Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia

Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary

Dorothy Lau (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-17663-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Dorothy Wai Sim Lau is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include stardom, celebrities, fandom, Asian cinema, Hong Kong cinema, digital culture, and screen culture. She is the author of Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture (2019) and Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks: Voice, Ethnicity, Power (2021). Lau was the visiting scholar at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield in 2022.

List of Illustrations, Acknowledgement, Introduction, An Uncharted Terrain: Asian Celebrities' Engagement in Activism and Philanthropy, 1. Bollywood Stardom and Advocacy: Aamir Khan's Crossover Persona and the Imagined Sino-Indian Relations, 2. Beyond the K-pop Spectacle: BTS' Love Myself Campaign, Celebrity Diplomacy, and Fan Activism, 3. Ryuichi Sakamoto's Eco-activist Persona, 4. Denise Ho's Celebrity Activism in Contemporary Hong Kong, 5. The Sales Queen Doing Good: Weiya and the Wanghong Philanthropy in China's Live-streaming Landscape, 6. Global Pandemic and the Inter-Asian Discourse of Celebrity: The Rise of a New Form of Solidarity, Conclusion, Toward an Imaginary of Cosmopolitical Asia, Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Asian Visual Cultures
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-041-17663-5 / 1041176635
ISBN-13	978-1-041-17663-3 / 9781041176633
Zustand	Neuware