Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
This book explores how Manhattan’s Koreatown transformed into a “transclave”—a commercialized ethnic hub driven by South Korea’s global nation-branding strategy and the diverse cultural mosaic of New York City.
This talk uses inter-Asian television love dramas to illustrate the issues pertinent to the discussions on the concept of “East Asian pop culture” as a sphere of production, circulation, and consumption. In particular, this talk uses Taiwan as a case study to unpack the tensions between the local and the regional, with women caught in … Read more