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Informationen zum Autor Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun Klappentext Tania Lewis is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of Research in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University (Melbourne). Fran Martin is Associate Professor and Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Wanning Sun is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. Zusammenfassung Tania Lewis! Fran Martin! and Wanning Sun analyze the complex social and cultural significance of lifestyle television programming in China! India! Taiwan! and Singapore! showing how it adds insight into late Asian modernity! media cultures! and broad shifts in the nature of private life! identity! citizenship! and social engagement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Telemodernities 1 1. Lifestyle Television in Context: Media Industries, Cultural Economies, and Genre Flows 25 2. Local versus Metropolitan Television in China: Stratification of Needs, Taste, and Spatial Imagination 52 3. Here, There, and Everywhere: Mediascapes, Geographic Imaginaries, and Indian Television 82 4. Imagining Global Mobility: TLC Taiwan 106 5. Gurus, Babas, and Daren: Popular Experts on Chinese and Indian Advice TV 126 6. Magical Modernities: Spiritual Advice TV in India and Taiwan 157 7. Risky Romance: Navigating Late Modern Identities and Relationships on Chinese and Indian Lifestyle TV 196 8. A Self to Believe In: Negotiating Femininities in Sinophone Lifestyle Advice TV 222 Conclusion: Negotiating Modernities through Lifestyle Television 254 Notes 271 Works Cited 281 Index 305
