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Research paper thumbnail of Comparing sexual behaviours and knowledge between domestic students and Chinese international students in Australia: findings from two cross-sectional studies

Journal of STD and AIDS, 2020

Authors: Caitlin H Douglass , Can Qin, Fran Martin, Yinzong Xiao, Carol El-Hayek and Megan SC Li... more Authors:
Caitlin H Douglass , Can Qin, Fran Martin, Yinzong Xiao, Carol El-Hayek and Megan SC Lim.
Few studies investigate sexual health among Chinese international students in Australia. We recruited domestic (n ¼ 623) and Chinese international (n ¼ 500) students for separate online surveys on sexual behaviours and knowledge. Samples were compared using Chi square, Fisher's exact and equality of medians tests. Domestic students were more likely than international students to have ever touched a partner's genitals (81% vs. 53%, p < 0.01), had oral sex (76% vs. 44%, p < 0.01), vaginal intercourse (67% vs. 41%, p < 0.01) and anal intercourse (31% vs. 6%, p < 0.01). Domestic students were younger when they first touched a partner's genitals (16 vs. 18 years, p < 0.01), had oral sex (17 vs. 18 years, p < 0.01) and vaginal intercourse (17 vs. 18 years, p < 0.01). Domestic students were less likely than Chinese international students to report only one lifetime partner for touching genitals (22% vs. 50%, p < 0.01), oral sex (25% vs. 55%, p < 0.01), vaginal intercourse (30% vs. 58%, p < 0.01) and anal intercourse (54% vs. 88%, p < 0.01). Domestic students were more likely than Chinese international students to use the oral contraceptive pill (48% vs. 16%, p < 0.01) and long-acting reversible contraceptives (19% vs. 1%, p < 0.01). Domestic students scored higher than international students on a contraception and chlamydia quiz (4/5 vs. 2/5, p < 0.01). Domestic and Chinese international students differed in sexual behaviours and knowledge highlighting the need for relevant sexual health promotion for both groups.

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Research paper thumbnail of ‘A tangle of people messing around together’: Taiwanese variety television and the mediation of women's affective labour

Cultural Studies, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Australia in the field of trans-Asian media flows

Media International Australia, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Transcultural media practices fostering cosmopolitan ethos in a digital age: engagements with East Asian media in Australia

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of (Im)mobile precarity in the Asia-Pacific

Cultural Studies, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Overseas study as zone of suspension: Chinese students re-negotiating youth, gender, and intimacy

Journal of Intercultural Studies , 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Hamid Naficy, An Accented Cinema

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Research paper thumbnail of Media, Place, Sociality and National Publics: Chinese International Students in Translocal Networks

Globally, International tertiary students form a sizeable mobile population: in 2012, some 4.5 mi... more Globally, International tertiary students form a sizeable mobile population: in 2012, some 4.5 million studied outside their country of citizenship. In the face of the severe decline in government funding since the late 1980s, Australian universities have enthusiastically welcomed these students and the fee revenue they bring. Today, around one in five enrolments in Australian universities are by International students, with China by far the most significant sending nation. What are the implications of these developments? On one hand, Australian governments celebrate the economic success of the nation’s ‘education export’ strategy. On the other hand––particularly in light of ubiquitous broadband connectivity and students’ ready access to ‘homeland’ media––the intensifying inflow of International students has raised questions about both these students’ social experience in Australian cities, and the significance of their presence from the point of view of wider national civic life. I...

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Love and Remembrance

Backward Glances, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Chinese International Students’ Wellbeing in Australia: The Road to Recovery

The research findings on which this report is based arise from a five-year study funded by the Au... more The research findings on which this report is based arise from a five-year study funded by the Australian Research Council. Devoting herself fulltime to this project, between June 2015 and June 2020, the author undertook a multi-sited longitudinal ethnographic study of a core group of 50 young women from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) who travelled to Australia for tertiary education. The focus was on Chinese students’ social and subjective experiences of educational mobility: everything outside of study. This report addresses pragmatic questions about Chinese students’ experiences of life and wellbeing in Australian cities. A key purpose of this report is to identify problems in the Chinese international student experience. The study found that Chinese international students in Australia experience a number of vulnerabilities including: restricted access to reliable local information; exploitation in rental accommodation; racism, social exclusion, and restricted opportunities...

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Research paper thumbnail of Conclusion: Negotiating Modernities through Lifestyle Television

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Research paper thumbnail of “Overseas study as ‘escape route’ for young Chinese women.”

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Research paper thumbnail of Mapping the minor,' review of Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih (eds), Minor transnationalism

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Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 11. Stigmatic Bodies The Corporeal Qiu Miaojin

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Research paper thumbnail of Intimate attitudes, knowledges and practices: Chinese-speaking international students in Australia

In 2018, University of Melbourne and Burnet Institute conducted the survey Intimate attitudes, pr... more In 2018, University of Melbourne and Burnet Institute conducted the survey Intimate attitudes, practices and knowledges: Chinese-speaking international students in Australia. This study aimed to generate data on Chinese international students’ sexual experiences in order to inform sexual health service provision in Australia. We provide this summary report as a resource and reference for future work in this area. The survey was open for nine weeks and completed by 723 Chinese-speaking international students. Participants were aged 16 years and over, self-identified as Chinese-speaking international students, and were studying across Australia iin high schools, universities, language schools, foundation studies courses, and the Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) sectors. The majority (96%) of participants were from the mainland of the People’s Republic of China, and almost half (47%) had been in Australia for less than a year. The media...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Gender of Mobility: Chinese women students' self-making through transnational education

Our family lived in basically a rural area outside Dalian. My Dad was really serious about educat... more Our family lived in basically a rural area outside Dalian. My Dad was really serious about education. When I was in primary school—well in the city, [schools] all have English classes, right? But in the country that's not the case. So my Dad took me every single night to the English teacher's house to study, then he'd come back later to pick me up.... By the time I started junior high, I'd already learned everything they'd studied in class [in the city school]... Because I got good marks, [my Dad] wanted to give me the best education possible. So he sent me off to the Attached School of Dalian University of Technology, pretty much the best junior high school in the city. That's when I left home and began my own life.[1]

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Research paper thumbnail of A Self to Believe In: Negotiating Femininities in Sinophone Lifestyle Advice TV

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Research paper thumbnail of Navigating Online Down Under: International Students' Digital Journeys in Australia

Research focusing on the lived experiences of international students tends to centre directly on ... more Research focusing on the lived experiences of international students tends to centre directly on their educational experiences rather than their everyday lives outside their study space. Moreover, much of this research has concentrated almost exclusively on the various impacts of the physical and geographic mobility that international students make as they move from one country to another; with very little exploration of their digital experiences. At the same time, there is also extensive research on the social media and information seeking experiences of young people in different regions of the world. Some of these research provide a comparison of the different sources of information and uses of social media. However, there has been little research on what happens when these young people move regions/countries. Borrowing Chang and Gomes' (2017) concept of the Digital Journey where in crossing transnational borders, migrants might also cross digital borders which are culturally ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Differential (im)mobilities

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Research paper thumbnail of Transmigrant media: Mediating place, mobility, and subjectivity

International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2018

This article contributes to the exploration of interrelationships between human and media mobilit... more This article contributes to the exploration of interrelationships between human and media mobilities through analysis of qualitative interviews with 18 Southeast Asian transmigrants in Australia. This group demonstrated three main orientations toward the media they habitually engaged. In the memorial-affective orientation, respondents re-engaged media familiar from remembered pre-migration childhood and family contexts. An ambivalent-localizing orientation was taken toward Australian legacy media, some of which respondents found helped them relate to Australian culture while other forms were experienced as xenophobic and alienating. In the cosmopolitan-global orientation, respondents engaged global corporate, largely Anglophone media in ways that reinforced their sense of themselves as mobile and cosmopolitan. Most importantly, in our respondents’ experience, these three orientations were often not separable but interwoven into complex admixtures. We explore the implications of this...

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Research paper thumbnail of Comparing sexual behaviours and knowledge between domestic students and Chinese international students in Australia: findings from two cross-sectional studies

Journal of STD and AIDS, 2020

Authors: Caitlin H Douglass , Can Qin, Fran Martin, Yinzong Xiao, Carol El-Hayek and Megan SC Li... more Authors:
Caitlin H Douglass , Can Qin, Fran Martin, Yinzong Xiao, Carol El-Hayek and Megan SC Lim.
Few studies investigate sexual health among Chinese international students in Australia. We recruited domestic (n ¼ 623) and Chinese international (n ¼ 500) students for separate online surveys on sexual behaviours and knowledge. Samples were compared using Chi square, Fisher's exact and equality of medians tests. Domestic students were more likely than international students to have ever touched a partner's genitals (81% vs. 53%, p < 0.01), had oral sex (76% vs. 44%, p < 0.01), vaginal intercourse (67% vs. 41%, p < 0.01) and anal intercourse (31% vs. 6%, p < 0.01). Domestic students were younger when they first touched a partner's genitals (16 vs. 18 years, p < 0.01), had oral sex (17 vs. 18 years, p < 0.01) and vaginal intercourse (17 vs. 18 years, p < 0.01). Domestic students were less likely than Chinese international students to report only one lifetime partner for touching genitals (22% vs. 50%, p < 0.01), oral sex (25% vs. 55%, p < 0.01), vaginal intercourse (30% vs. 58%, p < 0.01) and anal intercourse (54% vs. 88%, p < 0.01). Domestic students were more likely than Chinese international students to use the oral contraceptive pill (48% vs. 16%, p < 0.01) and long-acting reversible contraceptives (19% vs. 1%, p < 0.01). Domestic students scored higher than international students on a contraception and chlamydia quiz (4/5 vs. 2/5, p < 0.01). Domestic and Chinese international students differed in sexual behaviours and knowledge highlighting the need for relevant sexual health promotion for both groups.

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Research paper thumbnail of ‘A tangle of people messing around together’: Taiwanese variety television and the mediation of women's affective labour

Cultural Studies, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Australia in the field of trans-Asian media flows

Media International Australia, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Transcultural media practices fostering cosmopolitan ethos in a digital age: engagements with East Asian media in Australia

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of (Im)mobile precarity in the Asia-Pacific

Cultural Studies, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Overseas study as zone of suspension: Chinese students re-negotiating youth, gender, and intimacy

Journal of Intercultural Studies , 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Hamid Naficy, An Accented Cinema

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Research paper thumbnail of Media, Place, Sociality and National Publics: Chinese International Students in Translocal Networks

Globally, International tertiary students form a sizeable mobile population: in 2012, some 4.5 mi... more Globally, International tertiary students form a sizeable mobile population: in 2012, some 4.5 million studied outside their country of citizenship. In the face of the severe decline in government funding since the late 1980s, Australian universities have enthusiastically welcomed these students and the fee revenue they bring. Today, around one in five enrolments in Australian universities are by International students, with China by far the most significant sending nation. What are the implications of these developments? On one hand, Australian governments celebrate the economic success of the nation’s ‘education export’ strategy. On the other hand––particularly in light of ubiquitous broadband connectivity and students’ ready access to ‘homeland’ media––the intensifying inflow of International students has raised questions about both these students’ social experience in Australian cities, and the significance of their presence from the point of view of wider national civic life. I...

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Love and Remembrance

Backward Glances, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Chinese International Students’ Wellbeing in Australia: The Road to Recovery

The research findings on which this report is based arise from a five-year study funded by the Au... more The research findings on which this report is based arise from a five-year study funded by the Australian Research Council. Devoting herself fulltime to this project, between June 2015 and June 2020, the author undertook a multi-sited longitudinal ethnographic study of a core group of 50 young women from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) who travelled to Australia for tertiary education. The focus was on Chinese students’ social and subjective experiences of educational mobility: everything outside of study. This report addresses pragmatic questions about Chinese students’ experiences of life and wellbeing in Australian cities. A key purpose of this report is to identify problems in the Chinese international student experience. The study found that Chinese international students in Australia experience a number of vulnerabilities including: restricted access to reliable local information; exploitation in rental accommodation; racism, social exclusion, and restricted opportunities...

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Research paper thumbnail of Conclusion: Negotiating Modernities through Lifestyle Television

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Research paper thumbnail of “Overseas study as ‘escape route’ for young Chinese women.”

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Research paper thumbnail of Mapping the minor,' review of Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih (eds), Minor transnationalism

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Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 11. Stigmatic Bodies The Corporeal Qiu Miaojin

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Research paper thumbnail of Intimate attitudes, knowledges and practices: Chinese-speaking international students in Australia

In 2018, University of Melbourne and Burnet Institute conducted the survey Intimate attitudes, pr... more In 2018, University of Melbourne and Burnet Institute conducted the survey Intimate attitudes, practices and knowledges: Chinese-speaking international students in Australia. This study aimed to generate data on Chinese international students’ sexual experiences in order to inform sexual health service provision in Australia. We provide this summary report as a resource and reference for future work in this area. The survey was open for nine weeks and completed by 723 Chinese-speaking international students. Participants were aged 16 years and over, self-identified as Chinese-speaking international students, and were studying across Australia iin high schools, universities, language schools, foundation studies courses, and the Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) sectors. The majority (96%) of participants were from the mainland of the People’s Republic of China, and almost half (47%) had been in Australia for less than a year. The media...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Gender of Mobility: Chinese women students' self-making through transnational education

Our family lived in basically a rural area outside Dalian. My Dad was really serious about educat... more Our family lived in basically a rural area outside Dalian. My Dad was really serious about education. When I was in primary school—well in the city, [schools] all have English classes, right? But in the country that's not the case. So my Dad took me every single night to the English teacher's house to study, then he'd come back later to pick me up.... By the time I started junior high, I'd already learned everything they'd studied in class [in the city school]... Because I got good marks, [my Dad] wanted to give me the best education possible. So he sent me off to the Attached School of Dalian University of Technology, pretty much the best junior high school in the city. That's when I left home and began my own life.[1]

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Research paper thumbnail of A Self to Believe In: Negotiating Femininities in Sinophone Lifestyle Advice TV

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Research paper thumbnail of Navigating Online Down Under: International Students' Digital Journeys in Australia

Research focusing on the lived experiences of international students tends to centre directly on ... more Research focusing on the lived experiences of international students tends to centre directly on their educational experiences rather than their everyday lives outside their study space. Moreover, much of this research has concentrated almost exclusively on the various impacts of the physical and geographic mobility that international students make as they move from one country to another; with very little exploration of their digital experiences. At the same time, there is also extensive research on the social media and information seeking experiences of young people in different regions of the world. Some of these research provide a comparison of the different sources of information and uses of social media. However, there has been little research on what happens when these young people move regions/countries. Borrowing Chang and Gomes' (2017) concept of the Digital Journey where in crossing transnational borders, migrants might also cross digital borders which are culturally ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Differential (im)mobilities

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Research paper thumbnail of Transmigrant media: Mediating place, mobility, and subjectivity

International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2018

This article contributes to the exploration of interrelationships between human and media mobilit... more This article contributes to the exploration of interrelationships between human and media mobilities through analysis of qualitative interviews with 18 Southeast Asian transmigrants in Australia. This group demonstrated three main orientations toward the media they habitually engaged. In the memorial-affective orientation, respondents re-engaged media familiar from remembered pre-migration childhood and family contexts. An ambivalent-localizing orientation was taken toward Australian legacy media, some of which respondents found helped them relate to Australian culture while other forms were experienced as xenophobic and alienating. In the cosmopolitan-global orientation, respondents engaged global corporate, largely Anglophone media in ways that reinforced their sense of themselves as mobile and cosmopolitan. Most importantly, in our respondents’ experience, these three orientations were often not separable but interwoven into complex admixtures. We explore the implications of this...

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Research paper thumbnail of Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia (Console-ing Passions)

Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating ... more Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual programs providing lifestyle guidance to viewers. In Telemodernities Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun demonstrate how lifestyle-oriented popular factual television illuminates key aspects of late modernities in South and East Asia, offering insights not only into early twenty-first-century media cultures but also into wider developments in the nature of public and private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement. Drawing on extensive interviews with television industry professionals and audiences across China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, Telemodernities uses popular lifestyle television as a tool to help us understand emergent forms of identity, sociality, and capitalist modernity in Asia.

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Telemodernities

Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating ... more Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual programs providing lifestyle guidance to viewers. In Telemodernities Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun demonstrate how lifestyle-oriented popular factual television illuminates key aspects of late modernities in South and East Asia, offering insights not only into early twenty-first-century media cultures but also into wider developments in the nature of public and private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement. Drawing on extensive interviews with television industry professionals and audiences across China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, Telemodernities uses popular lifestyle television as a tool to help us understand emergent forms of identity, sociality, and capitalist modernity in Asia.

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Research paper thumbnail of Lifestyle Media in Asia: Consumption, Aspiration and Identity ed by Fran Martin and Tania Lewis (Routledge 2016)

Across Asia, consumer culture is increasingly shaping everyday life, with neoliberal economic and... more Across Asia, consumer culture is increasingly shaping everyday life, with neoliberal economic and social policies increasingly adopted by governments who see their citizens as individualised, sovereign consumers with choices about their lifestyles and identities. One aspect of this development has been the emergence of new wealthy middle classes with lifestyle aspirations shaped by national, regional and global media - especially by a range of new popular lifestyle media, which includes magazines, television and mobile and social media. This book explores how far everyday conceptions and experiences of identity are being transformed by media cultures across the region. It considers a range of different media in different Asian contexts, contrasting how the shaping of lifestyles in Asia differs from similar processes in Western countries, and assessing how the new lifestyle media represents not just a new emergent media culture, but also illustrates wider cultural and social changes in the Asian region.

Table of Contents

1. Chua Beng Huat—Foreword: Rethinking Consumption in Economic Recessionary East Asia
2. Fran Martin and Tania Lewis—Lifestyle Media in Asia: Consumption, Aspiration and Identity
3. Sun Jung— Neoliberal Capitalism and Media Representation in Korean Television Series: Subversion and Sustainability
4. Wu Jing— Family, Aesthetic Authority and Class Identity in the Shadow of Neo-liberal Modernity: The Cultural Politics of Exchanging Space
5. Wanning Sun—Mediatization of Yangsheng: The Political and Cultural Economy of Health Education through Media in China
6. Yue Gao— The Pink Ribbon Campaign in Chinese Fashion Magazines: Celebrity, Luxury Life-Styles and Consumerism
7. Fang-chih Irene Yang— Empresses In The Palace and The Project of “Neoliberalization through China” in Taiwan
8. Youna Kim—Media and Cultural Cosmopolitanism: Asian Women in Transnational Flows
9. Fran Martin— Differential (Im)mobilities: Imaginative Transnationalism in Taiwanese Women’s Travel TV
10. Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Sarah Pink, Baohua Zhou, Fumitoshi Kato, Genevieve Bell, Kana Ohashi, Chris Malmo, and Miao Xiao—Locating the Mobile: Intergenerational Locative Media in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne
11. Tania Lewis—Dishing Up Diversity? Class, Aspirationalism and Indian Food Television
12. Bart Barendregt and Chris Hudson— Islam´s Got Talent: Television, Performance and the Islamic Public Sphere in Malaysia

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Research paper thumbnail of “Taiwan’s Literature of Transgressive Sexuality,” in Fran Martin (trans.) Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction From Taiwan, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003, pp. 1-28.

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Research paper thumbnail of Learning East Asia: Media as Vernacular Cosmopolitan Pedagogy

Learning East Asia: Media as Vernacular Cosmopolitan Pedagogy,, 2019

MARTIN, F. “Learning East Asia: Media as Vernacular Cosmopolitan Pedagogy,” as part of an organiz... more MARTIN, F. “Learning East Asia: Media as Vernacular Cosmopolitan Pedagogy,” as part of an organized panel, “Trans-Asia Media Circuits Beyond Asia,” at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Biennial Conference, “Fluid Circuits: Cultures of Knowledge After the Digital Turn.” Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines, August 1-3, 2019.

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