<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>><br><br><br>From: tokita [<a href="mailto:tokita@flc.titech.ac.jp">mailto:tokita@flc.titech.ac.jp</a>]<br>Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 7:22 AM<br>Subject: Publication on East Asian Popular Culture<br><br><br>Dear all,<br><br>I would like to announce the publication (and free online access) of a new<br>collection of studies on East Asian popular cultures just released by Monash<br>University ePress. Complicated Currents: Media Flows, Soft Power and East<br>Asia, is edited by Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita.<br><br>To see the whole book:<br><a href="http://www.epress.monash.edu/cc">http://www.epress.monash.edu/cc</a><br><br>and the abstract:<br>http://www.epress.monash.edu/cc/about.html<br><br>COMPLICATED CURRENTS:<br>MEDIA FLOWS, SOFT POWER AND EAST ASIA<br>CONTENTS<br>Introduction: Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita<br>Chapter 1: Distant land, neighbouring land: 'Japan' in South Korean popular<br>discourse-- Stephen Epstein<br>Chapter 2: The Korean Wave and anti-Korean discourse in Japan: A genealogy<br>of popular representations of Korea 1984-2005 -- Chie Yamanaka<br>Chapter 3: Winter Sonata and the politics of memory -- Alison Tokita<br>Chapter 4: 'Hand in hand': Sino-Korean musical exchange in the Korean Wave<br>-- Rowan Pease<br>Chapter 5: Cross-cultural interactions through mass media products:<br>Cognitive and emotional impacts of Chinese people's consumption of Korean<br>media products -- June WoongRhee and Chul-joo Lee<br>Chapter 6: Consuming Japan: Early Korean girls comic book artists'<br>resistance and empowerment -- Kukhee Choo<br>Chapter 7: Buying youth: Japanese fandom of the Korean Wave -- Hyangjin Lee<br>Chapter 8: Chogukjeok pan-East Asian soft masculinity: Reading Boys over<br>Flowers, Coffee Prince and Shinhwa fan fiction -- Sun Jung<br>Chapter 9: Hallyu ballyhoo and Harisu: Marketing and representing the<br>transgendered in South Korea -- Gloria Davies, M.E. Davies and Young-A Cho<br>Chapter 10: Inroads for cultural traffic: Breeding Korea's cinematiger --<br>Brian Yecies<br>Chapter 11: Creating a different wave: Animating a market for Korean<br>animation -- Roald Maliangkay<br>Chapter 12: The success and limitations of Japanese comics and animation in<br>the US: Can Korean manhwa and animation follow suit? -- Jung-Sun Park<br>Chapter 13: Remaking the Korean romcom: A case study of Yeopgijeogin geunyeo<br>and My Sassy Girl -- Jane Chi Hyun Park<br>Chapter 14: Re-imagining China's future: Soft power, cultural presence and<br>the East Asian media market -- Michael Keane<br>Chapter 15: The limits of soft power -- Peter Murphy<br>Chapter 16: Cultural exchange and national specificity -- Daniel Black<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote></div></body></html>