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A virtual Chinatown : the diasporic mediasphere of Chinese migrants in New Zealand / by Phoebe H. Li.
Van Pelt Library DU424.5.C5 L5 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Phoebe H.
- Series:
- Chinese overseas : history, literature, and society ; volume 7.
- Chinese overseas : history, literature, and society, 1876-3847 ; volume 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--New Zealand.
- Chinese.
- Chinese--New Zealand--Communication.
- Mass media--China.
- Mass media.
- Immigrants.
- Mass media and culture.
- Communication.
- China.
- Mass media and culture--China.
- Immigrants--New Zealand.
- New Zealand--Race relations.
- New Zealand.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 197 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Summary:
- What role does diasporic Chinese media play in the process of Chinese migrants' adaptation to their new home country? With China's rise, to what extent has the expansion of its "soft power" swayed the changing identities of the Chinese overseas? A Virtual Chinatown provides a timely and original analysis to answer such questions. Using a media and communication studies approach to investigate the reciprocal relationship between Chinese-language media and the Chinese migrant community in New Zealand, Phoebe Li goes beyond conventional scholarship on the Chinese Diaspora as practised by social historians, anthropologists and demographers. Written in an accessible and reader-friendly manner, this book will also appeal to academics and students with interests in other transnational communities, alternative media, and minority politics. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction 1
- China's New Wave of International Migration 1
- New Zealand Local Contexts 5
- New People, New Approach 9
- Diasporic Chinese Media beyond New Zealand 11
- Chapter 2 Conceptualising New Zealand Chinese Media 15
- Central Concepts 16
- Towards an Analytical Framework 30
- Chapter 3 Revisiting the History of New Zealand Chinese and Early Chinese Newspapers 41
- Chinese Immigration: From Sojourners to Settlers 41
- Early Chinese Newspapers 48
- Rethinking Early Chinese Newspapers 57
- Chapter 4 New Chinese Immigrants and Contemporary New Zealand Chinese Media 63
- A New Wave of Chinese Immigration 63
- Making a PRC Chinese Community 66
- PRC Chinese and Others' Settlement 73
- Evolution of New Chinese Media 82
- The New Chinese Community in their Own Media 87
- Chapter 5 Ethnic Chinese Media during the 2005 New Zealand General Election 93
- Research Design and Background Information 94
- Phase 1 New Zealand Election in Chinese Media 102
- Phase 2 Relationship between Chinese Media and Migrants 122
- Phase 3 A Perspective from Media Personnel 132
- Summary 135
- Chapter 6 Recent PRC Migrants in the Diasporic Mediasphere 137
- New Zealand Politics in Ethnic Chinese Media 137
- Recent PRC Migrants' Affinity with Conservative Parties 148
- Patriotic Sentiment Towards China 158
- Chapter 7 Conclusions 165
- New Insight into the Chinese in New Zealand 165
- Expansion of China's 'Soft Power' 169
- Chinese Media as an Imagined Chinatown' 172.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004258631
- 9004258639
- OCLC:
- 853618609
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