Chinese Fans of Japanese and Korean Pop Culture

Nationalistic Narratives and International Fandom

Bibliographic Data

ID7518045
AuthorsLu Chen (0000-0002-5497-4690, corresponding author)
Year2017
Publication date2017-09-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueChinese Fans of Japanese and Korean Pop Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315414737
OpenAlexW4249726061
ISBN9781315414737
Open LibraryOL39602162M
LanguageEN
Citations received14

How can Japanese popular culture gain numerous fans in China, despite pervasive anti-Japanese sentiment? How is it that there’s such a strong anti-Korean sentiment in Chinese online fan communities when the official Sino-Korean relationship is quite stable before 2016? Avid fans in China are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding to make gifts to their idols in foreign countries. Tabloid reports on Japanese and Korean celebrities have been known to trigger nationalist protests in China. So, what is the relationship between Chinese fandom of Japanese and Korean popular culture and nationalist sentiment among Chinese youth? Chen discusses how Chinese fans of Japanese and Korean popular culture have formed their own nationalistic discourse since the 1990s. She argues that, as nationalism is constructed from various entangled ideologies, narratives, myths and collective memories, popular culture simply becomes another resource for the construction of nationalism. Fans thus actively select, interpret and reproduce the content of cultural products to suit their own ends. Unlike existing works, which focus on the content of transnational cultural flows in East Asia, this book focuses on the reception and interpretation of the Chinese audience

Archaeology · Art · China · Chinese culture · Japanese culture · Japanese studies · Korean culture · Literature · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · asia · Audiences · china · Chinese Foreign public opinion · Culture populaire · foreign relations · International Relations · Japan · Korea · Manners and customs · Popular Culture · Relations · Social life and customs

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