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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

Ursula Rao, University of New South Wales

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

New and Published Books

1-10 of 28 results in Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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 31st 2011 by Routledge

  7. Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia

    Edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Damien Spry

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    This book examines the influence of mobile media technology on the lives of young people in East and North Asia, South East Asia and Australia. It discusses the impact information communication technologies have today on social identity, well-being, participation and exclusion. It explores current...

    Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge

  8. Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas

    The Amoy-Dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia

    By Jeremy E. Taylor

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    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...

    Published May 18th 2011 by Routledge

  9. Media and Cultural Transformation in China

    By Haiqing Yu

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    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 traditional view that sees the Chinese media as nothing more than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates that the media is integral to China’s...

    Published May 16th 2011 by Routledge

  10. 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 April 12th 2011 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Media and Democratic Transition in South Korea
    By Ki-Sung Kwak
    To Be Published May 30th 2012
  2. The Asian Cinema Experience: Styles, Spaces, Theory
    By Stephen Teo
    To Be Published October 4th 2012
  3. Rumour and Communication in Asia in the Internet Age
    Edited by Greg Dalziel
    To Be Published December 30th 2012
  4. Contemporary Chinese Print Media: Cultivating Middle Class Civility
    By Zheng Yi
    To Be Published January 30th 2013
  5. Genders and sexualities in Indonesian cinema: Constructing gay, lesbi and waria identities on screen
    By Ben Murtagh
    To Be Published January 30th 2013
  6. Transcultures - Asia-Pacific Media Representations of Globalization
    By Vera Mackie
    To Be Published May 14th 2013

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