Bøger i Culture and Communication in Asia serien

An interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in India, it unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens.

A study of Chinese language, culture and society, this book adopts the tools of cultural studies and applies them to a previously conservative discipline. It employs concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading and covers a range of cultural texts.

This book focuses on how the identity categories of Hongkongers and mainlanders have changed in the 1990s and on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular.

Contributors discuss subjects such as Japanese colonial discourse, Chinese nationalism in the context of global capitalism, white panic, stories from East Timor, queer life in Taiwan and new social movements in Korea.