Dr Chris Hudson is Associate Professor of Asian Media and Culture and Director of Higher Degrees by Research in the School of Media and Communication at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. She has published widely on Asia, including >Beyond the Singapore Girl: Discourses of Gender and Nation in Singapore.>
Bart Barendregt is an associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. He is editor of Sonic Modernities in the Malay World (Brill, 2014), and co-editor of Green Consumption: The Global Rise of Eco-Chic (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Chapter 1 Global Imaginaries and Performance in Asia Chris Hudson and Bart Barendregt, Chapter 2 Globalizing the Imagination: Introductory Reflections Terrell Carver, Chapter 3 Weddings, Yoga, Hookups: Performed Identities and Technology in Bali Craig Latrell, Chapter 4 Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich and the ideal of convenience in Japan Peter Eckersall, Chapter 5 Unearthing the past and re-imagining the present: Contemporary art and Muslim politics in post-9/11 Indonesia Leonie Schmidt, Chapter 6 Keeping Communists Alive in Singapore Chua Beng Huat, Chapter 7 Performative pedagogies: lifestyle experts on Indian television Tania Lewis,, Chapter 8 Performing Cities: The Philippines Pavilion at the Shanghai International Exposition William Peterson, Chapter 9 Mobile Performance and the In-between: Yogyakarta comes to Melbourne Chris Hudson, Chapter 10 An Islamist Flash mob in the Streets of Shah Alam Bart Barendregt, Chapter 11 Pure Love? Sanitized, Gendered and Multiple Modernities in Chinese Cinemas Jeroen de Kloet, Chapter 12 Yogya on Stage Barbara Hatley