Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2025 - Digital Narratives in Transnational Circulation: Power, Vulnerability, and Creative Possibility

Special Issue Editors: Jun Lei and Shaohua Guo

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Editor's Note

Introduction to the Special Issue - Digital Narratives in Transnational Circulation: Power, Vulnerability, and Creative Possibility
Introduction to the Special Issue - Digital Narratives in Transnational Circulation: Power, Vulnerability, and Creative Possibility

Jun LEI and Shaohua GUO

2025-12-13 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2025 - Digital Narratives in Transnational Circulation: Power, Vulnerability, and Creative Possibility

Research Articles

Tielian in Mixed Realism: Real Person Fan Fiction and Collective Memory in Contemporary Chinese Fandom
Tielian in Mixed Realism: Real Person Fan Fiction and Collective Memory in Contemporary Chinese Fandom

Siyun PAN

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Identity, Community, and Fantasy: Exploring Transnational Boys’ Love (BL) Consumption in the American Midwest
Identity, Community, and Fantasy: Exploring Transnational Boys’ Love (BL) Consumption in the American Midwest

Ka F. Wong and Ying Zhou

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Cultivating A&Rs in K-pop: The Funnel Production Ecosystem in the Contemporary Popular Culture Industry
Cultivating A&Rs in K-pop: The Funnel Production Ecosystem in the Contemporary Popular Culture Industry

Wee Yang Gelles-Soh and So Yoon LEE

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Embodying Alternative Lifestyles: Queer Discontent and Performative Politics in Yogyakarta
Embodying Alternative Lifestyles: Queer Discontent and Performative Politics in Yogyakarta

Amirah Fadhlina

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Ephemera Beyond Evidence: Sister (2019) and the “Self-Destructive” Potential of Digital Queer Storytelling
Ephemera Beyond Evidence: Sister (2019) and the “Self-Destructive” Potential of Digital Queer Storytelling

Linh-Ngoc BUI

2025-12-13 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2025 - Digital Narratives in Transnational Circulation: Power, Vulnerability, and Creative Possibility

Film Review

Ne Zha Unbound: A Cultural Phenomenon in Motion - Review of Ne Zha 2 (Jiaozi, 2025)
Ne Zha Unbound: A Cultural Phenomenon in Motion - Review of Ne Zha 2 (Jiaozi, 2025)

Xiaoying Qu

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Book Reviews

Dissecting and Defying the Male Gaze - Review of Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era by Gina Marchetti, Amsterdam University Press, 2024
Dissecting and Defying the Male Gaze - Review of Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era by Gina Marchetti, Amsterdam University Press, 2024

Cameron L. White

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Paradoxical Faithfulness - Review of Murakami Haruki on Film by Marc Yamada, Association for Asian Studies, 2024
Paradoxical Faithfulness - Review of Murakami Haruki on Film by Marc Yamada, Association for Asian Studies, 2024

Patrick A. Terry

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