This book presents an analysis of television histories across India, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia and Bhutan. It offers a set of standard data on the history of television’s cultural, industrial and political structures in each specific national context, allowing for cross-regional comparative analysis.

1. Introduction: Television Histories in Asia: Nation Building, Modernization & Marketization 2. Television, Scale and Place-Identity in the PRC: Provincial, National and Global Influences from 1958-2013 3. Trust and Television in Globalizing India 4. Watching television in Bhutan 5. Battling Angels and Golden Orange Blossoms: Thai Television and/as the Popular Public Sphere 6. Dramatizing the nation: television, history and the construction of Singaporean identity 7. Workingwomen and Romance on Japanese Television Dramas: Changes Since Tokyo Love Story 8. Unpacking Multiculturalism and Islam in Malaysia: State-corporate television celebrations of Bangsa Malaysia 9. The Television of Intervention: Mediating Patron-Client Ties in the Philippines 10. Taiyu Serial Dramas in Taiwan: A History of Problem-Making 11. Shifts in Korean Television Music Programs: Democratisation, Transnationalisation, Digitalisation 12. The Stormy Times: Television Theme Songs and the development of Hong Kong Television Dramas