Media and the Chinese diaspora : community, communications and commerce / edited by Wanning Sun.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Sun, Wanning, 1963-

Series:

• Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 5.
• Media, culture, and social change in Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Mass media--China.
• Mass media.
• Chinese--Commerce.
• Foreign countries.
• Chinese.
• Chinese--Foreign countries.
• Communication.
• Mass media and culture.
• China.
• Mass media and culture--China.
• Chinese--Foreign countries--Communication.
• Chinese--Commerce--Foreign countries.
• China--Emigration and immigration.
• Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

xiii, 220 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

This book examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora.It focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of "transnational Chineseness" - overseas Chinese communities are often very different from one country to another - and in showing how media communication is linked to commerce, which is often a key activity of the overseas Chinese.The book considers the Chinese diaspora in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Australia, revealing a great deal about the vibrancy and dynamism of the Chinese-language media, and showing how it plays a crucial role in the changing nature of the Chinese diaspora.

Contents:

• Introduction : transnationalism and a global diasporic Chinese mediasphere
• Disconnecting transnational ties : the Chinese weekly and the transformation of Chinese American community after World War II
• Chinese language media and immigrant life in the United States and Canada
• Gossips about stars : newspaper and pop culture China
• 'A hundred flowers bloom' : the re-emergence of the Chinese press in post Suharto Indonesia
• 'Chinese' Indonesians in national cinema
• Chinese newspapers, ethnic identity and the state : the case of Malaysia
• Radio-activated business and power : a case study of 3CW Melbourne Chinese radio
• Chinese media in New Zealand : transnational outpost or unchecked floodtide?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-215) and index.

ISBN:

• 0415352045
• 0203698762

OCLC:

62381440

Publisher Number:

• 9780415352048
• 9780203698761

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