Contributors

Yingchi Chu is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies based at the Murdoch Business School and a Research Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University (Perth, Western Australia). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Murdoch University and is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant to conduct research on Chinese Documentaries. She is the author of Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, Motherland and Self (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and a series of articles in media studies. Her forthcoming book, entitled Chinese Documentaries: From Dogma to Polyphony, is scheduled to be published in 2007 (with Routledge).

Jane M. Ferguson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology department at Cornell University. Prior to her postgraduate study, she worked in the documentary media-production Non-Government Organization, Images Asia, in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as scriptwriter and English narrator for various grassroots documentary video productions. She is currently completing her fieldwork research on topics of Shan migration, popular culture, and digital media production in a Thai-Burma borderland community, where one of her ethnographic strategies includes playing bass in a Shan rock band.

Cherian George is an Assistant Professor at the School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also a Research Associate of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University (Perth, Western Australia). His research focuses on state-media dynamics and the alternative press. His first book, Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation (Landmark Books), was published in 2000. His second book, Contentious Journalism and the Internet: Towards Democratic Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore, was published in 2006 by Singapore University Press and University of Washington Press.

Zhou He is Associate Professor of Communications at the City University of Hong Kong. His research on mass communication has appeared in three books/monographs and journals such as Communication Research, Journalism Quarterly, Journal of International Public Opinion, Media Culture & Society, Journalism Studies, and Journal of Intercultural Communication Studies.

David T. Hill is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University (Perth, Western Australia), where he teaches Indonesian studies. His recent books, co-authored with Krishna Sen, include The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy (2005) and Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia (2000, 2007). His earlier works include The Press in New Order Indonesia (1994, 1995, 2007) and Beyond the Horizon: Short Stories from Contemporary Indonesia (1998).

Yu Huang is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interest includes media and social transformation in post-Mao China.

Nancy Hudson-Rodd is Senior Lecturer in the School of International, Cultural and Community Studies at Edith Cowan University (Perth, Western Australia). She is a cultural geographer who has conducted research on changing place identities of small border towns of Laos, Thailand, and Burma. She has a special interest in the social cultural contemporary life in Burma under a military regime, visiting the country often over the past 10 years. Her research includes study of labor, housing, property, and land rights in Burma, state and popular cultural ideas of heritage, changing landscapes, and sustainable development. She is the Australian corresponding member for the Commission of Cultural Research in Geography of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and a member of the Technical Advisory Network (TAN) of the Burma Fund.

Philip Kitley is Professor of Communication and Head, School of Social Science, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong (New South Wales, Australia). He has published widely on Indonesian cultural and media developments and is the author of Television, Nation and Culture in Indonesia (Ohio University Press, 2000), translated as Konstruksi Budaya Bangsa Di Layar Kaca (ISAI, Jakarta, 2001). More recent research has focused on the role of the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission and emerging patterns and practices of ‘publicness’ in the reform period. From 1986-89, he served as Cultural Attaché at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta.

Chin-Chuan Lee is Chair Professor of Communications at the City University of Hong Kong and Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. His most recent works include: Power, Money, and Media: Communication Patterns and Bureaucratic Control in Cultural China (editor, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2000); Global Media Spectacle: News War over Hong Kong (senior coauthor, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002); Chinese Media, Global Contexts (editor, London: Routledge, 2003); and, Beyond Western Hegemony: Media and Chinese Modernity [chaoyue xifang baquan: meijie yu wenhua zhongguo de xiandaixing] (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Terence Lee is Associate Professor of Mass Communication and a Research Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University (Perth, Western Australia). He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Adelaide, and has published widely on various aspects of the media, politics, culture and the creative industries in Singapore. Before embarking on an academic career, he worked in media and broadcasting policy in Singapore. His forthcoming book, entitled The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore, is scheduled to be published in 2008 (with Routledge).

Glen Lewis has lived and worked between Canberra, Australia and Bangkok, Thailand since 1997. He has taught at the University of Canberra, the University of Technology, Sydney, Bangkok University, Kansas University and The University of Queensland. His earlier books include: Australian Communications Technology and Policy (co-editor with Elizabeth More, Sydney: AFTVS, 1988); Australian Movies and the American Dream (New York: Praeger, 1987); Real Men Like Violence (Sydney: Kangaroo Press); and A History of the Ports of Queensland (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press).

Krishna Sen is Professor of Asian Media and Director of the Media Asia Research Group, Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Western Australia). She is also a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University (Perth, Western Australia). She has published extensively on the Indonesian media. Her most recent book is (co-authored with David T. Hill) The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy (2005).

Wanning Sun is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Curtin University, Western Australia. She is the author of Leaving China: Media, Migration and Transnational Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), and editor of Media and Chinese Diaspora (Routledge, forthcoming). Her research interests range from Chinese media, Asian media, gender, migration and social change in China.

Chuong-Dai Vo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Literature at University of California, San Diego, U.S.A. Her dissertation examines post-1975 debates in Vietnam over the direction of literature. Her project reads these literary debates as a case study for thinking about the intersection of definitions of modernity, the relevance of the Communist state, the role of dissent and the impact of transnational capitalism and globalization.

Zaharom Nain is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia) and a Research Associate of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University (Perth, Western Australia). He has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters on t