National Identity and Millennials in Northeast Asia : Power and Contestations in the Digital Age

This book examines how the young in Northeast Asia engage with the political, especially in terms of the production, reformulation, or contestation of their national identities.

Through case studies covering China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Taiwan, the contributions provide a study of the online spaces where youth engage with current debates regarding national identities. The book also unpacks the distinctive forms of expression and negotiation of national identities favoured by younger generations across Northeast Asia and asks questions specifically raised by their political mobilisation. For example, how their public mobilisation for a given cause has forced them to rethink their place in national and global communities.

This book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of East Asian culture and politics, media studies and youth studies.

The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Vanessa Frangville is Senior Lecturer and Chair Holder in China Studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Thierry Kellner is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Frederik Ponjaert is Researcher at the Institute for European Studies at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belguim and Associated Lecturer in Comparative Regionalism at SciencesPo (IEP-Paris), France.