Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements.   Volume 24    Number 5    October 2023

Table of Contents

Special issue: East Asian pop culture in the era of China’s rise

Guest editors: Leo T.S. CHING, Doobo SHIM and Fang-chih Irene YANG

Editorial

Introduction: East Asian pop culture in the era of China’s rise

Leo T.S. CHING, Doobo SHIM and Fang-chih Irene YANG

Thematic essays

Transnational media production from the margins of “cultural China”: the case of Singapore’s media producers

Siao Yuong FONG

Dire-Straits: Taiwanese TV screenwriters in the neoliberal and authoritarian 2010s

Jocelyn Yi-Hsuan LAI

Carnivalesque communities: Thai TV dramas and the Chinese censorship

 Amporn JIRATTIKORN

The “rational” fan? negotiating transnational cosmopolitanism and nationalism among Hong Kong BTS fans

Lisa LEUNG Yuk-ming

Fantastical infrastructural imagining: The Meg and The Wandering Earth as global science fiction cinema in the age of China’s rise

Keith B. WAGNER

The new “Great Game”? decolonizing wargames in the era of China’s rise

Leo T.S. CHING

Visual essay

Sheep herding in Shanghai, 2022

JI Shi

Essays

The politics of dark tourism in Sri Lanka

Debopriya SHOME

Relay translation and South-South imaginary: the case of Muhammad Iqbal in China

Gal GVILI and Sumaira NAWAZ

The ideological roots of Mongolia’s democratic revolution: Nergui’s theory of “latent colonialism” and its interpretations

Zul ZUGEERBAI

Globalizing Thai amulets: the Chinese-Singaporean role in commoditizing objects of faith

Nattakarn NAEPIMAI and Somrak CHAISINGKANANONT