Editorial

This editorial is an overview of this edition of the Journal of East Asian Popular Culture. The issue features seven general articles. One article analyses Taiwanese-language cinema as a site for constructing intersectional identities. Another calls for cross-cultural and genre-wide research on femininity in Chinese danmei literature. Two further articles explore the duality of China’s state control and nationalist governance intertwined with market forces and individual agency, through investigating the curation of a public persona on social media, and analysis of political humour as featured in a popular variety show. We conclude this issue with three articles on fandom that reflect on aspects of Japanese and Korean idol culture. The Book Reviews section features commentary on recently published works.