Media and Communication in the Chinese Diaspora: Rethinking Transnationalism / Edition 1

by Wanning Sun, John Sinclair

Overview

The rise of China has brought about a dramatic increase in the rate of migration from mainland China. At the same time, the Chinese government has embarked on a full-scale push for the internationalisation of Chinese media and culture. Media and communication have therefore become crucial factors in shaping the increasingly fraught politics of transnational Chinese communities. This book explores the changing nature of these communities, and reveals their dynamic and complex relationship to the media in a range of countries worldwide. Overall, the book highlights a number of ways in which China’s "going global" policy interacts with other factors in significantly reshaping the content and contours of the diasporic Chinese media landscape. In doing so, this book constitutes a major rethinking of Chinese transnationalism in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138859401
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/29/2015
Series:	Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wanning Sun, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

John Sinclair, University of Melbourne, Australia

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rethinking Chinese Diasporic Media 1. "New Migrants" from the PRC and the Transformation of Chinese Media: The Case of Cambodia 2. The Conundrum of the "Honorary Whites": Media and Being Chinese in South Africa 3. An Overseas Orthodoxy? Shifting toward Pro-PRC Media in Chinese-Speaking Brazil 4. Bridge or Barrier: Migration, Media, and the Sojourner Mentality in Chinese Communities in Italy and Spain 5. Unique Past and Common Future: Chinese Immigrants and Chinese-Language Media in France 6. Politics of Homeland: Hegemonic Discourses of the Intervening Homeland in Chinese Diasporic Newspapers in the Netherlands CHONG 7. The Chinese Diaspora, Motherland, and "June Fourth": A Discourse Analysis of the BBC Chinese "Have Your Say" Forum, 2009–13 8. Geo-ethnic Storytelling: Chinese-Language Television in Canada Shuyu KONG 9. Cyber China and Evolving Transnational Identities: The Case of New Zealand 10. Provisional Business Migrants to Western Australia, Social Media, and Conditional Belonging 11. Xin Yimin: "New" Chinese Migration and New Media in a Trinidadian Town

Editorial Reviews

"In this sequel to Media and the Chinese Diaspora (5th ed., 2006), coeditors Sun (Univ. of Technology, Sydney) and Sinclair (Univ. of Melbourne) investigate the changes in information technologies that have shaped the communication behaviors of Chinese people across the diaspora. Though mainland China endeavors to change its global image, how it exercises its soft power has affected historical relationships with the diaspora in both subtle and obvious manners."
A. Cho, University of British Columbia, CHOICE

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