Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Editorial Notes Introduction Jeongmee Kim Part I. Crossing Borders Chapter 1. ‘I rili lyke dis’: Forum Culture and the Cosmopolitan Spacing of Asian Television Online Maimuna Dali Islam Chapter 2. A New Era of Hong Kong Television: Juxtaposing Market with Politics Anthony Fung Chapter 3. Crossing Borders, Building Bridges?: ‘Asian Stars’ in Japanese TV Drama Hilaria Gössmann and Griseldis Kirsch Part II. Women and Asian Melodrama Chapter 4. Women and Television in Malaysia: Soaps, Transnational Pleasure and Modernity Chris Hudson and Md. Azalanshah Chapter 5. ‘Like a Virgin’: Sex, Marriage and Gender Relations in the Korean Television Drama Wedding Brenda Chan Part III. Sound, Music and Asian Drama Chapter 6. ‘Don’t Forget’: The Musical Dimensions of South Korean Television Drama Robert L. Cagle Chapter 7. Dubbing and The Water Margin: Asian TV Drama Comes to Britain, But Does It Survive the Trip? Basil Glynn Part III. Korean Television Drama: The Latest Wave Chapter 8. ‘Korean Wave’ in Taiwan: Cultural Representation of Identities and Food in the Korean TV Drama Daejanggeum Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley Chapter 9. Say Hallyu, Wave Goodbye: The Rise and Fall of Korean Wave Drama Jeongmee Kim Chapter 10. Genesis by the Sword and Special Effects in Korean TV Costume Drama Sheng-mei Ma Bibliography Index

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The Asian TV industry is 'unstoppable' reported "Variety" in 2008. This book discloses that Asian TV drama is diverse in form and content, it has value that is local as well as transcultural and its shows have strong appeal in their aesthetics, storytelling, acting and cinematography to large non-Asian as well as Asian audiences.

About the Author

Jeongmee Kim is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Televisions tudies at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published in such academic journals as 'Critical Studies in Television' and 'Media, Culture & Society'.