Routledge Handbook of Asian Diaspora, Media, and Popular Culture

"This up-to-date handbook presents a wide array of topics and methodologies on media and popular culture in the vast, diverse Asian diaspora. Extending discussions on the relationships between homeland and hostland, periphery and center, and more, the volume makes a timely contribution to the field.

-- Zhen Zhang, Professor & Director, Asian Film & Media Initiative,New York University, USA

"The picture of the Asian diaspora emerging from this book is breathtaking in its complexity and scope. Approaching the Asian diaspora as a constellation of mobile bodies, cultural practices, and transnational imagination, the chapters in the volume are bound to greatly enrich the field of diaspora studies."

-- Wanning Sun,Professor of Media and Communication Studies, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

"This impressive and expansive volume presents a remarkable collection of worthy essays, illustrating the richness and heterogeneity of Asian diaspora cultures, the variety of engaging topics and issues they present, and the diverse contemporary analytical approaches that can aid in understanding them.

-- Peter Manuel, Professor Emeritus, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA

"A timely and intellectually electrifying handbook shines with a remarkable diversity of paradigms, discourses, diasporic geographies, and scholarly voices. Brilliant in scope and insight, it is an indispensable guide to the modern Asian diaspora, media, and popular culture.

-- German Kim, Professor & Director, Institute of Asian Studies, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan