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Complicated Currents: Media Flows and Soft Power in East AsiaEdited by Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita East Asia is a powerhouse of economic and social development, with cultural industries that have burgeoned as countries in the region have generated consumer economies and a middle class. Despite ongoing security tensions, growing evidence suggests that a vigorous cultural trade in such commodities as comics, cinema and TV drama is creating a shared regional popular culture. The widespread diffusion of the Internet, and the concomitant rise of non-professional online publishing and social networking, is creating new communities among the consumers of these cultural commodities. Rivalry for leadership in the sphere of the culture industries provides a fertile field for the study of soft market power versus hard political power. The competing national discourses of the 'Korean Wave' (hallyu) and Japan's 'Gross National Cool' indicate a struggle for new forms of influence in the East Asian region, a struggle that is becoming more intense as China, too, starts to exert soft power influence on a global scale in the form of cultural industries and foreign aid. The volume addresses transnational production and consumption of media products such as cinema, television dramas, popular music, comics and animation in Japan, South Korea and China. Its multidisciplinary approaches include cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, and a content analysis of popular discourses of otherness in the East Asian context. While suggesting the emergence of a shared East Asian popular consumer culture, it critically examines the proposition that such a shared popular culture can resolve tensions between nation-states, and highlights the the appropriation of popular culture by nation-states in an attempt to exercise soft power. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in Asian studies, cultural studies and media studies, and will be particularly useful to researchers in the emerging area of Inter-Asian cultural studies. Publication: November 2009 ISBN (paperback): 978-0-9804648-8-7 About the editorsDaniel Black is a lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University. His area of expertise is Japanese popular culture. His work has appeared in journals such as Continuum, Journal of Popular Culture, and Metro. Stephen Epstein is Director of the Asian Studies Institute and the Asian Studies Program at the University of Wellington. His research interests are contemporary Korean popular culture and literature, as well as translation of Korean and Indonesian fiction. He co-translated (with Kim Mi Young), and wrote a critical introduction to, Contradictions, by Yang Gui-ja (Cornell East Asia Series: 2000), and has published widely in books and journals, including in the edited collection Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave and the Journal of Korean Cultural Studies. Alison Tokita is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University and has been Director of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University. She has published widely in Japanese studies, including as editor-in-chief of six refereed volumes of papers under the general title Japanese Studies: Communities, Cultures, Critiques. Her areas of expertise include Japanese performing arts, international marriage, Japanese popular culture, and Japanese diaspora. Her co-edited The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music has just been released from Ashgate. Contributors
New journal issuesAustralian Review of Applied LinguisticsVolume 31, Number 3 This issue is now live. Volume 32, Number 2 This issue of ARAL once again showcases the breadth of research done in Applied Linguistics in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Masanori Matsumoto investigates the factors that lead tertiary students to persist in their study of Japanese, and finds differences in motivational patterns between students of East Asian and Western background. Research in this area has important implications as it goes to the heart of the debate on 'Asia literacy' in Australia. In a sociolinguistically oriented study, Su-Hie Ting and Mahanita Mahadir look at the use of ethnic vs. standard languages in families of different ethnic backgrounds in Malaysia, and show a shift away from the ethnic languages to English, Bahasa Malaysia, and Mandarin Chinese. This shift, however, is more pronounced for some ethnic backgrounds than others. Staying with the topic of multilingualism, but in a different domain, Daphne Huang describes the use of Mandarin, Taiwanese, and English in asynchronous computer-mediated communication within a social network in Taiwan. She focuses specifically on code-switching between languages and writing systems, and finds a complex relationship between different languages and writing system. Finally, David Caldwell analyzes post-match interviews between football players and journalists from a systemic-functional perspective, and describes a neutral stance on both sides. He explains the footballers' lack of evaluation in terms of audience perceptions and the cultural norms inherent in Australian team sports and the wider cultural context. The issue is rounded off with five book reviews, covering a range of recent publications in the field. I would like to express my gratitude to our reviewers, who volunteer their time and expertise to ensure the quality of our papers. As always, we welcome submissions on any aspect of Applied Linguistics, and particularly encourage empirical studies. Manuscripts should be submitted through our web-based system at http://ojs.lib.monash.edu.au/ojs/index.php/aral/index and follow APA style guidelines. The final issue of 2009 will be guest edited by Ute Knoch and John Read and feature papers from the rapidly growing area of aviation English and its assessment.
The Bible and Critical TheoryVolume 6, Number 1 Details of the forthcoming issue will be announce here soon.
History AustraliaVolume 6, Number 3 The main articles in this issue are masterfully written by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart on conflict in western Van Diemen's Land, by Rebecca Wood on the Myall Creek trials in New South Wales, by Robert Foster on the silent frontier of South Australia, and by Jessie Mitchell on Queensland's separation anxieties. The other articles in this issue turn attention from violence at the colonial margins to parades of power at the centre. Anthony Page explores the impact of Lachlan Macquarie's experiences as a traveller through Persia and Russia on his later practices and policies as governor of New South Wales. Simon Sleight examines the politics of performance in parades and celebrations in late nineteenth-century Melbourne, in which young people were increasingly privileged. Andrew Moore extends his ground-breaking work on the Old Guard to respond vigorously to Richard Evans' critique published in History Australia (5.3, December 2008), not only adding to our knowledge of the organisation but also probing the methodology and motivation behind contemporary historical debate. Adele Nye reports on some significant findings emerging from a survey of history students and their teachers across Australia on the meanings of 'historical thinking'. Tom Griffiths reflects on the legacy of Greg Dening and his plea for 'creative imagination' in history in what was the inaugural Greg Denning Annual Lecture in 2008.
Monash Bioethics ReviewVolume 28, Number 3, 2009 Details of this forthcoming issue will be available here soon.
Telecommunications Journal of AustraliaVolume 59 Number 3 TJA's November issue (Volume 59 number 3)This issue is now live. TSA members can access all articles in this and other online issues of TJA free by providing their ACS-TSA membership number and password on the ACS-TSA web site. Peter Gerrand, Editor-in-Chief, TJA
Applied GISFrom 2007 (Volume 3), Applied GIS is being published independently as an open access journal by its editors, Jim Peterson and Ray Wyatt. For all articles in volume 3 and onward, please see the new Applied GIS website.
Monash Business ReviewAs of the end of 2008, Monash University ePress ceased publication of Monash Business Review (MBR). The impetus for this decision was that MBR would be published as an open access journal directly by the Faculty of Business and Economics through their Industry Engagement Portal. However the Executive Editorial Team have since decided to discontinue publication of the journal entirely. Queries about the journal should be directed to the Faculty of Business and Economics. The full length versions of articles published in 2008 can be found at http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/research/mbr/2008//index.html.
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