China Imagining the countryside in Chinese cinema May 20, 2019 0 Written by Qijun Han. Image Credit: Chinese countryside, rural view by FieldsportsChannel TV/Flickr licence CC by 2.0. The cinematic image of the Chinese countryside often appears to…
China The Chinese film industry’s rollercoaster ride May 17, 2019 1 Written by Chris Berry. Image Credit: FEFF 14 foto gruppo by Davide Gabino (aka Stròlic Furlàn)/Flickr, Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. How is the Chinese film industry doing?…
Film Qiong Yao films and Taiwan society May 15, 2019 0 Written by Xuelin Zhou. Image Credit: Cinema by Do u remember/Flickr, License CC BY-SA 2.0. Between 1965 and 1983, fifty feature films were produced in Taiwan…
China Freddie Mercury in China May 14, 2019 2 Written by Hongwei Bao. Image Credit: Cathay Cinema by Christian MANGE/Flickr, License CC BY-ND 2.0. Freddie Mercury never went to China. He missed an opportunity to…
Asia Media, money and majoritarianism: The Indian elections 2019 May 8, 2019 0 Written by Nitasha Kaul. Every five years, Indian politics generates a crescendo of competing frenzied passions as nearly a billion eligible voters get their fingers…
Asia Carole Spary in Conversation with Sunetra Choudhury April 8, 2019 0 Sunetra Choudhury is a Delhi-based journalist who was, until recently, political editor with NDTV, a major national news channel based in Delhi. She is also…
Burma/Myanmar Facebook, hate speech and civil society in Myanmar March 18, 2019 0 Written by Lisa Brooten. Social media have clearly provided outlets for the voices of those in many countries around the world who are frustrated by…
Cambodia Southeast Asia – drifting towards Digital Authoritarianism? March 15, 2019 0 Written by Jason Abbott. In the West, the principal concern of most digital activists relates to privacy issues surrounding the collection of data by governments…
Civil society Indonesia’s quest for tolerance: Everyday social media talk and spreading the ‘virus of peace’ March 14, 2019 0 Written by Dayana Lengauer. Tolerance in majority Muslim Indonesia is associated, among other things, with the national motto ‘unity in diversity’, state-recognised religious pluralism, and…
Activism Are social media destroying democracy in Southeast Asia? March 14, 2019 0 Written by Ross Tapsell. Recent literature has argued that social media use encourages authoritarianism. Ronald J. Deibert’s January 2019 article in Journal of Democracy argues…
