Murakami Haruki in Greater China

Creative Responses and the Quest for Cosmopolitanism

Bibliographic Data

ID8988593
AuthorsMargaret Hillenbrand (SOAS University of London, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume68
Issue3
Pages715-747
Publication date2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021911809990039
OpenAlexW2077758212
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited19

The relationship between popular culture and East Asian identity is now an established field of enquiry, with the products of Japan's mass media industries—television series, pop stars, and manga—still providing much of the fuel for debate. This paper, however, moves away from the dominant notion of “culture as industry,” and explores animated personal responses to the fiction of Japanese writer Murakami Haruki in Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan through art house cinema, popular fiction, and online creative communities. The vogue for Murakami has swept across the region in recent years, and for many of those inspired by his work, it is Murakami's role as a conduit to cosmopolitan cultural citizenship that is so alluring. Yet rather than crude imitation, the filmmakers, writers, and Internet fans analyzed here misappropriate the “Murakami mood” in different ways, and in the process, they reveal the diverse meanings that attach to cosmopolitanism across contemporary East Asia

Aesthetics · Anime · Art · China · Chinese culture · Cosmopolitanism · Identity (music · Imitation · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Popular culture · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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