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Diasporic Chinese media in Australia

A post-2008 overview

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ID7533875
AuthorsWanning Sun (0000-0002-8687-3739, University of Technology, corresponding author), A Yue (0000-0002-1043-4270, The University of Melbourne), John Sinclair (0000-0002-8615-7505, The University of Melbourne), Jia Gao (0000-0002-5142-1046, The University of Melbourne)
Year2011
Volume25
Issue4
Pages515-527
Publication date2011-07-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueContinuum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1030-4312 • E-ISSN: 1469-3666
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10304312.2011.576751
OpenAlexW2145656133
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited19

Despite the exponential growth of Chinese migrants in Australia, and despite the sizable body of work in various locations, the picture of how the Chinese-language media have developed in Australia over the past decade is still somewhat unclear. Even less clear is a sense of how the field has changed since the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games, a significant event that signalled China's ascent on to the global stage. This paper seeks to update the picture of the Chinese-language media landscape in Australia. We explore a number of angles, which work in articulation to produce a picture of growing complexity and fluidity. In doing so, we put forward a number of arguments. First, the diasporic Chinese-language media are subject to, as well as respond to, the vagaries of the wax and wane of the multicultural polity of the host nation. In addition, the diasporic Chinese-language media, for a wide range of reasons – technological, cultural, and economic – need to reassess their cultural role and strategies in the wake of the PRC's new status as a global power and its push for expansion of its media content and cultural impact outside China. Furthermore, to a varying extent and in a variety of ways, the diasporic Chinese-language media have become part and parcel of the global transnational cultural economies of Chinese-language media productions

Beijing · China · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year0,58
Citation span2014 - 2025 (12)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 7

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