ABSTRACT

The rise of China has brought about a dramatic increase in the rate of migration from mainland China. At the same time, the Chinese government has embarked on a full-scale push for the internationalisation of Chinese media and culture. Media and communication have therefore become crucial factors in shaping the increasingly fraught politics of transnational Chinese communities. This book explores the changing nature of these communities, and reveals their dynamic and complex relationship to the media in a range of countries worldwide. Overall, the book highlights a number of ways in which China’s "going global" policy interacts with other factors in significantly reshaping the content and contours of the diasporic Chinese media landscape. In doing so, this book constitutes a major rethinking of Chinese transnationalism in the twenty-first century.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

Rethinking Chinese diasporic media 1

chapter |16 pages

The Conundrum of the “Honorary Whites”

Media and being Chinese in South Africa

chapter |21 pages

An Overseas Orthodoxy?

Shifting toward Pro-PRC Media in Chinese-speaking Brazil 1

chapter |18 pages

Bridge or Barrier

Migration, media, and the sojourner mentality in Chinese communities in Italy and Spain

chapter |22 pages

Unique Past and Common Future

Chinese immigrants and Chinese-language media in France

chapter |21 pages

Politics of Homeland

Hegemonic discourses of the intervening homeland in Chinese diasporic newspapers in the Netherlands 1

chapter |17 pages

The Chinese Diaspora, Motherland, and “June Fourth”

A discourse analysis of the BBC Chinese “Have Your Say” forum, 2009–13

chapter |18 pages

Geo-ethnic Storytelling

Chinese-language television in Canada

chapter |19 pages

Cyber China and Evolving Transnational Identities

The case of New Zealand

chapter |17 pages

Xin Yimin

“New” Chinese migration and new media in a Trinidadian town