Böcker av Fran Martin

Topics covered include the impacts of China’s economic and geopolitical global rise on cross-border media, financial, and human flows; everyday experiences of cultural globalization by ordinary Chinese people; and the ways in which transnationalization transforms representations, understandings, and practices of class, gender, race, nationality, and ethnicity in China. Contributors: Fanni Beck, Haijing Dai, Qian Gong, Christina Ho, Shuheng Jin, Anita Koo, Shih-Diing Liu, Fran Martin, Jacqueline Nelson, Pál Nyíri, Ngai Pun, Dallas Rogers, Lin Song, Huan Wu, Ting-Fai Yu

Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun analyze the complex social and cultural significance of lifestyle television programming in China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, showing how it adds insight into late Asian modernity, media cultures, and broad shifts in the nature of private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement.

An analysis of the dominant patterns in the representation of erotic and romantic love between women in contemporary film, television, and fiction from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Interpreting Everyday Culture is a comprehensive introduction to cultural studies approaches to everyday life. It is a lively, accessible textbook that prompts its readers to take a fresh, critical look at familiar yet strangely intriguing terrain of daily life.