Bøger af Dorothy Lau

Recent years have witnessed the increasing visibility of Asian celebrities in activism, advocacy, diplomacy, philanthropy, and ambassadorship but this phenomenon is under-explored. This volume provides a critical intervention in celebrity activism and philanthropy by examining the civic imaginaries and mobilisations of Asian celebrities-turned-activists or philanthropists, alongside an array of significations and tensions involved. The analysis anchors on a roster of high-profile Asian icons including Bollywood star Aamir Khan, K-pop sensation BTS, Cantopop singer Denise Ho, and Chinese live-streamer Weiya, who exhibit universal morals while underscoring local or regional affiliations as propelled by expansive media networks. Adopting cosmopolitics as the methodological frame, this volume suggests "muliversal consciousness," a staple to code the star-powered goodwill in times of disjuncture and rupture. To its critical ends, this book attempts to disrupt the Eurocentric tendency in the discursive construction of celebrity-cause dynamics, disentangling the complexities of Asian power, global citizenship, and techno-capitalist logics.

In This Issue Special Issue Editors: Kenneth Paul Tan & Dorothy Lau Letter from the Editor - YING ZHU Cold War and New Cold War Narratives: Special Issue Editor's Introduction - KENNETH PAUL TAN Research Articles Notes on Cold War Historiography - LOUIS MENAND Tales from the Hot Cold War - MARTHA BAYLES Bomb Archive: The Marshall Islands as Cold War Film Set - ILONA JURKONYTE Das unsichtbare Visier-A 1970s Cold War Intelligence TV Series as a Fantasy of International and Intranational Empowerment; or, How East Germany Saved the World and West Germans Too - TARIK CYRIL AMAR To Whom Have We Been Talking? Naeem Mohaiemen's Fabulation of a People-to-Come - NOIT BANAI The Man without a Country: British Imperial Nostalgia in Ferry to Hong Kong (1959) - KENNY K. K. NG Imagining Cooperation: Cold War Aesthetics for a Hot Planet - MARINA KANETI Book Reviews Through Space and Time - Review of The Odyssey of Communism: Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture edited by Michaela Praisler and Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021 - ISABEL GALWEY Review of Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market by Ying Zhu, New Press, 2022 - YONGLI LI The Cautionary Tale of Painting War Remembrance in China as a New Nationalism - Review of China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter, Belknap Press, 2020 - FUWEI ZUO Tracking American Political Currents - Review of White Identity Politics by Ashley Jardina, Cambridge University Press, 2019, and Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class by Reece Peck, Cambridge University Press, 2019 - DAVID GURNEY