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Recent years have witnessed the increasing visibility of Asian celebrities in activism, advocacy, diplomacy, philanthropy, and ambassadorship but this phenomenon is under-explored. This volume provides a critical intervention in celebrity activism and philanthropy by examining the civic imaginaries and mobilisations of Asian celebrities-turned-activists or philanthropists, alongside an array of significations and tensions involved. The analysis anchors on a roster of high-profile Asian icons including Bollywood star Aamir Khan, K-pop sensation BTS, Cantopop singer Denise Ho, and Chinese live-streamer Weiya, who exhibit universal morals while underscoring local or regional affiliations as propelled by expansive media networks. Adopting cosmopolitics as the methodological frame, this volume suggests “muliversal consciousness,” a staple to code the star-powered goodwill in times of disjuncture and rupture. To its critical ends, this book attempts to disrupt the Eurocentric tendency in the discursive construction of celebrity-cause dynamics, disentangling the complexities of Asian power, global citizenship, and techno-capitalist logics.

Recent years have witnessed the increasing visibility of Asian celebrities in activism, advocacy, diplomacy, philanthropy, and ambassadorship but this phenomenon is under-explored. This volume provides a critical intervention in celebrity activism and philanthropy by examining the civic imaginaries and mobilisations of Asian celebrities-turned-activists or philanthropists, alongside an array of significations and tensions involved. The analysis anchors on a roster of high-profile Asian icons including Bollywood star Aamir Khan, K-pop sensation BTS, Cantopop singer Denise Ho, and Chinese live-streamer Weiya, who exhibit universal morals while underscoring local or regional affiliations as propelled by expansive media networks. Adopting cosmopolitics as the methodological frame, this volume suggests “muliversal consciousness,” a staple to code the star-powered goodwill in times of disjuncture and rupture. To its critical ends, this book attempts to disrupt the Eurocentric tendency in the discursive construction of celebrity-cause dynamics, disentangling the complexities of Asian power, global citizenship, and techno-capitalist logics.

Recent years have witnessed the increasing visibility of Asian celebrities in activism, advocacy, diplomacy, philanthropy, and ambassadorship but this phenomenon is under-explored. This volume provides a critical intervention in celebrity activism and philanthropy by examining the civic imaginaries and mobilisations of Asian celebrities-turned-activists or philanthropists, alongside an array of significations and tensions involved. The analysis anchors on a roster of high-profile Asian icons including Bollywood star Aamir Khan, K-pop sensation BTS, Cantopop singer Denise Ho, and Chinese live-streamer Weiya, who exhibit universal morals while underscoring local or regional affiliations as propelled by expansive media networks. Adopting cosmopolitics as the methodological frame, this volume suggests “muliversal consciousness,” a staple to code the star-powered goodwill in times of disjuncture and rupture. To its critical ends, this book attempts to disrupt the Eurocentric tendency in the discursive construction of celebrity-cause dynamics, disentangling the complexities of Asian power, global citizenship, and techno-capitalist logics.

In this issueLetter from the Editor Ying Zhu Hong Kong and Social MovementsHong Kong Unraveled: Social Media and the 2019 Protest MovementAnonymousUnleashing the Sounds of Silence: Hong Kong’s Story in Troubled TimesAndrea RiemenschnitterTragedy of Errors at Warp SpeedSam HoImagining a City-Based Democracy: Review of The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement by Laikwan Pang, University of Michigan Press, 2020Enoch TamBuilding and Documenting National and Transnational CinemaChina and the Film FestivalRichard PeñaNationalism from Below: State Failures, Nollywood, and Nigerian Pidgin Jonathan Haynes Collective Memory and the Rhetorical Power of the Historical Fiction FilmCarl PlantingaFrom Nations to Worlds: Chris Marker’s Si j’avais quatre dromadairesMichael WalshSino-US RelationsAmerican Factory and the Difficulties of Documenting NeoliberalismPeter HitchcockR.I.P. Soft Power: China’s Story Meets the Reset Button: Review of Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds edited by Kingsley Edney, Stanley Rosen, and Ying Zhu, Routledge, 2019Robert A. KappThe Narrative of VirusReview: On Epidemics, Epidemiology, and Global StorytellingCarlos Rojas

In this issueLetter from the Editor - YING ZHUResearch ArticlesConsuming the Pastoral Desire: Li Ziqi, Food Vlogging, and the Structure of Feeling in the Era of Microcelebrity - LIANG LIMINThis Is Not Reality (Ceci n’est pas la réalité): Capturing the Imagination of the People Creativity, the Chinese Subaltern, and Documentary Storytelling - PAOLA VOCIThe Networked Storyteller and Her Digital Tale: Film Festivals and Ann Hui’s My Way - GINA MARCHETTI“Retweet for More”: The Serialization of Porn on the Twitter Alter Community - RUEPERT CAOBook ReviewsDazzling Revelations - Review of Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China by Margaret Hillenbrand, Duke University Press, 2020 - HARRIET EVANSSpeaking Nations, Edge Ways - Reviews of Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound and Stability by Gerald Sim, Amsterdam University Press, 2020; and Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945–1998) edited by Gaik Cheng Khoo, Thomas Barker, Mary Ainslie, Amsterdam University Press, 2020 - MIN HUI YEOFilm ReviewsNomadland: An American or Chinese Story? Review of Nomadland, directed by Chloe Zhao, 2020 - YING ZHUNew from Netflix: Mank, Fincher, and A Hollywood Creation Tale - Review of Mank, directed by David Fincher, 2020 - THOMAS SCHATZSuperheroes: The Endgame - Review of Superhero Movies - PETER BISKINDShort EssayLove and Duty: Translating Films and Teaching Online through a Pandemic - CHRISTOPHER REAReportNarrating New Normal: Graduate Student Symposium Report - RUEPERT JIEL DIONISIO CAO, MINOS-ATHANASIOS KARYOTAKIS, MISTURA ADEBUSOLA SALAUDEEN, DONGLI CHEN, & YANJING WINNIE WU

IN THIS ISSUEGuest EditorsSuzanne Scott and Ellen SeiterEllen Seiter. Letter from the Editor.Research ArticlesPaige MacIntosh. Transgressive TV: Euphoria, HBO, and a New Trans AestheticKelsey J. Cummings. Queer Seriality, Streaming Television, and She-Ra and the Princesses of PowerJia Tan. Platformized Seriality: Chinese Time-Travel Fantasy from Prime-Time Television to Online StreamingJake Pitre. Platform Strategy in a Technopolitical War: The Failure (and Success) of Facebook WatchAnne Gilbert. Algorithmic Audiences, Serialized Streamers, and the Discontents of DataficationOliver Kröener. Then, Now, Forever: Television Wrestling, Seriality, and the Rise of the Cinematic Match during COVID-19Book ReviewsBriand Gentry. The Serial Will Be Televised: Serial Television’s Revolutionary Potential for Multidisciplinary Analysis of Social Identity. Reviews of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure by Dennis Broe, Wayne State University Press, 2019, and Gender and Seriality: Practices and Politics of Contemporary US Television by Maria Sulimma, Edinburgh University Press, 2021Grace Elizabeth Wilsey. The Patchwork That Makes a Global Streaming Giant. Review of Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution by Ramon Lobato, New York University Press, 2019Asher Guthertz. The History of the American Comic Book, Revised: Review of Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood by Shawna Kidman, University of California Press, 2019Film ReviewsAnne Metcalf. Review of Zola (Janicza Bravo, 2020)

In This IssueSpecial Issue Editors: Kenneth Paul Tan & Dorothy LauLetter from the Editor - YING ZHUCold War and New Cold War Narratives: Special Issue Editor’s Introduction - KENNETH PAUL TANResearch ArticlesNotes on Cold War Historiography - LOUIS MENANDTales from the Hot Cold War - MARTHA BAYLESBomb Archive: The Marshall Islands as Cold War Film Set - ILONA JURKONYTĖDas unsichtbare Visier—A 1970s Cold War Intelligence TV Series as a Fantasy of International and Intranational Empowerment; or, How East Germany Saved the World and West Germans Too - TARIK CYRIL AMARTo Whom Have We Been Talking? Naeem Mohaiemen’s Fabulation of a People-to-Come - NOIT BANAIThe Man without a Country: British Imperial Nostalgia in Ferry to Hong Kong (1959) - KENNY K. K. NGImagining Cooperation: Cold War Aesthetics for a Hot Planet - MARINA KANETIBook ReviewsThrough Space and Time - Review of The Odyssey of Communism: Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture edited by Michaela Praisler and Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021 - ISABEL GALWEYReview of Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market by Ying Zhu, New Press, 2022 - YONGLI LIThe Cautionary Tale of Painting War Remembrance in China as a New Nationalism - Review of China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter, Belknap Press, 2020 - FUWEI ZUOTracking American Political Currents - Review of White Identity Politics by Ashley Jardina, Cambridge University Press, 2019, and Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class by Reece Peck, Cambridge University Press, 2019 - DAVID GURNEY

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