Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia: Amnesia, Nostalgia and Heritage (Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches)

Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region. It looks at case studies including: the politics of cinematic remembering of Hong Kong films on Southeast Asia, the digital and holographic enshrinement of departed celebrities like Wong Kar Kui, Bruce Lee and Teresa Teng and the dredging of personal memories of the encounters with the Korean Wave in Singapore. In addition, it explores how cultural memories are used as focal points of staging cultural revival and movements in Singapore and Taiwan. Contrary to the assumptions of the importance of newness in modern popular culture productions, the continued relevance of this otherwise dated material reflects the significance of these texts in the development and strengthening of collective cultural memories. The discussion of such issues has often been grounded geo-spatially on the “national” and contemporary contexts, this volume will develop a more temporalized and transnational perspective in the shaping of otherwise local cultural identifications. Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Transnational Memories under the Vast Sky Chapter 2 The Eye and Screen Hauntologies from Hong Kong to Thailand Chapter 3 Medical Dramas and East Asian Televisual Memories Chapter 4 Rewinding and Enshrining Teresa Teng on YouTube Chapter 5 Holographic Immortalization of Transnational Chinese Celebrities1 Chapter 6 Recent Memories Reminiscing the Korean Wave in Singapore Chapter 7 Resistant Memories The Hoklo/Hokkien Neo-Folks Chapter 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author "Explores the memories generated and histories constructed by the transnational circulation of popular media texts amongst East Asia and between East and Southeast Asia. It looks at the impact of nostalgia and heritage within popular culture over the decades"-- Provided by publisher