Asian Visual Cultures
About the Book Series
This series focuses on visual cultures that are produced, distributed and consumed in Asia and by Asian communities worldwide. Visual cultures have been implicated in creative policies of the state and in global cultural networks (such as the art world, film festivals and the Internet), particularly since the emergence of digital technologies. Asia is home to some of the major film, television and video industries in the world, while Asian contemporary artists are selling their works for record prices at the international art markets. Visual communication and innovation is also thriving in transnational networks and communities at the grass-roots level. This series seeks to explore how the texts and contexts of Asian visual cultures shape, express and negotiate new forms of creativity, subjectivity and cultural politics. It specifically aims to probe into the political, commercial and digital contexts in which visual cultures emerge and circulate, and to trace the potential of these cultures for political or social critique.
Museum Processes in China: The Institutional Regulation, Production and Consumption of the Art Museums in the Greater Pearl River Delta Region
1st Edition
By Chui-fun Selina Ho
December 01, 2025
This book challenges the museum enterprise in China as a state monopoly and considers it as a new cultural agency that has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Following a constructive and multi-perspectival approach, it discusses the roles of political and cultural-economic agents, museum ...
Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy
1st Edition
By Siao Yuong Fong
December 01, 2025
What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? While much of the critical discussion of the media in authoritarian contexts focus on state power, the emphasis on strong states tend to perpetuate misnomers about the media as mere tools of the state and sustain myths ...
Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage Dynamics on YouTube
1st Edition
By Cheryll Ruth Soriano, Earvin Charles Cabalquinto
December 01, 2025
Social media platforms have been pivotal in redefining the conduct of contemporary society. Amid the proliferation of a range of new and ubiquitous online platforms, YouTube, a video-based platform, remains a key driver in the democratisation of creative, playful, vernacular, intimate, as well as ...
Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape
1st Edition
By Shi-Yan Chao
December 01, 2025
Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories. Incorporating a wide range of materials in both ...
Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998)
1st Edition
Edited
By Gaik Cheng Khoo, Thomas Barker, Mary Ainslie
December 01, 2025
After the end of World War II when many Southeast Asian nations gained national independence, and up until the Asian Financial Crisis, film industries here had distinctive and colourful histories shaped by unique national and domestic conditions. Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to ...
Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema
1st Edition
By Zhen Zhang
December 01, 2025
Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema portrays a group of important contemporary women filmmakers working across the Sinophone world including Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and beyond. The book delineates and conceptualizes their cinematic and trans-media practices within an evolving, ...
Feng Xiaogang’s New Year Films: Industry, Regulation, Humour and Authorship
1st Edition
By Qi Ai
May 22, 2025
This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of mainstream Chinese cinema under party-state regulation from the 1990s to the 2010s. It argues that Feng is not simply a ...
Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia: Histories, Politics and Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Chui-fun Selina Ho
May 19, 2025
This volume examines the emerging exhibition complex on Chinese art in early twentieth-century China, and from the mid-1950s onwards, the cultural politics involved in Asia with the exhibitions of traditional and modern Chinese art in Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It also scrutinizes the ...