Popular Culture Co-production and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia

CONTRIBUTORS

Contributors 233 233 CONTRIBUTORS Eyal Ben-Ari is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has carried out research in Japan, Israel and Singapore on white collar communities, early childhood education, business expatriates, the Israeli and Japanese militaries and peace-keeping forces. His previous publications include Body Projects in Japanese Childcare (1997), Mastering Soldiers (1998) and Rethinking the Sociology of Combat: Israel’s Combat Units in the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2010) (with Zev Lehrer, Uzi Ben-Shalom and Ariel Vainer). Among recent edited books are The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society (2000) (with Edna Lomsky-Feder), War, Politics and Society in Israel (2001) (with Daniel Maman and Zeev Rosenhek), Echoes of Partition (2006) (with Smita Jassal) and The Transformation of the World of Warfare and Peace Support Operations (2009) (with Kobi Michael and David Kellen). He is currently carrying out research on the impact of international law on the activities of the Israeli military, the normalization of Japan’s armed forces, and the preparation of kindergarten children for school in Japan. Rob Efird is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Seattle University. He has published on Japan’s “war orphans” in the Journal of Japanese Studies and Anthropological Quarterly. His current research focuses on environmental learning in China’s Yunnan Province. Caroline S. Hau is an Associate Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. Her most recent book is Traveling Nation-Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia, co-edited with Kasian Tejapira. Kelly Hu is currently an associate professor at the Graduate Institute of Mass Communication, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Her recent publications include “Made in China: the cultural logic of 234 Contributors OEMs and the manufacture of low-cost technology,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 9, 1 (2008), and the Chinese version of “Chinese subtitle groups and the neoliberal work ethic,” Journal of Mass Communication Research 101 (2009). Her latest research topic is “Chinese video websites as platforms of globalization: Online grassroots networks, market competition and state intervention.” Abidin Kusno is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Asian Research at University of British Columbia where he holds Canada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture. He is the author of Behind the Post Colonial: Architecture, Urban Form and Political Cultures in Indonesia (Routledge, 2000) and The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010). Lisa Y.M. Leung is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies in Lingnan University. Her main research interests are television and journalism studies, gender and communication, and media globalization . Her journal articles focus on the flow of media and cultural products across Asia, including audience studies of Japanese and Korean trendy television dramas in Hong Kong, in which she employs both gender and cross-cultural approaches. Her recent research includes online (news) media and social movement. Recent publications include “Mediated violence as ‘global news’: co-opted ‘performance’ in the framing of the WTO,” in Media, Culture and Society. Her upcoming book discusses the politics of multiculturalism in Hong Kong. Yoshiko Nakano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Hong Kong where she teaches intercultural communication and media. She received her PhD from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and previously worked as a documentary researcher for a Japanese television network. She moved to Hong Kong in 1997, and co-edited the volume of essays Reporting Hong Kong: Foreign Media and the Handover (Curzon: St. Martin’s, 1999). In 2000, using the rice cooker as an example, she began looking into the globalization of “Made in Japan” products and Hong Kong’s role in the transnational process. The resulting book, Where There Are Asians, There Are Rice Cookers: How “National” Went Global via Hong Kong (Hong Kong University Press, 2009), recounts the rice cooker’s odyssey from Japan to Contributors 235 Hong Kong and beyond. She was an Abe Fellow in 2000–1, and an Asia Leadership Fellow in 2003. Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin is a Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies and a Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His PhD dissertation (Kyoto University, 2007), which deals with the political economy of Japan’s popular culture...