The role of lifestyle television in transforming culture, citizenship and selfhood: Australia, China, Taiwan, Singapore and India

Funding: 2010: $21,469
2011: $25,000
2012: $10,000
2013: $6,000

Project Member(s): Sun, W.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2010

Summary: Television now reaches 97% of the population in China and Indian TV is among the world's fastest growing industries. Despite its dominance as a media form in our region, in Australia we know little about the social and cultural dimensions of television in Asia. By researching lifestyle TV - a genre concerned with promoting new forms of lifestyle and consumption - this project will help us comprehend the shifting cultural, economic and social dynamics of our region, contributing to Research Priority 4. Through engagement with Asian cultures and scholarship, it will also help position Australian media research as relevant both regionally and internationally and will help to inform Australian TV producers of new developments in the region.

Publications:

Sun, W & Lei, W 2018, '‘My health is my own business’: Radio, television and advice media in post-Mao China', International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 139-154.
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Lewis, T, Martin, F & Sun, W 2016, Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia, Duke University Press, USA.

Sun, W 2016, 'Green Asia' in Lewis, T (ed), Green Asia: Ecocultures, Sustainable Lifestyles, and Ethical Consumption, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 99-113.
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Sun, W 2016, 'Lifestyle Media in Asia' in Fran, M & Tania, L (eds), Lifestyle Media in Asia Consumption, Aspiration and Identity, Routledge, New York, pp. 67-81.
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Hassid, J & Sun, W 2015, 'Stability Maintenance and Chinese Media: Beyond Political Communication?', Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 3-15.
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Sun, W 2015, 'Cultivating self-health subjects: Yangsheng and biocitizenship in urban China', CITIZENSHIP STUDIES, vol. 19, no. 3-4, pp. 285-298.
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Sun, W 2015, 'From Poisonous Weeds to Endangered Species: Shenghuo TV, Media Ecology and Stability Maintenance', Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 17-37.
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Sun, W 2014, 'Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century' in Bai, R & Song, G (eds), Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century: Entertaining the Nation, Routledge, London, pp. 17-32.
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FOR Codes: Film, Television and Digital Media, Screen and Media Culture, The Media, Screen and digital media

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UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.