Bücher der Reihe Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

Traces the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western Christian missionary press in the late nineteenth century. This book demonstrates how missionary publications reshaped print journalism from a centuries-long monopoly by the state into a pluralized, modernizing and frequently radical public journalism.

Across Asia, consumer culture is increasingly shaping everyday life, with neoliberal economic and social policies increasingly adopted by governments who see their citizens as individualised consumers. This book explores how far everyday conceptions and experiences of identity are being transformed by media cultures across the region. It considers a range of media in different Asian contexts, contrasting how the shaping of lifestyles in Asia differs from similar processes in Western countries, and assessing how the new lifestyle media represents not just a new emergent media culture, but also illustrates wider cultural and social changes in the Asian region.

"Examines the international relations of Southeast Asia, focusing on how these are affected by the special Indonesia-Malaysia bilateral relationship - Malaysia and Indonesia, although separate states, can be seen as constituting a single Indo-Malay cultural world"--

Examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora, especially the media's role in communication, fostering a sense of community and defining different kinds of transnational Chineseness, and in showing how media communication is linked to commerce. This book talks about the vibrancy and dynamism of the Chinese-language media.

This book explores how rumours are created, disseminated and absorbed in the age of the internet and mobile communications. It includes a wide range of examples and, besides considering the overall processes involved, engages with scholarly debates in the field of media and communication studies.

"Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of transgender cultures, with many festivals and local rites involving members of transgender communities. This book examines how transgendered individuals and transgendered communities are represented in Indonesian film, both gay, lesbian and wari (male-to-female transgender) film and more general film"--

Argues that the internet in China is a separate 'space' in which a separate society of individuals and institutions interact, and that, while the 'real' and the 'online' spaces interact and influence each other, the Chinese internet is more than merely a technological or media extension of offline Chinese society.

Home to approximately one-fifth of the world's Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. This book dispels the notion that Islam is monolithic, militaristic, and primarily Middle Eastern and emphasizes upon its performative nature in contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia.

This book examines the media in the post-authoritarian politics of twenty-first century Indonesia. It considers how the media is being transformed, its role in politics, and its potential impact in enabling or hampering the development of democracy in Indonesia.

HIV/AIDS is a serious problem in China. This book explores HIV/AIDS, its portrayal in China's media, and the implications for public health policy. It discusses how many Chinese wrongly believe themselves to be immune, with infection only a possibility for other ethnic groups with perceived lower moral standards.

Director Zhang Yimou's film "Hero", released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster, touching on key questions of Chinese culture, nation and politics. This book explores the reasons for the film's popularity with its audiences.

Examines the role played by the media in China's cultural transformation. This book demonstrates that the media is integral to China's changing culture in the age of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and its project of re-imagining national identity.

Written by a recognized international scholar in the China media field, this book analyzes China's creative economy and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understandings of culture.

Examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. This book aims to find differences as well as similarities between the Japanese and Western pop music scenes. It shows how Japanese music has responded to Japan's relationship to the West.

Analyzes the relationship between political power and the media in a range of nation states in East and Southeast Asia. This book discusses the centrality of media in sustaining repressive regimes, and the role of the media in the transformation and collapse of such regimes.

Examines Tamil cinema, which has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output, outlining its history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important themes such as gender, religion, class, caste, fandom, cinematic genre, the politics of identity and diaspora.

Examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. This book provides an account of the key trends since the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime (1998), a time of great change in Indonesian society more generally.

Explores the inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, identifying the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party employs to regulate Singapore media and culture.

Aiming to offer insights into the vibrant area of Hong Kong, this book links Hong Kong with world film culture both within and beyond the commercial Hollywood paradigm.

Challenges that Hollywood/the US creates, produces and exports, with other countries importing, and sometimes pirating 'original' American work. This book focuses on the cinema of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and argues that cultural ownership and copyright are not clear-cut, and that copyright is a means for cultural control.

This book explores the full range of ways in which modern Chinese values are put across in film. It examines official policies, discusses how far they have succeeded or failed, and explores alternative approaches. Overall the book enriches understanding of the ways in which soft power works in all situations including beyond China.

Addressing the questions of social identity, well-being, participation and exclusion, this book examines the influence of the mobile media technology in the lives of young people in East and North Asia, South East Asia and Australia.

Examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. This book elucidates the transformative impact of television on a range of important social practices, including politics and democracy, sport and identity formation, cinema and popular culture.

This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and accelerate the emergence of a relatively affluent urban leisure-reading market. It argues that this reinvention of Chinese print media vis- -vis the creation of a post-socialist taste (class) culture is an essential part of the cultural and affective transformations in contemporary Chinese society, and demonstrates how the reinvention of such taste culture effectively creates, through new kinds of reading materials and carefully demarcated target audiences, a middle-class civility that serves as the locus of the new niche media market.