3.11 disaster: demonstrations, organized through social media 152–3; social media, post-disaster activism 151
20 Once Again 42
1976 (house band of Underworld) 125
1987 system, Korean cinema 73
2003 Closer Economic Partnership 249
Abbas, Ackbar 231
activism: post-disaster activism, Japan 151; social media 137
actors: mixed-blood performers 176; transnational stars 171
advertising, K-pop 120
aesthetics, shanzhai 237
AFCNet (Asian Film Commissions Network) 269
Ai Wei Wei 205
Air Doll 174
Ajeossi 76
Alibaba 42
alternative histories, war memories 257
American influence on East Asia pop culture 14–15
America’s Funniest Home Videos 39
An Jung-geun 171
animation, Japan 245
anti-Korean sentiment, Japan 155, 167
Aoi Sola 206
APM (Asian Project Market) 266; producers in global film industry 269–70
Appadurai, Arjun 172
Arirang 73
Aronczyk, Melissa 280
articulating: East Asian pop culture 17–19; popular culture 14
Asian Film Commissions Network (AFCNet) 269
Asian identity, BIFF (Busan International Film Festival) 265
Asian Project Market (APM) 266
Asian women migrants 56
Asianness 269
Asia-Pacific War 255
Asia-yearning-for-Japan 246
Aso Taro 245
Attack on Titan (Shingeki no kyojin) 88
audience reception, transnational works 173
Aw, Annette 191
backlash, reactions to soft power 250
Bae Doona 174
b-boying 118
beast-like masculinity 220
Beck, Ulrich 32
Bei Tong 193
Beijing Comrades 193
Beijing Film Academy 82
Benjamin, Walter 76
Berlin International Film Festival 270
Beyond ‘Center’ and ‘Periphery’: (De-) Westernization in International and Intercultural Communication conference 24–5
BFC (Busan Film Commission) 269
BIFF (Busan International Film Festival) 265–7; economy of host city 268–9; establishment of 267–8; negotiating a place between Korean and Asian cinema 271–2; overview 273; producers in global film industry 269–70
Biggs, John 232
Bishonen 198
BL (boys’ love) 196–9; pornography 207–9
Black Sun (Kuroi taiyo) 87
blockbuster culture, Korea 74–6
Bluestocking 181
bordercrossing 5, 281; coproductions, television 97–8; television 95–6
borders, Chinese subtitle groups 51–2
“Bored Army” 129
boys’ love 185, 196–9; pornography 207–9
Boys over Flowers 28–9, 38–9, 99, 187–9, 221
Brave Brothers 119
breadwinners, Korean masculinity 221
Brokeback Mountain 198
Brother 87
Brzeski, Patrick 83
Busan Film Commission (BFC) 269
Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) 265–6
Butler, Judith 215
The Candlelight Protest 139–41
Candy Candy 185
capitalism 35; cognitive capitalism 72; Confucian heroes 103–4
capitalist realism 90
Carsick Cars 131
celebrities see stars
CEPA (Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement) 83
Chae Lim 175
chaebol 37
Chan Sandee 192
Chang Hui-mei 175
Chen Yi 51
Chen Zhi 232
Cheung, Leslie 192
Chiang Kai-shek 80
China: bordercrossing, Hong Kong dramas 97–8; closing of subtitle groups 52; copyrights 230; Dafen art village 234–6; films 78; format exchange 39–40; instant messaging 159; Internet 159–62; Internet pornography 203–5; Internet usage 159; Korean-Chinese coproductions 41–3; piracy 230; pornography 205–10; pornosphere 202–3; shanzhai 229, 231–3; social media 158–62; soft power 247–9; underground rock scene 128–9; video downloading 160
China Daily 41
China Film Corporation 82
China Media Capital (CMC) 42
Chinese subtitle groups 45–8; borders 51–2; fansubbers 49–51; flexible accumulation 48–9
Chinese transnationalism 46
Chinese video websites 45
Chinese-language cinema 69, 78–84
Chingu 74
Cho, Hae-Jeong 246
chocolate abs 223
Choi Ji-Woo 174
Choo, Kukhee 188
Chow, Stephen 83
Chubb, Andrew 232
cinema, shaping of urban spaces 269
City of Life and Death 260
The City of Lost Souls 87
CJ E&M 42
Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) 83
CMC (China Media Capital) 42
cognitive capitalism 72
Cold War, Chinese-language cinema 80–1
comfort women 259
Condé Nast 215
conferences, Beyond ‘Center’ and ‘Periphery’: (De-)Westernization in International and Intercultural Communication conference 24–5
Confucian heroes: capitalism 103–4; gendered filiality 107–10; moral high ground 105–7; television 102–3, 110–11
Confucianism 103
Confucius 231
Cool Britannia 279
Cool Kiz on the Block (Uridongne yecheneug) 178
coproductions 248–9; bordercrossing, television 97–8; Korean-Chinese coproductions 41–3
copying, China 231
copyrights 230–31; subtitles 49
cosmetic multiculturalism 87
cosmopolitanism 58
The Country is Burning 258
Created in China 236
creative economy 236
Crystal Records 125
cultural bridges 244
cultural diplomacy 243
cultural globalization 261
cultural hybridity 35
cultural imperialism 242
cultural logic, double inscription 19–20
cultural politics, stars 176
culture industry, Korea 36
cyber asylum seekers 141
cyber asylum seeking 135, 138, 142
cyber migration of online users to global platforms, Korea 141–3
cyberscape 144
Cyworld 138
Daejanggeum 244
Dafen art village 229, 234–6; aesthetics 237; aspirations 239–40; circulation 237–9
dancing, K-pop 117
Dasgupta, Romit 198
database animals 202
de Certeau, Michel 137–8; Korean social media 143–4
The Death of a Girl 183
Deleuze, Gilles 79
demonstrations, social media (Japan) 151–4
diaspora: ethnic media 59–61; knowledge diaspora 64; nowhere women, feeling stuck 61–3
diasporic daughters 56–8; nowhere women, feeling stuck 61–3
digital communication 277
digital music distribution, K-pop 120–1
Ding Ling 182
Dingjunshan 80
The Dinner 272
direct adaptation, television 95
Dirlik, Arif 104
discursive locations, transnational films 172–4
disjuncture, landscapes 173
divergence 29
divorce, television dramas 96–7
Dokdo 167
domestic values, transnational films 172
Dong Hyun Song 135
doseiai 195
Douban 160
double inscription 13; as cultural logic 19–20
dramas, local modification, cultural values 96–7
The Drive of Life 98
dromology 72
Dsign Music 38
Duanwu Festival 247
Duara, Prasenjit 281
Ducheng Fengyun III 83
Dyer, Richard 168
East Asia 2
East Asian pop culture: emergence of 15–17; historicizing, overview 20–1
ECFA (Economic Framework Cooperation Agreement) 83
economy of host city, film festivals 268–9
effectiveness 279
electronica 118
The Embryo Hunts in Secret (Taiji ga mitsuryOsuru toki) 87
emergence of East Asian pop culture 15–17
endless everyday (owarinaki nichijo), Japanese cinema 89–90
Escape from Japan (Nihon dasshutsu) 87
Eternal Summer 198
The Eternal Zero (Eien no zero) 88
EXO 118
expense of casting stars 172
fake products. see shanzhai
Farquhar, Mary 169
female individualization 56
filiality, gendered filiality 107–10
Film Bureau of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) 82
film industry, WTO (World Trade Organization) 81
films: Chinese-language cinema 69, 78–84; Hong Kong 78; Japanese cinema 86–91; phantom cinema 73–4; Taiwan 78, 83–4; trade agreements 83; trans-cinema 73–4; women in (Korea) 75
Fischer, Mark 90
Fitzgerald, Brian 230
Flames of Love 181
flower men phenomenon 221
Flower Tales 180
“flying geese model” of development 88
foreigners. see migrants
format exchange, media regionalization 38–41
format exporters 39
format importers 39
Formula 17 198
Franklin, M.I. 144
Frederick, Sarah 182
Friend 37
Frith, Simon 119
Fuji TV 155
fujoshi 207
Furuhata, Yuriko 87
gaige chuangxin 236
gaige kaifang 236
Gao Zi Qi 175
Gender Trouble 215
gender values, local modification, television 96–7
global continuity 15
global hybrid, K-pop 38
global media spaces 279
global-local interpenetration 278
Glorious Mission 261
Gmail 142
Gong Li 83
Gongfu 83
Goodbye Tsugumi 187
Google: People Finder 151; real-name system, Korea 141–2
government crackdown on boys’ love, China 208
GQ 215
grabism 232
Grass Mud Horse (Cao Ni Ma) 205
Great Britain, cosmopolitanism 58
Guattari, Felix 79
Haijiao Qihao 82
Halbert, Debora 230
Han Gou 214
Han Han 207
Hana Yori Dango 99
Hanamonogatari 187
hanghua 237
hanliu 213
Hannerz, Ulf 35
Hanzawa Naoki 102, 105–7; gendered filiality 107–9
hard power 243
Hate Korea magna 261
Hate-Japan comics 261
Hatoyama Yukio 154
He Was Cool 186
Helpless 88
Henney, Daniel Phillip 218, 221
heterogeneity, Japan 87
The Himalayas 71
hip-hop 118
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase. see shōjo
historical memory 262
historical truth, war memories 257–9
historicizing East Asian pop culture 13, 15–21
history war 260
HiTel 138
HKIFF (Hong Kong International Film Festival) 265, 267
Hollywood, stars 169
home-making 58
homogenization 278
homosocial activities, Korean masculinity 221
homosocial relationships 182–3; boys’ love 185
Hong, Euny 110
Hong Kong dramas: bordercrossing 97–8; hybrid mode of TV adaptation 99–100; local modification, cultural values 96–7; transnational transfer 98–9
Hong Kong film industry 16, 18, 78, 80, 83
Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) 265
H.O.T. (High Five of Teenagers) 117
Hu, Kelly 29
Huang Jiang 235
Hwanghae 75
hybrid mode of TV adaptation 99–100
hybridity 35–6; Korean music industry 37–8; Korean-Chinese coproductions 41–3; media regionalization, format exchange and 38–41; overview 43
Hydrangea Revolution 154
Hyun Bin 218
I.AM 121
identity 29–30, 58; national identity, transnational mobility and 63–5
idol-dom 117
idol-making systems, K-pop 116–18
Ikeuchi Hiroyuki 214
illustrations, shōjo 183
IMF crisis, Korean blockbuster films 74
import restrictions 242
inclusion 61
inescapability 89; Japanese cinema 87–8
inescapable Japan 70
Infernal Affairs 18
information networks, social media (Japan) 150–1
instant messaging, China 159
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) 229–31
inter-Asian approach to stardom 168–70
inter-Asian referencing 2, 24, 26–9, 31–2
inter-Asian star studies 175–6; nationalism 170; transnational stars 170–2
inter-national administration of popular culture 278–81
Internet: China 159–62; fansubbers 52–3; Korea 142; migrants 64; pornography 203–5
Internet usage: China 159; Japan 149
intra-flows among Asian nations 16
Invasion of the Korean/Cold Wave 250
IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) 229–31
iQIYI 49
Isaka Satoshi 87
iteration 28; articulating East Asian pop culture 17–19
Ito Hirobumi 171
Iwabuchi, Koichi 17, 213, 246, 268
Iwadate Mariko 186
Japan: animation 245; anti-Korean sentiment 155, 167; boys’ love 196; doseiai 195; Internet usage 149; media environment 149–50; nationalism 88–9; otaku generation 202; sex stars 205–7; shōjo see shōjo; social media 148–54; soft power 245–6; State Secrets Law 155; war memories 255–9
Japanese dramas, local modification, cultural values 96–7
Japanese pop culture 16
Japanese television industry 39
Jay, Tinna 94
Jenkins, Henry 47
Jeon Ji-Hyeon 74
jeongwangpan 73
Jia Zhangke 270
Jinjiang 208
joint-releases 49
J-pop 116
J.S.A.: Joint Security Area 74
Jung Y un-Ho 218
junzi 111
Jurassic Park 36
Kahn, Herman 103
Kakao Talk 143
Kaneshiro, Takeshi 173
Kaneva, Nadia 280
Kang Ho-dong 178
Katochan Kenchan Gokigen Terebi 39
Kenkanryu 261
Kichin 186
Kill Me, Heal Me 42
Kim Dong-hyun 272
Kim Hang-gil 246
Kim Il-yeop 183
Kim Ki-duk 75
Kim Tae-Yong 175
Kim Yeon-suk 181
Kim Yong-jae 40
Kinsella, Sharon 210
Kitano Takeshi 87
KMT (Kuomintang) 80
knowledge diasporas 64
knowledge production, de-Westernization 24–7
Ko, Mika 87
KOFIC (Korean Film Council) 269
Korea: blockbuster culture 74–6; coproductions 249; cyber migration of online users to global platforms 141–3; film industry 36–7; music industry 37–8; phantom cinema 73–4; real-name system, Google 141–2; republic of idol 174; same-sex relationships 182–3; smartphones 142; social media 138–41; soft power 246; states of fantasy 71–3; Telegram 143; trans-cinema 73–4; women’s magazines 181
Korean actors 171
Korean Film Archive 73
Korean Film Council (KOFIC) 269
Korean masculinity 212–19; men’s fashion, Taiwan 219–22; overview 222–3
Korean pop see K-pop
Korean television, My Love from the Star 102–3
Korean UCC services 138
Korean Venture Investment Corporation 110
Korean Wave 3, 16, 18, 36–7, 72–3; masculinity 213–15
Korean-Chinese coproductions 41–3
K-pop 16, 38, 72–3, 116; as a genre 118–19; idols 116–20; making money 119–21; multi-use content 119–21; overview 121–2
Kristeva, Julia 187
Kwak Jae-yong 42
Kwan, Stanley 194
Kwok, Aaron 83
Lan Yu 194
Lan-Bi-Tou, fansubbers 50
landscapes, differences in discursive locations 172–4
Larson, Wendy 183
Le, Lan Xuan 29
Lee Geun 246
Lee Kuan Yew 104
Lee Soo-Man and 365 Days 38
Lee Yong-kwan 272
Leng, Rachel 194
Let’s Watch Meteor Shower 100
Leung, Helen Hok-Sze 195
Ley Lines (Nihon kuroshakai) 87
Li Xianglan 168
Li Yuchun 192
Lie, John 16
Lin, Randy 125
Lin Heping 237
Lin Yi-Chieh 234
Ling Shuhua 182
liquification 91
Lishi’s Diary 182
Liu Heping 239
Lo Kwai-Cheung 169
local modification, television 95; cultural values 96–7
logic of speed 72
Lolita Nationalism 174
looped narratives, Japanese cinema 90
The Love Eterne 191
love play 182
Lu, Sheldon 79
Lu Chuan 260
Lung Yingtai 127
Lu Xun 232
Lu Yin 182
mainlandization, Hong Kong film industry 83
Majumdar, Neepa 169
market-driven cultural globalization 278
marriage, local modification, television 96–7
Marshall, P. David 168
Martin, Fran 182
masculinity, men’s fashion 217–22
Matsuda Masao 87
Matsumoto Hajime 152
Matsushima Kaede 207
Maxey, Trent 257
Maybe Mars 128
Mayday 125
MC Hotdog 250
McChesney, Robert 35
McGray, Douglas 245
media: ethnic media 59–61, 63; Korean-Chinese coproductions 41–3
media culture, soft power 251
media culture products, soft power 249–51
media development, Korean Wave 36–7
media enterprises, stars 170–2
media environment, Japan 149–50
media imports 243
media regionalization, format exchange 38–41
media spaces 279
media stars see stars
Meirenyu 83
melange of iterations, articulating East Asian pop culture 17–19
Memento Mori 195
memorial schoolgirl romance 187
memories: second-order memories 254; war memories see war memories
Memories of a Geisha 175
men, Korean masculinity 212–15
Mengxia 84
Men’s Non-No 216
Mermaid 83
meta-geographical desires 180
metropolises, moral high ground 105–7
migrants: Asian women migrants 56; banal racism 58–9; ethnic media, enclaves 59–61; nowhere women, feeling stuck in diaspora 61–3
Miss Granny 42
misunderstanding transnational works 173
mixed-blood performers 176
Mixi 151
mobility, diasporic daughters 56–8
mobilization through social media 151
modernity 35
modifications, local modification, television 95
moleitau 83
Montgomery, Lucy 230
Moranbong 71
Morely, David 144
Mu Qian 130
mugukjeok 27
multiculturalism, cosmetic multiculturalism 87
multimodal discourse, men’s fashion 217–19
multi-use content, K-pop 119–21
music industry: electronica 118; genres 118–19; hip-hop 118; idols 116–18; Korea 37–8; K-pop see K-pop; Live Houses 124; profits 119–21
music venues 124–5; D22 128–31; overview 131–2; Scream Club 129; Underworld 124–7; XP 130
My Fair Princess 42
My Love from the Star 41–2, 49, 102–3, 105–7; gendered filiality 109–10
My Sassy Girl 74
Myers, Scott 194
Nagaike, Kazumi 208
Nakahara Jun’ichi 183
Nakasone Rino 38
Nakata Hidetoshi 214
Nakazawa Keiji 255
Nanjing manga 261
Nanking 1937 259
Narita Rikkon 96
nation branding 280
national cool 245
national identity, transnational mobility and 63–5
national identity-culture 20
national media 4
nationalism 277–8; Japan 88–9; stars 170; war memories 262
Neon Genesis Evangelion 89
netizens, power of Internet 52–3
NEVA (Nihon Ethics of Video Association) 205
New Asia 65
“New Sound in Beijing” 128
New Woman 181
NHK World 281
No Ja-yeong 181
nomadic sensibility 63
Nye, Joseph 243
obstacles to efficacy of media culture products as soft power 249–51
Oh Eun-seo 181
Oh my Girl 71
On War 257
Ong, Aihwa 79
oppositional readings 34
Oshii Mamoru 89
otaku generation, Japan 202
Otsuki Kenji 182
Oyama, Shinji 16
P2P, Chinese subtitle groups 48
Pan Siuming 203
Pan Entertainment 42
pan-Asian films 171
Park Geun-Hye, President 104
Park Jin-young 119
pastiche 95
Peng Liyuan, First Lady 102
People Finder, Google 151
Peppermint Candy 272
personal blogging, Korea 138
Pettis, Michael 128
place-making 58
Platform 270
political activism, social media: China 161; Korea 139–41
political narratives 171
Poongsangae 75
Pop Culture China 17
pop flows 13
popular culture: articulating 14, 17–19; emergence of 15–17; historicizing 13; queer pop culture see queer pop culture; war memories 259–60
pornography: China 205–9; Internet pornography 203–5
post-disaster activism, Japan 151
power, soft power 243
PPP (Pusan Promotion Plan) 266
practice theory, de Certeau, Michel 143–4
PRC (People’s Republic of China) see China
Pride 256
primary life cycle of sexual practices and attitudes 203
primordial language 187
The Prisoner 88
producers in global film industry, BIFF (Busan International Film Festival) 269–70
production quality 172
project markets, BIFF (Busan International Film Festival) 269–70
Promise 171
Psy, “Gangnam Style” 71
Pulse 89
Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) 266
queer digital micro-films 194
queer pop culture 191–4; boys’ love 196–9; overview 199; schoolgirl romance 194–6
Raphals, Lisa 107
reactions to war movies, inter-Asian reactions 260–2
Real (Riaru) 89
real-name system, Korea 140; Google 141–2
recurring imagery, Japanese cinema 89
regional embedding of social media, Korea 139–41
regional media market competition 248–9
regional trends 16
Ren Qingtai 80
republic of idol, Korea 174
resentment of soft power 250
resistant reading 173
Return Home 98
revisionist history, war memories 256–9
rice dumpling festival 247
Rogers, Everett 35
Roh Moo-Hyun 139
Roney, Tyler 205
The Rose of Versailles 185
Running Man 40
Rushdie, Salman 34
Ryoo, Woongjae 103
S relationships 182
Said, Edward 111
Sang, Tze-Ian D. 195
schoolgirls, modern shōjo 179–84
Scream Club 129
Scum Workshop 125
Se7en 118
second-order memories 254
Segyehwa 267
sekai-kei (world type), Japanese cinema 90
self-exclusion 61
self-reflexive thinking 30
sentimentality, shōjo 187
S.E.S 117
sexual relations, Internet pornography 203–5
Shamoon, Deborah 183
Shanghai, films 80
shared memory of historical atrocities 260
Sheikh, Simon 110
Shen Fanny 196
Shen Lihui 128
Shiau, Hong-Chi 198
Shida Park gang 127
Shida Self-Help Assembly 127
Shiel, Mark 269
Shih, Shu-mei 193
shōjo 29, 179; Boys over Flowers 187–9; contemporary shōjo 185–7; homosocial relationships 182–3; illustrations 183; modern shōjo 179–84; shōjo manga 184–5
Shoot the Devil 261
Shoot the Sun by Lyric 272
Shooter 52
Sichuan Television 40
Sina Weibo 160
Sinophone: boys’ love 196; queer pop culture 193
Sinsadong Horaengi (Sinsadong Tiger) 119
Sister Lotus 206
Sister Phoenix 206
S.M. Entertainment 38
SM Town Live 2010 World Tour 116
smartphones, Korea 142
SNS (social networking services), Korea 142
social media 135–6; activism 137; China 158–62; Japan 148–55; Korea 138–44; K-pop 121
social networking services (SNS), Korea 142
soft masculinity 221
soft power 243, 279; China 247–9; Hong Kong 248–9; influence 244–5; Japan 245–6; Korea 246; media culture 251; media culture products 249–51; popularity 244–5; rhetoric 245–9
sonyeo 178
sonyeodong 178
South Korea 36; see also Korea; BIFF (Busan International Film Festival) 265–6; format importers 39; phantom cinema 73–4; women in films 75
space 58
Space Battleship Yamato 255
Spivak, Gayatri 28
star texts 191
stars 167–8; cultural politics 176; expense of casting 172; as image, labor, and capital 168–70; inter-Asian star studies 175–6; national loyalty 174–5; nationalism 170; as objects of discussion and debate in the public space 174–5; transnational stars 170–2
Stars 168
state of fantasy 72
State Secrets Law, Japan 155
states of emergency, Korea 71–3
studying abroad 56
subtitle groups, Chinese subtitle groups 45–8; borders 51–2; fansubbers 49–51; flexible accumulation 48–9
Sudade 90
Sun Ge 51
sunjeong manhwa 185
Super Junior M’s Guest House 42
Swallowtail 87
Taiwan: boys’ love 197; films 78, 83–4; men’s fashion, Korean masculinity 219–22; Men’s UNO 214; mixed-blood performers 176; stars 175; tomboys 192
Takabatake Kasho 183
Takehisa Yumeji 183
Takeshima 167
Takeuchi Yoshimi 31
Tan, See Kam 191
Tanemura Suehiro 87
Tang, Denise Tse-Shang 192
Tang Wei 175
Teacher Sola 206
Teddy (YG) 119
Telegram, Korea 143
television: bordercrossing 95–8; Confucian heroes 102–11; gendered filiality 107–10; hybrid mode of TV adaptation 99–100; inter-Asian TV flows 95–6; local modification 95–7; transnational transfer 95–9
Television Studies after TV 94
televisual intertextuality 95
Tencent’s QQ 159; pornography 204
text messages, Japan 149
Texuka Osamu 245
Tezuka, Yoshiharu 88
theories, de-Westernization 25
Thomas’ Heart 185
Thompson, John 35
Three Times 270
Thussu, Daya 26
Till When Do Us Part 96
Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act, Underworld 126–7
Todorov, Tzvetan 89
Tojo Hideki 256
tomboys 192
Tomita Katsuya 90
Tomlinson, John 34
tongzhi 192
tongzhi wenxue 194
trade agreements, film industry 83
transborder assemblage 79
trans-East Asia: economy of attention 276–8; inter-national administration 278–81
trans-East Asia as method 277–83
transnational films, differences in discursive locations 172–4
transnational mobility 56–8; national identity and 63–5
transnational transfer 95–6; television 98–9
transnationalism, Chinese transnationalism 46
transversality, social media 137
Treat, John Whittier 185
Ts 192
Tsai, Eva 173
TSKS 49
Tu, Wei-ming 107
Turner, Graeme 94
TV pastiche 95
TwitNoNukes demonstratios, Japan 153–4
Two Girls in the Attic 182
UCC (user-created content), Korea 138
underground rock scene, China 128–9
Underworld 124–7, 131–2; closing of 127
United States, soft power 243
universalization of capitalism 35
UNO hair wax 216
Uno Tsunehiro 90
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer 89
U.S. popular culture 35
user-created content (UCC), Korea 138
Vann, Elizabeth 232
Vara: A Blessing 272
VCDs (Video CDs) 46
victims’ history, war memories 255
video downloading, China 160
video piracy 46
video websites, Chinese video websites 45
Virilio, Paul 72
Wakuwaku Animal Land 39
Water Margins 232
Waterman, David 35
Web of Love 96
websites, Chinese video websites 45
Wee, Wang-Ling C.J. 19
Wei, John 194
wei dianying 194
wen 214
Wen Jiabao 247
Western theories 25
West-the Rest paradigm 20
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 39
“A Window on Asian Cinema” 271
Winter Sonata 16
With Love 96
women: in films 75; homosocial relationships 182–3; love of gay men, pornography 207–9; racism 59; shōjo 179–84; transnational mobility 56–8
Wong, Winnie Won Yin 233
Wood, Ellen 35
world type (sekai-kei), Japanese cinema 90
worlding 197
WTO (World Trade Organization) 230; film industry 81
Wu Bai & China Blue 125
Xiyouji zhi Sun Wukong Sandabaigu Jing 83
Yamaguchi Yoshiko 168
Yamato 255
Yamazaki Takashi 88
Yang, Guobin 52
Yang Shiyang 53
Yasukuni 259
Yi, Keren 194
Yi Beizi Shouzhe Ni 196
Yonggamhan Hyongje (Brave Brothers) 119
Yoshida Yoshishige 87
Young Thugs: Nostalgia 90
Yu Yong-chin 119
Yuki Maiko 206
Zhang Lin 232
Zhang Yimou 17
Zhang, Yingjin 169
Zhang Ziyi 175
Zhejiang Daily Media Group 42
Zheng Xiqing 47
Zhong Nan Hai generation 129
Zhou Gouhua 238
Zhu Wen Bo 130
Zhu, Ying 167
Zooming Night D22, 130