Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia

• Utgivningsdatum: 2024-07-01
• Mått: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
• Vikt: 414 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Asian Visual Cultures
• Antal sidor: 160
• Förlag: Amsterdam University Press
• ISBN: 9789463720090

• Asiens historia
• Politisk aktivism
• Socialt arbete och välfärd

Dorothy Wai Sim Lau is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include stardom, celebrities, fandom, Asian cinema, Hong Kong cinema, digital culture, and screen culture. She is the author of Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture (2019) and Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks: Voice, Ethnicity, Power (2021). Lau was the visiting scholar at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield in 2022.

"At a time of cross-border stardom and fandom, Lau’s book brings in a groundbreaking approach to what constitutes goodwill stardom and celebrity-hood through detailed and methodologically sound case studies from India, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Japan, while also representing different media and technology outlets and industries. Professor Liza Tsaliki, Department of Communication & Media Studies, School of Economics & Political Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

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