In New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop, Fatima Bhutto, an indefatigable reporter and vivid writer, profiles Bollywood’s Shah Rukh Khan, by many measures the most popular star in the world; goes behind the scenes of Magnificent Century, Turkey’s biggest dizi, watched by more than 200 million people across 43 countries; and travels to South Korea to see how K-Pop started.
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New Kings of the World
Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop
An important dispatch from a new, multipolar order that is taking form before our eyes.
“A short, well-researched, and engaging book.” —PopMatters
New Kings of the World was published with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation