Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xii

Introduction

pp 1-24

Part One - Local desire and global anxieties

pp 25-26

1 - Desperately guarding borders: media globalization, “cultural imperialism” and the rise of “Asia”

pp 27-45

2 - Modernity and Mahathir's rage: theorizing state discourse of mass media in Southeast Asia

pp 46-69

3 - Representing state desire and the sins of transgression

pp 70-94

4 - McNationalism in Singapore

pp 95-116

Part Two - Identity, the state, and post-modernity

pp 117-118

5 - National identity, diasporic anxiety, and music video culture in Vietnam

pp 119-149

6 - The post-modernization of Thainess

pp 150-170

Part Three - State power, development, and the spectre of nation-building

pp 171-172

7 - Cultural claims on the new world order: Malaysia as a voice for the Third World?

pp 173-190

8 - (De)constructing the New Order: capitalism and the cultural contours of the patrimonial state in Indonesia

pp 191-212

9 - The state and information in modern Southeast Asian history

pp 213-240

Part Four

pp 241-242

10 - Representing the Singapore modern: Dick Lee, pop music, and the “New” Asia

pp 243-269

11 - Pictures at an exhibition: re-presenting the sugar industry at the Negros Museum, Philippines

pp 270-286

12 - Stars in the shadows: celebrity, media, and the state in Vietnam

pp 287-312

13 - On the expressway, and under it: representations of the middle class, the poor, and democracy in Thailand

pp 313-338

Index

pp 339-342