China Regulation of the internet in China: An explainer October 7, 2019 0 Image Credit: Free Internet by Thomas Galvez/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Lotus Ruan. A Great Firewall blocking voices from the outside. A top-down…
Asia The Long Read: Gandhi’s racism October 2, 2019 1 Image Credit: ..gandhi. by Luke Cox/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0 Written by Faisal Devji. If the memory of Mahatma Gandhi lives on today, then it…
Article 370 The Long Read: The moment of reckoning for Kashmir September 25, 2019 0 Image Credit: Andrea Schieber/Dal (lake) and the Shikaras - Srinagar, Kashmir, India/ Flickr ; Licence: CC BY- NC- ND-2.0. Written by Mohamad Junaid. In a unilateral…
Culture and Society What can a tourism bureau learn from a student protest movement? September 22, 2019 0 Image credit: Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival 2014 in Taiwan by Jirka Matousek/Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 Written by Perl Li Having travelled to Taiwan numerous times, I…
Culture and Society Indigenous media in transformation: Languages and other factors in Taiwan September 21, 2019 0 Image credit: TITV and Alian Radio title on CTV Building 20180101 by Solomon203 /Creative Common, license CC BY-SA 4.0 Written by Chia Sui Crystal Sun What…
Culture and Society Taiwan cinema and Southeast Asian Chinese diaspora filmmakers: The case of Midi Z September 7, 2019 0 Written by Maja Korbecka. Image credit: untitled by it is elisa/Flickr, license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In recent years most representatives of Taiwanese cinema to gain recognition at the…
Culture and Society Teresa Teng: Mandopop icon, soldier’s sweetheart and Asian diva September 6, 2019 0 Written by Zuzana Shejbalová. Image credit: 邓丽君 Teresa Teng 鄧麗君 by hto2008/Flickr, license CC BY-NC 2.0 Teresa Teng, in Mandarin Deng Lijun 鄧麗君, was a Taiwanese singer…
Africa China’s media presence in Africa is growing fast. Is its influence growing at the same pace? August 29, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by goodwines/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. By Dani Madrid-Morales. In a 2018 report entitled ‘China’s Pursuit of a New World Media Order’, Reporters…
Film Crazy Rich Asians and competing Asian subjectivities August 9, 2019 1 Written by Mark Gallagher. Image Credit (header image and included screenshots): Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Directed by Jon M. Chu. [Film]. US: Warner Bros. Enterntainment. The…
China Media coverage of gods in China under an atheist regime July 29, 2019 0 By Qingjiang Yao and Zhaoxi Liu. Image Credit: Photo by Noliv O/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Although China officially follows an ideology of atheism, the number of religious…
