Re-imagining a cosmopolitan 'asian us': Korean media flows and imaginaries of asian modern femininities

East Asian Pop Culture: Analysing the Korean Wave

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 91-125

  Lin, Angel ^a   Tong, Avin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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