Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements Vol. 23 No. 2 March 2022
Table of Contents
Topic: Popular Culture in China’s Early Reform Era, 1978-1989
Guest editor: Zhao Ma
Introduction
Revisiting popular culture in China’s early reform era, 1978-1989: a historical overview
Zhao MA
Essays
Embodying beauty, desiring the world: dress and fashion in the 1980s’ China
Yuqian YAN
Between the past and the future: the rise of nationalist discourse at the 1983 CCTV Spring Festival Gala
Min WANG
Mysterious Buddha, popular cinema, and the new Chinese film culture in the early 1980s
Li YANG
Airing the gospel: Christian radio broadcast and multiple narratives in early Reform-era China
Joseph Tse-Hei LEE and Christie Chui-Shan CHOW
Selling nationalism: the Hong Kong teleplay the legendary Huo Yuanjia in 1980s Mainland China
Qi GAI
Teresa Teng and the spread of pop songs in Mainland China in the early reform era
Dongfeng TAO
Metamorphosis of the dragon: the collectivist reconfiguration of Hang Kong-Taiwan pop in the reform era
Ling KANG
Moonwalking in Beijing: Michael Jackson, Piliwu, and the origins of Chinese hip-hop
Emily WILCOX
Visual essay
The Looks of the 1980s
Yuqian YAN and Wei LIN
Doing Inter-Asia research
Digital intimacies: friends, lovers and families in contemporary Asia
Tejaswini NIRANJANA and Eunsoo LEE