Sun - Media and communication in the Chinese diaspora: rethinking transnationalism

Media and Communication in the Chinese Diaspora

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 internationalization 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 Chinas 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.

Wanning Sun is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.

John Sinclair is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

Series Editor: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, University of Liverpool

Editorial Board:

Gregory N. Evon, University of New South Wales

Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology, Sydney

Peter Horsfield, RMIT University, Melbourne

Chris Hudson, RMIT University, Melbourne

K.P. Jayasankar, Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay

Michael Keane, Queensland University of Technology

Tania Lewis, RMIT University, Melbourne

Vera Mackie, University of Melbourne

Kama Maclean, University of New South Wales

Jane Mills, University of New South Wales

Anjali Monteiro, Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay

Laikwan Pang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Gary Rawnsley, Aberystwyth University

Ming-yeh Rawnsley, University of Leeds

Jo Tacchi, RMIT University, Melbourne

Adrian Vickers, University of Sydney

Jing Wang, MIT

Ying Zhu, City University of New York

The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars in the West and the East, on all aspects of media, culture and social change in Asia.

1 Television Across Asia

Television industries, programme

formats and globalisation

Edited by Albert Moran and Michael Keane

2 Journalism and Democracy in Asia

Edited by Angela Romano and Michael Bromley

3 Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia

Copyright, piracy and cinema

Laikwan Pang

4 Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia

Edited by Benjamin Cole

5 Media and the Chinese Diaspora

Community, communications and commerce

Edited by Wanning Sun

6 Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema

No film is an island

Edited by Gina Marchetti and Tan See Kam

7 Media in Hong Kong

Press freedom and political change 19672005

Carol P. Lai

8 Chinese Documentaries

From dogma to polyphony

Yingchi Chu

9 Japanese Popular Music

Culture, authenticity and power

Carolyn S. Stevens

10 The Origins of the Modern

Chinese Press

The influence of the Protestant missionary press in late

Qing China

Xiantao Zhang

11 Created in China

The great new leap forward

Michael Keane

12 Political Regimes and

the Media in Asia

Edited by Krishna Sen and Terence Lee

13 Television in Post-Reform China

Serial dramas, Confucian leadership and the global television market

Ying Zhu

14 Tamil Cinema

The cultural politics of Indias other film industry

Edited by Selvaraj Velayutham

15 Popular Culture in Indonesia

Fluid identities in post-authoritarian politics

Edited by Ariel Heryanto

16 Television in India

Satellites, politics and cultural change

Edited by Nalin Mehta

17 Media and Cultural Transformation in China

Haiqing Yu

18 Global Chinese Cinema

The culture and politics of hero

Edited by Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley

19 Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia

Edited by Stephanie Hemelryk

Donald, Theresa Dirndorfer

Anderson and Damien Spry

20 The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore

Terence Lee

21 Politics and the Media in Twenty-First Century Indonesia

Edited by Krishna Sen and David T. Hill

22 Media, Social Mobilization and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong

The power of a critical event

Francis L. F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan

23 HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

Imagined immunity through racialized disease

Johanna Hood

24 Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

Edited by Andrew N. Weintraub

25 Online Society in China

Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival

Edited by David Kurt Herold and Peter Marolt

26 Rethinking Transnational

Chinese Cinemas

The Amoy-dialect film industry in Cold War Asia

Jeremy E. Taylor

27 Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Cultural interpretation and social intervention

Edited by David C. L. Lim and Hiroyuki Yamamoto

28 Chinas New Creative Clusters

Governance, human capital, and investment

Michael Keane

29 Media and Democratic Transition in South Korea

Ki-Sung Kwak

30 The Asian Cinema Experience

Styles, spaces, theory

Stephen Teo

31 Asian Popular Culture

Edited by Anthony Y. H. Fung

32 Rumor and Communication in Asia in the Internet Age

Edited by Greg Dalziel

33 Genders and Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema

Constructing gay, lesbi and waria identities on screen

Ben Murtagh

34 Contemporary Chinese Print Media

Cultivating middle class taste

Yi Zheng

35 Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media

The prosaic image

Helen Grace

36 Democracy, Media and Law in Malaysia and Singapore

A space for speech

Edited by Andrew T. Kenyon, Tim Marjoribanks and Amanda Whiting

37 Indonesia-Malaysia Relations

Cultural heritage, politics and labour migration

Marshall Clark and Juliet Pietsch

38 Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War

Edited by King-fai Tam,

Timothy Y. Tsu and Sandra Wilson

39 New Chinese-Language Documentaries

Ethics, subject and place

Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang

40 K-pop The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry

Edited by JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay

41 China Online

Locating society in online spaces

Edited by Peter Marolt and David Kurt Herold

42 Multimedia Stardom in Hong Kong

Image, performance and identity Leung Wing-Fai

43 Television Histories in Asia

Issues and contexts

Edited by Jinna Tay and Graeme Turner

44 Media and Communication in the Chinese Diaspora

Rethinking transnationalism

Edited by Wanning Sun and John Sinclair