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1. On Not Speaking Chinese

   Living Between Asia and the West

   By Ien Ang

   In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the...

   Published November 7th 2001 by Routledge
2. Living Room Wars

   Rethinking Media Audiences

   By Ien Ang

   Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences, and , in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is not naively populist. Ang examines how the makers and...

   Published December 6th 1995 by Routledge
3. Cultural Studies

   Volume 6, Issue 3

   By Ien Ang, John Hartley

   Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. From new kinds of writing to photo essays, the journal is both theoretically and politically rewarding....

   Published November 11th 1992 by Routledge
4. Desperately Seeking the Audience

   By Ien Ang

   Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien...

   Published March 20th 1991 by Routledge
5. Cultural Studies

   Volume 3, Issue 2

   Edited by Ien Ang, David Morley

   Published June 7th 1989 by Routledge
6. Watching Dallas

   Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

   By Ien Ang

   Dallas, one of the great internationally-screened soap operas, offers us first and foremost entertainment. But what is it about Dallas that makes that entertainment so successful, and how exactly is its entertainment constructed?...

   Published November 27th 1985 by Routledge