... In chapter 4, Sara L. Friedman examines the work performed by identity and travel documents in contexts of contested citizenship and sovereignty, focusing on the largely de facto sovereignty experienced by Taiwan as a consequence of its contested relationship with China. By analyzing the...

... Chapter 4 extends the analysis of lifestyle television’s role in shaping imaginative geographies through a study of the U.S.-owned Travel and Living Channel—available in many countries across Asia—in Taiwan. Interviews with Taiwanese viewers suggest that one of the most notable impacts of this...

... Themes raised in chapter 5 are developed further in chapter 6 on “enchanted” rather than “modern-rational” forms of expertise. This chapter turns to religious, spiritual, and supernatural life advice television in India and Taiwan to explore the distinctive counternarratives of modernity that...