The book explores how Chinese TV series and Asian Diaspora fiction are consumed, experienced, and adapted by and for audiences worldwide, particularly those of the Chinese diaspora.

Sheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA. He is the author of over a dozen books, including China Pop! (2024), The Tao of S (2022), Off-White (2020), Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet (2017), The Last Isle (2015), Alienglish (2014), Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity (2012), Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture (2011), East-West Montage (2007), The Deathly Embrace (2000), and Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures (1998).

Part I Chinese TV Series Afar 1. Homing Laptop: Return to Reset via Chinese TV Series 2. Three Bad Kids, One Loving Killer: Red China Noir in Blakean Symmetry 3. Gaming Reincarnation inside the Chinese Pressure Cooker: Reading, Streaming, Teaching Reset 4. Suturing Old and New Chinas: Su Lun's Bug and Billionaire Part II Asian Diaspora Fiction Anear 5. Bespoke Immigrants in Nisei Murayama, Accented Kim, and Mama Tan 6. One Small Yellow Kid, One Giant Nobelist: Deracination of Outcault's Clown and Ishiguro's Clones 7. The 1.5-Generation Are Different from You and Me: Fake Real Homecoming and Half Surreal Montage of Asian America 8. George Leslie MacKay: A Missionary of the Master; A Master of Missions 9. Judy I. Lin's High Tea EXotica: Young Adult Orientalism to a T 10. Taiwan Shift in Anglophone Fiction and Memoir Part III Bifocals Off 11. Taiwan Meets Its Unmaker: Circum-I(sle) and gHost Films 12. Din Tao: W¿ the Body Writ; Wù the Body Rid 13. Horsey-Come-Lately: No Asian American Superhero Comics until Little Monkey