HYESU PARK is an assistant professor of English at Bellevue College in Bellevue, Washington. Her articles have appeared in Image and Narrative, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, and American Book Review.

• Introduction Hyesu Park and Maya DoddPart I: Transnational ApproachChapter 1: Converging on Love and Indifference: Mediated Otherness in South and EastAsia Rea AmitChapter 2: The Child Bride: Unpacking the Popularity of the Indian Television Show Balika Vadhu in VietnamShubhda Arora and Juhi JotwaniChapter 3: Star Construction in the Era of Media Convergence: Pro-Am Online Videos, Co-creative Culture, and Transnational Chinese Icons on YouTubeDorothy Wai Sim LauChapter 4: Screen to Screen: Adaptation and Transnational Circulation of Chinese (Web) Novels for Television W. Michelle WangChapter 5: Rhetorical Liminality in Southeast Asian Media Representations of Human TraffickingJohn GagnonChapter 6: Addressing Transnational Legacies of Colonialism in East Asia: Cases from Contemporary Japanese ArtHiroki YamamotoPart II: Single-nation ApproachChapter 7: Media, Narrative, and Culture: Narrativizing and Contextualizing Korean Mukbang ShowsHyesu ParkChapter 8: Construction, Consumption, and Representation of White Supremacy in Sri Lankan Advertisements: Living White While Being Non-WhiteAsantha U. AttanayakeChapter 9: A Liminal Bengali Identity: Film Culture in BangladeshSabiha HuqChapter 10: Screening Southeast Asia: Film, Politics, and the Emergence of the Nation in Post-War Southeast AsiaDarlene Machell de Leon EspenaChapter 11: Afghan Media and Culture in TransitionAlireza DehghanChapter 12: A Semiotic Analysis of Symbolic Actions of Iranian Instagram UsersHamid Abdollahyan and Hoornaz KeshavarziaAcknowledgmentsBibliography      Notes on ContributorsIndex

“Media Culture in Transnational Asia is one of the most informative books on Asian cultural studies, examining the dynamics of the local and global forces in the trans-Asian mediascape from a local or Asian point of view. With its focus on the production and circulation of media products, old and new, both within and across national borders, this edition rewards its readership with a rich, productive dialogue among different nations, regions, and perspectives that sounds the possibilities of a rising new pan-Asian community.” - Suk Koo Rhee (professor at Yonsei University) "Global and glocal, pan-Asian or trans-Asian, from radio to mukbang, this pithy volume presents a provocative collection of scholarship that interrogates transnational media culture in Asia-a region that is steeped in tradition yet burgeoning in exciting new ways. Media Culture in Transnational Asia is a timely and valuable contribution to media studies and Asian studies."- Sun Sun Lim (professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design) Latinx Pop Lab podcast interview with HyeSu Parkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1y_8qPcvA0feature=youtu.be (Latinx Pop Lab podcast)