1 Introduction / Jeff Kingston
2 Theorising Media Freedom in Asia / Tina Burrett
I. EAST ASIA
3 Social Media with Chinese Characteristics: Implications for Press Freedom / Anonymous
4 Borrowing, Buying and Building Boats: How China Exerts its Influence Over the Press in Asia / Louisa Lim
5 Press Freedom in China Under Xi Jinping / David Moser
6 Japan's Activist News Media: How and Why Reporters and News Organizations Became a Positive Force in Confronting a Negative Past / Andrew Horvat
7 Fortress Okinawa: Japan's Media and the US Military Footprint / Justin McCurry
8 Press Freedom in South Korea / Hyunjin Seo
9 External Threat and Internal Defense: Freedom of the Press in Taiwan 2008-2018 / Jaw-Nian Huang
II. SOUTH EAST ASIA
10 The Indonesian Press: Between the State, Market, Politics and Society / Kevin Evans
11 Press Freedom in Malaysia: An Awakening for the Media? / Gayathry Venkiteswaran
12 Media Freedom in Myanmar: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back / Tina Burrett
13 Press Repression in Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi, the Reuters Reporters and the Rohingya / Jeff Kingston
14 Press Freedom in the Philippines / Shelia S. Coronel
15 Press Freedom Chained in Thailand / Pavin Chachavalpongpun
16 Vietnamese Media Going Social: Connectivism, Collectivism, and Conservatism / Giang Nguyen-Thu
III. SOUTH ASIA
17 Press freedom in Bangladesh: How to Kill the Fourth Estate in 48 Years or Less / Ikhtisad Ahmed
18 Killing Press Freedom in India / Siddhartha Deb
19 Muzzling the Press: Military Control and Journalism in Jammu and Kashmir / Farrukh Faheem
20 Challenges of Press Freedom in Nepal / Dharmendra Jha and Narayan Ghimire
21 Pakistan's Media under Siege / Syed Javed Nazir
22 Free and Fair Media: A Distant Dream for Sri Lanka / Rajan Hoole and Elijah Hoole
IV. INTERNET FREEDOM
23 The Polemics of Internet Freedom in Asia: Reality, Perception and Attitudes / Chuanli Xia and Fei Shen