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Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

Series Editor: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars in the West and the East, on all aspects of media, culture and social change in Asia.

Editorial Board:

Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology, Sydney

Peter Horsfield, RMIT University, Melbourne

Chris Hudson, RMIT University, Melbourne

K.P. Jayasankar, Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay

Michael Keane, Queensland University of Technology

Tania Lewis, RMIT University, Melbourne

Vera Mackie, University of Melbourne

Kama Maclean, University of New South Wales

Anjali Monteiro, Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay

Laikwan Pang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Gary Rawnsley, University of Leeds

Ming-yeh Rawnsley, University of Leeds

Jo Tacchi, RMIT University, Mlebourne

Adrian Vickers, University of Sydney

Jing Wang, MIT

Ying Zhu, City University of New York

New and Published Books

21-30 of 32 results in Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

  1. Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema

    No Film is An Island

    Edited by Gina Marchetti, Tan See Kam

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and difficult-to-access films have offered new research materials. As Hong Kong film history comes into sharper focus,...

    Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge

  2. Media and the Chinese Diaspora

    Community, Communications and Commerce

    Edited by Wanning Sun

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. Wanning Sun examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of 'transnational Chineseness' -...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge

  3. Television in India

    Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change

    Edited by Nalin Mehta

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed only a single state-owned television channel, but since then there has been a rapid expansion in independent satellite channels which...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge

  4. Chinese Documentaries

    From Dogma to Polyphony

    By Yingchi Chu

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    In China, unlike in Western cinema, documentary film, rather than fiction film, has been the dominant mode since 1949. In recent years, documentary TV programmes have experienced a meteoric rise. Arguing that there is a gradual process of 'democratization' in the media, in which documentaries play...

    Published April 2nd 2009 by Routledge

  5. Media in Hong Kong

    Press Freedom and Political Change, 1967-2005

    By Carol P. Lai

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    This book examines the Hong Kong media over a forty year period, focusing in particular on how its newspapers and TV stations have struggled for press freedom under the colonial British administration, as well as Chinese rule. Making full use of newly declassified material, extensive...

    Published April 2nd 2009 by Routledge

  6. Tamil Cinema

    The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry

    Edited by Selvaraj Velayutham

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It...

    Published February 24th 2009 by Routledge

  7. Television in Post-Reform China

    Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market

    By Ying Zhu

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    This book explores the political, economic, and cultural forces, locally and globally that have shaped the evolution of Chinese primetime television dramas, and the way that these dramas in turn have actively engaged in the major intellectual and policy debates concerning the path, steps, and speed...

    Published February 18th 2009 by Routledge

  8. Japanese Popular Music

    Culture, Authenticity and Power

    By Carolyn Stevens

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. Based both on extensive...

    Published January 30th 2009 by Routledge

  9. Created in China

    The Great New Leap Forward

    By Michael Keane

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    This book examines China’s creative economy—and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture. Since the 1950s China has endeavoured to catch-up with advanced Western economies. ‘Made in China’ is one approach to...

    Published January 30th 2009 by Routledge

  10. Political Regimes and the Media in Asia

    Edited by Krishna Sen, Terence Lee

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    This book analyzes the relationship between political power and the media in a range of nation states in East and Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on the place of the media in authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes. It discusses the centrality of media in sustaining repressive regimes,...

    Published November 27th 2008 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia
    Edited by Andrew N. Weintraub
    To Be Published June 5th 2013
  2. Genders and Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema: Constructing gay, lesbi and waria identities on screen
    By Ben Murtagh
    To Be Published August 12th 2013
  3. Contemporary Chinese Print Media: Cultivating Middle Class Taste
    By Zheng Yi
    To Be Published September 2nd 2013
  4. Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media: The Prosaic Image
    By Helen Grace
    To Be Published November 19th 2013
  5. Indonesia-Malaysia Relations
    Edited by Marshall Clark, Juliet Pietsch
    To Be Published November 29th 2013
  6. Democracy, Media and Law in Malaysia and Singapore
    Edited by Andrew T. Kenyon, Tim Marjoribanks, Amanda Whiting
    To Be Published November 29th 2013
  7. Television Histories in Asia
    Edited by Jinna Tay, Koichi Iwabuchi, Graeme Turner
    To Be Published March 30th 2014
  8. Transcultures - Asia-Pacific Media Representations of Globalization
    By Vera Mackie
    To Be Published May 14th 2014

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