Media and Creative Industries in East Asia

This volume of scholarly essays is a valuable look into current and emerging landscapes of media and creative industries. With 13 chapters structured into three parts, the areas covered range from Chinese film distribution, webnovels, game design and marketing, Japanese anime, Korean Wave, Hong Kong video diffusion, Taiwan podcasts, and East Asian film and television vis a vis Netflix. A major theme is resilience in a post-pandemic, changing phase curbed by financial constraints, government regulation, internet disruptions and creative impulse under these stressful conditions. Human ingenuity breaks through in a time of machine generated outputs in creative sectors, from music, movies, art, and literary composition.