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1. Introduction: Gender, modernity and media in the Asia-Pacific Catherine Driscoll and Meaghan Morris 2. Subjects of Distance: The modernity of the Australian country girl Catherine Driscoll 3. ‘A Tangle of People Messing Around Together’: Taiwanese variety television and the mediation of women’s affective labour Fran Martin 4. Cuteness as a Subtle Strategy: Urban female youth and the online feizhuliu culture in contemporary China Qiu Zitong 5. Fighting Women in Contemporary Asian Cinema: The celebration of the inauthentic in My Wife is a Gangster and Chocolate Jan Chi Hyun Park 6. The State of Fantasy in Emergency: Fantasmatic others in South Korean films Kim Soyoung 7. To Derail Thinking: On shuttling between Australia and India as a former Ceylonese Laleen Jayamanne