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ABSTRACT ¡°East Asian Modernities and Local Media and Cultural Studies¡± The paper examined how East Asian media and cultural studies have approached the uneven and yet intricately connected historical formation of multiple modernities at cultural, socio-economic and political levels. The paper explored how East Asian media and cultural studies have framed their methodological and theoretical concerns in the context of rapid state-led socio-political transformation, de-traditionalization, and globalization. The first section looked back over the trajectories of the formative process of East Asian Media and Cultural Studies. In it the study inspected how East Asian MCS identify the formation of East Asian modernities in terms of the formation of cultural identities mediated by the media industries in the era of globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With a focus on East Asian modernity, this paper tends to challenge the western-centric understanding of modernity by including a discussion of Asian cultural perspectives by study coffee consumption in East Asia. this is an study to understand how a society adopts foreign goods. Does Starbucks tell the story of Macdonaldization we have now, or how different they are? By historical documents, in-depth interview and business statitsics, this paper analyzes the history of coffee consumption and it sociological meaning for local societies. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study approaches East Asian colonialism with the psychoanalytic concept of 'melancholia'. Through exploring the cases of two famous comic series, one South Korean and the other Japanese - Nambul and Zipang, this paper delves into the triadic structure of East Asian colonialism which has affected memory, interpretation and representation of modern history in East Asian societies. Both works in this study are alike in the respect of dealing with imaginary war stories, (re)constructing alternative history, and presenting nationalist revision of historical experiences. Moreover, their view of pre-existing history involves melancholia, which Freud regarded as pathological sentiment and attitude to the loss. Their melancholic despair and the revision of history in both Nambul and Zipang lead us to pay attention to the triadic structure of non-Western colonialism in East Asia. It is a crucial key of understanding how colonial history is remembered and represented. It affects modernity in East Asian societies in these days as well as in colonial times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]