Transnational Japanese Adult Videos and the Emergence of Cable Television in Post-war Taiwan

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ID12765415
AuthorsHeung-Wah Wong (University of Hong Kong, corresponding author), Hoi-Yan Yau (University College London, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume9
Issue2
Pages183-217
Publication date2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Comparative Asian Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1533-9114 • E-ISSN: 2150-5403
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15339114.2010.528301
OpenAlexW2170228375
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited31

This article examines how transnational Japanese adult videos migrated to Taiwan and how such a migration “contributed” to the advent of cable television in post-war Taiwan. It argues that the relationship between the migration of Japanese AVs and the advent of cable TV is not automatic but needs to be qualified. There is a huge gap between the migration of Japanese AVs to Taiwan and the advent of cable TV there. The advent of cable TV in post-war Taiwan cannot be directly reduced to the transnational Japanese AVs. Nor are transnational Japanese AVs the sole reason for the advent of cable TV in post-war Taiwan. Instead, cable TV in post-war Taiwan is the consequence of a very complex process in which transnational Japanese AVs reciprocally mediated with socio-political factors in Taiwanese society. We argue that it is only when Japanese AVs were mediated by a number of local socio-political factors that they together contributed to the introduction and legalization of cable TV in Taiwan

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