This collection includes a wide-ranging set of essays exploring how the media (from art cinema to online social networking sites) both record and help produce images and experiences of modernity in the Asia-Pacific region. Collectively this book argues for the importance of gender to understanding how modernity is produced and experienced.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

1. Introduction Catherine Driscoll and Meaghan Morris 2. Subjects of Distance Catherine Driscoll 3. A Tangle of People Messing Around Together Fran Martin 4. Cuteness as a Subtle Strategy Qiu Zitong 5. Fighting Women in Contemporary Asian Cinema Jan Chi Hyun Park 6. The State of Fantasy in Emergency Kim Soyoung 7. To Derail Thinking Laleen Jayamanne

Catherine Driscoll is Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at The University of Sydney, Australia. Her recent books include Modernist Cultural Studies (2009) and Teen Film: A Critical Introduction (2011).

Meaghan Morris is a leading international figure in cultural studies. She is currently Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at The University of Sydney, Australia, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Her recent books include Identity Anecdotes (2006) and Creativity and Academic Activism (ed. with Mette Hjort, 2012).