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The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young
female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge
oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen
almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has
become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose
fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan
works. BL’s male–male romantic and sexual relationships have
found a particularly receptive home in other parts of Asia, where
strong local fan communities and locally produced BL works have
garnered a following throughout the region, taking on new meanings
and engendering widespread cultural effects. Queer Transfigurations
is the first detailed examination of the BL media explosion across
Asia. The book brings together twenty-one scholars exploring BL
media, its fans, and its sociocultural impacts in a dozen countries
in East, Southeast, and South Asia—and beyond. Contributors draw
on their expertise in an array of disciplines and fields, including
anthropology, fan studies, gender and sexuality studies, history,
literature, media studies, political science, and sociology to shed
light on BL media and its fandoms. Queer Transfigurations reveals
the far-reaching influences of the BL genre, demonstrating that it
is truly transnational and transcultural in diverse cultural
contexts. It has also helped bring about positive changes in the
status of LGBT(Q) people and communities as well as enlighten local
understandings of gender and sexuality throughout Asia. In short,
Queer Transfigurations shows that, some fifty years after the first
BL manga appeared in print, the genre is continuing to reverberate
and transform lives.
The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young
female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge
oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen
almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has
become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose
fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan
works. BL's male-male romantic and sexual relationships have found
a particularly receptive home in other parts of Asia, where strong
local fan communities and locally produced BL works have garnered a
following throughout the region, taking on new meanings and
engendering widespread cultural effects. Queer Transfigurations is
the first detailed examination of the BL media explosion across
Asia. The book brings together twenty-one scholars exploring BL
media, its fans, and its sociocultural impacts in a dozen countries
in East, Southeast, and South Asia--and beyond. Contributors draw
on their expertise in an array of disciplines and fields, including
anthropology, fan studies, gender and sexuality studies, history,
literature, media studies, political science, and sociology to shed
light on BL media and its fandoms. Queer Transfigurations reveals
the far-reaching influences of the BL genre, demonstrating that it
is truly transnational and transcultural in diverse cultural
contexts. It has also helped bring about positive changes in the
status of LGBT(Q) people and communities as well as enlighten local
understandings of gender and sexuality throughout Asia. In short,
Queer Transfigurations shows that, some fifty years after the first
BL manga appeared in print, the genre is continuing to reverberate
and transform lives.
The four countries represented in this volume are East Asian middle
powers with strategic constraints upon their traditional security
policymaking. These middle powers have pursued diplomatic
activities raising their international profile or footprint, and
advancing their national interest, through normative foreign policy
and humanitarian channels, including peacebuilding, development,
and human security. In each case, therefore, there is a happy
coincidence of the national interest of the middle power expressed
though certain diplomatic "niches," and benefit to regional
partners in peace and development. The Niche Diplomacy of Asian
Middle Powers seeks to uncover the unique contributions of Asian
middle powers to the furtherance of humanitarian and human-related
policymaking, including the promotion of peace, development and
democracy long associated with middle-powerism, with particular
emphasis on their involvement in the Southeast Asian subregion.
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have made Southeast Asia a focus for
their attempts to get more "bang for their foreign policy buck" (or
Yen or Won) and have adopted similar normatively justified
variations on the theme of "new Southern policies." Meanwhile,
Thailand looks to play a variety of middle power roles within a
region where it is a major actor.
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