Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce

by Sun; Wanning

• ISBN13: 9780415352048
• ISBN10: 0415352045
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-23
• Publisher: Routledge

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.

Author Biography

Wanning Sun is Senior Lecturer in Media at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. She is Visiting Professor (2005-6) in Asian Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Preface	xi
List of abbreviations	xiv
Introduction: transnationalism and a global diasporic Chinese mediasphere	1	(25)
WANNING SUN
1 Disconnecting transnational ties: the Chinese Pacific Weekly and the transformation of Chinese American community after the Second World War	26	(16)
XIAOJIAN ZHAO
2 Chinese-language media and immigrant life in the United States and Canada	42	(33)
MIN ZHOU, WENHONG CHEN AND GUOXUAN CAI
3 Gossip about stars: newspapers and Pop Culture China	75	(16)
CHUA BENG HUAT
4 'A hundred flowers bloom': the re-emergence of the Chinese press in post-Suharto Indonesia	91	(28)
CHANG-YAU HOON
5 'Chinese' Indonesians in national cinema	119	(18)
KRISHNA SEN
6 Chinese newspapers, ethnic identity and the state: the case of Malaysia	137	(13)
KHOR YOKE LIM AND NG MIEW LUAN
7 Radio-activated business and power: a case study of 3CW Melbourne Chinese Radio	150	(28)
JIA GAO
8 Chinese media in New Zealand: transnational outpost or unchecked floodtide?	178	(22)
MANYING IP
Bibliography	200	(16)
Index	216