Communication studies have long been interested in discussing gender issues. The growing area of gender and communication studies is interdisciplinary, drawing from theoretical developments and empirical innovations not only from communications and gender studies, respectively, but also from sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology, literary studies, among others. Gender and communication studies have yielded fruitful knowledge that influences academic discussion, popular culture, and everyday politics. This special issue, as an edited collection of seven articles presented in the "Gender and Media" workshop held by the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was born to, first, address the challenges brought by media technologies to understand gender phenomenon in broader Chinese-speaking societies, and, second, highlight the uniqueness of social-cultural and political contexts of media and communication studies in these societies that would further stimulate situational knowledge production.