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ID17263
NAMEF Martins
GIVEN NAMESF
FAMILY NAMEMartins
SIGNATUREMARTINS F
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0003-1265-9577
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS177
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8
  • Changing Place, Changing Time

    Open Access•F Martins•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2026

    Focussing on a group of middle‐class women from China who studied in Australia and migrated there post‐study, this paper contributes to the nascent amalgamation of educational mobility with lifestyle mobility conceptual frameworks. It analyses Chinese student‐switching as a form of lifestyle‐motivated middling migration facilitated by Australia's skill‐based immigration regime, and driven by the graduates' desires to escape the temporal regime of…

  • Gender and education mobilities in China and India

    Open Access•Leya Mathew, F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 21

  • Mobile genders

    Open Access•Hao Zheng, F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 27

    Mobile genders: the trans* journeys of Chinese students in Australia

  • Digital Masquerade

    F Martins•ARTICLE•The China Journal•2024

  • Guest Editor's Introduction—Expansive Trajectories

    F Martins•ARTICLE•positions asia critique•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 14

    This introductory article reflects critically on the history of Chinese transnationalism studies in relation to intensifying cross-border engagements by PR Chinese state and nonstate actors today. Revisiting 1990s scholarship on Chinese transnationalism(s), it argues that the global China concept helps us attend to the significant impacts of China’s economic and geopolitical rise on earlier patterns of transborder cultural flows, hence to the way…

  • Planning for a healthy baby and a healthy pregnancy

    Open Access•F Martins, F Martin et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2024•References: 9

    As opioid fatalities rise in North America, the need to improve the supports available to those who are dependent on opioids and pregnant has become more urgent. This paper discusses the social organisation of drug treatment supports for those who are pregnant, using Canadian clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) as a case study. Pregnant patients are a priority population for MMT, both in Canada and intern…

  • Education mobility’s (gender) queer potentials for Chinese students in Australia

    F Martins, Fran Martin•ARTICLE•Melbourne Asia Review•2023

  • The 2019 Australian federal election on WeChat Official Accounts

    Fan Yang, F Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Melbourne Asia Review•2020

    It's terrible!These people committed suicide after the Australian election!""The Australian election took a surprising turn!House prices are escalating!It will affect Chinese people's lives in these ways..." "After the election, tens of thousands of Australians are preparing to escape!'We can't stay in Australia anymore!' Some have submitted immigration applications to other countries!"Headlines like these-sensational, conspiratorial, demonstrabl…

  • Transcultural media practices fostering cosmopolitan ethos in a digital age

    F Martins, Koichi Iwabuchi et al.•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    The increasingly transnational reach of East Asian media suggests that East Asia has become an ever more de-territorialized media zone. But what has been relatively neglected in the extant scholarship is in-depth consideration of how East Asian media culture has been transnationalised beyond the geographic boundaries of Asia, especially in the context of accelerating online content distribution. In this article, we propose that Australia provides…

  • "Iphones and "African gangs

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2020•Cited by: 12•References: 31

    Based on an ethnography of young women from China studying in Melbourne, this article explores participants' experiences of living in a super-diverse city, and questions whether extant theoretical accounts of everyday multiculturalism are adequate to understand the experience of these residents. In 2016, Melbourne's Chinese student community was rocked by a prolonged spate of mobile phone thefts that Chinese-language social media framed as ethnic…

  • (Im)mobile precarity in the Asia-Pacific

    F Martins, Fran Martin et al.•ARTICLE•Cultural Studies•2019

    If on a global scale, our late-modern era is marked by intensifying mobilities of many kinds, then Asia as a geo-cultural region exemplifies this trend in particularly forceful ways, with large mobile populations including permanent migrants, refugees, international students, labour migrants, young travelers, as well as well-developed cross-border networks of mobile media technologies, products, talents, and finances. Our starting point in this a…

  • Transmigrant media

    Open Access•WaiLing Seto, F Martins•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 14

    This article contributes to the exploration of interrelationships between human and media mobilities through analysis of qualitative interviews with 18 Southeast Asian transmigrants in Australia. This group demonstrated three main orientations toward the media they habitually engaged. In the memorial-affective orientation, respondents re-engaged media familiar from remembered pre-migration childhood and family contexts. An ambivalent-localizing o…

  • Introduction. Taiwan’s Literature of Transgressive Sexuality

    F Martins, Fran Martin•CHAPTER•Angelwings•2017

    On the first damp, gray day of 1999, an unsuspecting passerby en route to the vegetable market in Taipei's Gongguan neighborhood, near National Taiwan University, might have been startled to stumble on a street-side drag show in full swing, aswirl with all the fabulous frocks and stellar talents of some of the city's better-known drag artists.The inquiring pedestrian might then have peered through the window of the adjacent bookstore to see stack…

  • Mobile self-fashioning and gendered risk

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Globalisation Societies and…•2017•Cited by: 19•References: 14

    This article complicates dominant instrumentalist understandings of international student motivation by focusing on Chinese female tertiary students in Australia. Based on longitudinal fieldwork with 56 such students, it analyses motivations described by students and their parents in interviews, showing that these far exceed instrumentalism and engage tactics of both gendered risk management and cosmopolitan self-fashioning. Discussion of the gen…

  • Rethinking network capital

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2017•Cited by: 15•References: 17

    Drawing on an ethnographic study of Chinese female tertiary students’ work practices in Melbourne, Australia, this article engages critically with John Urry’s concept of network capital. I show how these students’ work practices link them both into relatively fixed, localized, diasporic employment networks in Melbourne’s Chinese restaurant sector; and into relatively mobile, transnational, digitally mediated trading networks in the micro-entrepre…

  • From Sparrow to Phoenix”

    F Martins•ARTICLE•positions asia critique•2016•References: 7

    Through analysis of the fashion-and-beauty variety program 《女人我最大》 (English title Queen), launched in 2003 by Taiwan cable channel TVBS-G and now spreading in syndicated adaptations in China, this paper examines the pop-cultural consolidation of a new category of feminine identity: the 輕熟女 (qingshounü, lit. “young-mature woman”). Drawing on interviews with viewers conducted in Taipei in 2011, the article analyzes audience responses to the program…

  • Telemodernities

    Tania Lewis, F Martins et al.•BOOK•Telemodernities•2016•Cited by: 4

    Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual programs providing lifestyle guidance to viewers. In Telemodernities Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun demonstrate how lifestyle-oriented…

  • Pedagogies of food and ethical personhood

    Ti Wei, F Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Communication•2015

    Taking one of the most representative subgenres of lifestyle TV, the cooking show, as a case study, in this article, we examine the history and changing cultural meanings of this televisual genre in the context of Taiwan's postwar social history and TV industry. We conduct textual analyses of Taiwanese cooking shows across three different historical stages: Fu Pei Mei's shows (the 1960s–1980s), Chen Hong's shows (the 1990s), and Metrosexual Uber-…

  • Transnational queer Sinophone cultures

    F Martins, Fran Martin•CHAPTER•Routledge Handbook of Sexuality…•2014

    A certain tension frequently arises in attempts to think about queer Chinese cultures in a transnational frame. Broadly, this is a tension between emphasising the multiplicity and fragmentation of Chinese identities today, versus emphasising the ‘deep structures’ of ethnicity and culture – especially the family – that are sometimes understood as a point of commonality across otherwise very different Chinese communities. For Leung, as for many oth…

  • Making Melbourne

    Open Access•F Martins, Fran Martin et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2014•Cited by: 18•References: 30

    Recent scholarship across a range of disciplines has sought to understand how people’s relationship with place is increasingly produced by their interactions with digital entertainment and communications media. This scholarship has pointed to the capacity of social media to foster new ways of experiencing locality, culture and belonging, including for mobile populations and transnational communities. In this article, we draw upon original qualita…

  • ‘A Tangle of People Messing Around Together’

    F Martins, Fran Martin•ARTICLE•Cultural Studies•2013

    This paper explores how Taiwanese women's variety television shows mediate social expectations about women's work, both waged and unwaged. In particular, I argue that the 2011 women's variety programme Shounü Buman Zu 《熟女不 滿族》, lit. unsatisfied mature-women tribe) negotiates both the feminization of everyday domestic risk and expectations surrounding the embodied practices of women's affective labour. I propose that the programme's mediation of t…

  • Transnational dream, transnational practice

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    Since the mid-1980s, there has been a worldwide increase in women travelling on their own to seek educational and career-advancement opportunities, rather than as legal appendages of husbands. In northeast Asia this trend is particularly marked, and the increasing representation of women among the ranks of northeast Asian international students in Western nations can be seen as part of this trend. This essay engages with Youna Kim's book, Transna…

  • Girls who love boys' love

    F Martins, Fran Martin•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2012•Cited by: 17•References: 12

    Based on interviews with 30 female readers of BL (‘boys’ love') manga conducted in Taipei in 2005, this paper analyses the BL scene in Taiwan from the perspective of its social utility as a discursive arena enabling women collectively to think through transforming social ideologies around gender and sexuality. This form of participatory pop culture is most interesting, I argue, not because of any unilateral subversiveness vis-à-vis culturally dom…

  • Lifestyling Asia? Shaping modernity and selfhood on life-advice programming

    Open Access•Tania Lewis, F Martins et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2012•Cited by: 15•References: 12

    This article discusses the early findings of a research project examining the role of lifestyle television in Asia. Life-advice programming in East Asia includes a range of ‘popular factual’ formats from cooking and health shows to makeover and consumer advice shows. A growing body of Anglo-American scholarship emphasizes the cultural importance of lifestyle programming, suggesting that the explosion of lifestyle formats at this particular cultur…

  • Getting Over It

    F Martins, Fran Martin•ARTICLE•English Language Notes•2011

    Research Article| March 01 2011 Getting Over It: Thinking Beyond the Hetero(genizing)/Homo(genizing) Divide in Transnational Sexuality Studies Fran Martin Fran Martin University of Melbourne [email protected] Fran Martin is senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her primary research interests are in sexuality, gender, and contemporary media and popular culture in Taiwan and transnational China. She is…

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  • Mobile Cultures

    F Martins, Lynn Spigel et al.•BOOK•Mobile Cultures•2003•Cited by: 52•References: 3

    Introduction: Beep--Click--Link / Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue 1 I. Interfaces: Global/Local Intersections I Knew It Was Me: Mass Media, Globalization, and Lesbian and Gay Indonesians / Tom Boellstorff 21 Japanese Queerscapes: Global/Local Intersections on the Internet / Mark McLelland 52 Guided Fan Fiction: Western Readings of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts / Veruska Sabucco 70 Syncretism and Synchronicity: Queer'n'Asian Cyberspace…

  • Mobile self-fashioning and gendered risk

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Globalisation Societies and…•2017•Cited by: 19•References: 14

    This article complicates dominant instrumentalist understandings of international student motivation by focusing on Chinese female tertiary students in Australia. Based on longitudinal fieldwork with 56 such students, it analyses motivations described by students and their parents in interviews, showing that these far exceed instrumentalism and engage tactics of both gendered risk management and cosmopolitan self-fashioning. Discussion of the gen…

  • Making Melbourne

    Open Access•F Martins, Fran Martin et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2014•Cited by: 18•References: 30

    Recent scholarship across a range of disciplines has sought to understand how people’s relationship with place is increasingly produced by their interactions with digital entertainment and communications media. This scholarship has pointed to the capacity of social media to foster new ways of experiencing locality, culture and belonging, including for mobile populations and transnational communities. In this article, we draw upon original qualita…

  • Girls who love boys' love

    F Martins, Fran Martin•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2012•Cited by: 17•References: 12

    Based on interviews with 30 female readers of BL (‘boys’ love') manga conducted in Taipei in 2005, this paper analyses the BL scene in Taiwan from the perspective of its social utility as a discursive arena enabling women collectively to think through transforming social ideologies around gender and sexuality. This form of participatory pop culture is most interesting, I argue, not because of any unilateral subversiveness vis-à-vis culturally dom…

  • Rethinking network capital

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2017•Cited by: 15•References: 17

    Drawing on an ethnographic study of Chinese female tertiary students’ work practices in Melbourne, Australia, this article engages critically with John Urry’s concept of network capital. I show how these students’ work practices link them both into relatively fixed, localized, diasporic employment networks in Melbourne’s Chinese restaurant sector; and into relatively mobile, transnational, digitally mediated trading networks in the micro-entrepre…

  • Lifestyling Asia? Shaping modernity and selfhood on life-advice programming

    Open Access•Tania Lewis, F Martins et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2012•Cited by: 15•References: 12

    This article discusses the early findings of a research project examining the role of lifestyle television in Asia. Life-advice programming in East Asia includes a range of ‘popular factual’ formats from cooking and health shows to makeover and consumer advice shows. A growing body of Anglo-American scholarship emphasizes the cultural importance of lifestyle programming, suggesting that the explosion of lifestyle formats at this particular cultur…

  • "Iphones and "African gangs

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2020•Cited by: 12•References: 31

    Based on an ethnography of young women from China studying in Melbourne, this article explores participants' experiences of living in a super-diverse city, and questions whether extant theoretical accounts of everyday multiculturalism are adequate to understand the experience of these residents. In 2016, Melbourne's Chinese student community was rocked by a prolonged spate of mobile phone thefts that Chinese-language social media framed as ethnic…

  • Learning modernity

    Tania Lewis, F Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Communication•2010•Cited by: 10•References: 4

    This article examines the role of lifestyle advice television programming in Australia, Taiwan and Singapore. Lifestyle television in the Asia-Pacific region includes a range of ‘popular factual’ formats from cooking and health shows to reality-style make-over shows and consumer advice programmes. What unites these shows, from Singapore's highly popular Home Décor Survivor to Taiwan's Lifestyle Experts and Australia's Better Homes and Gardens is …

  • Telemodernities

    Tania Lewis, F Martins et al.•BOOK•Telemodernities•2016•Cited by: 4

    Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual programs providing lifestyle guidance to viewers. In Telemodernities Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun demonstrate how lifestyle-oriented…

  • Guest Editor's Introduction—Expansive Trajectories

    F Martins•ARTICLE•positions asia critique•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 14

    This introductory article reflects critically on the history of Chinese transnationalism studies in relation to intensifying cross-border engagements by PR Chinese state and nonstate actors today. Revisiting 1990s scholarship on Chinese transnationalism(s), it argues that the global China concept helps us attend to the significant impacts of China’s economic and geopolitical rise on earlier patterns of transborder cultural flows, hence to the way…

  • Transcultural media practices fostering cosmopolitan ethos in a digital age

    F Martins, Koichi Iwabuchi et al.•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    The increasingly transnational reach of East Asian media suggests that East Asia has become an ever more de-territorialized media zone. But what has been relatively neglected in the extant scholarship is in-depth consideration of how East Asian media culture has been transnationalised beyond the geographic boundaries of Asia, especially in the context of accelerating online content distribution. In this article, we propose that Australia provides…

  • Transmigrant media

    Open Access•WaiLing Seto, F Martins•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 14

    This article contributes to the exploration of interrelationships between human and media mobilities through analysis of qualitative interviews with 18 Southeast Asian transmigrants in Australia. This group demonstrated three main orientations toward the media they habitually engaged. In the memorial-affective orientation, respondents re-engaged media familiar from remembered pre-migration childhood and family contexts. An ambivalent-localizing o…

  • High anxiety

    Brett Farmer, F Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Continuum•2003•Cited by: 2

    A long and diverse line of commentators from W. H. Auden and Paul Tillich to Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard have pronounced ours an age of anxiety. Unhinged from former orthodoxies and subject to constant, multiple transformations, the post/modern era, they contend, is characterized by a Zeitgeist of fragmentation, ambiguity, and pervasive anxiousness. In these terms, cultural studies may very well lay claim as the contemporary knowledge f…

  • The perfect lie

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2003•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    This is an electronic version of an article published in the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. © 2003 Taylor & Francis; Inter-Asia Cultural Studies is available online at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14649373.asp

  • Gender and education mobilities in China and India

    Open Access•Leya Mathew, F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 21

  • Mobile genders

    Open Access•Hao Zheng, F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 27

    Mobile genders: the trans* journeys of Chinese students in Australia

  • Transnational dream, transnational practice

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    Since the mid-1980s, there has been a worldwide increase in women travelling on their own to seek educational and career-advancement opportunities, rather than as legal appendages of husbands. In northeast Asia this trend is particularly marked, and the increasing representation of women among the ranks of northeast Asian international students in Western nations can be seen as part of this trend. This essay engages with Youna Kim's book, Transna…

  • Utopian yearning

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    Wenqing Kang (2009) Obsession: Male Same‐sex Relations in China, 1900–1950, Queer Asia series. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, ISBN: 978‐962‐209‐981‐4 Wenqing Kang’s research monograph on ma

  • Chen Xue's Queer Tactics

    F Martins•ARTICLE•positions asia critique•1999•Cited by: 1

    Research Article| February 01 1999 Chen Xue's Queer Tactics Fran Martin Fran Martin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (1): 71–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-1-71 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Fran Martin; Chen Xue's Queer Tactics. positions 1 February 1999; 7 (1): 71–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-1-71 Download cita…

  • Chen Xue's Queer Tactics

    F Martins•ARTICLE•positions asia critique•1999•Cited by: 1

    Research Article| February 01 1999 Chen Xue's Queer Tactics Fran Martin Fran Martin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (1): 71–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-1-71 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Fran Martin; Chen Xue's Queer Tactics. positions 1 February 1999; 7 (1): 71–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-1-71 Download cita…

  • From Citizenship to Queer Counterpublic

    F Martins, Fran Martin•ARTICLE•Communal/Plural Journal of…•2000

    Deposited with permission of the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. An image, originally appearing with this article, has been removed

  • Syncretism and Synchronicity

    Open Access•C Berry, F Martins et al.•CHAPTER•Mobile Cultures•2003

  • Situating Sexualities

    F Martins, Fran Martin•BOOK•Situating Sexualities•2003

    This is the first book in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s. Positioned at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial cultural studies, this book intervenes in current debates on sexuality and globalization to argue that the current emergence of public, dissident sexualities in non-Western locations like Taiwan cannot be reduced to the effects of homogenizing ‘Wes…

  • High anxiety

    Brett Farmer, F Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Continuum•2003•Cited by: 2

    A long and diverse line of commentators from W. H. Auden and Paul Tillich to Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard have pronounced ours an age of anxiety. Unhinged from former orthodoxies and subject to constant, multiple transformations, the post/modern era, they contend, is characterized by a Zeitgeist of fragmentation, ambiguity, and pervasive anxiousness. In these terms, cultural studies may very well lay claim as the contemporary knowledge f…

  • The perfect lie

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2003•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    This is an electronic version of an article published in the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. © 2003 Taylor & Francis; Inter-Asia Cultural Studies is available online at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14649373.asp

  • Mobile Cultures

    F Martins, Lynn Spigel et al.•BOOK•Mobile Cultures•2003•Cited by: 52•References: 3

    Introduction: Beep--Click--Link / Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue 1 I. Interfaces: Global/Local Intersections I Knew It Was Me: Mass Media, Globalization, and Lesbian and Gay Indonesians / Tom Boellstorff 21 Japanese Queerscapes: Global/Local Intersections on the Internet / Mark McLelland 52 Guided Fan Fiction: Western Readings of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts / Veruska Sabucco 70 Syncretism and Synchronicity: Queer'n'Asian Cyberspace…

  • That Global Feeling

    F Martins•CHAPTER•Internationalizing Internet Studies•2010

    This chapter arises from an Internet-based survey of users of Chineselanguage lesbian websites conducted between 2003 and 2004.1 Lesbianthemed websites in Chinese-character formats have blossomed since the mid-1990s, and present varying degrees of complexity, incorporating some or all of chat rooms; guest books; news updates; bulletin board systems; celebrity gossip columns; news on local political and community events; personal ads; advice colum…

  • Learning modernity

    Tania Lewis, F Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Communication•2010•Cited by: 10•References: 4

    This article examines the role of lifestyle advice television programming in Australia, Taiwan and Singapore. Lifestyle television in the Asia-Pacific region includes a range of ‘popular factual’ formats from cooking and health shows to reality-style make-over shows and consumer advice programmes. What unites these shows, from Singapore's highly popular Home Décor Survivor to Taiwan's Lifestyle Experts and Australia's Better Homes and Gardens is …

  • Getting Over It

    F Martins, Fran Martin•ARTICLE•English Language Notes•2011

    Research Article| March 01 2011 Getting Over It: Thinking Beyond the Hetero(genizing)/Homo(genizing) Divide in Transnational Sexuality Studies Fran Martin Fran Martin University of Melbourne [email protected] Fran Martin is senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her primary research interests are in sexuality, gender, and contemporary media and popular culture in Taiwan and transnational China. She is…

  • Utopian yearning

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    Wenqing Kang (2009) Obsession: Male Same‐sex Relations in China, 1900–1950, Queer Asia series. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, ISBN: 978‐962‐209‐981‐4 Wenqing Kang’s research monograph on ma

  • Girls who love boys' love

    F Martins, Fran Martin•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2012•Cited by: 17•References: 12

    Based on interviews with 30 female readers of BL (‘boys’ love') manga conducted in Taipei in 2005, this paper analyses the BL scene in Taiwan from the perspective of its social utility as a discursive arena enabling women collectively to think through transforming social ideologies around gender and sexuality. This form of participatory pop culture is most interesting, I argue, not because of any unilateral subversiveness vis-à-vis culturally dom…

  • Lifestyling Asia? Shaping modernity and selfhood on life-advice programming

    Open Access•Tania Lewis, F Martins et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2012•Cited by: 15•References: 12

    This article discusses the early findings of a research project examining the role of lifestyle television in Asia. Life-advice programming in East Asia includes a range of ‘popular factual’ formats from cooking and health shows to makeover and consumer advice shows. A growing body of Anglo-American scholarship emphasizes the cultural importance of lifestyle programming, suggesting that the explosion of lifestyle formats at this particular cultur…

  • ‘A Tangle of People Messing Around Together’

    F Martins, Fran Martin•ARTICLE•Cultural Studies•2013

    This paper explores how Taiwanese women's variety television shows mediate social expectations about women's work, both waged and unwaged. In particular, I argue that the 2011 women's variety programme Shounü Buman Zu 《熟女不 滿族》, lit. unsatisfied mature-women tribe) negotiates both the feminization of everyday domestic risk and expectations surrounding the embodied practices of women's affective labour. I propose that the programme's mediation of t…

  • Transnational dream, transnational practice

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    Since the mid-1980s, there has been a worldwide increase in women travelling on their own to seek educational and career-advancement opportunities, rather than as legal appendages of husbands. In northeast Asia this trend is particularly marked, and the increasing representation of women among the ranks of northeast Asian international students in Western nations can be seen as part of this trend. This essay engages with Youna Kim's book, Transna…

  • Transnational queer Sinophone cultures

    F Martins, Fran Martin•CHAPTER•Routledge Handbook of Sexuality…•2014

    A certain tension frequently arises in attempts to think about queer Chinese cultures in a transnational frame. Broadly, this is a tension between emphasising the multiplicity and fragmentation of Chinese identities today, versus emphasising the ‘deep structures’ of ethnicity and culture – especially the family – that are sometimes understood as a point of commonality across otherwise very different Chinese communities. For Leung, as for many oth…

  • Making Melbourne

    Open Access•F Martins, Fran Martin et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2014•Cited by: 18•References: 30

    Recent scholarship across a range of disciplines has sought to understand how people’s relationship with place is increasingly produced by their interactions with digital entertainment and communications media. This scholarship has pointed to the capacity of social media to foster new ways of experiencing locality, culture and belonging, including for mobile populations and transnational communities. In this article, we draw upon original qualita…

  • Pedagogies of food and ethical personhood

    Ti Wei, F Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Asian Journal of Communication•2015

    Taking one of the most representative subgenres of lifestyle TV, the cooking show, as a case study, in this article, we examine the history and changing cultural meanings of this televisual genre in the context of Taiwan's postwar social history and TV industry. We conduct textual analyses of Taiwanese cooking shows across three different historical stages: Fu Pei Mei's shows (the 1960s–1980s), Chen Hong's shows (the 1990s), and Metrosexual Uber-…

  • From Sparrow to Phoenix”

    F Martins•ARTICLE•positions asia critique•2016•References: 7

    Through analysis of the fashion-and-beauty variety program 《女人我最大》 (English title Queen), launched in 2003 by Taiwan cable channel TVBS-G and now spreading in syndicated adaptations in China, this paper examines the pop-cultural consolidation of a new category of feminine identity: the 輕熟女 (qingshounü, lit. “young-mature woman”). Drawing on interviews with viewers conducted in Taipei in 2011, the article analyzes audience responses to the program…

  • Telemodernities

    Tania Lewis, F Martins et al.•BOOK•Telemodernities•2016•Cited by: 4

    Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual programs providing lifestyle guidance to viewers. In Telemodernities Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun demonstrate how lifestyle-oriented…

  • Introduction. Taiwan’s Literature of Transgressive Sexuality

    F Martins, Fran Martin•CHAPTER•Angelwings•2017

    On the first damp, gray day of 1999, an unsuspecting passerby en route to the vegetable market in Taipei's Gongguan neighborhood, near National Taiwan University, might have been startled to stumble on a street-side drag show in full swing, aswirl with all the fabulous frocks and stellar talents of some of the city's better-known drag artists.The inquiring pedestrian might then have peered through the window of the adjacent bookstore to see stack…

  • Mobile self-fashioning and gendered risk

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Globalisation Societies and…•2017•Cited by: 19•References: 14

    This article complicates dominant instrumentalist understandings of international student motivation by focusing on Chinese female tertiary students in Australia. Based on longitudinal fieldwork with 56 such students, it analyses motivations described by students and their parents in interviews, showing that these far exceed instrumentalism and engage tactics of both gendered risk management and cosmopolitan self-fashioning. Discussion of the gen…

  • Rethinking network capital

    F Martins•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2017•Cited by: 15•References: 17

    Drawing on an ethnographic study of Chinese female tertiary students’ work practices in Melbourne, Australia, this article engages critically with John Urry’s concept of network capital. I show how these students’ work practices link them both into relatively fixed, localized, diasporic employment networks in Melbourne’s Chinese restaurant sector; and into relatively mobile, transnational, digitally mediated trading networks in the micro-entrepre…

  • Transmigrant media

    Open Access•WaiLing Seto, F Martins•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 14

    This article contributes to the exploration of interrelationships between human and media mobilities through analysis of qualitative interviews with 18 Southeast Asian transmigrants in Australia. This group demonstrated three main orientations toward the media they habitually engaged. In the memorial-affective orientation, respondents re-engaged media familiar from remembered pre-migration childhood and family contexts. An ambivalent-localizing o…

  • (Im)mobile precarity in the Asia-Pacific

    F Martins, Fran Martin et al.•ARTICLE•Cultural Studies•2019

    If on a global scale, our late-modern era is marked by intensifying mobilities of many kinds, then Asia as a geo-cultural region exemplifies this trend in particularly forceful ways, with large mobile populations including permanent migrants, refugees, international students, labour migrants, young travelers, as well as well-developed cross-border networks of mobile media technologies, products, talents, and finances. Our starting point in this a…

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