"This volume brings together scholars studying a range of Asian popular cultures, from Hong Kong, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, China, Singapore, Taiwan, and India; more, the scholarship takes up a range of media expressions, from music to film and

Jamie Shinhee Lee is an associate professor of linguistics in the Department of Language, Culture, and Communication at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her research interests include world Englishes, language and popular culture, globalization and education policy, bilingualism, and Korean pragmatics/discourse analysis. Andrew Moody is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Macau, where he teaches sociolinguistics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests include the development of varieties of world Englishes and the role of English in popular culture, especially within Asia. He is currently involved in a long-term research project examining language shift in Macau.