Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Television Histories in Asia: Nation Building, Modernization & Marketization 2. Television, Scale and Place-Identity in the PRC: Provincial, National and Global Influences from 1958-2013 3. Trust and Television in Globalizing India 4. Watching television in Bhutan 5. Battling Angels and Golden Orange Blossoms: Thai Television and/as the Popular Public Sphere 6. Dramatizing the nation: television, history and the construction of Singaporean identity 7. Workingwomen and Romance on Japanese Television Dramas: Changes Since Tokyo Love Story 8. Unpacking Multiculturalism and Islam in Malaysia: State-corporate television celebrations of Bangsa Malaysia 9. The Television of Intervention: Mediating Patron-Client Ties in the Philippines 10. Taiyu Serial Dramas in Taiwan: A History of Problem-Making 11. Shifts in Korean Television Music Programs: Democratisation, Transnationalisation, Digitalisation 12. The Stormy Times: Television Theme Songs and the development of Hong Kong Television Dramas

About the Author

Jinna Tay is a Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia.

Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.