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Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Global Goes Local -- Asia and Global Popular Culture: The View from He Yong's Garbage Dump -- Part 1: Global versus Local - Hybridity and Appropriation in Asian Popular Culture -- 1 Hulk Hogan in the Rainforest -- 2 Hybridity and Disjuncture in Mainland Chinese Popular Music -- 3 Under Attack: Mass Media Technology and Indigenous Musical Practices in the Philippines -- 4 Rocking East and West: The USA in Malaysian Music (An American Remix) -- 5 Exploding Ballads: The Transformation of Korean Pop Music -- Part 2: Political, Ideological, and Spiritual Tensions in Asian Popular Culture -- 6 The Politics and Poetics of Sister Drum: "Tibetan" Music in the Global Marketplace -- 7 Television Drama in China: Engineering Souls for the Market -- 8 Moral Advertising in Malaysian TV Commercials -- 9 "You May Not Believe, But Never Offend the Spirits": Spirit- Medium Cults and Popular Media in Modern Thailand -- 10 Revisioning Japanese Religiosity: Osamu Tezuka's Hi no tori (The Phoenix) -- Part 3: The Creation, Assertion, and Representation of Identity in Asian Popular Culture -- 11 Images of Asians in the Art of the Great Pacific War, 1937-45 -- 12 To Fight the Losing War, to Remember the Lost War: The Changing Role of Gunka, Japanese War Songs -- 13 The Incantation of Shanghai: Singing a City into Existence -- 14 Cassettes, Bazaars, and Saving the Nation: The Uyghur Music Industry in Xinjiang, China -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Contributors -- Index.

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