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Acknowledgments

Asia and Global Popular Culture: The View from He Yong's Garbage Dump / Richard King and Timothy J. Craig

Part 1: Global versus Local -- Hybridity and Appropriation in Asian Popular Culture

1. Hulk Hogan in the Rainforest / Peter Metcalf

2. Hybridity and Disjuncture in Mainland Chinese Popular Music / Mercedes M. Dujunco

3. Under Attack: Mass Media Technology and Indigenous Musical Practices in the Philippines / Michiyo Yoneno Reyes

4. Rocking East and West: The USA in Malaysian Music (An American Remix) / Eric C. Thompson

5. Exploding Ballads: The Transformation of Korean Pop Music / Keith Howard

Part 2: Political, Ideological, and Spiritual Tensions in Asian Popular Culture

6. The Poetics and Politics of Sister Drum: "Tibetan" Music in the Global Marketplace / Janet L. Upton

7. Television Drama in China: Engineering Souls for the Market / Michael Keane

8. Moral Advertising in Malaysian TV Commercials / Todd Joseph, Miles Holden and Azrina Husin

9. "You May Not Believe, But Never Offend the Spirits": Spirit-Medium Cults and Popular Media in Modern Thailand / Pattana Kitiarsa

10. Revisioning Japanese Religiosity: Osamu Tezuka's Hi no tori (The Phoenix) / Mark MacWilliams

Part 3: The Creation, Assertion, and Representation of Identity in Asian Popular Culture

11. Images of Asians in the Art of the Great Pacific War, 1937-45 / Nancy Brcak and John Pavia

12. To Fight