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This is the first book in English on Chinese-language digital media in Australia. The book comes at a time when the relationship between China and the West is at its most troubling since the end of the Cold War. Combining rich ethnographic insights with dispassionate analysis, this investigation into Australiaâs Chinese-language digital and social media sheds new light on how migrants from the Peopleâs Republic of China negotiate two media, cultural and political systems. The book is a timely antidote to the polarized and often simplistic positions that dominate ongoing debates about the Chinese diaspora and diasporic media, and injects much-needed nuance into analyses of the changing face of Chinese transnationalism.
Wanning Sun is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She is a Fellow of Australian Academy of Humanities (FAHA). She is a member of the College of Experts, Australian Research Council (2020-2022). Wanning is an internationally recognised leading scholar on soft power, public diplomacy and diasporic Chinese media. She has spear-headed the diasporic Chinese media as a field of scholarly research, and she is also known for her work on rural to urban migration and social change in contemporary China. Wanning is the author of a major report Chinese-Language Media in Australia: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities (2016). She is the Chief Investigator in an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Chinese-Language Digital/Social Media in Australia: Rethinking Soft Power (2018-2020).
Haiqing Yu is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. She is a critical media studies scholar with expertise on Chinese digital media, technologies and culture and their sociopolitical impact in China, Australia and the Asia Pacific. Her current projects examine the social implications of Chinaâs social credit system, technological innovation, and digital transformation; Chinaâs digital presence in Australasia; and Chinese-language digital/social media in Australia.
Haiqing Yu is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. She is a critical media studies scholar with expertise on Chinese digital media, technologies and culture and their sociopolitical impact in China, Australia and the Asia Pacific. Her current projects examine the social implications of Chinaâs social credit system, technological innovation, and digital transformation; Chinaâs digital presence in Australasia; and Chinese-language digital/social media in Australia.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction:A New Direction in Global Chinese Studies?
â1 Between Diaspora Identity and Citizenship: Social Capital in Transnational Space
â2 Place-Making, Flexible Citizens, and the Reality of Living âIn Betweenâ
â3 Soft Power and Diaspora Diplomacy
â4 Digital Diaspora and Transnational Place-Making
â5 Australia: A Country-Specific Approach
â6 Chinese-Language Media as an Instrument of Chinese Influence?
â7 Methods and Approach
â8 Chapters
1 Media, Migration, and the New Chinese Diaspora:History, Politics, and Context
â1 History of Earlier Chinese Migration
â2 New Migrants from the PRC
â3 âNew Newâ Migrants from the PRC
â4 Changing Demographic Patterns and Characteristics
â5 Changing Political Climate
â6 Chinese-Language Media in Australia
2 WeChat Subscription Accounts:Regulation, Business Model, and Institutional Context
â1 WeChat and WeChat Subscription Accounts
â2 The Political and Economic Context
â3 Typology of WSA s and Their Regulatory Framework
â4 Top Fifty WSA s in Australia:A Collective Portrait
â5 Beyond a Simplistic Notion of Control:Conclusion
3 Production and Consumption of News on WeChat:Platform, Market, and Readers
â1 Methods
â2 Top Ten WSA s:Typology of Content and Style
â3 Case Studies:Hong Kong Protests and Horton Versus Sun
â4 Cultural Production of News on WeChat
â5 Conclusion
4 Content Flow, Cultural Brokering, and the Identity of In-betweenness:The Case ofSydney Today
â1 Content:Where, What, and Which Sources?
â2 Ethno-Transnational Media between Host Country and Motherland: The Politics of Content Flow
â3 The Chinese-Language Media In Between
â4 Narrative Analysis of Sydney Today Stories
â5 Editors as Content Brokers
â6 Cultural Brokering and a New âIn-Betweenâ Identity Politics:A Conclusion
5 Self-Making through Self-Media:New Opinion Brokers in Transnational Space
â1 Key Issues Pertaining to Self-Media
â2 Cultural Economy of the Chinese Self-Media Industry
â3 Chinese Content Entrepreneurs in Australia:Case Studies
â4 Discussion: Self-Media Operators as Information and Opinion Brokers
â5 Conclusion
6 Mobility and Micro-Entrepreneurship:Daigou as Transnational Subjects
â1 Researching Daigou: A Note on Methods
â2 Daigou in Australian Metropolitan Centers
â3 Chinese Social Commerce Platforms and the Network of Networks
â4 Chinese Micro-Entrepreneurial Mobility
â5 Conclusion
7 Becoming Active Citizens:The Australian Federal Election and Civic Education
â1 Approaching WeChat as a New Civic Space
â2 Negotiating Boundaries and Performing Digital Acts
â3 Exemplary Citizens
â4 Discussion and Conclusion
8 Negotiating Flexibility:COVID-19 and the New Politics of Transnationalism
â1 Transnational Migrants and Citizenship Engagement
â2 COVID-19: From China to Australia:Timeline and Context
â3 Active Citizens or Still Too Chinese?
â4 Learning about Rights and Duties as Citizens
â5 Selfish Flexible Citizenship?
â6 Altruistic Flexible Citizenship?
â7 Between a Rock and a Hard Place
â8 Conclusion
Conclusion:Toward a New Transnational Subject
References
Index
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction:A New Direction in Global Chinese Studies?
â1 Between Diaspora Identity and Citizenship: Social Capital in Transnational Space
â2 Place-Making, Flexible Citizens, and the Reality of Living âIn Betweenâ
â3 Soft Power and Diaspora Diplomacy
â4 Digital Diaspora and Transnational Place-Making
â5 Australia: A Country-Specific Approach
â6 Chinese-Language Media as an Instrument of Chinese Influence?
â7 Methods and Approach
â8 Chapters
1 Media, Migration, and the New Chinese Diaspora:History, Politics, and Context
â1 History of Earlier Chinese Migration
â2 New Migrants from the PRC
â3 âNew Newâ Migrants from the PRC
â4 Changing Demographic Patterns and Characteristics
â5 Changing Political Climate
â6 Chinese-Language Media in Australia
2 WeChat Subscription Accounts:Regulation, Business Model, and Institutional Context
â1 WeChat and WeChat Subscription Accounts
â2 The Political and Economic Context
â3 Typology of WSA s and Their Regulatory Framework
â4 Top Fifty WSA s in Australia:A Collective Portrait
â5 Beyond a Simplistic Notion of Control:Conclusion
3 Production and Consumption of News on WeChat:Platform, Market, and Readers
â1 Methods
â2 Top Ten WSA s:Typology of Content and Style
â3 Case Studies:Hong Kong Protests and Horton Versus Sun
â4 Cultural Production of News on WeChat
â5 Conclusion
4 Content Flow, Cultural Brokering, and the Identity of In-betweenness:The Case ofSydney Today
â1 Content:Where, What, and Which Sources?
â2 Ethno-Transnational Media between Host Country and Motherland: The Politics of Content Flow
â3 The Chinese-Language Media In Between
â4 Narrative Analysis of Sydney Today Stories
â5 Editors as Content Brokers
â6 Cultural Brokering and a New âIn-Betweenâ Identity Politics:A Conclusion
5 Self-Making through Self-Media:New Opinion Brokers in Transnational Space
â1 Key Issues Pertaining to Self-Media
â2 Cultural Economy of the Chinese Self-Media Industry
â3 Chinese Content Entrepreneurs in Australia:Case Studies
â4 Discussion: Self-Media Operators as Information and Opinion Brokers
â5 Conclusion
6 Mobility and Micro-Entrepreneurship:Daigou as Transnational Subjects
â1 Researching Daigou: A Note on Methods
â2 Daigou in Australian Metropolitan Centers
â3 Chinese Social Commerce Platforms and the Network of Networks
â4 Chinese Micro-Entrepreneurial Mobility
â5 Conclusion
7 Becoming Active Citizens:The Australian Federal Election and Civic Education
â1 Approaching WeChat as a New Civic Space
â2 Negotiating Boundaries and Performing Digital Acts
â3 Exemplary Citizens
â4 Discussion and Conclusion
8 Negotiating Flexibility:COVID-19 and the New Politics of Transnationalism
â1 Transnational Migrants and Citizenship Engagement
â2 COVID-19: From China to Australia:Timeline and Context
â3 Active Citizens or Still Too Chinese?
â4 Learning about Rights and Duties as Citizens
â5 Selfish Flexible Citizenship?
â6 Altruistic Flexible Citizenship?
â7 Between a Rock and a Hard Place
â8 Conclusion
Conclusion:Toward a New Transnational Subject
References
Index
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