Archived by the National Library of New Zealand.Title from PDF cover (viewed on Feb. 13, 2013).Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional." ... financial assistance provided by Asia: New Zealand Foundation and Unitec Research Committee."
Part one : generating national identity --; Part two : globalised popular cultures --; Part three : discourses of locality --; Part four : representing a (fictional) identity --; Part five : pop-cultural intersections --; Part six: representation and the subject --; Part seven : discourses of technology and representation --; Part eight : marketing 'the East'. Cool Asia, really? Cultural relativism and the cool/uncool divide in studying Asia / Matthew Allen --; Why take trans-Asian media culture connections seriously? ; Toward East Asia as a dialogic communicative space / Koichi Iwabuchi --; The tyranny of context, or how to read Japan's (not-so-cool) manga comics / Rumi Sakamoto --; Taiko : tradition and touchstone, performing a translocated musical form / Ken McNeil --; Post-colonial nation-building and the politics of popular culture : Korea's ban on Japanese popular culture and the hallyu phenomenon / Changzoo Song --; Herbivorous boy, otaku or petit-nationalist? Floating Japanese men, masculinity and national integrity / Keichi Kumagai --; Neo-Tokyo revisited : deterritorialised youth, globalisation fears and reader response to Karl Taro Greenfeld's Speed tribes / Ted Bonnah --; Games without frontiers : the rise and rise of the object of the future / Scott Wilson --; Bali is (not) so beautiful (any more) : popular cultures of architectural and environmental decline in Bali / Graeme MacRae --; Imaging New Zealand : China's views of the world / Phoebe H. Li --; Bad boys : exploring juvenile delinquent narrative in contemporary Japanese popular culture / Marie Kim --; Dragon balls and rugby balls : negotiating cultural identity on the sports field / Elena Kolesova --; Animation nation : social media trends in the promotion of anime and animated music videos across cultures in Australasia / Elisabeth "Bird" Jensen --; Coming of age in an era of infantile capitalism : agency and ambivalence in the narratives of Murakami Haruki and Miyazaki Hayao / Jonathan Dil --; Self-representations in new media / Silvia Fok --; Innovation under imbalance : China's conversion to sound film (1931-1936) / Youngchun Fu --; Paratextual conflict across borders : a marketing case study of Jet Li's Unleashed/Danny the dog (2005) / Munib Rezaie.