Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
About the Book Series
The aim of this series has always been to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars, on all aspects of media, culture and social change in Asia. Founded from Melbourne in 2001, we have published over 70 titles and our reach of topics has expanded in step with new paradigms, new media systems and a digital economy that is far removed from our expectations or understanding at the turn of this century. We have appointed an editorial board that reflects the directions of contemporary scholarship, and we invite new proposals that speak to our mission
Editorial Board:
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (Founding Editor)
Emma Baulch, (Co-Editor, SE Asia), Monash Malaysia
Laikwan Pang, (Public Humanities), Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jo Tacchi, (Digital Development and Ethnography), Loughborough in London
Tania Lewis (Eco-Humanities, Food, Digital Consumption), RMIT, Melbourne
Annisa Beta, (Youth Cultures), University of Melbourne
Kate Mirandello Delmo, (Crisis and Strategic Communications), UTS, Sydney
Giang Nguyen-Thu, (Digital Economy), University of Queensland
New proposals are welcome and should be sent in the first instance to the series editor, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, at [email protected].
The Asian Cinema Experience: Styles, Spaces, Theory
1st Edition
By Stephen Teo
June 19, 2014
This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a ...
China's New Creative Clusters: Governance, Human Capital and Investment
1st Edition
By Michael Keane
October 25, 2013
Recognising that creativity is a major driving force in the post-industrial economy, the Chinese government has recently established a range of "creative clusters" – industrial parks devoted to media industries, and arts districts – in order to promote the development of the creative industries. ...
Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas: The Amoy-Dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia
1st Edition
By Jeremy E. Taylor
October 25, 2013
The Amoy-dialect film industry emerged in the 1950s, producing cheap, b-grade films in Hong Kong for direct export to the theatres of Manila Chinatown, southern Taiwan and Singapore. Films made in Amoy dialect - a dialect of Chinese - reflected a particular period in the history of the Chinese ...
Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew N. Weintraub
July 26, 2013
Home to approximately one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a popular culture, or popular cultures of Islam that are mass mediated, commercialized, ...
HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China: Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease
1st Edition
By Johanna Hood
May 03, 2013
Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is ...
Asian Popular Culture: The Global (Dis)continuity
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Y.H. Fung
May 01, 2013
This book examines different aspects of Asian popular culture, including films, TV, music, comedy, folklore, cultural icons, the Internet and theme parks. It raises important questions such as – What are the implications of popularity of Asian popular culture for globalization? Do regional forces ...
Online Society in China: Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival
1st Edition
Edited
By David Kurt Herold, Peter Marolt
February 13, 2013
This book discusses the rich and varied culture of China's online society, and its impact on offline China. It argues that the internet in China is a separate 'space' in which individuals and institutions emerge and interact. While offline and online spaces are connected and influence each ...
Politics and the Media in Twenty-First Century Indonesia: Decade of Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Krishna Sen, David Hill
April 20, 2012
Every political aspirant and activist knows the media are important. But there is little agreement on how an increasingly diversified media operate in post-authoritarian transitions and how they might promote, or impede, the pathways to a sustainable liberal democracy in the 21st century. ...
Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention
1st Edition
Edited
By David C. L. Lim, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
April 10, 2012
This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between ...
The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore
1st Edition
By Terence Lee
March 29, 2012
This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party (PAP) employs to regulate Singapore media and culture, and thus govern the...
Media, Social Mobilisation and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong: The Power of a Critical Event
1st Edition
By Francis L. F. Lee, Joseph M. Chan
February 03, 2012
Since 2003, Hong Kong has witnessed a series of large-scale protests which have constituted the core of a reinvigorated pro-democracy movement. What drove tens of thousands of citizens to the street on a yearly basis to protest? What were the social and organizational bases of the protest movement?...
Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of 'Hero'
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
August 15, 2011
The film Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou and released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster. A big expensive film with multiple stars, spectacular scenery, and astonishing action sequences, it touched on key questions of Chinese culture, nation ...