Iwabuchi Recentering Globalization

Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8408-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten

An examination of the increased presence of Japanese media and popluar culture in the rest of Asia and the way it has transformed Japanese self-understanding.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iwabuchi, Koichi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Note on Japanese Names ix

Introduction: The 1990s—Japan returns to Asia in the age of globalization 1

1. Taking “Japanization” seriously: Cultural globalization reconsidered 23

2. Trans/nationalism: The discourse on Japan in the global cultural flow 51

3. Localizing “Japan” in the booming Asian markets 85

4. Becoming culturally proximate: Japanese TV dramas in Taiwan 121

5. Popular Asianism in Japan: Nostalgia for (different) Asian modernity 158

6. Japan’s Asian dreamworld 199

Notes 211

References 233

Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo. For many years he was a reporter and producer for Nippon Television Network Corporation (ntv).