This groundbreaking collection of original essays provides new perspectives in Asian media studies. The volume covers a diverse range of topics from media policy to globalization, using lively examples from various countries and media.

John Nguyet Erni is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. He is author of Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of “Curing” AIDS (1994); editor of a special issue entitled “Becoming (Postcolonial) Hong Kong” for Cultural Studies (2001); and co-editor, with Ackbar Abbas, of Internationalizing Cultural Studies (Blackwell 2004).

Siew Keng Chua is Professor of Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology. Her work in the fields of Asian media, gender studies, and cultural studies has been published in The Journal of International Communication, Jump Cut, and Cinemaya.