Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce

This book examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. It focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of "transnational Chineseness" - overseas Chinese communities are often very different from one country to another - and in showing how media communication is linked to commerce, which is often a key activity of the overseas Chinese. The book considers the Chinese diaspora in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Australia, revealing a great deal about the vibrancy and dynamism of the Chinese-language media, and showing how it plays a crucial role in the changing nature of the Chinese diaspora.

Wanning Sun is Senior Lecturer in Media at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. She is Visiting Professor (2005-6) in Asian Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton.