Janus-Faced Hana Yori Dango : Transnational Adaptations in East Asia and the Globalization Thesis
Lingnan University Digital Commons @ Lingnan University Staff Publications Lingnan Staff Publication 3-2014 Janus-faced Hana yori dango : Transnational Adaptations in East Asia and the Globalization Thesis Tak Hung, Leo CHAN Lingnan University, Hong Kong Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master Part of the Translation Studies Commons Recommended Citation Chan T.H.L (2014). Janus-faced Hana yori dango: Transnational Adaptations in East Asia and the Globalization Thesis. Asian Cultural Studies, 40, 61-77. This Journal article is brought to you for free and open access by the Lingnan Staff Publication at Digital Commons @ Lingnan University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Staff Publications by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Lingnan University. Janus-faced Hana yori dango: Transnational Adaptations in East Asia and the Globalization Thesis Leo Tak-hung Chan Theories of regional formation need to be rigorously examined in relation to East Asian popular culture that has been in circulation under the successive “waves” of Japanese and Korean TV dramas from the 1990s onward. Most overviews of the phenomenon have concentrated on the impact on the region of Japanese, then Kore- an, TV products as they spread southward to the three Chinese communities of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. In the voluminous studies devoted to the subject, most conspicuously represented by those of Iwabuchi Koichi, two outstand- ing points of emphasis are noteworthy.1) First, the majority of evidence is drawn from the so-called “trendy” love dramas, like Tokyo Love Story (1991), Long Vacation (1996), Love Generation (1996) and Beautiful Life (2000) from Japan as well as Autumn Tale (2000) and Winter Sonata (2002) from Korea.2) Many of them were so successful that they altered TV drama production in the receptor communities.
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