Tania Lewis is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of Research in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University (Melbourne).
Fran Martin is Associate Professor and Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Wanning Sun is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Technology Sydney.

Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction: Telemodernities  1

1. Lifestyle Television in Context: Media Industries, Cultural Economies, and Genre Flows  25

2. Local versus Metropolitan Television in China: Stratification of Needs, Taste, and Spatial Imagination  52

3. Here, There, and Everywhere: Mediascapes, Geographic Imaginaries, and Indian Television  82

4. Imagining Global Mobility: TLC Taiwan  106

5. Gurus, Babas, and Daren: Popular Experts on Chinese and Indian Advice TV  126

6. Magical Modernities: Spiritual Advice TV in India and Taiwan  157

7. Risky Romance: Navigating Late Modern Identities and Relationships on Chinese and Indian Lifestyle TV  196

8. A Self to Believe In: Negotiating Femininities in Sinophone Lifestyle Advice TV  222

Conclusion: Negotiating Modernities through Lifestyle Television  254

Notes  271

Works Cited  281

Index  305

Tania Lewis is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of Research in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University (Melbourne).

Fran Martin is Associate Professor and Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Wanning Sun is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Technology Sydney.