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East Asian Transwar Popular Culture

Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers a unique new trans-war axis perspective on Taiwan and Korea's popular culture

  • Re-examines trans-colonial East Asian cultural and literary flows, beyond the conventional colonizer/colonized dichotomy and ideological antagonism.

  • Considers popular culture in East Asia through the lens of gender, genre, state regulation, and the analysis of spectatorship

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction

    • Pei-yin Lin, Su Yun Kim
    Pages 1-20
  3. Cinematic Nationalism and Melodrama in the Colonial and Postwar Eras

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-146
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 267-304

About this book

This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean popular culture by focusing on the representation of gender, genre, state regulation, and spectatorship. Calling for the “de-colonializing” and “de–Cold Warring” of the two ex-colonies and anticommunist allies, the book places Taiwan and Korea side by side in a “trans-war” frame. Considering Taiwan–Korea relations along a new trans-war axis, the book focuses on the continuities between the late colonial period’s Asia-Pacific War and the consequent Korean War and the ongoing conflict between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, facilitated by Cold War power struggles. The collection also invites a meaningful transcolonial reconsideration of East Asian cultural and literary flows, beyond the conventional colonizer/colonized dichotomy and ideological antagonism.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

    Pei-yin Lin, Su Yun Kim

About the editors


Pei-yin Lin is Associate Professor at the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong, and received her Ph.D. in Languages and Cultures of East Asia from SOAS, University of London. She previously taught at the National University of Singapore and England (Cambridge and SOAS), and was a visiting scholar at Harvard Yenching Institute (2015-16). Among her major publications are her monograph Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature (2017), and two edited volumes—Print, Profit, and Perception: Ideas, Information and Knowledge in Chinese Societies, 1895-1949 (2014) and Border-crossing and In-betweenness (2016).

Su Yun Kim is Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in Literature at the University of California, San Diego and specializes in modern Korean literature and culture. Her interests include imperialism and colonialism in East Asia; gender and sexuality; colonialism and race; and popular narratives. She is currently completing her first monograph on fictions of romance and marriage between Koreans and Japanese in colonial Korea. Her second project examines the production of popular fiction on romance and the family in twentieth-century Korea.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: East Asian Transwar Popular Culture

  • Book Subtitle: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea

  • Editors: Pei-yin Lin, Su Yun Kim

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3200-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3199-2Published: 01 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3200-5Published: 19 February 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 304

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Asian Culture, Film History, Asian History

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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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