This book examines the role played by political communications, including media of all kinds - journalism, television, and film - in defining and shaping identity in Greater China; China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. In the context of increasing cross-border interactions of people, investment and commercial products between the component parts of greater China, the book explores the idea that identity, rather than nation-states or political entities, may be the key factor in achieving further integration in Greater China. The book focuses on the ways in which identity is communicated, and shows how communication of identity within and between the component parts of greater China plays a central role in bringing about integration.
Author(s): Gary Rawnsley
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 352
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
list of illustrations......Page 9
list of contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
The meaning and significance of Greater China......Page 23
The People's Republic of China......Page 52
Peddling party ideology for a profit: media and the rise of Chinese nationalism in the 1990s......Page 54
Modern political communication in China......Page 75
What Chinese journalists believe about journalism......Page 96
Taiwan......Page 114
'As edifying as a bout of mud wrestling': the 2000 presidential election campaign in Taiwan......Page 116
Gender and party politics: case study of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan......Page 137
Communications of identity in Taiwan: from the February 28th incident to the Formosa Television Corporation......Page 160
Hong Kong......Page 180
The media in Hong Kong: on the horns of a dilemma......Page 182
Media economics of the Hong Kong press in political transition: towards a new viable political economy......Page 203
Directing Hong Kong: the politics of contemporary cinema......Page 228
The overseas Chinese......Page 250
Is there a British Chinese public sphere?......Page 252
Children, media and the public sphere in Chinese Australia......Page 274
Talking about Jet Li: transnational Chinese movie stardom and Asian American Internet reception......Page 288
Conclusion......Page 305
Greater China, globalisation and emancipation......Page 306
Index......Page 330
