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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I LIBERALIZING HEALTH -- 1 Mediations of Health and the Development of a Nation: Late Suharto, Late Modernity -- 2 Reporting HIV and its Broader Impact in Asia: The Case of Papua New Guinea (PNG) -- 3 Reading HIV/AIDS in the Indian Media: Social, Cultural and Economic Constructions -- 4 Press Coverage of Bird Flu Epidemic in Vietnam -- PART II FEMINIZING HEALTH -- 5 Caesarean Birth, Media, Motherhood and Nation in Taiwan -- 6 Information and Decision Making among Women with Breast Cancer: Constraints on the Informed Decision -- 7 Making the Oral Contraceptive "for Me" in Japan: Managing the Semiotics of Reproductive Health in Virtual Space -- PART III POPULARIZING HEALTH -- 8 The Radio Communication Project in Nepal: Culture, Power, and Meaning in Constructions of Health -- 9 Of Plastic Beauties and Flower Boys: Representations of Cosmetic Surgery in South Korean Films -- 10 When Distortion is Normal: The Media and Body Image Disturbance among Young People in Hong Kong -- 11 How to Live: Reading China's Popular Health Media -- Index.

Explores the memories generated and histories constructed by the transnational circulation of popular media texts amongst East Asia and between East and Southeast Asia. It looks at the impact of nostalgia and heritage within popular culture over the decades.

The soft-authoritarian and severe image of contemporary Singapore has often been associated with the imposing and paternalistic presence of Lee Kuan Yew who has overseen the city-state as prime minister and subsequently, senior statesman since 1959. Unlike the statues and street-names dedicated to other founding leaders in newly decolonized countries, Lee has consciously discouraged any public portraitures of himself in Singapore. However, as his presence fades with ailing health in the recent years, his images are beginning to surface in figurines, coffee table books and even street art. Over in the social and alternative media, there is an increasingly more irreverent use of the Hokkien/Minan term 'limpeh' or 'your father' as parodies of Lee's unyielding paternalism. As a masculinistic self-assertion of one's authority, 'limpeh' is often crudely associated with the Hokkien/Minan-speaking ethnic Singaporean Chinese working class. Singaporeans have also recognized the characteristics of 'limpeh' with the authoritarian legacy of Lee who had displayed little mercy in crushing his political rivals and pushing his social vision to society. In this respect, these popular communications can be seen as the cacophony of emerging voices of the city-state in a late authoritarian phase.

For close on half a century, the British naval dockyard in Singapore was a prominent employer in the colony. The huge facility attracted migrant workers from the region, and entire settlements and communities were established around the premises of the dockyard as well. This article seeks to place the legacy of Singapore's naval-base workers within the historical contexts of the entanglements between imperialism, diaspora, social movements, and labour resistance. The development of international labour flows, formation, and identity was reflected in the prominence of the migrant Malayalee community and its socio-religious organizations at the naval base. Furthermore, the routine individual defiance and industrial unrest went beyond disputes about wage levels and working conditions. They were enmeshed within the broader undercurrents of Singapore's transitory political culture, and between the interwar decades and the period of decolonization disturbances at the naval dockyard became part of larger political contestations.

Jamit Singh's legacy as a charismatic trade unionist and political activist on Singapore's waterfront coincided with its changing political developments. He was instrumental in bringing about this change by transforming the dock workers into an effective political force. His subsequent banishment by the People's Action Party government brought an end to a colourful episode in the history of Singapore's harbour.