Compact Generation: Vcd markets in Asia

Davis, Darrell William

doi:10.1080/0143968032000091095

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“…In Hong Kong, the Temple Street night market has become symbolic of its urban landscape. Pedestrians, both local and tourist, flow through streets lined with vendors selling clothing, AV equipment, toys, jade, and CDs and DVDs unwanted by retail chains (Davis, 2003: 167). The sensory experience of this space is created visually through its textures, colours – the blue and red peaked tents, polyester in all shades, faux leather, animal print, mesh, plastic, movie posters and prints of scenic images of Hong Kong’s Star Ferry.…”

Section: Diaspora Nights: Nightlife In ‘New Chinatown’mentioning

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Authenticity with a bang: Exploring suburban culture and migration through the new phenomenon of the Richmond Night Market

Pottie‐Sherman

Hiebert

2013

Urban Studies

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This paper considers the suburban night through the recent cultural phenomenon of the Summer Night Market in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Night markets have existed in China since the 8th century, and have followed Chinese migration, first to Southeast Asia, and more recently, to Canada. Richmond, because of significant Asian settlement in the 1990s, is known as the ‘new Chinatown’ ethnoburb of Metro Vancouver. Its night market is a weekend evening event where predominantly Asian vendors sell clothing, food and a range of other products to the Chinese community and others attracted by the spectacle or seeking a bargain. The Richmond night-time landscape contrasts sharply with the 24/7 cultures of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. But the Richmond market makes possible a cultural use of night-time space – for strolling and meeting at night – in a suburban landscape that is quiet after 18:00 h. In the last three years, the market has been re-branded as a multicultural, rather than Chinese, space. We explore the role of this market in the night-time leisure culture of Metro Vancouver, through themes of the changing nature of the suburbs, suburban night places, and the (messy) question of authenticity in an age (and place) of ongoing migration and super-diversity.

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Authenticity with a bang: Exploring suburban culture and migration through the new phenomenon of the Richmond Night Market

Pottie‐Sherman

Hiebert

2013

Urban Studies

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“…VCDs never gained a foothold in the United States, Europe, or Japan but are very popular throughout the rest of Asia because of the low price of the players, their tolerance of high humidity, and the lower-cost media. See Davis, Darrell (2003).…”

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From Beyond Rangoon to Shan VCD: The Politics and Authenticity of Appropriation

Jirattikorn¹

2007

Asian Cinema

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Likhommai Panglong or “The Promises of Panglong” is a unique Shan video compact disc (VCD) for three reasons. First, it features images of the 1988 political uprising in Burma which were appropriated from other existing films. Second, these images were put together with political lyrics sung in the Shan language talking about the plight of the Shan people and the oppressive Burmese military regime. Third, because these political images and lyrics have never been and cannot be produced inside Burma, Shan migrants who cross the border to seek work in Thailand have found an opportunity to produce this political VCD while in exile. The result is an appropriation of several existing sources, which in turn creates unexpected results in terms of spectatorship responses among Shan migrant audiences. The production and the consumption of this VCD will be the focus of this paper.

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“…(See, for example, Philip 2005or Sundaram 2001.) The loss of revenue due to piracy, Lobato (2008Lobato ( , 2012 argues, is often highly exaggerated, as piracy is often a form of what Davis (2003) calls "cockroach capitalism" that operates in markets which the media institutions have found uninteresting, where pirated materials are the only options available. Piracy, he argues, can therefore be seen as "routes to knowledge, development and citizenship," rather than primarily as "deviant behavior" (Lobato 2008, 16).…”

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The Making of Cultural Commons: Nasty Old Film Distribution and Funding

Björgvinsson¹

2014

Making Futures

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Compact Generation: Vcd markets in Asia

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Authenticity with a bang: Exploring suburban culture and migration through the new phenomenon of the Richmond Night Market

Authenticity with a bang: Exploring suburban culture and migration through the new phenomenon of the Richmond Night Market

From Beyond Rangoon to Shan VCD: The Politics and Authenticity of Appropriation

The Making of Cultural Commons: Nasty Old Film Distribution and Funding

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