Media and the Chinese Diaspora

Community, Consumption, and Transnational Imagination

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6153407
AutoresWanning Sun (0000-0002-8687-3739, Curtin University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen1
Número1
Páginas65-86
Fecha de publicación2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Chinese Overseas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1793-0391 • E-ISSN: 1793-2548
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/179325405788639373
OpenAlexW2032005734
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas33
Referencias citadas19

This article is concerned with the formation of a global diasporic Chinese mediasphere. In the first part, I will delineate the imbricative relationships between community, commerce, and cultural consumption of the Chinese media — what I perceive to be the three conceptual nodes constituting the analytical framework within which meanings of "Chineseness" are constructed and contested. In the second part, I will further argue that a global diasporic Chinese imagination is inherently transnational, and central to the formation of such transnational imaginary is what I refer to as the "transnational mediasphere" which, as I will demonstrate, is a global phenomenon nevertheless inflected with local concerns. I will end with some thoughts on how best to approach this extremely complex and ever-changing phenomenon, tentatively suggesting some points of entry into a place- and context-specific understanding of the production and consumption of the Chinese-language media and the crucial role it plays in the formation of a Chinese transnational imagination

Aesthetics · Art · Asian studies · China · Consumption (sociology · Context (archaeology · Diaspora · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · History of China · Phenomenon · Political science · Social science · Sociology · The Imaginary · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Psychology