lee Part III: Cultural Policy and the Dynamics of Censorship 8. Post-Socialism and Cultural Policy: The Depoliticization of Culture in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s China, Pang Laikwan 9. Banned in China: The Vagaries of Censorship, Marwyn S. Samuels 10. Manipulating Historical Tensions in East Asian Popular Culture, Kwai Cheung Lo 11. Silence and Protest in Singapore’s Censorship Debates, Cherian George

Nissim Otmazgin is a Lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.Eyal Ben-Ari is a Professor of Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

• Introduction 1. Cultural Industries and the State in East and Southeast Asia, Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben Ari Part I: Popular Culture and Soft Power 2. Does Popular Culture Matter to International Relations Scholars? Possible Links and Methodological Challenges, Galia Press-Barnathan 3. Popular Culture as a Tool for Japanese ‘Soft Power’: Myth or Reality? Manga in Four European Countries, Jean Marie Bouissou 4. Delusional Desire: Soft Power and TV Dramas, Chua Beng Huat Part II: The Processes of Policy Making 5. Nationalizing ‘Cool’: Japan's Government Global Policy toward the Content Industry, Kukhee Choo 6. Copyright Law as a New Industrial Policy? Japan’s Attempts to Promote its Contents Industry, Kozuka Souichirou 7. Managing the Transnational, Governing the National: Cultural Policy and the Politics of ‘The Cultural Archetype Project in South Korea’, Jung-Yup Lee Part III: Cultural Policy and the Dynamics of Censorship 8. Post-Socialism and Cultural Policy: The Depoliticization of Culture in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s China, Pang Laikwan 9. Banned in China: The Vagaries of Censorship, Marwyn S. Samuels 10. Manipulating Historical Tensions in East Asian Popular Culture, Kwai Cheung Lo 11. Silence and Protest in Singapore’s Censorship Debates, Cherian George