Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese
dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats …

Television dramas are vital platforms that reflect societal norms, values, and power
dynamics. This study investigates how social backgrounds—such as race, ethnicity, gender …

The emergence of online platforms dispensing TV content in China has transformed
conventional understandings of Chinese media. Online video companies have revitalized …

In the last few years, Chinese 'boys' love'television dramas (dangai) have attained immense
popularity within China and globally. While state authorities are known to censor LGBTQ …

This chapter examines the globalization of the Chinese media from a geopolitical
perspective. Chinese companies are becoming increasingly competitive in global markets …

One consequence of China's post-Mao economic reforms was the radical privatization of the
public sector. Unshackled from the prescribed social norms and commitments of socialism …

The essays collected here explore the theme of masculinities across a diverse, international
range of media forms, including Chinese reality television, Danish advertisements, US and …

This study engages in feminist media scholarship, analyzing post-millennial Chinese reality
shows that center on motherhood against the social backdrop of the termination of the one …

The post-1978 economic-political transformation of the People's Republic of China (PRC),
including but not limited to the marketization, industrialization, and commercialization of …

This book explores how political, economic, social, cultural and technological forces are (re)
shaping the meanings of love and intimacy in China's public culture. It focuses on a range of …