... of lifestyle programming in China Taiwan, and India, as well as the cultural economy of genres and formats in these sites. Combining policy analysis with institutional and historical snapshots, interviews with industry staffers, and mapping of television schedules and ratings, we outline the political...

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... This chapter focuses on the legal status of multiracial people in British Central Africa and how they challenged categories of native and non-native by fitting into neither. colonial law racial descent native status non-native status cultural lifestyle ...

... native status non-native status cultural lifestyle This chapter examines colonial state commissions that addressed these communities from the 1930s through the 1950s. Commissions social welfare poverty knowledge ...

... Chapter 2 is the first of three chapters that pivot around imaginative geographies, focusing on how people’s engagements with lifestyle television involve imagining place at a range of scales, from the perceived relation between regional localities and national metropolises to the relation...

... This chapter introduces the key conceptual, theoretical, and empirical contexts underpinning the book, and shows how lifestyle TV is implicated in broader transformations of individual identity and collective sociality in the region. It maps the social, cultural, and economic contexts...

... Continuing the exploration of individualization and gender, chapter 8 surveys women’s lifestyle-advice shows from China and Taiwan, drawing on audience research on the reception of these shows across China, Taiwan, and Singapore to explore transforming models of feminine identity...

... Chapters 5 through 8 offer in-depth analyses of specific examples of life advice television across three countries, providing insights into the ways in which transforming relationships between state- and market-led regulation of culture are played out in lifestyle TV’s representations...

... Chapter 7 moves into the territory of love and relationships. In recent years, TV audiences in both China and India have been exposed to a growing number of reality and lifestyle shows focused on dating, marriage, parenting, and love relationships. While, like spirituality, the affective...

... that emerge there from the confluence of religious, supernatural beliefs and late modern media cultures. While religious programming is banned by the state in China, in India and Taiwan, a variety of gods, sages, sacred texts, and rituals are presented to and interpreted for viewers to help them manage...

... Because diabetes is so closely correlated to lifestyle, those experiencing it are often subjected to public shaming that is both insidious and overt, treated by family members, acquaintances, employee benefits administrators, journalists, and even health professionals as responsible...

... Dubai is the Middle East’s most “global city,” and the only one from the region to make the top-ten list of medical tourism destinations. Through state-sponsored cultural cosmopolitanism, Dubai is becoming an attractive destination for “global cosmopolitans”—mostly young professional couples...

... poor and working-class people, popular customs, and picaresque behavior were imagined as part of a familiar, friendly urban space, one whose continuity was threatened by economic progress, urban growth, political changes, and the overall fascination with “modern” lifestyles. Traditionalist Ricardo...

... authenticity of folk culture and a high cultural legitimation. Third, the protagonists are all modeled after social bandits, who embody a wish-fulfilling, contradictory national belonging to a European cultural sphere and a voluntary submission to exoticizing Western European images of the periphery...

... Thanks to the promotional efforts of Fred Brathwaite, Michael Holman, and Ruza Blue in particular, the idea that hip hop existed as a cohesive culture that melded the four elements of DJ-ing, MC-ing, breaking, and graffiti had become a reality by the time Wild Style premiered in the United States...