Asian Media and Communication Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Rumor and Communication in Asia in the Internet Age

   Edited by Greg Dalziel

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   New communication technology has transformed the way in which news about key events is communicated. For example, in the immediate aftermath of catastrophic events such as the Mumbai attacks or the Japanese tsunami, partial accounts, accurate and inaccurate facts, rumour and speculation are now...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan

   Edited by Rachael Hutchinson

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years and each successive system of rule has possessed its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement. Yet what has remained constant through these many upheavals has been the process of negotiation between censor and...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India

   Entertaining the Raj

   By Babli Sinha

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India impacted each other politically, culturally and ideologically. It argues that American films of the 1920s posited alternative notions of whiteness and the West to that of Britain, which stood for...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Film Censorship in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia Compared

   By Saw Tiong Guan

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Film censorship has always been a controversial matter, particularly in jurisdictions with restrictive state-based censorship systems. This book reviews the film censorship system in the Asia-Pacific by comparing the systems used in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia. It identifies the key issues...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
5. Bollywood and Globalization

   The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema

   Edited by David Schaefer, Kavita Karan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The field of Bollywood studies has remained predominantly critical, theoretical and historical in focus. This book brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to tackle empirical questions focusing on the relationship between soft power, hybridity, cinematic texts, and audiences....

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. Political Communication in China

   Convergence or Divergence Between the Media and Political System?

   Edited by Wenfang Tang, Shanto Iyengar

   It is widely recognised that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support. State agencies in China control the full spectrum of media programming, either through ownership or...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Mapping Media in China

   Region, Province, Locality

   Edited by Wanning Sun, Jenny Chio

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the ‘national’ scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. China’s media has played a crucial role in shaping and directing the country’s social and cultural changes, and...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
8. Prostitution Scandals in China

   Policing, Media and Society

   By Elaine Jeffreys

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Mobile Communication and Greater China

   Edited by Rodney Wai-chi Chu, Leopoldina Fortunati, Pui-Lam Law, Shanhua Yang

   Series: Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China

   This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond, the contributors argue that the mobile phone is in fact an important means by which one can understand a rapidly...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Documenting Taiwan on Film

    Issues and Methods in New Documentaries

    Edited by Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Tze-Lan Deborah Sang

    Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

    To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic analysis of the genre. Each contributor to the volume investigates the various aspects of documentary by focusing on one or two...

    Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge