Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia

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1	Introduction
2	Theorizing media freedom in Asia
PART 1 East Asia
	3 Social media with Chinese characteristics: implications for press freedom
	4	Borrowing, buying and building boats: how China exerts its influence over the press in Asia
	5	Press freedom in China under Xi Jinping
	6	Japan’s activist news media: how and why reporters and news organizations became a positive force in confronting a negative past
	7	Fortress Okinawa: Japan’s media and the US military footprint
	8	Press freedom in South Korea
	9	External threat and internal defence: freedom of the press in Taiwan, 2008–2018
PART 2 Southeast Asia
	10	The Indonesian press: between the state, market, politics and society
	11	Press freedom in Malaysia: an awakening for the media?
	12 Media freedom in Myanmar: one step forward, two steps back
	13	Press repression in Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi, the Reuters reporters and the Rohingya
	14	Press freedom in the Philippines
	15	Press freedom chained in Thailand
	16	Vietnamese media going social: connectivism, collectivism and conservatism
PART 3 South Asia
	17 Press freedom in Bangladesh: how to kill the Fourth Estate in 48 years or less
	18	Killing press freedom in India
	19	Muzzling the press: military control and journalism in Jammu and Kashmir
	20	Challenges of press freedom in Nepal
	21	Pakistani media under siege
	22	Free and fair media: a distant dream for Sri Lanka
PART 4 Internet freedom
	23	The polemics of internet freedom in Asia: Reality, perception and attitudes
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