Book Series
Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series
New & Published Titles:
Media and Cultural Transformation in China
This book examines the role played by the media in China’s cultural transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In contrast to the…
read moreFebruary 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44755-3 (Routledge)
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Tamil Cinema
The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry
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…
read moreFebruary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49219-5 (Routledge)
Television in Post-Reform China
Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market
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…
read moreFebruary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49220-1 (Routledge)
Created in China
The Great New Leap Forward
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…
read moreJanuary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49175-4 (Routledge)
Japanese Popular Music
Culture, Authenticity and Power
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…
read moreJanuary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49221-8 (Routledge)
Political Regimes and the Media in Asia
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…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49173-0 (Routledge)
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Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia
There are many different kinds of sub-national conflicts across Asia, with a variety of causes, but since September 11, 2001 these have been increasingly portrayed…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48633-0 (Routledge)
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Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia
Copyright, Piracy and Cinema
This is a succint and well-written book introducing a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of copyright and related issues in contemporary popular culture in…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42689-3 (Routledge)
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Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia
There are many different kinds of sub-national conflicts across Asia, with a variety of causes, but since September 11, 2001 these have been increasingly portrayed…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35198-0 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
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.Forthcoming Titles:
Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia
Edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Damien Spry
To be published March 2nd 2010
Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of 'Hero'
Edited by Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
To be published March 3rd 2010
The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore
By Terence Lee
To be published April 22nd 2010
On-Line Society in China
Edited by David Herold, Peter Wolfgang Marolt
To be published May 31st 2010
HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China
By Johanna Hood
To be published June 17th 2010
New Media and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Edited by Mike Hayes, James Gomez
To be published June 30th 2010
Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia
Edited by Andrew Weintraub
To be published June 30th 2010
Contemporary Chinese Print Media: Cultivating Middle Class Civility
By Zheng Yi
To be published August 31st 2010
Politics and the Media in 21st Century Indonesia: Decade of Democracy
Edited by David Hill, Krishna Sen
To be published October 1st 2010