Media, Social Mobilisation and Mass Protests in Post-Colonial Hong Kong

Francis L F Lee, Joseph M Chan

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• Since 2003, Hong Kong has witnessed a series of large-scale protests which have constituted the core of a reinvigorated pro-democracy movement. What d... Lees meer

The Internet and New Social Formation in China

Weiyu Zhang

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• There are billions of internet users in China, and this number is continually growing. This book looks at the various purposes of this internet use, a... Lees meer

China Online

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• The Chinese internet is driving change across all facets of social life, and scholars have grown mindful that online and offline spaces have become in... Lees meer

Television in India

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, Indi... Lees meer

Chinese Martial Arts Film and the Philosophy of Action

Stephen Teo

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book focuses on the philosophy of Chinese martial arts film, arguing that philosophy provides a key to understanding the whole genre. It draws on... Lees meer

Multimedia Stardom in Hong Kong

Leung Wing-Fai

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book details original research into the practices and discourse of multimedia stardom alongside changing social and cultural landscapes in Hong K... Lees meer

Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, a... Lees meer

Genders and Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema

Ben Murtagh

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of homosexual and transgender cultures, and the past 40 years in particular has seen an increased visibility o... Lees meer

The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore

Terence Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key ... Lees meer

Sex Trafficking and the Media

Meghan Sobel

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book explores how sex trafficking has been reported in the media. The book is set in the context of reportage of this human rights abuse in two v... Lees meer

South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• Over recent decades South Korea's vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this "K... Lees meer

Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• 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 dis... Lees meer

Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, a... Lees meer

Online Society in China

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• 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 ... Lees meer

Taiwan Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• The book examines recent developments in Taiwan cinema, with particular focus on a leading contemporary Taiwan filmmaker, Wei Te-sheng, who is respons... Lees meer

Journalism and Democracy in Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especi... Lees meer

Ethnic Minority Children in Post-Socialist Chinese Cinema

Zhenhui Yan

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book examines the surprisingly large number of films about ethnic minority children in China, considering key questions such as Why are ethnic mi... Lees meer

Urban Culture in Pre-War Japan

Adam Croft

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• Politically the 1910s and 1920s were dark days for Japan: economic instability, frequent political assassinations, and increasing violent military int... Lees meer

Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• Home to approximately one-fifth of the world's Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses ab... Lees meer

Media and the Chinese Diaspora

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. Wanning Sun examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses espec... Lees meer

Chinese Martial Arts Film and the Philosophy of Action

Stephen Teo

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book focuses on the philosophy of Chinese martial arts film, arguing that philosophy provides a key to understanding the whole genre. It draws on... Lees meer

The Asian Cinema Experience

Stephen Teo

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast ... Lees meer

K-Pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry

• Paperback | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as "South Korea's greatest export", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely ... Lees meer

Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video

Tom Mes

• Hardcover | Engels | Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• This book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began... Lees meer