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Routledge eBooks, May 13, 2021
Based on an ethnography of young women from China studying in Melbourne, this article explores pa... more Based on an ethnography of young women from China studying in Melbourne, this article explores participants' experiences of living in a super-diverse city, and questions whether extant theoretical accounts of everyday multiculturalism are adequate to understand the experience of these residents. In 2016, Melbourne's Chinese student community was rocked by a prolonged spate of mobile phone thefts that Chinese-language social media framed as ethnically targeted attacks on Chinese people by "African gangs." This article considers participants' responses to these incidents, alongside the racialized reportage of them on the WeChat public accounts that are participants' main source of local news. The article mounts a critique of the media ethics inherent in this form of news delivery. It extends the everyday multiculturalism framework with an example that deals not with a strongly hybrid migrant youth culture, but rather with young migrants socialized into a monocultural society encountering everyday life in super-diversity.
Lifestyle media in Asia
Routledge eBooks, May 20, 2016
Introduction [to AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities]
University of Illinois Press eBooks, 2008
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration: Online attitudes towards Westerners and the west in China
Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs, Feb 11, 2023
This article aims to unpack discourses of ‘race’ and racializations associated with White Western... more This article aims to unpack discourses of ‘race’ and racializations associated with White Western foreign residents in China amid pandemic politics. China's proposal to loosen visa regulations for non‐citizens during the pandemic (February 2020) sparked many racist and nationalistic sentiments online. Since then, exposés of the ‘special treatment’ foreigners apparently demand during quarantine in China have met significant online backlash. Anti‐foreigner sentiments are at a new high and not only against African migrants, who have been the focus of extant studies. COVID‐19 hit the world at a time of vast international migration into China and China's growing power, and the revival of existing racializations and the ignition of new ones are intricately linked with these phenomena. This article proposes that understanding the conditioning contexts of Chinese postcoloniality and state‐led patriotism can enable valuable insights into the emerging racialization of White Westerners in pandemic‐era China.
Imagining Global Mobility
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 9, 2016
Lifestyle Television in Context
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 9, 2016
Gurus, Babas, and Daren
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 9, 2016
Local versus Metropolitan Television in China
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 9, 2016
Angelwings
On the first damp, gray day of 1999, an unsuspecting passerby en route to the vegetable market in... more On the first damp, gray day of 1999, an unsuspecting passerby en route to the vegetable market in Taipei's Gongguan neighborhood, near National Taiwan University, might have been startled to stumble on a street-side drag show in full swing, aswirl with all the fabulous frocks and stellar talents of some of the city's better-known drag artists. The inquiring pedestrian might then have peered through the window of the adjacent bookstore to see stacks of Chinese paperbacks and lifestyle magazines crammed into a tiny retail area, jostling for space with rainbow flags, buttons, and posters. It was the opening party for Gin Gin's, Taiwan's first dedicated gay and lesbian bookstore. Gin Gin's opening in the final year of the 1990s stands as a fitting culmination of a remarkable decade in which lesbian, gay, and queer sexualities became a major focus of public attention and anxiety in Taiwan's public sphere. 1 It would not be an exaggeration to say that
Risky Romance
Telemodernities
Magical Modernities
Telemodernities
In Taiwan today, as in many other parts of east Asia from mainland China to South Korea to Japan,... more In Taiwan today, as in many other parts of east Asia from mainland China to South Korea to Japan, tens of thousands of young women are passionately engaged in consuming, producing, trading, talking about and even re-enacting comic-book narratives of love and sex between boys and yo ung men. These homoerotic manga comics are known among their Taiwanese fans as 'BL,' for ' boys' love' (Figures 11 .1-11.4). This chapter proposes that in teraction with BL texts enables women fans to engage actively with questions of gender and sexuali ty which are central to their own everyday experience as young female-bodied social subjects, and which can be negotiated 'at one remove' through the BL stories of male ho moerotic romance.
Media International Australia, 2020
Telemodernities
Telemodernities
The Journal of Asian Studies, 2011
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.
Cultural Studies, 2013
Taiwanese variety television and the mediation of women's affective labour This paper explores ho... more Taiwanese variety television and the mediation of women's affective labour This paper explores how Taiwanese women's variety television shows mediate social expectations about women's work, both waged and unwaged. In particular, I argue that the 2011 women's variety programme Shoun€ u Buman Zu《熟女不 滿 族》 , lit. unsatisfied mature-women tribe) negotiates both the feminization of everyday domestic risk and expectations surrounding the embodied practices of women's affective labour. I propose that the programme's mediation of these issues takes place at three levels: thematic, performed and formal. First, offering 'expert' advice on managing the opportunities and risks associated with women's everyday lives in late-modern consumer culture, the discussion themes on Unsatisfied Shoun€ u readily lend themselves to analysis in terms of the feminization of risk and risk management. Second, the embodied performances of the programme's presentersincluding their speech, movement and on-screen interactionsmodel hegemonic formations of feminine habitus, especially the emotional work it involves. Third, the formal properties of this genre, especially the use of post-production effects, instantiate an amplification of the bodily-affective work of normative feminine social interaction. In representing the labours of femininity on these three levels, these programmes make readily visible some of the defining features of available formations of feminine subjecthood in Taiwan today, while highlighting commercial television's role in the socialization of women's affective capacities.
Media International Australia, 2020
Routledge eBooks, May 13, 2021
Based on an ethnography of young women from China studying in Melbourne, this article explores pa... more Based on an ethnography of young women from China studying in Melbourne, this article explores participants' experiences of living in a super-diverse city, and questions whether extant theoretical accounts of everyday multiculturalism are adequate to understand the experience of these residents. In 2016, Melbourne's Chinese student community was rocked by a prolonged spate of mobile phone thefts that Chinese-language social media framed as ethnically targeted attacks on Chinese people by "African gangs." This article considers participants' responses to these incidents, alongside the racialized reportage of them on the WeChat public accounts that are participants' main source of local news. The article mounts a critique of the media ethics inherent in this form of news delivery. It extends the everyday multiculturalism framework with an example that deals not with a strongly hybrid migrant youth culture, but rather with young migrants socialized into a monocultural society encountering everyday life in super-diversity.
Lifestyle media in Asia
Routledge eBooks, May 20, 2016
Introduction [to AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities]
University of Illinois Press eBooks, 2008
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration: Online attitudes towards Westerners and the west in China
Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs, Feb 11, 2023
This article aims to unpack discourses of ‘race’ and racializations associated with White Western... more This article aims to unpack discourses of ‘race’ and racializations associated with White Western foreign residents in China amid pandemic politics. China's proposal to loosen visa regulations for non‐citizens during the pandemic (February 2020) sparked many racist and nationalistic sentiments online. Since then, exposés of the ‘special treatment’ foreigners apparently demand during quarantine in China have met significant online backlash. Anti‐foreigner sentiments are at a new high and not only against African migrants, who have been the focus of extant studies. COVID‐19 hit the world at a time of vast international migration into China and China's growing power, and the revival of existing racializations and the ignition of new ones are intricately linked with these phenomena. This article proposes that understanding the conditioning contexts of Chinese postcoloniality and state‐led patriotism can enable valuable insights into the emerging racialization of White Westerners in pandemic‐era China.
Imagining Global Mobility
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 9, 2016
Lifestyle Television in Context
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 9, 2016
Gurus, Babas, and Daren
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 9, 2016
Local versus Metropolitan Television in China
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 9, 2016
Angelwings
On the first damp, gray day of 1999, an unsuspecting passerby en route to the vegetable market in... more On the first damp, gray day of 1999, an unsuspecting passerby en route to the vegetable market in Taipei's Gongguan neighborhood, near National Taiwan University, might have been startled to stumble on a street-side drag show in full swing, aswirl with all the fabulous frocks and stellar talents of some of the city's better-known drag artists. The inquiring pedestrian might then have peered through the window of the adjacent bookstore to see stacks of Chinese paperbacks and lifestyle magazines crammed into a tiny retail area, jostling for space with rainbow flags, buttons, and posters. It was the opening party for Gin Gin's, Taiwan's first dedicated gay and lesbian bookstore. Gin Gin's opening in the final year of the 1990s stands as a fitting culmination of a remarkable decade in which lesbian, gay, and queer sexualities became a major focus of public attention and anxiety in Taiwan's public sphere. 1 It would not be an exaggeration to say that
Risky Romance
Telemodernities
Magical Modernities
Telemodernities
In Taiwan today, as in many other parts of east Asia from mainland China to South Korea to Japan,... more In Taiwan today, as in many other parts of east Asia from mainland China to South Korea to Japan, tens of thousands of young women are passionately engaged in consuming, producing, trading, talking about and even re-enacting comic-book narratives of love and sex between boys and yo ung men. These homoerotic manga comics are known among their Taiwanese fans as 'BL,' for ' boys' love' (Figures 11 .1-11.4). This chapter proposes that in teraction with BL texts enables women fans to engage actively with questions of gender and sexuali ty which are central to their own everyday experience as young female-bodied social subjects, and which can be negotiated 'at one remove' through the BL stories of male ho moerotic romance.
Media International Australia, 2020
Telemodernities
Telemodernities
The Journal of Asian Studies, 2011
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.
Cultural Studies, 2013
Taiwanese variety television and the mediation of women's affective labour This paper explores ho... more Taiwanese variety television and the mediation of women's affective labour This paper explores how Taiwanese women's variety television shows mediate social expectations about women's work, both waged and unwaged. In particular, I argue that the 2011 women's variety programme Shoun€ u Buman Zu《熟女不 滿 族》 , lit. unsatisfied mature-women tribe) negotiates both the feminization of everyday domestic risk and expectations surrounding the embodied practices of women's affective labour. I propose that the programme's mediation of these issues takes place at three levels: thematic, performed and formal. First, offering 'expert' advice on managing the opportunities and risks associated with women's everyday lives in late-modern consumer culture, the discussion themes on Unsatisfied Shoun€ u readily lend themselves to analysis in terms of the feminization of risk and risk management. Second, the embodied performances of the programme's presentersincluding their speech, movement and on-screen interactionsmodel hegemonic formations of feminine habitus, especially the emotional work it involves. Third, the formal properties of this genre, especially the use of post-production effects, instantiate an amplification of the bodily-affective work of normative feminine social interaction. In representing the labours of femininity on these three levels, these programmes make readily visible some of the defining features of available formations of feminine subjecthood in Taiwan today, while highlighting commercial television's role in the socialization of women's affective capacities.
Media International Australia, 2020
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.
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
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.