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Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

Series Editor: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

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.

Editorial Board:

Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology, Sydney

Peter Horsfield, RMIT University, Melbourne

Chris Hudson, RMIT University, Melbourne

K.P. Jayasankar, Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay

Michael Keane, Queensland University of Technology

Tania Lewis, RMIT University, Melbourne

Vera Mackie, University of Melbourne

Kama Maclean, University of New South Wales

Anjali Monteiro, Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay

Laikwan Pang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Gary Rawnsley, University of Leeds

Ming-yeh Rawnsley, University of Leeds

Jo Tacchi, RMIT University, Mlebourne

Adrian Vickers, University of Sydney

Jing Wang, MIT

Ying Zhu, City University of New York

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Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

Edited by Andrew N. Weintraub

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

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,...

Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
Online Society in China

Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival

Edited by David Kurt Herold, Peter Marolt

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

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...

Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
The Asian Cinema Experience

Styles, Spaces, Theory

By Stephen Teo

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

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...

Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
Media and Democratic Transition in South Korea

By Ki-Sung Kwak

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

Since South Korea achieved partial democracy in 1987, the country has moved away from authoritarian political control. However, after two decades of democratic transition, South Korea still does not have a strong liberal, individualist culture – something that has brought about a wide range of...

Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
Politics and the Media in Twenty-First Century Indonesia

Decade of Democracy

Edited by Krishna Sen, David Hill

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

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. ...

Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore

By Terence Lee

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

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...

Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
Media, Social Mobilisation and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong

The Power of a Critical Event

By Francis L. F. Lee, Joseph M. Chan

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

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?...

Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
China's New Creative Clusters

Governance, Human Capital and Investment

By Michael Keane

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

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....

Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention

Edited by David C. L. Lim, Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

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...

Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
Global Chinese Cinema

The Culture and Politics of 'Hero'

Edited by Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

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...

Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge