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Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age <\/em>represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalised and digitalised Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity practices, cultures, politics, fandom, and economies.<\/p>\n\nHighlighting original case studies from prominent Asian societies, including India, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan, this book sheds much-needed light on the de-Westernisation and internationalisation of celebrity studies and is essential reading for scholars and students in celebrity, fandom, digital media and communication, and cultural studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Editor: Jian Xu, Glen Donnar, and Divya Garg Source: Hong Kong University Press Link: https:\/\/hkupress.hku.hk\/Asian_Celebrity_Cultures<\/a> Abstract Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalised and digitalised Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145170531,"featured_media":6530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[776957933],"tags":[776958266,776958268,776958269,776958076],"class_list":["post-7784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--en","tag-celebrity-studies","tag-digital-media","tag-media-studies","tag-newsroom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/publication.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pai6UY-21y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7482,"url":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2025\/12\/24\/article-hong-kong-starchitecture-and-action-sci-fi-cinema\/","url_meta":{"origin":7784,"position":0},"title":"[Article] Hong Kong Starchitecture and Action-Sci-Fi Cinema","author":"\u624b\u6c11\u51fa\u7248\u793e","date":"24\/12\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Lorrie Palmer Source: Cinematic Starchitecture Link: https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/chapters\/edit\/10.4324\/9781003458111-14\/hong-kong-starchitecture-action-sci-fi-cinema-lorrie-palmer Abstract This chapter proposes that the spectacle of the Hong Kong battle sequences in Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, 2013), Transformers: Age of Extinction (Michael Bay, 2014), and Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard, 2021) reveals, through the growth of a discursive space\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Hong Kong Studies Newsroom"","block_context":{"text":"Hong Kong Studies Newsroom","link":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/category\/%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e5%ad%b8%e8%a1%93%e6%83%85%e5%a0%b1%e5%ae%a4-en\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7778,"url":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2026\/03\/16\/article-kim-eui-sung-in-hong-kongs-anti-elab-movement-transnational-celebrity-activism-and-south-korean-soft-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":7784,"position":1},"title":"[Article] Kim Eui-sung in Hong Kong\u2019s Anti-ELAB Movement: Transnational Celebrity Activism and South Korean Soft Power","author":"\u624b\u6c11\u51fa\u7248\u793e","date":"16\/03\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Elaine Chung Source: From Koreanness to K-ness: Contemporary Korean Culture and Society Link: https:\/\/orca.cardiff.ac.uk\/id\/eprint\/181845\/ Abstract The Anti-Extradition Bill movement in Hong Kong garnered worldwide attention in 2019-2020. 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