... get appropriated and transformed by the producers into profit, even the sub-fan organizations cannot ultimately escape this fate. audience community consumers fans global individual Internet the transnational advertising China cultural distribution East Asian Pop Culture label labeling...

... in Chinese Internet culture, this chapter re-examines particular effects of netizens’ carnival practices, as well as the complex interactions and contradictions among cyberculture, the official culture, and consumerism in China, by centering on a specific case of “Looking for Leehom” (zhao Lihong...

...Chapter 6 positions the discussion of the deployment of the ‘Japan’ versus the ‘West’ binary within the context of Japan's queer culture in the age of Internet communication. This chapter focuses on a Japanese gay Internet news portal, Gay Japan News in the year 2006. By examining...

... Australian humour buttocks inversion festivals Martin Rod Humour studies Comparative humour China Japan Modernity Civilization Taste-cultures Political humour Cartoons Internet Recognizing humour is easy enough (with the help of appropriate cultural knowledge) but, as many scholars have found...

...The chapter explores the political and aesthetic significance of e’gao and the degree to which it “presumes emancipation”, along with the impact of Chinese internet controls. A defining feature of e’gao is their appeal to a “community of sentiment”. E’gao clips on the internet are produced...

... identity social comment Deng Xiaoping propaganda Need for Humor Scale NFH Schwartz Value Survey SVS stylization of humour Martin Rod sense of humour Hofstede Geert Comparative humour Advertising Internet Spoofing shanzhai Youth culture Chinese economy China Humour Surfing the net in 2006...

... political humour creation. Mao Zedong political humour humour jokes internet humour language Lunar New Year Spring Festival puns shunkouliu doggerel jingles verbal humour buttocks censorship Chinese Communist Party CCP propaganda ridicule and derision targets of humour laughter Bergson...

...This volume covers modern and contemporary forms of humour in China's public and private spheres, including comic films and novels, cartooning, pop songs, internet jokes, and advertising and educational humour. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes on humour in Chinese life and letters...

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... Stuart Koe Tan Chong Kee civil rights Chinese masculinity internet technology Stuart Koe had posted his online manifesto in September 1997. “No matter how loud the few shout,” S2 had argued, “the greatest revolution is within.” ¹ A year later, his service in Singapore's army finished...

...Trent Bax seeks to contextualize and interpret how alleged internet addicts in boot-camps are treated in China. Bax asks how an unqualified and uncertified psychiatrist, working under the protective umbrella of a government-run hospital, could misuse electroshock therapy on 3,000 adolescents...

...This chapter considers the new phenomenon of “Internet celebrity” in the People's Republic of China (PRC), taking the unprecedented rise of female celebrity blogger “Furong Jiejie”, also known as “Sister Hibiscus” or “Sister Lotus”, as a case study. It first provides a synopsis of Furong Jiejie's...

... Indian men in Singapore’ perspective allows the writer to shed light upon both sexual and national identity in Singapore. He also investigates the role of internet as an alternative public sphere for the ‘minorities’. gay Indian Singaporeans Internet transnational Chinese Singaporeans China...

... movement with an entrepreneurial underpinning. Fridae Nation Party pink social enterprise Yue Audrey China creative industries gay illiberal pragmatics LGBT media neoliberalism neoliberal pragmatism Thailand Au Alex HIV AIDS human rights Internet masculinity values activism censorship...

...This chapter examines the way in which telecommunications and related services are regulated, and the new challenges created by developments such as broadband and the increased use of Internet-based technologies. It focuses on fixed, and especially wireline, technologies, as mobile services tend...

...” (shuang) that is quite at peace with the fact it has no pretensions of ever coming true. desire family pleasure popular internet fiction Top Quality House Servant Jipin jiading Chinese Dream dreams happiness media propaganda slogan Xi Jinping CCTV China Central Television happy...

...This book examines the roles of the market and the media, notably cinema and the Internet, in the recent transformations of Bangkok's queer communities. It considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual...

... of Internet and online users on learning support and government guidance. It discusses the main problems of the existing e-learning system that are now being addressed and explains that the term e-learning in China is very closely associated with the Chinese government's concept of modern distance education...

...This chapter investigates how multinational as well as local corporations in China creatively deploy linguistic and visual resources from both the global/Western and the local/Eastern in creating Chinese advertisements for promoting their products on the web. The Internet has become a dynamic force...

...This chapter explores some of the identity formations emerging through online interaction among second generation Chinese migrants. The discussion draws on a survey of Internet use among Chinese young people in Britain conducted through two of the best-known British Chinese websites in late 2006...