Xin Chen joined the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland in 1997. Before that, she was with the East West Centre in Honolulu, first as a degree fellow, then as a research assistant and finally as a research fellow. During that time she also received her PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii. Nicholas Tarling received his LittD from the University of Cambridge. He was Emeritus Professor of History and Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland. To recognize his outstanding achievement and contribution, he was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

• List of Figures – List of Tables – Notes on Contributors – Acknowledgements – Xin Chen/Nicholas Tarling: Introduction: Pop Culture Cross Currents and East Asian-ness – Nicholas Tarling: Popular Culture: History and Theory – Charles Samuel Johnston: Can Popular Culture Tourism Experiences Help Construct an East Asian Identity? – Lee Kam Hing/Danny Wong Tze Ken: Shanghai Popular Songs and DAMA Chinese Orchestra: Claiming a Malaysian Chinese Cultural Identity – Nicole Tarulevicz: Eating the Other? East Asian Cultural Flows and Understandings of Chineseness in Singapore – Marie Thorsten: Dual-Use Aesthetics in Post-Pacifist Japan – Lilawati Kurnia: Rereading Japanese Popular Culture in the Context of the Japanese Empire in Indonesia – Changho Jo: Korean Waves as Strategic Responses to the Search for an Imagined Common Identity – Lê Thùy Linh/Hoàng Anh Tuấn: "Weapons of Mass Attraction": Waves of Northeast Asian Movies and Cultural Influence in Contemporary Vietnam – Xin Chen/Fengxin Ding: From Foreign Folk Songs to the "Korean Wave": Chinese Cultural Exposures and Self-reflections.

Xin Chen joined the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland in 1997. Before that, she was with the East West Centre in Honolulu, first as a degree fellow, then as a research assistant and finally as a research fellow. During that time she also received her PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii. Nicholas Tarling received his LittD from the University of Cambridge. He was Emeritus Professor of History and Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland. To recognize his outstanding achievement and contribution, he was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

• List of Figures – List of Tables – Notes on Contributors – Acknowledgements – Xin Chen/Nicholas Tarling: Introduction: Pop Culture Cross Currents and East Asian-ness – Nicholas Tarling: Popular Culture: History and Theory – Charles Samuel Johnston: Can Popular Culture Tourism Experiences Help Construct an East Asian Identity? – Lee Kam Hing/Danny Wong Tze Ken: Shanghai Popular Songs and DAMA Chinese Orchestra: Claiming a Malaysian Chinese Cultural Identity – Nicole Tarulevicz: Eating the Other? East Asian Cultural Flows and Understandings of Chineseness in Singapore – Marie Thorsten: Dual-Use Aesthetics in Post-Pacifist Japan – Lilawati Kurnia: Rereading Japanese Popular Culture in the Context of the Japanese Empire in Indonesia – Changho Jo: Korean Waves as Strategic Responses to the Search for an Imagined Common Identity – Lê Thùy Linh/Hoàng Anh Tuấn: "Weapons of Mass Attraction": Waves of Northeast Asian Movies and Cultural Influence in Contemporary Vietnam – Xin Chen/Fengxin Ding: From Foreign Folk Songs to the "Korean Wave": Chinese Cultural Exposures and Self-reflections.

Xin Chen joined the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland in 1997. Before that, she was with the East West Centre in Honolulu, first as a degree fellow, then as a research assistant and finally as a research fellow. During that time she also received her PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii. Nicholas Tarling received his LittD from the University of Cambridge. He was Emeritus Professor of History and Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland. To recognize his outstanding achievement and contribution, he was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

• List of Figures – List of Tables – Notes on Contributors – Acknowledgements – Xin Chen/Nicholas Tarling: Introduction: Pop Culture Cross Currents and East Asian-ness – Nicholas Tarling: Popular Culture: History and Theory – Charles Samuel Johnston: Can Popular Culture Tourism Experiences Help Construct an East Asian Identity? – Lee Kam Hing/Danny Wong Tze Ken: Shanghai Popular Songs and DAMA Chinese Orchestra: Claiming a Malaysian Chinese Cultural Identity – Nicole Tarulevicz: Eating the Other? East Asian Cultural Flows and Understandings of Chineseness in Singapore – Marie Thorsten: Dual-Use Aesthetics in Post-Pacifist Japan – Lilawati Kurnia: Rereading Japanese Popular Culture in the Context of the Japanese Empire in Indonesia – Changho Jo: Korean Waves as Strategic Responses to the Search for an Imagined Common Identity – Lê Thùy Linh/Hoàng Anh Tuấn: "Weapons of Mass Attraction": Waves of Northeast Asian Movies and Cultural Influence in Contemporary Vietnam – Xin Chen/Fengxin Ding: From Foreign Folk Songs to the "Korean Wave": Chinese Cultural Exposures and Self-reflections.